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Loribee
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by Loribee » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:04 am
Hi fellow swords - so I stumbled on this stone in the Blue Mountain and I was going to give translating it a shot over the next few days?
What do you all think? could this be random runes, or is Ragnar leaving us some more clues about the back story of Solomon Island in the game?
Lori
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Uragon
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by Uragon » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:31 am
You're quite likely on to something. And even if not, it could make a nice RP opportunity.
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by Anatoli » Tue Jul 31, 2012 6:34 am
Someone in our cabal knows the runes. I remember running DW with someone who translated some stuff.
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Kezi
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by Kezi » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:00 am
not sure which alphabet that would be, a few are in the elder futhark but some I don't recognise.
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by Katelin » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:08 am
I cant read the 3rd rune. Unsure about the 18th too. - Not sure which type of Futhark it is.
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by Kezi » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:45 am
Tolkien's cirth runes contain all I believe, will look at the original alphabets he used
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by Venator » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:16 am
Okay, as much as I can translate using that Cirth table, first line of stone is mysterious "ag fgdshb", and next line
"if dgg fd fdw"
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by Kezi » Tue Jul 31, 2012 10:26 am
yup, seems to be nonsense. have found no other alphabet that contains all the runes though
Loribee
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by Loribee » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:01 pm
Thanks for the insight, I'll keep at it. Ragnar was never going to make it easy was he
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by Uragon » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:30 pm
I don't know... you're sort of implying that there is a hidden meaning behind it. Given that Venator's reading points towards a word being "fgdshb", I would dare guess this was the result of a graphics artist just spamming a few of the middle row keys on the keyboard to produce something pretty in a runic alphabet.