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Dominus Thrax is the mad child-king of the kingdom of Duviri, ruling with a literal iron fist. Due to his uncontrollable emotions, Thrax is able to warp the fabric of reality within Duviri, and can reverse time by slamming his fist onto his throne, effectively trapping his domain in an endlessly repeating time loop of a single day.
General[]
As king of Duviri, Dominus Thrax has complete power over the very land, and commands armies of Dax, as well as the fearsome Orowyrms. Despite being the high sovereign, he often acts spoiled and immature, with his capricious emotions manifesting and causing havoc throughout his domain.
Often acting without thinking, Thrax views everyone beneath him as his personal plaything, and resorts to using threats of death and violence to enforce his law. He demands constant tribute from his citizens, and will often send the Dax to forcibly collect their taxes.
Due to his near-omnipotent power in Duviri, Thrax has formed numerous entities from just his thought and emotion alone, whether deliberately or inadvertently. Such creatures include:
- Liminus: Believed to be the personified nightmares of Thrax that take on the form of ancestral spirits. Can often be found within Duviri's caves and tunnels.
- Thrax Centurions/Legates: Skeletal entities that vaguely resemble ancestral
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Grineer . They are currently used by the Dominus as brutish enforcers, often employed to protect royal chests or the entrance to the King's Palace.
Unlike the other inhabitants of Duviri, who appear to be hollow and made of green and gold metal, Thrax appears to be the only fully human-like entity in Duviri, besides the Drifter. He wears an almost Dax-like armor with blue and white accents, a blue mask representing a human face, most-likely imitating blue 
Orokin skin, and an elongated prosthetic in place of his right arm, again, mimicking Orokin physiology. His left hand however, being uncovered by the armor, appears to display healthy human-like skin.
Mood & Emotions[]
- Main article: Mood Spirals
Instead of a normal day-night cycle, the realm of Duviri takes on the characteristics of the Dominus' ever-changing emotional state. As a creature of emotion, his moods (known as Mood Spirals or simply Spirals) affect the landscape, certain points of interest, color palette of the sky and land, and more. Each Spiral is led by a different courtier of Thrax, who will guide the player through their mission. The moods that can appear are Joy, Anger, Envy, Sorrow, and Fear. Each lasts for 120 minutes (2 hours).
- Joy - Don’t be fooled by the softness of Duviri during this Spiral. During the Joy Spiral, enemies are imbued with Void Damage, causing their attacks to take new form; from devastating waves of Void energy to health leeching pulses on impact.
- Anger - Skies of crimson engulf Duviri during this Spiral. During the Anger Spiral, enemies are imbued with Heat Damage, causing their attacks to take new form; from molten fireballs that explode on impact to trails of flames left behind by charging enemies.
- Envy - The green gaze of envy watches you from the sky. During the Envy Spiral, enemies are imbued with Toxin Damage, causing their attacks to take new form; from acid-goo projectiles that splash on impact to acid geysers.
- Sorrow - Duviri’s bleak state leaves a shiver that reaches deep in the bone. During the Sorrow Spiral, enemies are imbued with Cold Damage, causing their attacks to take new form; from ice spikes erupting from the ground to frozen areas of a chilling aura.
- Fear - Duviri is enveloped in the uncertainty of what lies next. During the Fear Spiral, enemies are imbued with Electricity Damage, causing their attacks to take new form; from continuous beams of electricity arcs to teleportation maneuvers.
Lore & History[]
Tales of Duviri[]
Dominus Thrax, along with the rest of Duviri, was originally created as a storybook character in the "Tales of Duviri" book, written by Euleria Entrati. He was written as an example of what happens when one lacks the ability to control their emotions.
Lost Islands of Duviri[]
According to Acrithis' audio logs, Duviri is but a shell of its former self. The kingdom used to have many more islands, so many that Acrithis had been able to fly until the Archarbor was out of sight, and then on again, unable to number the lands over which she flew. All islands with the banner of Dominus Thrax. However, most were consumed by the Void, and some were removed by Thrax himself, whether out of fear from mysterious phenomena, or from punishing insolent and defiant citizens.
Albrecht's Notes[]
The Orokin scientist Albrecht Entrati had once entered the Kingdom of Duviri in one of his Void excursions. During Albrecht's stay in the kingdom, he took on the role of a teacher, educating Thrax on threats beyond the borders, which perhaps would have inspired the Child-King to take action against islands seemingly haunted by Void energies.
The Duviri Paradox[]
Ruling Duviri with an iron fist, Dominus Thrax views others within Duviri as his toys and actors in a violent fairy tale, using his time-reversal ability to undo deaths in the story he is trying to tell. He treats the Drifter as his personal plaything and a character to be executed in his dramas, and is insulted by their attempts to leave Duviri. Insulted by the Drifter's attempts to leave Duviri, he has them executed in a continuous time loop, causing the Drifter to become apathetic and forget having created Duviri in the first place.
One day, the Drifter receives assistance from outside the Void and with the help of Teshin is able to fight back in Duviri. As the Drifter discovers parts of a toy figurine whose paradoxical nature may help them escape, Dominus Thrax increases his search for them and eventually has Teshin captured and killed.
An enraged Drifter possesses an Orowyrm and assaults Dominus Thrax's throne, reclaiming all the pieces of the toy figurine. The toy takes the form of Thrax himself and the Drifter realizes that Duviri and its inhabitants were created from a storybook through Conceptual Embodiment from their own anxieties after the Zariman Ten Zero's Void jump accident. As Thrax quickly snatches the figurine, the Drifter takes a seat on the throne and uses its power to reverse time once more, resurrecting Teshin but returning the throne to Thrax, which the Drifter deems to be a fair trade. Now aware of the truth behind Duviri, Thrax no longer has any hold over the Drifter and they are able to leave Duviri if they so wish.
Trivia[]
- His name was first revealed in the Art Panel during TennoCon 2022.
- A blue mask similar to the one Thrax wears can be seen hanging off a tree inside the Zariman Ten Zero.
- His favorite kaithe breed is the Histornam.
- Based on his concept art, Thrax's armor may have been originally designed as a life-support system, used to supply the Dominus with nutrients or oxygen.
- A large statue of the Dominus can be seen floating in the air near Lonesome Outlook, and changes pose based on the current Mood Spiral.
- He is referred to as the "Child King", as well as the “Mad King” in a Duviri press release for Devstream 168 on the Digital Extremes website.[1]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ (2023, March 3). Devstream 168: The Duviri Paradox and TennoCon 2023. Digital Extremes. Accessed 2023-03-21. Archived from the original on 2023-03-21.
19 comments
Dominus Thrax is us, Tenno himself feeling insecure, but Dominus is in an intermediate state between Tenno and the doppelganger of indifference.
The indifference is the worst state of all because it got completely sick while Dominus Thrax created his own world avoiding to position himself socially.
yes i became aware of it a little while ago, dominus thrax is an indecisive void entity based on drifter. now we are looking forward to the evil entity on the wall.
"evil entity on the wall" == based man in the wall?
Warframes story fucking sucks
I thought he could be Rell. Well...everything is Paradox so this seemed right to me
I think it's really interesting that he has a prostetic elongated arm while all of the children around duviri have no right arm. I wonder if this has implications in Orokin society, since Duviri citizens are based of Orokin. Like, do orokin childer have to grow up one armed and earn their big boy arm later down the line?
Well, Duviri is based on a story book, and as such the people are literal NPCs. I don't think it accurately reflects 100% how the Orokin actually were
Old comment now but maybe it has to do with what the long arms represent -- power. "Long arm of the law." And the children of Duviri have no power because the ones aboard the Zariman didn't.
I wish he would have more roles after the main quest finished, instead he got a commentator role from sideline mocking those who rules Duviri plane according to his mood.
I wonder why DE didn't kept the same voice of Dominus during tennocon? the old one sound much younger and spoiled, this one sound angry, just angry.
Something tells me Trax is our sibling.
Ok. I was wrong. It is not.
From what I think I understood about Duviri's story, Thrax is a Tenno? Or one of the other Zariman children from the Drifter's 'timeline' (I'm not gonna try and break apart Eternalism here), whose void powers just happened to be ridiculously powerful? Or something?
Another Zariman children that stranded in the void. In Drifter timeline, all children who boards Zariman, unable to returned to the origin system and forced stranded since the Orokin never know where they are or just don't care of their fates. The survivors decided to stay in the void since they cannot return. One of which is actually given a power by the man in the wall created Duviri as a remembrance for his home. This child become Thrax but because of instability of the void, he doesn't age or just simply trapped in limbo between consience of himself and enthrallment of the man in the wall. Teshin deducted that Thrax are simply longed for his old home but with him unable to control his emotion drives him mad with power and using it to bound all of Duviri residents to his will.
Thrax, along with the rest of Duviri in general is a void manifestation of the Drifter's anxieties aboard the Zariman and whatever memories they formed from the Thrax doll and Tales of Duviri storybook.
Thrax is you. Sort of. The Void turns the Drifter's repressed thoughts into a separate entity.
As far as I can tell, the drifter's timeline is one where they weren't rescued, and ended up creating duviri mimicking some children's stories out of their subconscious emotions.
Thrax is the king in those fairy tales, and he happens to take the form of the drifter's old toy doll.
His helmet kinda looks like Citrine’s neck thingy.
Just my theory but when the drifter stood next to Dominus he looked like the size of a child. Maybe he was one of the children of the zariman who was lucky to have been gifted with more boss like void energy to be able to manipulate the loop of/in Duviri? Maybe that would explain his human like hand? The courtiers of Duviri could be the manifestations of his emotions and when you visit Sythel (Fear) she also speaks of the man in the wall. Same as when Rell also spoke of the man in the wall and how he also made his short presence to us throughout our journey so far. It would also explain how Lotus wasn't able to see him. Maybe the man in the wall is responsible for the void jump incident which created the childern of the Zariman Ten Zero?
Oops. I meant to click add comment. Now its kind of a wierd reply to,
"His helmet kinda looks like Citrine’s neck thingy." lol
Thrax, Duviri, its inhabitants, and the courtiers are all "conceptual embodiments," much like the holdfasts. They were all created by the drifter from his emotions during the trauma of the Zariman accident. The kingdom of Duviri, the characters, and the stories are part of a children's book the drifter was reading during the accident, and Thrax's appearance is based on an Orokin doll the drifter had.
So who exactly is Dominus? I don't really understand, even after finishing Duviri
Seems like a Void manifestation of Drifter's toy figurine. While Lodun is supposedly Duviri storybook's rightful king, Dominus Thrax usurped the throne from his creator.
Everything in Duviri is a manifestation of the Drifter's anxieties, brought into being by the Void. Dominus, Bomabstine, Mathila, they're all void entities created by the Drifter.
So. . . Not Rell ?
Unfortunately not. I am curious about the Drifter timeline version of Rellthough, could just be dead but I do hope DE does something with him because I really like Rell as a character and Chains of Harrow is one of my favourite quests.
Thrax is also a Latin term, meaning Troubling. So his full name means Troubling Master or Troubled Master.
Shouldn’t Thrax be considered orokin? I mean since the entirety of Duviri looks orokin inspired, including himself and all townsfolk. Technically he’s also from the orokin era since he was aboard the zariman in the void jump failure
No because he is Conceptual Embodiment born from the zariman crew dreams and not a actual orokin
Even if he were real, he wouldn't be Orokin. His skin is normal rather than blue, and his long arm is not natural but a prosthetic to mimic the orokin arm. The courtiers have blue skin and a long arm by default, just like every other orokin we've seen.
Based on the flashbacks, especially the one that looked like we were posing for a family(?) photo, I got the impression that Thrax is another Tenno who is our biological/adopted brother. I don't get how no Reddit commenters seem to consider this idea (they seem possibly convinced that Thrax is another us/Operator/Drifter) but here I am submitting it here as a theory/idea for consideration, because I have no Reddit account.
Hi, I'm the one who posted the initial comment before, beginning with "Based on the flashbacks, especially..."
I'm replaying the quest on my other Warframe account (I have two) and my Drifter+Operator is female. The denizens(?) in Duviri are still saying "he" and "king," so that makes me think that Thrax is definitely not just another me. But then, they still confuse me for him when I ride by at the start, so... I guess that undermines their credibility when it comes to recognizing and distinguishing people.
In defense of my theory, though, I don't think I've ever known visual depictions of people together (like the flashbacks) to be non-literal in this game. When they show Zariman flashbacks, I think they mean that that's what happened. When they show a family photo being displayed in The New War, I figure that's a real object. Why would they show us a flashback with our operator, two adults, and another kid? I believe it's because that is a flashback that really happened. And there really was a separate kid. And not just a separate self, because this kid was depicted as separate from the operator during a time when the operator was comfy smiling for a photo alongside two adults. This photo-taking flashback must've been from before the incident, and it might even be the exact family photo we see in The New War. (I admit, I haven't personally checked/compared the scene vs. the framed photo.)
Maybe it's a friend. Maybe it's a sibling. But I don't think the photo-taking flashback scene is just depicting another self, sitting nearby as we pose for a photo.
Plus, I wanna believe in my theory because if it is just another us, that's a bit more boring/predictable. So, admittedly, I'm driven by hopefulness in addition to actual evidence/facts.
Responding to the four other comments, now:
1: Could the parable about three sons just literally be about three sons? Three siblings and not three versions of the same person?
2: When does the drifter say that? I need to go hunting for the relevant line... If that is said, then could it mean "my behavior has led to you doing this" as in like, I've created a monster?
3: I'm not sure which dude/commenter you're talking about, but if not everything fits together story-wise, then I guess design changes could explain that.
4: I've read the Albrecht Entrati story and I see the similarities. Even if I'm biased toward my own theory, you make a fair point. I like theorizing and discussing more than I like being right, so this is nice.
To followup on my post from around 4 hours ago:
I'm replaying through the quest and finding that, no, the kid posing for a photo with two adults is not the operator. Coincidentally, my operator (from my first play-through) was styled like the kid in the cutscene, so I thought they were supposed to be the same character. My operator now (in my second play-through) definitely does not look like that.
My photo theory evidence(?) was mistaken, so uh... whoops.
A different flashback, with a kid sitting in front of a book and a toy, looks like maybe it does match whatever hairstyle your operator has, so that adds nails to the coffin of my original theory.
I've come across a line from Dominus Thrax saying that he created you (the Drifter). If that starts anyone on any new theories, I'm interested in reading them.
I did hear the Drifter and Teshin confirming that the Drifter made "this place," but there was no mention (at least in this second quest play-through) of the Drifter making Dominus Thrax. IDK what difference that makes theory-wise, but I guess at least it's a fact-check, if nothing else.
With the father-and-three-sons parable, I've thought of another possible interpretation: It's Dominus Thrax and the three servants(?) we've met (in quest order) in Duviri. Lodun/Anger for the "strong" first child, Mathila/Joy for the second child who chose to remember the joy that the father gave, and Bombastine/Envy for the third child who was father's favorite but who apparently kills the father.
A lot of shit got changed. If you check the old trailer, it's clear that Duviri was meant to happen concurrently with the new war. You see the "drifter" attempt to use void powers, failing and being surprised, which would make no sense in the drifter timeline since he never got powers, to begin with.
So, it's obvious that the drifter was supposed to be the exiled operator, arriving at Duviri right after Ballas stabs us in the chest and sends us into the void.
You can also see the Zariman in the trailer is fully intact instead of between planes of existence, which means that the sequence should have been:
New war part 1 (sentient invasion)->Duviri->Angels of the Zariman->New war part 2 (Narmer).
Basically, we would try to stop the sentient, fail, be sent to Duviri, escape through the Zariman, fight against Narmer, and reclaim the origin system. This is why we've got the dormizone there as well, as a base of operations alternative to the orbiter, which we would not have available after escaping Duviri.
That old trailer questline actually could've been better than the current one tbh
Oh hi Rell
Yeah, too many nonsense theories and this only the right one I can think of.
Having played the quest, this unfortunately isn't correct. Which is a shame, because it would have been cooler if it was Rell or an alternate version of him.
I'm hoping this guy finally brings about a revamp of the Corrupted, where he takes command of the Neural Sentries and has them fight alongside Thrax and mecha-Dax units in pursuit of the Drifter post-Duviri.
Mark my words: They will never update either the Corrupted or The Void.
Both will stay forever stuck in 2013.
I would bet my life on it.
They won't update the Infested either
Heart of Deimos was pretty much it
Those will be forever stuck in 2020
And the missing Deimos infested in the Codex will forever stay unscanned
Can't wait to hang his head on a tree
Spoiled brat
How does someone this powerful exist? Like is this man in the walls younger brother or something?
Considering Wally gave us our powers, it wouldn't be too far-fetched to imagine he did the same for Thrax, only he gave him a whole lot more. Most of what Wally does seems to be for his own enjoyment, so maybe Thrax is a perfect entertainer for him?
Considering how he looks, acts, and where he is located, as well as the Drifter's own backstory, this might be a rogue Orokin. Normally, they saw anything touched by the void as disgusting and wanted nothing to do with it, even planning on killing all the Zariman kids after finding the ship again just cause they were tainted and too powerful, but this guy probably dove right on in, which gave him his powers. Considering the tech he's surrounded by, he could full well have built all those things cause he was banished by the others to Duviri. Or, as I've said before, Duviri is a different timeline where the Orokin have either advanced or changed to value machinery more than using Infestation for everything. My guess is, it might be a mix of the two. Banished, void corrupted Orokin was banished to a dimension of his own.
This mf is going to be another ballas-like thing
*ballASS
More like Balless cus he ain't have it.
I'm really excited to see more of this character. Something tells me that this clown is gonna know a lot about our dear friend Wally