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Ash

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Description
Behold the patron saint of the Orokin school of political assassination. Ash specializes in stealth. The edge of his blade is sooner felt than seen.
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Passive
Bleed effects inflicted on enemies do 25% increased damage and last 50% longer.
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Abilities
1st Ability
 Shuriken
2nd Ability
 Smoke Screen
3rd Ability
 Teleport
4th Ability
 Blade Storm
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General Information
Sex
Male
Mastery Rank
0
Max Rank
30
Health
455 (555 at Rank 30)
Shields
270 (370 at Rank 30)
Armor
105
Energy
100 (150 at Rank 30)
Starting Energy
50
Sprint Speed
1.15
Aura Polarity
Exilus Polarity
None
Polarities
Introduced
Vanilla (2012-10-25)
Themes
Assassin, Ninja
Progenitor Element
 Radiation
Subsumed Ability
 Shuriken
Tactical Ability
 Smoke Screen
Sell Price
10,000
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CODEX
Behold the patron saint of the Orokin school of political assassination. Ash specializes in stealth. The edge of his blade is sooner felt than seen.

This is Ash, lethal and elusive.

Ash can remain unseen, but his effects on the battlefield can be felt by all. Keep an eye out, Tenno.
—Lotus

Release Date: October 25th, 2012

Ash is a fast, maneuverable Warframe that possesses a high degree of survivability in the field. Fleet movement complements deadly tools of assassination, making Ash a perfect balance between killing potency and stealth.

Acquisition

Ash's main blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Ash's component blueprints are obtained from Venus Proxima (Systems), Neptune Proxima (Neuroptics), and Pluto Proxima (Chassis) Survival, Defense, Exterminate, and Volatile missions.

Item Source Chance Expected Nearly Guaranteed
 Neuroptics Blueprint Neptune Proxima Defense / A 13.33% ~ 7 A Rotations 48 ± 16 A Rotations
 Neuroptics Blueprint Neptune Proxima Survival / A 13.33% ~ 7 A Rotations 48 ± 16 A Rotations
 Neuroptics Blueprint Neptune Proxima Volatile 4.82% ~ 20 A Rotations 139 ± 46 A Rotations
 Neuroptics Blueprint Neptune Proxima Exterminate 4.82% ~ 20 A Rotations 139 ± 46 A Rotations
 Chassis Blueprint Pluto Proxima Defense / A 13.33% ~ 7 A Rotations 48 ± 16 A Rotations
 Chassis Blueprint Pluto Proxima Volatile 4.82% ~ 20 A Rotations 139 ± 46 A Rotations
 Chassis Blueprint Pluto Proxima Survival / A 13.33% ~ 7 A Rotations 48 ± 16 A Rotations
 Chassis Blueprint Pluto Proxima Exterminate 4.82% ~ 20 A Rotations 139 ± 46 A Rotations
 Systems Blueprint Venus Proxima Defense / A 13.33% ~ 7 A Rotations 48 ± 16 A Rotations
 Systems Blueprint Venus Proxima Volatile 4.88% ~ 20 A Rotations 138 ± 46 A Rotations
 Systems Blueprint Venus Proxima Exterminate 4.88% ~ 20 A Rotations 138 ± 46 A Rotations
 Systems Blueprint Venus Proxima Survival / A 13.33% ~ 7 A Rotations 48 ± 16 A Rotations

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables stored on Module:DropTables/data. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
For more detailed definitions and information, visit here.

Alternatively, upon completion of The Duviri Paradox, Ash's main and component blueprints can be earned from The Circuit. By selecting him on the rotating week he is available, players can earn all his blueprints after reaching Tier 10 rewards.

History

Crafting

Manufacturing Requirements
📝 Edit blueprint requirements

25,000
1
1
1 		 Orokin Cell
1 		Time: 3 Day(s)
Rush: 50
 Market Price: 375  Blueprints Price: 35,000
Ash Neuroptics Blueprint

15,000 		 Alloy Plate
150 		 Neural Sensors
1 		 Polymer Bundle
150 		 Rubedo
500 		Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: 25
Ash Chassis Blueprint

15,000 		 Morphics
1 		 Ferrite
1,000 		 Rubedo
300 		Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: 25
Ash Systems Blueprint

15,000 		 Control Module
1 		 Morphics
1 		 Salvage
500 		 Plastids
500 		Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: 25

Lore & History

Main article: Leverian#Ash
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Introduction:
LEVERIAN ENTRY
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Ash. Avatar of murder.

Patron saint of the Orokin school of political assassination known as... The Scoria.

Each assassin bore a mark: a swirling, smoky-black jewel between their eyes.

"You are forever the Scoria. The Scoria is forever you."

No devotee knew of any life, any thought that was not Scoria Doctrine.

For every question, so the Orokin of the Scoria said, Ash was the answer.

Two notable students of the Scoria's anthracite halls were also two brothers: Dom and Pilio.

Dom was nimble, cunning, and a quick study with the blade.

His brother, Pilio, however, was not so gifted. While he idolized Ash, worshipped him, Pilio lacked Dom's grace and clarity.

And Ash's ruthlessness. However... it was Dom who had been captured by the very target he was tasked to kill.

A sin unforgivable to the Scoria. So it fell to Pilio - the lesser - to uphold the Scoria by taking Dom's life.

By this, the Seven would have assurance that Dom's flaw was not a... familial trait.

You see, as you might expect of an Orokin school of murder, the Scoria were ruthless when it came to... "academic excellence".

With Dom dead at Pilio's feet, two essential killings would have taken place: that of a failure, and that of any shred of pity within Pilio.

Ash would oversee Pilio's mission.

Pilio's soul was to die that day: as the life drained from his brother's eyes

or if he could not do so, beneath the blades of his lifelong idol: Ash.

Edo Armor:

LEVERIAN ENTRY
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A sliver of pale sun found them close to a stately tower in the dusty heart of Martialis metropolis.

Coils of red Martian dust trailed tongues from the dark metal of Ash's Edo epaulets.

The boy idolized the Warframe and was eager to prove himself - even as some part of him felt cold and afraid at what he must do.

"Doubt is betrayal", taught the Scoria. Pilio recited this, but could not quench the fear he felt.

Fear of what he must do... and fear of what his hero and idol would do to him should his faith fail. Ash gave the signal.

Pilio shot forward in a bold, unconventional Dying Vine pattern, reading the Scoria-favored Dust Fang technique.

The tower guards squinted into the amber light of the Martian sunrise as a flash-cloud of smoke flooded the lane before them.

Shaking sleep from their heads and still thinking of breakfast, the guards readied themselves. From the smoke flew stars.

Causta:

LEVERIAN ENTRY
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Staring into the lifeless eyes of the guardsman at his feet, bile rose in Pilio's throat.

The boy berated himself this weakness, this disgust.

Touching the symbol of his order, the smoke-gem between his eyes, he muttered a prayer for strength.

Stepping over the carpet of bodies, Ash crept into the courtyard, knowing full well the fifty-strong house guard would show itself in force.

With a sudden clatter, reinforcements lined the courtyard walls, balconies... The Scoria had a saying:

"You are immortal. One mistake makes that otherwise."

Ash had never made a mistake. Here were fifty.

With one swift movement, the Warframe swatted the boy into cover, unslung his Causta bow, and sprang into a flawless grey chrysanthemum combat solution.

Shame reddened Pilio's face as the courtyard lit noon-bright with the glare of a half-hundred muzzle flashes, his blade dry in his hand.

 Dual Kamas

LEVERIAN ENTRY
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Ash methodically met and disassembled each and every guard, mezzanine to mezzanine:

a masterclass in the correct choices of stance, kata, technique and attitude. Bodies rained into the courtyard.

Wincing, the boy looked away. Within minutes fifty corpses lay at their feet.

When Pilio felt Ash's shadow fall across him, he forced himself to look, trembling.

Ash's inscrutable gaze pinned him. Chest tight, breath terrified, and quick,

Pilio forced himself to stand and face his assessor.

He could not look at the bodies. Truthfully, he expected to die where he stood.

If the Warframe approved or disapproved, he gave no sign.

Rather, Ash opened an arm, showing the way toward Pilio's final trial.

Ash Locust Helmet:

LEVERIAN ENTRY
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In the target's chambers sat a middle-aged man with long, handsome mustaches, his eyes sad and kind.

And with him? Dom: in civilian clothes... sharing a glass of aged claret.

Pain cracked through Pilio's brain, the smoke-gem between his eyes flashing hot!

Sudden images of sunlight. Vineyards. A woman's face.

The gem burned as it pushed these images away.

A young man with grand mustaches smiling and saying, "Of all the sons I could have had, I'm glad it was you two."

Pain! Dom leapt to his feet, urging his brother to hear what the target had to say,

but Pilio saw only the scabbed-over divot between Dom's eyes where a black jewel had once rested.

Dom had turned his back on the order. Why? Why had he done this?

The mustachioed man leapt to Dom's defense, snatching his sidearm from beneath his ironwood desk - a foolish mistake.

Ash split into impossible multiples. The man opened fire on the three, before being seized from behind by the fourth.

Ash's illusory clones vanished. The weapon clattered to the polished wooden floor, even as his feet left it, dangling three feet above,

helplesss - those sad, kind eyes locked on Pilio's in a regretful farewell. "Ask the Warframe", Dom said, "He knows exactly why."

Fear filled Pilio's heart. Pilio turned to his idol, that saint of murder. The same question, but this time for Ash: why?

That moment of breathtaking impudence stretched for an eternity. Ash released his grip.

His prisoner flopped to the floor, gasping. With one great hand, Ash reached toward Pilio's face... and sank a vicious talon beneath that midnight jewel.

Pilio screamed. Blood flowed.

The gem flew free with a nauseating pop, cracking against the wall to die in a weak plume of rancid smoke.

Blinding white insight descended upon Pilio DeNas.

Cremata Syandana:

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Pilio was Pilio DeNas. Everything the black gem had walled off within his mind was now laid bare.

The Scoria had stolen the sons of Lio DeNas. Lio DeNas - kind-eyed Lio DeNas - was stealing them back.

"Of all the sons I could have had, I'm glad it was you two." Father and son beheld each other truly for the first time in almost twenty years.

Pilio had long-aspired to wearing the Edo armor, the highest honor, to signify his faith -

but now he saw only the bare ribs of Ash's Cremata syandana, signifier of death,

and knew with certainty that was the sole credo of the faith he had followed.

Had. The boy - who until that moment had thought himself a lifelong killer -

was now torn between the nocturnal life he thought he knew and the sunlit life he had been stolen from.

Torn between Doctrine and family. And, blade in hand, torn between saving himself by killing his brother... or dying alongside him at the hand of his idol.

Ash waited, patient as the death he signified, in a room in a moment that felt suspended in eternity.

Waiting for Pilio's decision. The blade fell from Pilio's hand. Dom reached out and gently took that hand.

Ash did not move.

Lio DeNas swept his boys up and out of that room, and as a family, they fled the Tower, the city, and Mars - forever. Ash did not move.

 Ash

LEVERIAN ENTRY
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So. What are we to make of this?

Why did Ash - focal figure of the Scoria - go against Doctrine and permit two boys who were both failures and traitors to fly free?

What was it this killer saw in two near-orphans that, shall we say, softened his heart?

We do not know. Neither did Pilio, whose memoirs bring us this story.

But. We do know this: in the final days of Orokin rule... as towers fell and death came for the white-and-gold gods... the Scoria were not spared.

No. Rather their senior ranks - the mentors and chief assassins - were exterminated to a figure in a pogrom of ruthless and breathtaking efficiency.

A near-total destruction led... in the main... by Ash. Curious, no?

During the  Orokin Era, there was a school of assassination called the Scoria. Each of its members bore a black jewel imprinted between their eyes and treated Ash as their patron saint.

At one point during the Era, the school had two noteworthy students: brothers Dom and Pilio DeNas. Dom possessed great skill while Pilio was not as gifted, lacking his brother's grace and clarity, but one day Dom was captured by his target. As capture by the enemy was considered an unforgivable sin to the Scoria, Pilio was given the task to assassinate his brother, a mission that would be overseen by Ash himself. However, Pilio would be torn from killing his brother, were he to succeed, or being killed by his idol, were he to fail.

The pair was dispatched on a tower located in Martialis, Mars, but Pilio failed to overcome the fear that his task wrought, leaving Ash to slay the fifty guardsmen with his Causta Bow and  Dual Kamas. Ash led Pilio to their target's chambers, discovering Dom in civilian clothes, casually sharing a glass of wine with a middle-aged mustachioed man, his eyes both sad and kind. The gem between Dom's eyes was removed, signifying that he had betrayed the Scoria. The man gladly called Dom and Pilio his sons before coming to Dom's defense and brandishing a sidearm, which was quickly disarmed by Ash's  Blade Storm.

Urged by Dom, a confused Pilio questioned Ash, who responded by sinking his blade into Pilio's gem. The gem was suppressing the memories of Dom and Pilio DeNas, who were stolen by the Scoria. The mustachioed man, Lio DeNas, was stealing back his sons. Ash had saved the boy from his turmoil and allowed the DeNas family to escape from Mars forever.

It is unknown why Ash went against the school's doctrine. However, it is known that not even the Scoria's senior members were spared from their idol during The Collapse.

Notes

  • Ash possesses two Appearance Auxiliary Attachments that make him more visible to players during his Invisible ability  Smoke Screen: Semi-Cloak, which makes the Warframe semi-transparent; and Glow-Cloak, which produces an opaque glow. These appearances are affected by primary energy color and do not alter how enemies perceive the player.

Trivia

Ash's concept art.
  • Ash was originally named Smoke, and before that, simply Ninja.[1] He is still referred to as Ninja internally in the game files.
  • As seen from concept art, Ash was initially slated to be a female Warframe.
  • Ash was the first Warframe that had innate physical weapons associated with his frame, in this case, the hidden blades he uses in his Blade Storm ability. The second frame with this innate physical weapon was  Mesa and her Regulator pistols she uses in her  Peacemaker ability.
  • Ash has smoke constantly venting from his left arm.

References

  1. ↑ Dev Diary #1: The Beginning - 3:00
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