I have decided, now that I'm out of actual quests to do in Frontiers but neither want to stop playing nor start a new game just yet, that I'm going to start taking nice close-up pictures of all the flora and fauna for the wiki. I'm gonna be a wildlife photographer but for Eywa'eveng. (If anyone wants any specific screenshots feel free to ask, I guess!)

I enjoy that you can completely change your appearance, including body type and voice, whenever you want in Frontiers. The Sarentu support your transition

I love this fucking game. Not only do they let you go all the way up to the top of the mountains that look like in any other game they'd be the impenetrable world border, they put rewards up there because they know people like me exist and we deserve fancy ikran saddles

so far my incredibly stupid strategy for taking down bases is to sneak in, get one objective, immediately get aggro'd on, bolt out into the forest, do a big loop around until I lose them, come back in and half the time the camp is empty because they all chased me back into the woods and I can just do the rest without opposition (but if it isn't, rinse and repeat)

I have finally finished the game! And now that I have and I have thus confirmed that we don't hear the Sarentu song (The People's Cry) sung with lyrics anywhere in the game except the credits, I'm going to state my headcanon, which has gleefully not been contradicted by the canon: headcanon that those lyrics are the ones the kids came up with, not the original ones that they state they can't remember anymore. Because listen - it's really in-theme for them to have, after the events of the game, come up with their own words to sing to that melody, continuing the Sarentu tradition while also remaking it anew, combining rediscovering their roots with creating their own future and not getting so hung up on what they've lost and forgotten that they can never move forward. And the actual lyrics fit that too, I think:

Awnga lu Sarentu Na'vi(yä) ayvurit peng Layro, txur, txopuluke Lante ka kifkey Var awnga yivora' Nìt'iluke emrayey Awnga lu Sarentu Eywaru si kìt(e)'e Var awnga yivora' Nìt'iluke emrayey

We are Sarentu We tell the stories of the People Free, strong, fearless We wander the world We continue to prevail We will survive forever

We are Sarentu Serving Eywa We continue to prevail We will survive forever

Tell me that's not the kids of a destroyed clan promising their ancestors they've lived and will continue to endure and survive and thrive in the world their clan left behind.

Pro tip, and by "pro" I mean "from a person who will find any way to cheese a fight that dre can because dre's bad at video game combat": apparently if you've got enough practice shooting down RDA ships, when Frontiers gives you a "defend a base from attack for x amount of time" mission you can fully post up on a rooftop and shoot down the ships as they come in (they've got nice big weak points in the propellors; use grenade arrows on the dragon ships) and they'll never even get to land troops to shoot at you with

Y'know, for the first actual narrative choice they've given me this whole game, they could've stood to be a little bit clearer than "accept the past" and "confront the past." I feel like I'm about to walk into a [Glass him] moment, but here we go.

IKRAN ACQUIRED IKRAN ACQUIRED

I love how they fully just have you go into battle bareback. fuck them saddles lmao