Tower mural inscription: 'PEOPLE' tooltip

About this game

Developer: Rundisc · Publisher: Focus Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Not every text in the tower is in the journal. This is a wall-sized inscription, a flat diagram of the five-tiered tower itself, drawn in white on dark purple, headed by a line of yellow glyphs and annotated in magenta by a later, angrier hand: one tier near the top has been scribbled out entirely, and loose bowtie-shaped signs are scrawled at the sides like corrections or warnings. The frame catches the game's reading interaction mid-hover: at lower left a black tooltip pill reads 'PEOPLE', the validated translation of the group of marks beside the rows of little figure icons at the tower's base. That single English word is the only conventional UI element on a screenful of in-world writing, and it is enough to make the mural function as a document the player can interrogate, glyph group by glyph group, with the journal's knowledge applied live in the world rather than back in a menu. The diagram is also the game's map in embryo: five tiers, who stands on top, who is massed at the bottom, and one tier crossed out. Sennaar teaches its politics the same way it teaches its vocabulary, as something written on a wall that you get better at reading. Frame at about 0:52 in the Chants of Sennaar - Launch Trailer (Steam), pipeline candidate candidates/v0_0025.png at 52.44s. No trailer burn-in or watermark is present in the frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

diegetic-document

Components

Parts on screen.

Tooltip

Screen inventory

• a white five-tiered tower drawn flat on a dark purple wall panel, three small figure icons standing on its top tier and rows of figure icons flanking its base
• a line of five large yellow glyphs across the top of the panel, the inscription's heading
• magenta graffiti-like glyphs scrawled over the drawing: a bowtie-shaped sign at upper left, a heavy scribble crossing out the tower's top tier, and two more signs with short strokes at mid right
• a single yellow glyph drawn on the tower's second tier from the bottom, and pairs of short horizontal strokes, white at left and yellow at right, level with the base
• a black tooltip pill reading 'PEOPLE' floating at lower left, level with the white strokes, the translation of the glyph group being examined
• rain streaks falling across the whole panel and the purple architecture framing it on both sides

Top 3 colors

#39055e 28%#50048b 25%#424480 20%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Rundisc / Focus Entertainment, Chants of Sennaar screenshot: Chants of Sennaar - Launch Trailer and Chants of Sennaar - Release Date Reveal Teaser (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Focus Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: pipeline candidate frame inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); real game UI (in-world mural inspection: white tiered-tower diagram, yellow glyph heading, magenta scrawled glyph annotations, rows of figure icons, black 'PEOPLE' translation tooltip at lower left, rain) confirmed visible and legible; no publisher burn-in or watermark in frame

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