05/20/16 13:29:42 ¶ ●

IT’S TYRIAN LINGUAPHILE TIME.

so i went back and did the HoT story for my backpiece and came across the old Rata Novus dragon lab. the written language on the monitors was unlike anything i’ve ever seen and i was originally gonna just upload screenshots because it looks cool but THEN I FOUND OUT THERE’S AN ACTUAL ANCIENT ASURAN ALPHABET AND IT’S BEAUTIFUL.

so i translated it. and damn it was annoying but kinda fun. most of the letters are overlapping and getting mixed up with each other. i think it’s really interesting how the asura have such a gorgeous fluid writing style, contrasting against their mathematical natures.

also the numbers (the X-looking things under the main texts) are all in New Krytan, which was accepted as an official language about 70 years before Rata Novus was abandoned. this might just be arenanet being too lazy to create a number system for the asurans, or i’m misinformed, but apparently these guys were content to write their numbers in New Krytan but were adamant about writing in their asuran script.

sorry for the shitty writing on the image, i didn’t have my tablet. the information is about the elder dragon primordus - heartrate, armor plating thickness, brain activity levels and main weapon specs.