Also, IMO he is totally a modern guy, not frozen viking or anything like that.
Yes, the tatoo has viking runes, but they are used to make raw english. If he is from another time, the runes whould form words in another lenguage.
I can type “δαιβω ις κooλ”, but thats not greek, its english using the greek alphabet.
Tough modern guy that for some reason got to a hard to survive boreal landscape and found an old viking ship. Gonna bet he is proud of his ancestors lineage and was searching them, taking the sword as heritage
Hey @rukizzel, do you think we are getting a better shot on that tattoo once Tusk’s trailer is out? I’d really love to know what it says. Are we in the right direction? lol
Tusk is clearly Scandinavian, I wouldnt technically call him a full fledged Viking, but perhaps hes descended from ancient vikings and the warriors of old, and uses survival techniques the Vikings used to survive in the wild, so hes LIKE a viking, just not a REAL viking…but if he gets a skin where his hair is black and has a classic horned viking helmet accessory, then its confirmed, Tusk is Olaf >.>
Alot of people like the whole Highlander idea for Tusk. It would indeed make sense why he suddenly appeared in this new modern timeline of KI.
But thing is… if it wasn’t for Keits’ #notaviking, I would have totally gone with this idea as well, however, because of that hashtag… I don’t think he is going to be this immortal man from an ancient era.
Everything about Tusk screams modern Viking! And if he was indeed an immortal, then it would only make sense if he was born and raised as a Viking… why else would he have those tattoos with the Viking design and the runes and such?
But because of that hashtag, something tells me Tusk is indeed not a Viking… and not an immortal. But rather a modern man who somehow came across this ancient sword which gave him some kind of power… maybe the sword and the power once belonged to the original Tusk who was indeed from the Viking era, and somehow it all transferred to the modern Tusk.
That’s just a fan theory though… I would be delighted either way. Can’t wait to have it all be revealed in due time. ^^
True, but we all know what people mean when saying “Viking runes”.
But sure enough:
“Runes (Proto-Norse: ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo), Old Norse: rún) are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter. The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fuþark (derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K); the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc or fuþorc (due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the names of those six letters).”
Who thinks to everyones surprise the Big Blonde Brad Pitt man isn’t even going to speak English. I don’t think Norse is spoken anymore but it’d be cool if Tusk spoke it. Maybe Icelandic or Faroese?