Sarsion a year ago noted that when Bungie developed Halo, its designers wrote an entire Sanghelios language for Covenant voice actors. 6, so maybe we won't have to wait too long.Īs mentioned, others have undertaken Destiny translation work. Sarsion acknowledges that this lexicon is 'unlikely to be perfect, nor 100 percent accurate.' Still, this is the best they can do until Variks starts feeding in more translations. 'As a quick example, ‘stand’, which I originally had penned as ‘drada’ was separated out phonetically to ‘dra da’, meaning ‘all rise’, which was key in providing context to ‘Dra Ge’, meaning ‘All Kell’ (according to the Grimoire, Skolas refers to himself as the Kell of ‘Everything’), as well as usage of ‘rise’ in other dialogue.' In addition, it has a seductive name, obviously wrong, and especially anyone could imagine another language Alien (or extra terrestrial. I've taken a degree of liberty with the words not directly translated by Variks in the game, by essentially working on a very long, very difficult crossword puzzle.”įor example, here is one of Sarsion's notes from a year ago. Characters from the Unicode standard, then spread on the Internet, on the Minecraft video game ( Enderwalk language) and social networks and where it is often used to pass messages that would often be censored. 'It's probably wisest not to take Variks too literally,' Sarsion explains. German B-language is a language game where the vowels of a word are replaced by other characters following a rule. But Sarsion's shine on that is: 'Your time is here.' Popular: Spanish to English, French to English, and Japanese to English. Word for word, for example, 'den kas kir,' translates as 'forever burns strongly.' OK. What's interesting is the plausibly idiomatic explanation Sarsion gives for some of the untranslated dialogue. Working from these lines, Sarsion went to other, untranslated Eliksni dialogue in the game and - creating their own Variks voice from spliced dialogue - provided a translation of that, too, discovering or inferring other words in the process. One of the Alien Technologies in the pedestal room, dubbed the 'Alien Translator' makes strange noises when you get close to it that none of the other relics do. Hey, I just noticed something in the Primary Research Facility. Sarsion figured there had to be a real basis for this language and set off to reverse-engineer it. Subnautica > General Gameplay Discussion > Topic Details. In the expansion, Variks would occasionally show up in communications to translate something one of the Fallen said. Sarsion's curiosity on the subject began after the release of the House of Wolves DLC for Destiny back in May 2015. Others have made translation attempts, but now Sarsion has assembled a dictionary of 87 words, the basics of Eliksni grammar and, better yet, a custom video with none other than Variks to teach the class. For nearly two years, Redditor Sarsion has been pulling apart the language of the Eliksni - aka the Fallen of Destiny.

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