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Anyone ever try translating this? At first I thought it was just a simple
cypher, like the old "Daedric" text I posted about before. However, in this
case there are some serious inconsistancies.
-I counted 6 letters which appear by themselves as 1-letter words. Since
English only has two 1-letter words, this presents a problem.
-I noticed 1 letter which appears 3 times in a row in two instances. It's
the same letter both times, but once it's in the middle of a word, and once
at the beginning. I can't off-hand think of any English word which has 3 of
the same letter in a row.
However, I can tell that it is not simply random letters jumbled together to
look like text, as there are many words which are repeated throughout the
document, and certain letter groupings are common in various words. And
it's not simply a cut-and-paste job, as there are never any large blocks of
text repeated, only single words here and there. This leads me to one of
several conclusions:
-There are some fictional names of people/places in there, some of which
have single-letters as part of their names.
-It is real text, but some extra junk was thrown in between the real text
just to throw us off.
-The spacing between words has been altered to confuse the issue
-Certain words have been shortened, or as in the case of the "Daedric" text,
there are letters missing. (Doubtful, as all 26 letters of the alphabet are
represented in the text.)
-Other rules have been applied, such as a rotating cypher, where the key to
the code changes from word to word, or sentence to sentence. (Also
doubtful, as some words make appearances throughout the document, not just
in one section.)
-It is written in a language other than English.
The text is rather long (I copied it all into Notepad), so it occurs to me
it must exist for a reason. And if they just wanted to show some garbled
text that you're not supposed to understand, there's absolutely no reason
for them not to have simply taken the easy way out and used random text.
Somebody put work into this. Either it's real text, or somebody went to
great lengths to make it LOOK like real text, just to throw us off the
trail. That seems like an awful lot of work to go to just to make text
you're not supposed to understand, so I still hold to the theory that it is
real, but so far beyond my means to decypher. Anybody know any more about
this?
Also, there's the Code Book, you get briefly during one of the Balmora
Fighter's Guild missions. I'd have to start a new character to get that
again, but my guess is it uses the same code as Caius's package... (Not
sure if there are any other instances of this sort of coded text in the
game, as I haven't gotten that far, I think.)
Anyone ever try translating this? At first I thought it was just a simple
cypher, like the old "Daedric" text I posted about before. However, in this
case there are some serious inconsistancies.
-I counted 6 letters which appear by themselves as 1-letter words. Since
English only has two 1-letter words, this presents a problem.
-I noticed 1 letter which appears 3 times in a row in two instances. It's
the same letter both times, but once it's in the middle of a word, and once
at the beginning. I can't off-hand think of any English word which has 3 of
the same letter in a row.
However, I can tell that it is not simply random letters jumbled together to
look like text, as there are many words which are repeated throughout the
document, and certain letter groupings are common in various words. And
it's not simply a cut-and-paste job, as there are never any large blocks of
text repeated, only single words here and there. This leads me to one of
several conclusions:
-There are some fictional names of people/places in there, some of which
have single-letters as part of their names.
-It is real text, but some extra junk was thrown in between the real text
just to throw us off.
-The spacing between words has been altered to confuse the issue
-Certain words have been shortened, or as in the case of the "Daedric" text,
there are letters missing. (Doubtful, as all 26 letters of the alphabet are
represented in the text.)
-Other rules have been applied, such as a rotating cypher, where the key to
the code changes from word to word, or sentence to sentence. (Also
doubtful, as some words make appearances throughout the document, not just
in one section.)
-It is written in a language other than English.
The text is rather long (I copied it all into Notepad), so it occurs to me
it must exist for a reason. And if they just wanted to show some garbled
text that you're not supposed to understand, there's absolutely no reason
for them not to have simply taken the easy way out and used random text.
Somebody put work into this. Either it's real text, or somebody went to
great lengths to make it LOOK like real text, just to throw us off the
trail. That seems like an awful lot of work to go to just to make text
you're not supposed to understand, so I still hold to the theory that it is
real, but so far beyond my means to decypher. Anybody know any more about
this?
Also, there's the Code Book, you get briefly during one of the Balmora
Fighter's Guild missions. I'd have to start a new character to get that
again, but my guess is it uses the same code as Caius's package... (Not
sure if there are any other instances of this sort of coded text in the
game, as I haven't gotten that far, I think.)