Saturday, March 21, 2015

Conclave's Enclave

New Tennobet writing can be found in the new Conclave syndicate's enclave at the Tenno Relays!

Tennobet is written on these tombstones

A bunch of new Tennobet writing can be read on what seem to be these rock tombstones throughout the snowy enclave. These two inscriptions in the above picture show up multiple times. The nearer one reads "h-aw-n-oo-r ih-n d-e-th" and the further one reads "h-aw-n-oo-r-a-b-l d-e-th": "Honor in death" and "Honorable death".

The spelling for "honor" is probably a bit contentious. Firstly, since most people pronounce the word with a silent "h", it would be dropped out in the Tennobet spelling. Also, the vowel choice in the second syllable is open for interpretation. Instead of "oo", one may equally argue for letters "aw" or "uh". This is related to the problem of the lack of a schwa letter in Tennobet.

An ominous tombstone writing

This a pretty cool inscription that reads "I am become Death", a sort of famous quotation from olden times (really olden in the Warframe universe). Unfortunately, it is spelled "ih a-m b-eh-k-aw-m d-e-th", where "I" should have been spelled as "aye-h" (or just "aye").

Cool tomb inscription

This is another cool inscription, "Know thy enemy, know thyself", another sort of famous quotation from Sun Tzu's Art of War. Quite fitting for a syndicate like Conclave. Yet another unfortunate spelling job, though: "k-n-o th-aye e-n-e-m-ee k-n-o th-aye s-e-l-f". The "k" should have been dropped as it is silent; "th" in "thy" should have been voiced, so "dh", as otherwise it reads as "thigh"; and lastly, to enter English territory, "thyself" is normally just one word.

Update 16 of Warframe has been pretty exciting!

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