Re-playing through Forspoken sadly my completed save is all gone so I had the opportunity to replay through got to one of the locked labyrinths and discovered something very interesting…
If any one could figure out what the red text says that would be great it’s hard to see but it is in Athian. Also looks like a Rheddah soldier mask on a skeleton makes you wonder what happened here…. I’m thinking that each locked labyrinth says something different or has a different symbol on it.
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The Athian Alphabet Thoughts
If you look at the ordering of the letters as depicted in the official art book, one thing that is noteworthy is that the order is not simply "A, B, C, etc" as it is in English or most other languages whose major writing system is based on the Latin alphabet.
It also isn't "A, B, G, etc" as is the conventional order pioneered in the Greek alphabet and used in other writing systems such as Cyrillic, Coptic and even Gothic.
The order goes "U, B, K, A, J, etc."
If anything, it reminds me of the Futhark which has the most bizarre (at least, to a non native user) order used for an Indo-European language, and it makes me wonder what in-verse explanation there is for Athians deciding on an order like that.
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Some musings about Athia's foreign relations (or rather the lack thereof)
One interesting thing I noticed is that the lore has no mention of Athia coming into contact with other peoples and nations aside from the Rheddig. There are no mentions of foreign trade as far as I could find. The only trade happening was between the realms of the Tantas within Athia. The game explains how many Athian writings and historical records were lost due to the Break and the wars with the Rheddig. But considering all the archive entries we can find throughout the game, it is a noticeable absence.
That makes me wonder if Athia practices isolationism and has cut itself off from the rest of the world. Or if Athia lacks the naval technology and ships to venture across the seas to other lands. Fishing boats were mentioned in the lore. Furthermore, it's possible to reach Athia by sea since the Rheddig did so during the second war. Still, foreign trade has yet to be mentioned. Plus, the attitude of Athians towards outsiders/foreigners in the lore and in the game's story seems rather hostile. The reaction to Frey is one example of that.
Granted, the reaction of Athians to Frey's arrival came at a time of great stress and hardship... But indications of the lore about how Athia feels towards the Rheddig and the description of purging "soldier and civilian alike" does give some reason to wonder about how Athians feel towards foreigners and foreign powers. There are some interesting similarities between Athia and real-life historical examples of nations being isolationist. But that's something for another post.
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Rheddig Banner or Athian Banner?
I was looking through the archive entries. And specifically, in the archive entry titled "Remnants of the Rheddig", there was a picture of a tattered war banner.
We don't see the entirety of the banner. But we're able to make out a few details, like the color being red and the animal symbol being some sort of bird (likely an eagle?). At first, I thought this was maybe a war banner of Praenost considering the color being red and Praenost being mentioned in the archive entry. Either that or a banner of Avaolet (who was also mentioned) but Avaolet's colors usually are blue-ish. And the symbol on the banner doesn't match up exactly with the symbols of the Tanta's realms on the Forspoken game map.
Although, I can't exactly make out what Avoalet's symbol is supposed to be due to how my eyesight is. Plus, it could very well be possible that the Tantas' realms used a different symbol on their war banners in the second war with the Rheddig.
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