GI Back Cover Poem. III : V

» Tue May 25, 2010 5:18 am

GI Back Cover Poem: III

Here is the third Thread about the GI Back Cover Poem if you have interesting things to add well add them.

http://media1.gameinformer.com/imagefeed/featured/bethesda/elderscrolls/elderscrollsv/cov_214_l.jpg

http://www.gameinformer.com/p/skyrimpuzzle.aspx

Translation is below

Spoiler

Dovahkiin Dovahkiin
Naal ok zin los vahriin
Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal
Ahrk fin norok paal graan
Fod nust hon zindro zaan
Dovahkiin Fah hin kogaan mu draal

Ahrk fin kel lost prodah
Do ved viing ko fin krah
Tol fod zeymah win kein meyz fundein
Alduin feyn do jun
kruziik vokun staadnau
voth aan bahlok wah diivon fin lein

Dragonborn Dragonborn
By his honor is sworn
To keep evil forever at bay
And the fiercest foes rout
When they hear triumph's shout
Dragonborn for your blessing we pray

And the scrolls have fortold
Of black wings in the cold
That when brothers wage war come unfurled
Alduin bane of kings
Ancient shadow unbound
With a hunger to swallow the world

Feel free to discuss what you think this portends to.

» Mon May 24, 2010 7:25 pm

Ha! I took the time to translate it by myself and I'm glad I got it right. Hurray.

» Tue May 25, 2010 8:01 am

The plot seems to be this: The biggest threat to the world coming when skyrim is at its weakest, during civil war.

» Tue May 25, 2010 11:22 am

Do we have to use spoiler tags here? I mean, come on, if you come to this thread, expect slight spoilers.

I'm not going to say anything except, wow, this story could be epic. Oblivion's felt somewhat lacklustre, like I was just going from A to B for lazy Martin.
Hopefully there'll be more action! More dispute! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!

» Mon May 24, 2010 10:37 pm

Sounds like a great story with lots of political intruige considering there could be civil war.

» Tue May 25, 2010 4:44 am

Well, I rushed over here to show off my translating skillz and it seems I was beaten to it

» Tue May 25, 2010 6:15 am

Repost from one of the other threads:

Awesome, thanks for the translation

Certainly affirms my hope for one hell of a metaphysics storyline. Interested in seeing how they will handle it if thats the case.

» Tue May 25, 2010 4:43 am

Spoiler

In Oblivion Akatosh is the good guy, but now it seems he's the bad guy. Unless of course Alduin isn't Akatosh.

Love the grayed morality of Elder Scrolls.

» Tue May 25, 2010 10:04 am

Omg, thats ingenious. All the time we thought they would sing in english at the trailer and now it comes out that it was a completly different language. Just brilliant and the translation was fun, too. And the story sounds like it had great potential.

A great start!

» Tue May 25, 2010 7:11 am

I translated it too, just happy I did it. Achievment Unlocked!

» Tue May 25, 2010 5:58 am

This gives me high hopes for Skyrim's story, and for the quality of its writing. The words are wonderful, and evoke a lot of themes I want to see in an Elder Scrolls game.

But yes, are the spoiler tags necessary? It's difficult to discuss the words without revealing what they are.

» Tue May 25, 2010 7:57 am

Sounds very interesting. The story sounds awesome so far. This was a very neat idea by Bethesda to do I think.

Although I unfortunately didn't have the time to be in part of the translation... because of writing an essay.

» Tue May 25, 2010 6:24 am

I did bother translating it myself, what would my warrior forefathers have thought otherwise...

» Tue May 25, 2010 2:51 am

Hey, I'm actually impressed with what I hear. Maybe we will get more lore and culture out of Skyrim than originally thought.

» Tue May 25, 2010 7:13 am

By the Nine!

» Tue May 25, 2010 4:24 am

So this is the specific part we heard in the teaser

Spoiler

Dovahkiin Dovahkiin
Naal ok zin los vahriin
Wah dein vokul mahfaeraak ahst vaal
ahrk fin norok paal graan
fod nust hon zindro zaan
dovahkiin fah hin kogaan mu draal

» Tue May 25, 2010 4:16 am

Spoiler

In Oblivion Akatosh is the good guy, but now it seems he's the bad guy. Unless of course Alduin isn't Akatosh.

Love the grayed morality of Elder Scrolls.

Yup, but lets see how grey will the plot be. Of course he isn't just the bad guy, he is both the creator and destroyer, it's a cycle to keep balance I think. Though this thing about an ancient god returning to nom everyone reminds me a lot of Mass Effect 2, an ancient machine race comes back to destroy all life again...

» Tue May 25, 2010 8:26 am

Can we get a dev to confirm if they've finally hit the nail on the head?

» Tue May 25, 2010 10:04 am

I can't wait to see how they handle this
clearly they won't just completely ignore established lore and make it "dragon comes, defeat him" (well, hopefully)

» Tue May 25, 2010 10:46 am

Can we get a dev to confirm if they've finally hit the nail on the head?

I don't think we need a confirmation since everybody is getting the same thing. The poem isn't hard to translate.

» Tue May 25, 2010 3:44 am

Bah, was almost done translating it myself before you guys finally did it.

» Tue May 25, 2010 7:14 am

Though this thing about an ancient god returning to nom everyone reminds me a lot of Mass Effect 2.

As if that was a bad thing...

» Mon May 24, 2010 9:49 pm

An admin did confirm the translation on the last page of thread 2.

» Tue May 25, 2010 10:21 am

Can we get a dev to confirm if they've finally hit the nail on the head?

I reckon if we all got the same thing it's safe to say it's right

[Edit] Ninja'd

» Tue May 25, 2010 4:46 am

Ahh, as I thought, this is about Alduin (akatosh), destroying the world to start again, or possibly leave the world forever.

Kinda ironic that the whole time we were trying to figure out the song it wasn't even in English...