| “ | Every Ceph you ever met was once a person, before they met him. He made them all. For them. For the Orokin. As a punishment that would never end. | „ |
| ~ Nora Night describing Glassmaker's true identity. |
Nihil, or better known under the nickname "Glassmaker", is a supporting antagonist in the MMO third-person shooter Warframe.
Once a member of the Council of Seven, the judicial body in the Orokin Empire, Nihil earned his nickname by creating the empire's cruelest punishment: "glassing", literally turning the victim's body into glass and imprisoning their consciousness for all eternity. The minds and personalities of his victims were then sometimes refined into the AI servants known as Cephalons.
He is voiced by Ryan Laughton.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Before becoming a serial killer, he was a judge who condemned many people by taking their souls to either be turned into Cephalons or trapped in oubliettes for all eternity, regardless of how severe the crime was.
- He is responsible for the creation of Cephalons, which the process has the victim left as a husk of their former self forced to serve their Orokin masters for all eternity.
- He took sadistic enjoyment in his job, as shown that he filled an entire hall with glassed souls just to listen to their screams of agony.
- Even by Orokin standards, the empire feared him for his horrific and inhumane means of punishing criminals.
- After the Orokin Empire fell, he would resurface to continue to push his definition of "Order" by glassing people he deemed guilty.
- When the Tenno and Nora Nightlight went after Nihil, they discovered four notable victims, leaving their bodies glassed with their souls fully conscious for all eternity.
- His first victim, Shigg, was stealing Orokin artifacts from the tower near the village of Cetus to sell on the black market. While he was a greedy smuggler, his punishment of being glassed did not fit the crime.
- His second victim, Bak Vondu, was secretly helping smuggle Corpus slaves of the planet of Fortuna, Nihil still glassed him just because the Corpus view charity as a sin.
- His third victim, Gral, was glassed just because he defected from the tyrannical Grineer Queens and allying with the Solaris United to help settlements with Grineer attacks.
- And finally his fourth victim, Cutter, was going to be spared but Nihil changed his mind and glassed him because he begged for his life. The final victim showing he was actively looking for any reason to glass people to satiate his delusions.
- He plans on re-establishing the tyrannical Orokin law that allowed him to glass whoever he wants by terrifying the whole Origin System into submission.
- He abducts Nora Nightlight to force her to spew his propaganda for his new rule.
- He tries to kill the Tenno as revenge for destroying the Orokin Empire.
- He cowardly decides to glass himself to avoid punishment for his crimes, proving he is a hypocrite when it comes to law & order.
- Despite claiming he wants to bring order to the Origin System and reveres the Orokin Empire, he is shown to be both hypocritical due to the fact glassing criminals requires all seven judges to approve of it and went behind their backs which would have resulted in him being exiled & uses it to justify his sadism in glassing people.
- Even after having his soul placed in one of his own Oubliettes by Nora and being left in the Tenno's ship, he still shows no remorse for his crimes as he repeatedly tries to persuade them into releasing him or taunting them.
- Despite the high heinous standard of Warframe, he stands out for his unique and horrifying method of torture and being responsible for the existence of the Cephalons.
Trivia[]
- He, along with Nef Anyo and The Philanthropist are the only Warframe villains to be Pure Evil.
- As of now, he is the only Orokin to be Pure Evil.
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- Glassmaker on the Villains Wiki