I translated what The Plague says!
thanks to http://www.assyrianlanguages.org/akkadian/index_en.php I was able to translate what The Plague says during her mori.
Addanika- Your attention please!
Dingir-God
Asapu-to exorcise/ to cure (by exorcism)
me- produce of sea and rivers (she worships the sea goat god)
So, when she does her mori she says, "Attention God, exorcise/cure the sea!"
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Credit to whoever on the dev team had to make research for these
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Thanks lad
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Thanks, I like how it ties into her lore!
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Interesting. I suppose it's meant to be part of a ritual she probably performed often in her previous life as a priestess.
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I thought she was flirting with me :/
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Probably, I think she also says it when she has Corrupt Purge
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When she first came out I seriously thought she was saying "Pretty good job so far" in a dead language.
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Well Akkadian is a dead langauge so you aren't wrong about that.
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Do you know what she says in pre-match screen? "Dingir" is in that as well.
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This is now canon in my mind.
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Thats really cool. I wonder if those weird weapon descriptions have been cracked yet
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That's awesome. Good job.
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I'm not in game right now, what does she say?
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You do know that “produce of the sea” means fish, right? And other such aquatic creatures caught for food. Also, Adiris begging the sea goat god to exorcise people doesn’t make sense in her context, as her people are suffering from a plague. Not from an infestation of demons.
Also, I did some research, myself, and I found out that the Babylonians are polytheistic. In other words, they believed that there was more than one god. So addressing a single god as “god” wouldn’t be that appropriate in a polytheistic pantheon. And to make matters worse for this theory, Akkadian was only spoken by the Babylonians in the second millennium BC, so between 2000 and 1000 BC. Adiris came from Babylon somewhere between 600 BC and 500 BC. Therefore, she cannot possibly be speaking Akkadian.
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She's a preistess so she could have dealt with some exorcism. She also speaks Sumerian and Akkandian.
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Good research, but do you really expect the devs to follow actual facts 100% accurately? They saw things close enough, and ran with it. Because it fits and most people wont find out/care about the small inconsistencies.
I doubt they made her with a hard rule set as to where/when shes from. A lot of loose interpretations I'd wager.
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I agree. Even with the Japanese they are not accurate. For instance, in the trailer for the oni they have the actor speaking. The English translation is accurate, however, the words they claim he is actually saying in Japanese are not what he is saying. I listened to it multiple times, and it is definitely correct in translation but incorrect in transliteration. So i highly doubt they would be able to 100% use an ancient dead language.
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At the end of her Mori I like to imaging her saying “#########, please” when she flicks her wrist and knocks the survivor away.
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this is so cool!
On a side note has anyone figured out what the writing in the temple on that big slab says?
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I just explained how she couldn’t possibly be speaking Akkadian. It would have been a dead language by the time she lived. Also, is true that, as a priestess, she may have done exorcisms, but the plague has nothing to do with demons. It’s just a disease, and the people of Babylon, Adiris included, saw it as nothing more than a disease. There is no exorcism needed.
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So according to OP the word can mean "to cure by exorcism". I take this to mean that they are attempting to "exorcise" the cure through prayer. I think "exorcism" could just mean to purge something via a divine power, not necessarily removing demons. This would be different from simply saying "cure" as that would imply medical treatment rather than prayer.
Also, I think it's not uncommon for religious figures to use outdated language. Maybe she chose to use the old language because it was seen as more divine and/or untainted by modern times. Or, perhaps the statue she found was from a time where Akkadian was spoken, and she wanted to strengthen her connection to that statue.
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There is a gold tablet in the Temple of Purgation that has Akkandian symbols...I think she speaks it.
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Or as Samination would say, Icky Icky ting tang zoomboing.
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Modern Jews read the Torah, despite Hebrew being a dead language. Does that mean people speak Hebrew in regular conversation? No, it doesn’t. And it’s clear that, when she speaks, she’s not just reciting what the tablet says, as she speaks the same language when stunned. If someone stabbed you in the back or bashed your head with a hundred pounds of wood, would you shout a quote from some ancient text? No. You’d say something like “Ow, what the hell?” That’s essentially what she does when stunned.
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Really cool you were able to translate that! Would you be able to translate what she says in lobby? Something along the lines of: "Meauhfahoom Dingir Okuba?"
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Better use of learning a dead language than what I did. I literally just learned how to swear in akkadian.
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what about her lobby animation?
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