This can't be translated into a coherent English passage in it's current state. We'll just need to wait for GameInformer to give us the key to translating it. This is especially clear when looking at the second paragraph, where the majority of words are 2 or 3 letters long and these words are often in 2-3 word long strings that would make no sense in English. I don't think it will kill us to wait until later in the afternoon (CST) for the way to decipher this...

@DCDeacon Does it actually translate, letter to letter, into English?
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@kickstothejunk No, not a letter-to-letter thing. You'll probably want to wait until the translator thing goes up later today on GI hub.

Want to, yes. Will ? Quite another thing.

maybe first two worlds mean Skyrim?

So where's Mr. I've almost finished translating it disappeared to?

also - anyone a member of any code-breaking forums or anything?? I bet if you posted this up in the right community it would have a better chance of being solved (if it is possible to solve without more help).

Yes, I believe it was confirmed that it was a dragon language (via a Todd Tweet or Bethblog, can't remember)

I belive the code speaks of weasels in one's pantaloons and that pantaloons should always be kept :nod:

Perhaps folks are looking at this all wrong. If the dragons have been asleep, could the first words be similar to awake, rise, etc. Perhaps try looking for a bigger picture rather than the letter aspect.

But, I've been keeping my nose out this decoding business..

Progress here guys!

Using the translator posted earlier I am trying to translate the characters using Dovakiin as the keyword. The results:



Caps = translated

Take note of the 7th word "VAlIN" (v a _ i n, the _ is missing)

If you listen to chant at on the song trailer they actually sing something very close to this word. Kinda sounds like "valin" or something simlar!!! I think this is translatting correctly but the words are not in english. Read the half-translatted version as you listen to the words of the song, there are a large amount of matches!

*edit* lol or I could be imagining this all!

He's been sent... away. To the Shivering Isles.

The strain of translating without the translation key shattered his mind.

Some of us don't live in the US, so "later today" could mean 3 am to us, so I'm hoping that "later" means "in a few hours tops" :S

im going to bet that its most likely the song we heard in the trailer, and translating it will reveal the lyrics.

thats just what i think, though... could be completely wrong.

Yeah, you're probably better off waiting.

Wow, you did a great work. Outstanding, so, no doubt they are written in Dragon language rather than English with different characters. Can't wait for the decrypting tool late today

I'm going to hate myself for this, but...

What about Vigenere ciphers? It's just about the next level, and was used in Morrowind (in the Package to Caius Cosades).

That's probably where we should look now.

It's been confirmed that it's not "letter to letter" For that matter, there are more runes in the text than there are in our language.

Also, I do not hear nonsense words in the trailer. I hear possible words.

Let's start waiting until we get the key. Then with the collective brainpower we possess, we'll finally know the true lyrics to the Trailer and more.

Okay, I'm going to agree with the claim that it doesn't translate letter-for-letter. Here's my argument.

We have the form: EB and BE. The only thing I can find that matches that form in standard English is ON and NO.

However, we also have the form ECG. "G" occurs 32 times (it is the most letter-- the next one is only 23 times), so we can assume that it is really "e". This takes care of combinations such as "HG", et cetera.

If this is the case, we are left with either o_e or n_e. We cannot use "n", because it's different in the cipher-- it is either E or B, but we need C.

Is there any word in common English, spelled o_e or n_e, aside from "one" (which it can't be, as I explained)?

oae
obe
oce
ode
ofe
oge
ohe
oie
oje
oke
ole
ome
one
ooe
ope
oqe
ore
ose
ote
oue
ove
owe
oxe
oye
oze


nae
nbe
nce
nde
nfe
nge
nhe
nie
nje
nke
nle
nme
noe
nne
npe
nqe
nre
nse
nte
nue
nve
nwe
nxe
nye
nze


What are we left with as possibilities? I see "ore" and "owe".

If we go with "owe", we are stuck with the form "CBENI"-- that would make it wn___. However, if we go with "ore", we are stuck with rn___. Neither work.

My conclusion? It's not a straight cipher.

If I'm missing something, please let me know. thanks.

You'll notice it says Dovakin/Dovakiin again later fully translated just like the song! It's a great match though not an english translation yet.

Saw the dev post, this would NOT be a letter to letter translation. Simply the Symbol to non-english words in the song. This would not be letters directly to english!

lol

He's probably sitting in the corner of dark room crying with his head hung in shame, having realised he actually wasn't anywhere near translating it atall

Isn't it too long to be the lyrics to the song? Unless it's a lengthened version of it that we have yet to hear. Not to mention it is supposed to be dragon language, and dragons going on about the Dovakin seems unlikely.

Perhaps one of these letters on the cover stands for several "real" letters or even sounds. Like in the Futhark.
http://www.ancientscripts.com/images/futhark_anglosaxon.gif

The extra letters (compared to ammount of letters in english) can be combination fonetics like ng, th, nd, and same letters individually separated (single n, g, t, h, n, d) also kh that is represented as x in kyrillic alphabet can be translitterated to k or h or kh depending on the case. Now if the first words are "Dovakhin" we probably need to accept there are some symbols that should be translated to syllables or letter combinations instead of single letters.

So Gstaff, if you're reading this, can you confirm that this code is the http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1155783-the-february-game-informer-cover-thread-v/page__view__findpost__p__16920491 you mentioned?

I just want to say since modern fantasy is primarily linguistic in origin it's good to know we've got some made-up languages incoming.

I forgot to mention my (hopefully) partial translation before is only the first paragraph. I think that's the song.

"the first hints of Skyrim's story, along with a unique tie to the singing in the recent teaser trailer". Could tie to the song, and a bit more. I mean, how odd is it we still don't have confirmed lyrics yet ?

People have been asking him constantly about if the back page will have some secret transcript? Or asking what the games about.