Grimoire

Orokin

Weapons

Grimoire

Untradeable

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General Information

Max Rank

30

Utility

Projectile Type

Projectile

Normal Attack

100
( 100%)

Projectile Type

Projectile

Normal Radial Attack

50
( 100%)

Damage Falloff

No Damage Falloff: below 0.0 m (100%, 50 damage)

Linear Falloff: between 0.0 m and 1.0 m (100% - 20%)
Max Damage Falloff: over 1.0 m (20%, 10 damage)

Projectile Type

AoE

Active Attack

350
( 100%)

Projectile Type

Projectile

Active Radial Attack

250
( 100%)

Damage Falloff

No Damage Falloff: below 0.0 m (100%, 250 damage)

Linear Falloff: between 0.0 m and 6.0 m (100% - 20%)
Max Damage Falloff: over 6.0 m (20%, 50 damage)

Projectile Type

AoE

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

Variants

Vendor Sources

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CODEX

Claim the power of Abrecht Entrati's knowledge. Customize the Grimoire with Tome Mods that enhance Warframe Abilities and reward strategic combat. Its alternate attack releases a voltaic orb with guaranteed Electricity Status.

The Grimoire is the prized diary of the prominent Orokin scientist, Albrecht Entrati. It is a unique secondary weapon that casts bolts of Electricity, while its Alternate Fire throws a large voltaic orb that can slowly travel forward and bounce around the environment, electrocuting any enemies in its path.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals pure Electricity damage.
Primary fire hurls fully automatic arcane energies.
- Shots explode in a 1 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
- Punch-Through is disabled on the primary fire.
Alternate Fire throws a orb that travels slowly then explodes after 6 seconds.
- Orb will shock 1 enemy within 6 meters of it every 1 second. Each enemy hit chains to an additional 2 enemies within 6 meters.
  - Tick rate is not affected by Fire Rate.
  - Number of chains is affected by Multishot.
- Requires a fully filled meter beneath the reticle in order to fire. The meter takes 45 seconds to completely recharge. Hitting enemies with the primary fire reduces recharge time by 1 second per hit. Picking up secondary or universal ammo reduces recharge time by 10 seconds.
  - Radial damage does not count an additional hit.
  - Multishot will count as an additional hit.
  - Ammo pickups from Pistol Ammo Mutation do not reduce recharge time.
Initial hits and explosions apply status separately.
Explosions do not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.

Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Primary fire has infinite ammo and does not need to reload.
Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Above average crit chance (20.00%)
- Very high reload speed (0.00 s)
- Above average total damage (100)
- Above average status chance (26.00%)
Normal Radial Attack (wiki attack index 2)
- Very high reload speed (0.00 s)
- Above average status chance (26.00%)
Active Attack (wiki attack index 3)
- High reload speed (0.00 s)
Active Radial Attack (wiki attack index 4)
- High reload speed (0.00 s)
- Above average total damage (250)

Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

Projectiles have travel time.
All explosions have linear Damage Falloff from 100% to 20% from central impact.
Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low magazine (0)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low fire rate (1.50 attacks/sec)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.60x))
Normal Radial Attack (wiki attack index 2)
- Very low active falloff slope (1.2m/%)
- Very low maximum falloff distance (1.0 m)
- Very low magazine (0)
- Low total damage (50)
- Low fire rate (1.50 attacks/sec)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.60x))
Active Attack (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low magazine (0)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
- Low disposition (●○○○○ (0.60x))
Active Radial Attack (wiki attack index 4)
- Low active falloff slope (7.5m/%)
- Below average maximum falloff distance (6.0 m)
- Low magazine (0)
- Low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
- Low ammo max (0)
- Low disposition (●○○○○ (0.60x))
- Low crit multiplier (2.00x)

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Acquisition[]

This weapon is acquired during the Whispers in the Walls quest at max rank with a free weapon slot and a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst.

Additional copies can be built afterward; the blueprint is sold by Bird 3 of Cavia for 50,000 Standing 50,000 and requires Rank 4 - Scholar.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
25,000	Entrati Obols 2,000	Necracoil 50	Echo Voca 15	Entrati Lanthorn 10	Time: 12 Hour(s)
25,000	Entrati Obols 2,000	Necracoil 50	Echo Voca 15	Entrati Lanthorn 10	Rush: 50
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A

Notes[]

The Grimoire can use a unique set of mods called Tome Mods in addition to standard Secondary Weapon mods.
- Canticle Mods are exclusive with other Canticle Mods; only one can be equipped at a time.
- Invocation Mods are exclusive with other Invocation Mods; only one can be equipped at a time.
Tome Mods with on-kill conditions do not require the Grimoire to make the killing blow. The Grimoire only has to damage the enemy once to mark it with Tome effects, then be equipped as the held weapon when the marked enemies are killed by other sources, such as Warframe abilities.

Tips[]

With infinite ammo and no reload, the Grimoire can benefit greatly from Fire Rate mods to increase damage output.
Multishot significantly helps charging alternate fire meter, as individual projectile hit contribute toward charging it.

Lore & History[]

Albrecht's Notes[]

Main article: Fragments/Albrecht

After Albrecht's pilgrimage into the Wall of Lohk, he began documenting important events and details of his research. The pages of his Grimoire soon became full of records detailing the Cavia experimentations, Albrecht's journey to Duviri, and the purpose behind the Vessels.

View Albrecht's Notes List▾▾

ExpandThe Aftermath
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Planet	Scans Required
Albrecht's Laboratories	6
Fragment Lore I wanted nothing but the ease of oblivion, at first. I floated ignorant in baths of nepenthe, a second gestation. Unseeing, unspeaking. Only rarely did my brain flicker errant light across the cave-paintings still smeared on the interior of my skull. At sensation's edge I knew a vague silhouette of Loid crooning motherly across the watery distances, the poetry my tongue was too blackened to recite. Too craven to chase death, I awaited it. The father of fears, and yet I was still afraid. The currents whispered coward. I clenched my body into a fist as a foetus must and blinded myself afresh. Stark pain smoked the juice of my living tomb. Why did the saga not end by itself? Why must I still act? Steeped in solitude, I found I could no longer endure my own company. Disgust did the work of courage. I tore the mundane membrane, slid weak and mucosal into Loid's embrace. Loid nursed me then, tending first to the uprooted ruin of my eyes, then to the mouth whose grin no longer hid behind flesh. The agony bit deep, but it was clean. Blameless love bled up from me. I had decided to live. I felt no certainty as I donned clothes rough and strange to the touch of newgrown skin. I had none of the selfless zeal of the soldier. The same cursed question still pursued me as it had before: was I, even now, trapped in the rictus of the Wall? The apparatus of logic would never yield an answer. Only resolute action remained. If I must be a demon, let me be an honest one. Let me prove my nature by what I do next. Purpose. Let me leave such blazing footprints behind me as no unclean thing would dare to walk in.
Albrecht Transmission

ExpandThe Cavia
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Planet	Scans Required
Albrecht's Laboratories	6
Fragment Lore I employed a variety of Cavia in an attempt to unmake the adversary. The principle was straightforward enough, though in hindsight I abhor my naivete. My humanity had been unscrolled by the caustic Void and now smirked back at me across the divide, privy to all my unfettered malice and pettiness. In answer, I resolved to hurl into the Void minds that were not human. Let it parody them. The proximity of the bestial would force a humbling devolution, or so I thought. The majority of the Cavia merely died. I gave the Void living beings and it sent me back bedraggled cadavers. The dead lay stacked in pyramids around my deserted lab. I was nothing but a failed priest. But a glass splinter of stubbornness still stuck in me. And so, I persisted. The correct combination of creatures would work. I realized my error as I sweated by visionary nestawood cinders, beside Loid who curled pale and sick from chewing too much of the root. The catalyst was uniqueness. That attribute was what caught the interest of the bland and undifferentiated Void. It was not necessary to explore queasy debates about the Oro; animal minds simply lacked the full distinction of a singular persona. My Kalymos, I was sure, was an exception, but I would not sacrifice that loyal being. Perhaps I should have. The sin I was to commit was worse. The very last breeding pair of Cervulites was smuggled to me, causing Loid no small inconvenience. A species on the brink of extinction. Here was the uniqueness the Void sought. I was certain to the pit of my entrails. I loaded the pair on their Seriglass bridal barge, along with an expendable avian and a Norg for mental ballast. Fish, fowl and beast. A facile equilibrium. They did not die, save one. They came back changed. Witnesses. Piligrims, even, chanting freakish praise to the one beyond the wall. I knew, then, that my gambit had lost. So long as I worked through scapegoats, my guilt would only deepen. I must atone for what I had done through my own blood. Standard laboratory hygiene would have been to dispose of them. But some instinct stayed my hand. The Voidtongue was an enigma to me, but another - more habituated to the Void than I - might one day unravel it. Through the imposition of form upon the formless they could, perhaps, glean some meaning. I assigned the Cavia to Loid, for I could not bear to look upon them. Not yet. Loid is, at heart, a good and kind man - better than I deserve. And completely oblivious to his own true worth.
Albrecht Transmission

ExpandDuviri
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Albrecht's Laboratories	5
Fragment Lore In Duviri, I woke every day to the voice of my daughter. I recoiled from this at first, feeling the sting of conscience. I could not confront, even in semblance, the woman I had abandoned. Instead I reinvented myself as a teacher, advising the child-King of the menace beyond his borders. But as the days melted away, I came to recognize the strange cast of characters Euleria had created, and their purpose. I heard voices I had myself first conjured in the darkness of her childhood chambers, for no other reward than her delight. She had not only preserved this gift I had thought so trivial, she had made it an instrument of healing. More: a stronghold. Despite my legacy of neglect, despite my shoddy example, my needs, my demands, my daughter had triumphed in my absence. Her confidence, her warmth, shamed me. I had fled from the horror, but she? She had stood alongside the most vulnerable, those with the most to lose, and told them a different story. I did not perceive the significance of Euleria's stance at first. Her concern for the children was not merely pastoral attentiveness. It was a direct strike against the Indifference. She was teaching the weak to be strong in the very places where those cold fingers could reach, and through her act of compassion, spitting in the face of alienation and despair. Could I do less? Shame is an inert state, but fertile. It primes the mind, bolstering it for repentance. I had thought to make a difference in Duviri. But Duviri had made a difference in me. My own daughter's creations, reverberating and growing in the womb of the Void, had shown me another path than that of the indulgent coward. I was neither helpless nor irredeemable. Like she had, I could fight. I took inspiration from Euleria's example. To the people of Duviri I bequeathed a legacy of cautionary stories. In them I spoke of fears that an infinity of spirals would not, could not, erase. I slipped away from those lands, silent and unnoticed. From their joys, their sadnesses. From the celebration in my honor. In her, they already had all they needed. My work, I now understood, must proceed from a different point. I would confront the phantom myself, and deny it to the teeth.
Albrecht Transmission

ExpandThe Vessels
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Albrecht's Laboratories	5
Fragment Lore I went among the denizens of the plague year like a savior, my hands filled with healing. To those who volunteered, I brought more than health. Their bodies were primed; it needed only the Helminth infusions, brought from my own time, to work the alchemy of transformation. They have become partial Warframes, still in possession of their free will, yet enhanced, Void-attuned, capable. Their humanity may not last. My deliverance may yet consume them, the human swallowed up in the sacred beast. And if my wayward disciples turn on me, what words of comfort shall I have beyond: this is the bargain we have made. Through our sacrifice, history will be saved. As their loyal doctor, I have taken repeated samples from them. The sight of their Technocyte-riddled cells mutating gave me fresh visions. I could take this material, work with it, forge new creations. Eagerly I brought the samples back to Deimos and began to cultivate them. It was Loid who pointed out the singular attributes of the Grey Strain. How it stimulates growth to monstrous dimensions. Many thoughts converged in me then. What if, through precise biochemical engineering, I could create the equivalents of Warframes, yet built to a titanic scale? Surely such a legion could stand against the Adversary... Assuming, of course, that an Operator could be found. Not long after, the first of my Vessels took form. A giant to battle giants, merging the humanity of the man Arthur, the anatomical perfection of Ballas's Warframes, and the titanic potency of the Grey Strain. My saviors.
Albrecht Transmission

ExpandWe End As We Began
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Albrecht's Laboratories	1
Fragment Lore All is in readiness. Loid will do as he is bid, though his eyes silently plead with me to choose another path. As I await my final crossing to the past, I ponder what role a scientist may play in so spiritual a matter as 'absolution'. How in the alchemy of the soul, even repentance must necessarily be a calculated task. I will repair what I have broken, no more and no less. The scales must balance. And in such a monstrous penitence as this, I shall take no heed of the dust that may fall upon them on either side, the dust of petty lives. The builders of old tempered their mortar with blood, to appease the most ancient of land-spirits. We should have been so wise. Yet it is not too late to learn. The sands fall. The circuit completes. I return to the place of the beginning. Let witless hordes bleat their disdain for every fervent plan; The deal is done, the die is cast. I end as I began.
Albrecht Transmission

Voruna's Continuity[]

Main article: Leverian#Voruna

The Grimoire was first mentioned in Voruna's Leverian exhibit. During The Collapse, when the Tenno betrayed and hunted down any nearby Orokin, Executor Tuvul would attempt to perform one last Continuity ritual on himself to escape his demise. Arriving in the Circulus, Tuvul would use the profane knowledge contained within pages of Albrecht's Grimoire to imbue a bowl of Kuva with eldritch energies.

His Continuity was ultimately thwarted by Voruna who, now fused with her wolf pack, promptly tore the Executor apart. Albrecht's codex was later retrieved from the site by Drusus Leverian, who used it to aid in his telling of Voruna's story.

The Kalymos Sequence[]

The Whisper Self[]

Main article: Whisper

Bound Whisper Tome — A bound Whisper Grimoire

Copies of Albrecht's eldritch book may sometimes spontaneously materialize within his Laboratories. Unbinding the tome and looking too deeply into its pages will summon a dark mimic, which will then punish the reader harshly for their meddling. Once unbound, a doppelgänger of the Tenno's Operator will crawl up from the ground, and will then mimic the appearance of the Warframe.

During battle, the Whisper will use numerous abilities from various other Warframes, all while laughing gleefully. Once banished, they will drop a Melee Arcane Enhancement and an Albrecht's Notes Fragment.

Trivia[]

A grimoire is a book of magical spells and invocations that allows the user to cast spells, create magical talismans, and summon spirits.

Gallery[]

Grimoire Skins

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Patch History[]

Hotfix 36.0.4 (2024-06-26)

Improved the Grimoire’s reticle so that it is more centered and increases the reticle dot to better match other reticles.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

Fixed held items (Datamass for example) causing visibility issues with the Grimoire equipped.
- The item will now be hidden when aiming and/or firing with the Grimoire to prevent it from blocking view.

Hotfix 35.5.4 (2024-04-05)

Fixed Secondary ammo pickups in the Simulacrum not charging the Grimoire’s alt-fire.
Fixed given Grimoire to friendly NPC (i.e. Rescue Target, etc.) causing Secondary ammo pickups to stick to the player.

Hotfix 35.5.2 (2024-03-28)

Fixed the Grimoire missing its Unique Trait description.
- Now reads: “Alternate Fire releases a voltaic orb that travels slowly then explodes after 6 seconds, shocking an enemy every second within 6m. Shock will chain to 2 additional enemies within 6m."

Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)

Secondary and Universal Ammo Pickups will now add charges to the Tome Weapons’ (Grimoire and Dante’s Noctua) Alt-Fire.
- Since the Grimoire and Dante’s Noctua have infinite ammo, these pickups had no use. So we’ve given them a purpose for the Grimoire and all Tome weapons in the future.
Updated the Grimoire’s primary fire throw and release timing to create a more consistent feeling while firing its projectiles (this is purely a visual change!)
The Grimoire will now be in a closed state when holstered, to prevent weird animation issues.
Optimized the Grimoire in the moment in the Whispers in the Walls Quest when it is first picked up.
Fixed the Grimoire’s default model (no skins equipped) not appearing on the ground after being disarmed by a Drahk Master.
Fixed held items (Datamass, Life Support, etc.) completely blocking the screen when shooting the Grimoire at the same time.
Fixed Grimoire’s firing and angles being broken when used with Wisp’s Animation Sets.
Fixed a HUD error with the Grimoire.

Hotfix 35.1.2 (2024-02-28)

Slightly turned down the Grimoire’s projectile firing and impact sounds.

Update 35.1 (2024-02-20)

Fixed the Grimoire’s alt-fire not benefitting from Multishot Mods.
- Multishot Mods will now properly increase its alt-fire’s chain depth.
Fixed the Grimoire’s Default Config in Teshin’s Cave using Rifle Mods instead of Secondary Mods.

Hotfix 35.0.7 (2024-01-09)

Added a Default Mod Config for the Grimoire in Teshin’s Cave options.
Fixed Wisp’s Animation Sets missing a custom animation while running with the Grimoire. The floor is always lava challenge is officially back on!
Fixed Grimoire’s projectile explosion sound FX at times cutting off.

Hotfix 35.0.2 (2023-12-14)