So there’s a path here that you can’t enter. And it looks like it leads up to that white fortress ruin at the edge of the Daunt.
There are climbable beams and a rappel point, so clearly there were plans for this place. But you can’t even fly in its vicinity. Tell me your secrets, GG. What did you scrap here?
til john hopkins voiced elwin rosfield in ffxvi
IVVIRA FANGIRLING in Horizon Forbidden West
The Big™️ sword pic from last year needed to be elaborated a bit more, hence!;;
original pic here - which was spurred on by @noshirdalal just, oh so casually recounting in a livestream how he’d mooted Kotallo having a giant sword as his default weapon. Simply could not let that wander by.
playing ffxvi and that titan fight like… for part of it i couldn’t help thinking of what a horus fight could have been idk idk man!!
So no himbo rescue mission?
Can you draw hekarro as a chibi?
Just the Chief enjoying some pizza blood bread
meanwhile, kotallo going through the 5 stages of grief:
ooh i saw your tags on a post about horizon forbidden west! do you mind me asking, what didn’t you like about the game? was it some of the writing or characters? my guess would be the Ancestors and/or Sylvens….. but i admit, the plot was secondary for me because I was having so much fun running around as Aloy: riding sunwings and exploring subterranean Las Vegas and swimming in the San Francisco Bay. and like you said, it’s SO visually beautifully, so i have on rose-colored lenses when it comes to both games. but i’m always interested in what other folks think about them because no game is perfect. anyway thanks! :D
Well, I tried to explain this once before and Tumblr ate it; let's see if I can do it this time.
Alright, why wouldn't Hekarro wanna use Carja glyphs as the Tenakth writing system? The Phincian alphabet is the basis for most of the writing systems in Western Europe - if you got a writing system that works, why not adapt it?
I'M FINALLY ANSWERING THIS ASK TWO MONTHS LATER 😂
For anyone who's curious, the context for this was a post I made a while back in response to an ask regarding whether the Quen might be able to read Chinese, since the Focuses they would have found in the Great Delta would plausibly have been formatted in Chinese. In the tags on the post, I remarked that I had a rant about Hekarro wanting to borrow the Carja writing system. Everbright has asked me to elaborate, and now I'll finally be writing the essay that's been sitting at the back of my mind for like a year LOL.
My thesis here is as follows: it's not the idea of the Tenakth borrowing the Carja writing system that bothers me, necessarily. I take umbrage with the fact that Hekarro seems to think the Tenakth are inferior to the Carja because they aren't a literate society.
This post is going to get long, so I will put the rest behind a cut to give anyone a break who wants to scroll on past LOL. Also, please note: trigger/content warning for mentions of residential schools in Canada.
First things first: I'm writing this as a non-indigenous Canadian, so I may be writing with biases of my own that I will apologize for in advance. If any members of the cultural groups I'm going to mention should read this and take issue with anything I've said, please do feel free to write me a message here on Tumblr!
Aloy in her Tenakth Recon outfit (without the cape 😏) and Kotaloy kith by the moonlight UwU
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In Tears of the Kingdom, there's a sidequest you get relatively early called Messages from an Ancient Era, in which you are tasked with finding stone tablets hidden throughout Hyrule that contain Zonai-era first-hand accounts of the royal family. There are 13 in total to locate.
You yourself can't read them, and must take pictures of the tablets to take them to Wortsworth, a Zonai Survey Team historian who can read the ancient texts for you.
The problem with this is that he doesn't tell you what the tablets actually say; he reads their ancient Hyrulean as-is, then gives his own take. And it's a take which cuts out so much context from the original text.
Fortunately, I am a nerd.
