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Hidden Lore?

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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?

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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?
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You're quite likely on to something. And even if not, it could make a nice RP opportunity.
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Someone in our cabal knows the runes. I remember running DW with someone who translated some stuff.
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not sure which alphabet that would be, a few are in the elder futhark but some I don't recognise.
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I cant read the 3rd rune. Unsure about the 18th too. - Not sure which type of Futhark it is.
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Tolkien's cirth runes contain all I believe, will look at the original alphabets he used
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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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yup, seems to be nonsense. have found no other alphabet that contains all the runes though :(
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Thanks for the insight, I'll keep at it. Ragnar was never going to make it easy was he ;)
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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.
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