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Penny Drakis

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Rondstat said :
Penny Drakis said :
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Zanarian
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Thanks! I believe this isn't actually a written language so much as a cipher to let us know how to get to secret fairy land (correct me if I'm wrong), but I've added it to encryptions. I dig that fairy style.

Yeah, I had my doubts in that direction too. How the Fairy Mafia completely missed that clue is a bit bewildering if it isn't a cipherscript. But then there is that plaque at the cosmic altar that somehow we were able to figure out. Why would anyone encrypt a sign that labels a runecrafting altar. Maybe it was nonsense to the mafia since it was a message in the Common language written in Zanarian script?

Then again, how the adventurer decodes the message by using such a short example text is confusing too. But that made me think that the adventurer didn't actually have to decode or even translate anything, just do some character (or syllable) substitution.

OK, a substitution cipher is technically still a cipher. The adventurer is still a cryptonerd.

Zanarian is a mostly dead language I believe, though it must have been pretty close to Common (not script-wise, obviously) if something as simple as the Cosmic Altar marker can be used as a decoder key. Then again scale theory can wreck everything and point out that the Cosmic Altar marker is actually more akin to the Rosetta Stone and the game only shows us a bit of it. And then that makes the adventurer a huge language nerd too. :P Humility is self-destruction, pride is the destruction of all else. And He said, "
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And then there were none .

24-Oct-2015 00:49:11

Rondstat

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^I had a chance to take another look at things. I think you're right about Zanarian as its own language/script.

This is one of the perfect examples of where it gets tricky parsing out game mechanics, scale theory, and actual lore. Especially when one second our adventurer is deciphering ancient scripts in a long-dead tongue, and the next they're being duped by men so arch, their moustaches twirl themselves.

The thing is, there's already precedent for this. Naragi usually appears written to spell out words in English, despite the fact that we KNOW Naragun had its own language, and that these instances of text are pulled from Guthix himself. It works on a 1:1 conversion with English. And it's not like they change 'Behave' on the Sword of Edicts to 'Verhalten' on the German servers.

The way I think it's supposed to work is that the inscription on the cosmic altar is ancient and alien, but our weird cryptographic leetness lets us figure it out pretty quickly (though it just reads 'cosmic altar' for gameplay reasons). Nuff's message is probably a 1:1 cipher into Common, that we work out having familiarized ourselves with the Zanarian morphemes. And the Fairy Godfather is just a big dumb dummy too concerned with semolina-based foods and appending vowels to the ends of words to notice something so minor as a hidden message.

27-Oct-2015 17:34:48

Lego Miester
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Rondstat said :

Wizard Script
( unique ): Not actually a defined writing system in Gielinor, but rather a graphical catch-all whenever developers want to indicate indecipherable writing, but don't have the budget/inclination to develop something new. Originally seen in wide application on the Wizard's Tower Rework, it has been painted all over World Events, Ports, quests, and a myriad of other newer pieces of content. Can be considered non-canon.


Surely it would be called Rune script. :P Headcanon Haven, where everything is made up and the points don't matter.
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28-Oct-2015 05:08:55

Lord Drakan
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I wonder if we can say anything about the Yu'biuskian language. I haven't investigated, but don't the goblin artefacts discovered during the construction of the train connection to Keldagrim have ancient goblin writing on them? And of course there's the obelisk containing Bandos's Ultimatum, which had to be translated by the council scribe. Bizarre Boron Fusswell, scryer extraordinaire. OSRS: POH ideas & RS3 minigames & achievement ideas !

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31-Oct-2015 18:09:43

Rondstat

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Noticed some more Mahjarrat script while exploring Morytania in NXT.

It appears at the Barrows (no surprise) and on the plaque in front of Viggora's throne in the Slayer Tower. What's interesting is that our character is actually able to read the plaque.

Is this a skill we've picked up over our many dealings with Mahjarrat? Something we studied in a library? Or is this script perhaps far more common than we thought?

Also worth noting is the Zarosian use of the script by both Viggora and... whoever scrawled the door code in Broken Home. I'm still unclear whether that was meant to be Ormod, his descendant, or if it was supposed to date back to the asylum.

25-Apr-2016 23:02:22

The Mather1
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Rondstat said :
It appears at the Barrows (no surprise) and on the plaque in front of Viggora's throne in the Slayer Tower. What's interesting is that our character is actually able to read the plaque. This might actually be pretty useful.

It has 5 different characters if we can make a number of possible keys for that according to 5-letter words it might be and cross reference it against other words we might be able to make a complete key for Mahjarrat script.
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03-May-2016 10:56:05

BlaivSiocled

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On Vampyric - it's a substitution cypher for the Latin alphabet. It was shown in one of the TLoV streams. Sadly, I can't find the stream (checked Twitch and YouTube). The closest I can find to a source is the gallery of the Wiki's TLoV page, which is difficult to read, due to poor image quality.

The first letter of each Vampyric House's name is their symbol. So the circle with a drop is a "d". Banners with each House's name have been released, meaning we could work those out.

Sadly, without finding a screenshot of the Jagex-provided translation, B, C, Q, W, and X can't be found. They don't appear in any Vampyric script besides the key, to my knowledge.

Interesting that Vampyric is similar to Infernal, seeing as both were under Zaros's rule.

03-May-2016 12:40:50

BlaivSiocled

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Been trawling through the "RuneScape - Lord of Vampyrium - Director's Cut" video. Paid off - at 45:43, it shows up for a second as they scroll through images.

It reminded me Y and Z don't have unique symbols - they double up other letters. Also, A=B+C on top of eachother. Continues with each set of three. Theses "combo-letters" are also the symbols of the clans.

Finally, the clan symbols are written larger than other letters (like the difference between "C" and "c" ) in the example sentence. The is most noticeable comparing the "d" in old with the "e" in very.

So it's more complex than I remembered. I'm glad I dug for it. :)

03-May-2016 13:15:25 - Last edited on 03-May-2016 13:16:00 by BlaivSiocled

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