Tau System, Mounts, and Matthew Mercer: TennoLive 2026's Biggest Warframe and Soulframe Reveals

Digital Extremes used TennoCon 2026's TennoLive showcase - held this year at Canada Life Place arena in what the studio billed as the event's largest staging yet - to deliver a substantial slate of announcements for both its free-to-play sci-fi shooter Warframe and its in-development action RPG Soulframe, covering a new star system, a new Warframe voiced by Matthew Mercer, mounts for Soulframe, and the name of the fall 2026 update.

The volume here is genuine. The Tau system reveal in particular represents a meaningful scope expansion for Warframe - a new star chart accessible via Railjack is not routine patch cadence, and attaching it to a new Chimera Warframe class and a named antagonist signals this is the studio's anchor content for the year. MassivelyOP's MJ Guthrie was on the ground at TennoCon covering both games.

Warframe: Iceblade of Narin

• Update name: The fall 2026 update is officially titled Iceblade of Narin; full details will be presented at a live devstream during TennoVIP on September 4th in Seoul, Korea.
• New Warframe - Brysko: A Chimera-type frame created by Albrecht Entrati, detective-themed with noir inner monologues and a permanent cigarette; voiceless in the traditional sense but voiced by Matthew Mercer, drawing what the recap described as deafening crowd cheers.
• Tau star chart: An entirely new system reached via Railjack; the ring city of Fornax is one confirmed locale, plagued by a black rain that induces nightmares. The Hunra is the new primary antagonist faction. Albrecht Entrati reappears.
• Playable Lotus: Players will participate in story content as The Lotus, and an adorable baby Lotus form also appears.
• Heirloom Mesa: A cosmetic skin with an old-west gunslinger aesthetic - cowboy hat, chaps, spurs, revolver spin animation - described as a Liger creation and listed as live now.
• New Prime weapon: Steflos joins the Prime lineup.
• Banshee rework: Alongside a Banshee Deluxe skin by Mischka, a full Banshee rework was confirmed - the announcement drew significant crowd reaction.
• Qorvex Deluxe: Dark rock gargoyle aesthetic confirmed for Qorvex.
• Citrine Prime access: Confirmed as part of the update.
• Nightwave - Shockwave: Nora takes an August break; Amir steps in with a themed Nightwave variant where all rewards tie to his Fables and Frontiers game. A third On-Line track, Running Late, is part of the reward pool. The Shockwave reward track is limited to the event, but Fables and Frontiers itself becomes permanent content. The KIM system also gets a group chat update so players can join HEX in a text-based campaign.
• Excalibur in Fortnite: A collaboration with Epic Games was announced by Ben Starr, bringing Excalibur to Fortnite.

Soulframe: Mounts, Warsongs, and a Beaver

• Mounts confirmed for fall: The most-requested feature finally has a window. Players raise a wolf companion through a bonding system that includes petting and fetch before mounting up.
• Mendicant Reinbreaker: A new undead boss, live now, fought atop a dark steed. Defeating and unhorses her frees the horse, which players can later acquire along with her skills.
• Warsongs Fable: The new Fable lets Envoys explore lore about their past through a structure mixing present and flashbacks. Antagonist Tempest Bayor - voiced by Ben Starr, who also plays Arthur in Warframe 1999 - and a Citadel in the sky are both introduced.
• Playable forms in Warsongs: Envoys play as their mother, their younger self, and a beaver. The beaver drew the loudest crowd reaction of the Soulframe segment.
• New weapons: A boomerang and a whip sword are both confirmed for the Fable.
• Vatigar Pact: A corrupted, anti-Virtue pact described as the Edgelord Envoy path.
• Vegan fishing: Catch-and-release fly fishing confirmed as a new activity.

The Tau reveal is the headline for returning Warframe players - a new star chart is the kind of structural addition the game hasn't seen at this scale in some time, and pairing it with a Mercer-voiced frame and Lotus playability gives the update three distinct hooks. For Soulframe, the mount confirmation matters most; it answers the loudest standing question in that community. Readers tracking Soulframe's pre-alpha cadence will recognize Warsongs as a step up in narrative ambition from earlier Fable drops, while the pattern of pairing Warframe updates with reworks continues with Banshee.

The next concrete milestone is September 4th in Seoul, where Digital Extremes will devstream the full Iceblade of Narin breakdown at TennoVIP.

Further reading: TennoCon 2026: Running down the big reveals for Warframe and Soulframe at today's TennoLive - MassivelyOP