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Alright, cool #SoloAStarWarsStory stuff incoming:
Yesterday, I noticed another artifact in Dryden Vos's study—his desk!
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Yesterday, I noticed another artifact in Dryden Vos's study—his desk!
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In case you are unfamiliar, I have another thread on translating the Navigational Dataplaques
https://twitter.com/AurekFonts/status/1310027770727030784?s=20
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https://twitter.com/AurekFonts/status/1310027770727030784?s=20
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By enhancing the image, we can see that the stone base of Dryden's desk bears an inscription in Domabesh (a more ancient cousin of Aurebesh):
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So let's see what we can read of it!
Oh... Well that's a little disappointing, it seems that we are missing the entire top-half of the inscription...
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Oh... Well that's a little disappointing, it seems that we are missing the entire top-half of the inscription...
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Now is probably a good time to see if we can find any other shots that might help us reconstruct the full text.
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Sadly, this is the best we can do: A dark and out of focus shot...*
* (The desk is out of focus, the camera is correctly focused on the action in the scene)
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* (The desk is out of focus, the camera is correctly focused on the action in the scene)
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Looking outside the movie, the only photo of the finished prop that I can find is this one, which does give us a bit more visual information, though at a much smaller resolution.
(From Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide by @pablohidalgo)
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(From Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide by @pablohidalgo)
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So here are our sources to work out a complete translation! Let's start filling in letters:
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Put it all together, and we get a final translation that is wholly intelligible:
OUR TEMPLE
HONOURING
SITH LORD
EXAR KUN
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OUR TEMPLE
HONOURING
SITH LORD
EXAR KUN
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What's more, this is one case where the official canonical story matches up perfectly with what the artist intended, and what actually appears on screen! (That doesn't always happen so neatly.)
A description of the concept art for the desk, by Chris Caldow, 10/
A description of the concept art for the desk, by Chris Caldow, 10/
written by set decorator Lee Sandales, from @PhilSzostak's The Art of Solo: A Star Wars Story describes:
"...The stone base, which Dryden has plundered from the Sith temple of Exar Kun, is made of polished obsidian and decorated with carved hieroglyphs representing spells 11/
"...The stone base, which Dryden has plundered from the Sith temple of Exar Kun, is made of polished obsidian and decorated with carved hieroglyphs representing spells 11/
that protected its former home."
Like I did, you may now be wondering, "Who/What is Exar Kun?"
According to Wookieepedia, an ancient Sith and former Jedi, first introduced in the Legends 1994 Jedi Academy trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Exar_Kun
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Like I did, you may now be wondering, "Who/What is Exar Kun?"
According to Wookieepedia, an ancient Sith and former Jedi, first introduced in the Legends 1994 Jedi Academy trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Exar_Kun
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Anywho, if you have enjoyed this, and want to explore other Star Wars language translations, might I suggest the sacred Jedi texts?
https://twitter.com/AurekFonts/status/1250875780134912001?s=20
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https://twitter.com/AurekFonts/status/1250875780134912001?s=20
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If you like this sort of stuff and would like to see more in the future, and would like to support our fonts and translations, you can do so at https://ko-fi.com/aurekfonts
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Drat, this would have been a good shot of the desk to reference, from @pablohidalgo 's "Be-Han the Scenes" segment on The @StarWarsShow !
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