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This time, we discuss the hanar language.
We talk bioluminescence but also wonder: how is the language translated knowing no words are actually spoken aloud?
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Time to discuss Khelish! We’re lucky enough that we know some words and sentences from Khelish, unlike other alien languages that are still a bit of a mystery to us.
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What do elcor perceive and how do they communicate? How does the elcor speech technique work? Can elcor lie? We answer all those questions in our article: “The Elcor Language: a Symphony in One Sneeze”
You can also find us on Twitter (where we drop some lore facts every day) and Facebook.
How do translators work in the Mass Effect universe? What happens when they *don't* work? Ever pictured the utter chaos? We discuss the topic in details in this new Mass Effect Lore article. Don’t hesitate to drop by and discuss :)
You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a great time celebrating and are ready, resolutions or not, to kick start the year.
Here at MEL, we’ve been terrible at being active and posting stuff. Sure, we do tons of things behind the scenes, but you rarely get to see the results. I often joke that working on MEL projects is like working on a very long WIP that might never end. We’ve sure been full of promises. You know, the, “We’ll do this and that!”. Yeah, no. Those don’t really last. So, in order not to jink myself, I won’t promise anything and simply tell you: we’ll do what we can. Our new motto at MEL is “Start somewhere.”
The Mass Effect universe is both beautiful and strange. It has never finished revealing itself to us. As lore gremlins, we can never truly know something for sure because a lot of what we do is making sense of canon and interpreting it. We’re human and we don’t have a perfect memory. That’s okay. If we don’t remember every obscure fact about elcor, salarians or batarians, someone will remind us. That’s how it goes, and that’s why having such a strong community of fans is really fun. So let’s chill out and do our best here.
Thank you for loving the Mass Effect universe so much. You keep it alive every day with a variety of new content including walkthroughs, fanart, and fanfiction. Thank you for reminding me that this fictional universe and its lore are special.
One last thing: the MEL blog now uses the Disqus commenting system. You can comment as a guest or use a profile. Hope you’ll enjoy our next blog posts!
Deb
Hello everyone!
Today we’re publishing the transcript of “Nexus Reunion”: it starts with Ark Hyperion joining the Nexus for the first time and ends with Ryder going to SAM Node.
As usual, all the transcripts are available in pdf and html format here. We’re publishing a full transcript this time so you can read the entire mission (main and additional scenes) in one go.
We’ll be adding information about the quests in those transcripts soon.
Thank you and we hope you enjoy it!
I'm excited for @kuoleman's full 1 and 2 transcripts! When are those going up?
Hello :)
All transcripts require a lot of editing because we have the separation between main quests & additional scenes, the transition between scenes, the descriptions of the characters' movement, the choices (Renegade/Paragon, MShep/FShep) and the formatting to add. Some parts also require additional transcribing.I’m working on it as fast as I can.
All transcripts also need to be corrected by Jamie, which may take a while.
Anyway, we won't post them all in one go, but each time one is finished it will be up and we'll announce it here! :)
Deb
Hello everyone!
The transcript of “Planetside” is available in pdf and html format here.
The original transcript was done by Ash and Deb, editing by Deb and corrections by Jamie.
If you’re interested in helping us with transcripts, check out our Transcripts FAQ.
Don’t hesitate to send us feedback or questions at [email protected] or here on Tumblr. We would love to hear from you 🙂
Hello everyone!
Today, we're proud to publish our very first transcript of a Mass Effect Andromeda mission!
The transcript of "Prologue: Hyperion" (with additional scenes) is available in pdf and html format here.
The original transcript was done by Ash; additional transcribing and editing by Deb and corrections by Jamie.
If you're interested in helping us with transcripts, check out our Transcripts FAQ.
Don't hesitate to send us feedback or questions at [email protected]! We would love to hear from you :)
Hello everyone! We are releasing our table of contents for the trilogy lore today (complete pdf here).
What it is, exactly? Well, when we created MEL we were aware that the Mass Effect wiki was a fantastic source of information. We didn’t want to copy it. Our goal was to provide a contextualized and complete analysis of the Mass Effect lore. For that, we needed a good foundation to work on, and that’s the table of contents that we’re publishing today.
How did you work on this? We tried to take everything into account, including information we couldn’t completely verify and information we still don’t have (though the lack of information is information in itself!). We had a lot of discussions within the team about how to word section headers and possible entries, and we are confident that we have made the table of contents as intuitive as possible. It was a collaborative effort, and we are lucky to have the fantastic team that we have!
So, what now? Now we are going to work on writing lore articles by using our table of contents as a sort of base structure, as well as using all the canon sources we have to do research (one of those sources being the transcripts we are publishing). It’s a big job, no doubt MEL’s biggest work in progress… Keep in mind this is only for the trilogy. We still have to do the same type of work for Andromeda. Mass Effect is also not a closed canon. We can always edit the table of contents and/or entries… But at the end of the day, you can think of it as if we’re writing a book called “The Lore of Mass Effect.”
If you have any questions please read below first!
Can I join you guys and work on this? Yes. Contact us at [email protected]
If I do join you, do you expect me to work on all entries? No. We believe in letting people work on what fascinates them. If you don’t care for a specific species, we don’t want you to gather information and write a lore article about them. However, if you feel passionate about a specific Mass Effect theme, species, technology, and you feel capable of writing an informed and complete lore article about it, contact us.
What if I’m more of the “gathering information” type? Contact us too. We can always use help with that!
Can I give you feedback about your table of contents? Sure! Send us an email at [email protected] or contact us on Tumblr.
We are very excited to be sharing this with you, and hope you love it as much as we do!
We published our first transcript today and were contacted a few hours later by @kuoleman. She sent us finished and complete transcripts of Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 and transcripts in progress of Mass Effect 3. This was entirely unexpected and left us a bit speechless. She did it without expecting anything in return. Mass Effect is her favorite universe, she is fascinated with the lore, and she says she hopes her notes will help us somehow. We think it will make publishing Mass Effect transcripts a hundred times easier, and we are beyond happy that she contacted us! @kuoleman, thank you for sharing your hard work with us. Thank you for trusting us and letting us edit the transcripts for publication. You'll be fully credited when the time comes, but for now we want everyone to know you have given us a great gift today!
Hello everyone!
Today, we’re proud to publish our very first transcript of a Mass Effect mission!
“Prologue: Find the beacon” is available in pdf and html format here.
The original transcript was done by @alchera, with editing by Deb and corrections by Jamie.
You’ll find more details in our Transcripts page. If you’re interested in helping us with transcripts, check out our Transcripts FAQ.
Don’t hesitate to send us feedback or questions at [email protected] or here on Tumblr! We would love to hear from you :)
Hello everyone!
After a long hiatus, we came back to the Mass Effect community to ask if any of you were interested in joining the MEL team. We were thrilled with the response we got from the community and found ourselves a great team. You can find out more about our new members and their work in our About page. We would also like to thank previous members of the team for their efforts in laying the foundation for the new team to work with.
So, what's new? Well, we've been hard at work.
We're very proud to share with you the complete Mass Effect Andromeda codex. It contains all entries that we compiled cross referencing three sources: our own screencaps, the Mass Effect wiki, and the Library of Codexes website. We hope it's as accurate as possible but in case you notice any mistakes or missing entries, please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected] Warning: contains spoilers.
The codex is available in four different formats: .word, .pdf, .epub, and .html, which includes embedded links for easy navigation.
What else?
We updated our Mass Effect Guide to include everything Mass Effect Andromeda. More precisely, we added a page for Ryder and Andromeda's Galactic Community. Our Mass Effect Canon page also got an update, and we're currently working on updating Major Events and adding a Mass Effect Andromeda Multiplayer page, as well.
We've added a Links page, where you can find links to fandom spaces, social media, lore resources, and more! Don't hesitate to contact us if you think a link should belong there :)
What are we working on now?
Compiling the Original Trilogy codices
A Transcripts page- more information about this coming very soon
Getting our blog active with sharing articles, interviews, and MEL news
A table of content for our Mass Effect Lore page. This is a big project at MEL!
Thank you for sticking with us! We hope you enjoy! :)
We’re back! If you don’t know Mass Effect Lore very well, we’re a fan site whose main purpose is to give a comprehensive and detailed view of the lore of the Mass Effect universe. We gather information from all sources (codex, wiki, books, comics, …) and contextualize it so we can give a full analysis. MEL also wants to highlight projects or people (artists, streamers, writers) who contribute to make the Mass Effect community so interesting. Our website will include guides, resources, opinion pieces, links, … We aim to make it a fairly active place maintained by a team of Mass Effect fans who are passionate about the games and the lore.
We are looking for team members and contributors to join us! How can you contribute? You can gather canon source material (transcripts, screen caps), analyze the lore, make the canon more accessible, identify and analyze canon inconsistencies, gather fan-made resources and other links that could help people have a better understanding of the lore, suggest ways to highlight projects you like in the community, write articles about artists, writers, streamers or other people who contribute to the Mass Effect community, do interviews, offer ideas, … More details here.
You can be involved as team member or contributor. Don’t hesitate to check our guidelines and fill in our form. You can be specific about what you want to do. We’ll welcome you regardless of your preferences. If you aren’t interested in writing about the lore but you’re interested in providing screen caps, we’ll be very happy and consider it a win win ;)
For now, we’ll work using Discord. You’ll get an invite once you fill in the form. All links are below. Thank you and you’re welcome to contact us if you have questions! :) Deb: @omegastation Dustie: @dustiesmasseffect
-Guidelines/Rules -How can you contribute? -Form to join
We'll add people to our discord soon but there's still time to fill in the form.
More information: -You can join even if you have only played one game (trilogy or MEA) -As contributor you decide how involved you want to be, as team member you agree to participate in team meetings and make decisions with other MEL team members -English doesn't have to be your first language -If you don't want to write articles but only do research, that’s really fine with us. You're absolutely welcome! -If you only want to do interviews or talk about community projects, this is great too :) We’ll take your preferences into consideration, we want you to be happy with your participation!
Thank you to everyone who shared our post!
We're back! If you don't know Mass Effect Lore very well, we're a fan site whose main purpose is to give a comprehensive and detailed view of the lore of the Mass Effect universe. We gather information from all sources (codex, wiki, books, comics, ...) and contextualize it so we can give a full analysis. MEL also wants to highlight projects or people (artists, streamers, writers) who contribute to make the Mass Effect community so interesting. Our website will include guides, resources, opinion pieces, links, ... We aim to make it a fairly active place maintained by a team of Mass Effect fans who are passionate about the games and the lore.
We are looking for team members and contributors to join us! How can you contribute? You can gather canon source material (transcripts, screen caps), analyze the lore, make the canon more accessible, identify and analyze canon inconsistencies, gather fan-made resources and other links that could help people have a better understanding of the lore, suggest ways to highlight projects you like in the community, write articles about artists, writers, streamers or other people who contribute to the Mass Effect community, do interviews, offer ideas, ... More details here.
You can be involved as team member or contributor. Don’t hesitate to check our guidelines and fill in our form. You can be specific about what you want to do. We’ll welcome you regardless of your preferences. If you aren’t interested in writing about the lore but you're interested in providing screen caps, we'll be very happy and consider it a win win ;)
For now, we’ll work using Discord. You’ll get an invite once you fill in the form. All links are below. Thank you and you're welcome to contact us if you have questions! :) Deb: @omegastation Dustie: @dustiesmasseffect
-Guidelines/Rules -How can you contribute? -Form to join
I feel like I belong here: The Rise of Liara T’Soni is our new guest post written by Danielle/@ceruleanphoenix7
It focuses on Liara and her character development: from young and curious scientist to Shadow Broker. Thank you Danielle!
Sic Itur Ad Astra: Mass Effect and Mythology
This week, Ria (@ridethecricket) talks to us about Mass Effect and mythology:
One of the best things about studying mythology is it enhances your enjoyment of everything. Mythology references are made in almost all media you encounter, often giving you hints about the story or the characters, or just as a funny reference to make you smile. Mass Effect is no exception to this, jam-packed full of mythology references, and as with all things Mass Effect, some of them will make you laugh and some of them will make you cry.
Thank you Ria! :)