GI Back Cover Poem : V

» Sun May 16, 2010 10:54 am

Lets give this its own thread so it doesn't get lost in the official thread.

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1765/skyrim.jpg

Assuming its just letters (as opposed to syllables, letter combinations, words, etc.) translation should be rudimentary.

[edit] simultaneous ninja'd

» Sun May 16, 2010 3:12 am

The vowels are going to be repeated the most. So find the most repeated symbols.

» Sat May 15, 2010 8:27 pm

Gstaff said later in the day we will be given Decryption tools to decipher the passage :/ its not a known langage / characters in the TES series. Turns the Page posted a screenshot of an Akaviri passage with characters, but they have no resemblance to what is on the Cover (not connected vs connected characters)

» Sat May 15, 2010 10:34 pm

First 2 words are the same

» Sun May 16, 2010 9:00 am

Deadric Alphabet

http://www.imperial-...aedric-alphabet

More Alphabets from multiple games

http://www.imperial-...ric/daedric.gif
http://www.imperial-...c/alphabets.gif

Someone get to decoding!

» Sun May 16, 2010 2:10 am

Most repeated character seems to be the dot with lines underneath.

» Sun May 16, 2010 10:58 am

Deadric Alphabet

http://www.imperial-...aedric-alphabet

More Alphabets from multiple games

http://www.imperial-...ric/daedric.gif
http://www.imperial-...c/alphabets.gif

Someone get to decoding!

All links led to nowhere

» Sun May 16, 2010 9:49 am

Said in other thread, last letter of first word is repeated a lot.
Most likely an "e" or "a"

» Sat May 15, 2010 10:13 pm

Just in case, I am also posting this version of the text:

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/1039/halpm.jpg

The two lines and one dot character repeats it self a lot, it might be a vowel, and it reminds of an "e". On the second line, the third word looks like "the". I believe this is english written with different characters just like Daedric Language.

» Sun May 16, 2010 12:38 am

The first part is the lyrics for the trailer so the first word is Dovakhin (repeated twice, also in the last sentence).

Just taking these as letters (assuming the kh is one symbol) I got gibberish, so there's more to it as I expected. Gonna look into it more after dinner.

» Sat May 15, 2010 11:54 pm

First two words maybe "Dragons Dragons"?

No wait forget that, second line the first three words say "Who is the"

» Sun May 16, 2010 3:49 am

According to Pete Hines this is "dragon language", so I don't think the daedric alphabet is going to help.

» Sun May 16, 2010 11:52 am

Anyone getting anywhere with this? Whenever I start filling in a letter I seem to end up with contradictions one obvious letter later. Maybe its written phonetically on top of in this weird alphabet? Apparenly its dragon language, which suggests Akaviri dragon if we really end up with words like Ko.

» Sat May 15, 2010 10:31 pm

@newberry94005

your links seems to be broken.

» Sat May 15, 2010 8:35 pm

D OH V A K II N

» Sat May 15, 2010 9:14 pm

My lame attempt, don't think this is right though....
http://i.imgur.com/oAZaA.jpg

» Sat May 15, 2010 11:56 pm

Could it be those blasted lyrics we've been trying to figure out?

» Sun May 16, 2010 12:32 pm

First two words maybe "Dragons Dragons"?

I tried that, and was not successful. Perhaps further testing could be done.

» Sun May 16, 2010 1:08 am

My hunch is that there are too many three-letter words here for this to be a straight letter->symbol translation job. I don't think there are enough three letter words that could be used to string together a coherent sentence in English. So I imagine some of them at least will have to be representing sounds/two letters.

Would also make sense given that Gstaff suggested that the twice-over word is indeed Dovahkiin (which we know has more letters than there are symbols there)

If its even as simple as that. ... y'know I think I'll just wait for the translation to be given to us later this evening.

» Sun May 16, 2010 6:51 am

@newberry94005

your links seems to be broken.

Sorry, Here you go:

http://www.imperial-library.info/content/daedric-alphabet

http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/daedric/daedric.gif

http://www.imperial-library.info/sites/default/files/daedric/alphabets.gif

» Sun May 16, 2010 12:33 pm

It is most likely the lyrics. I would not be surprised as the first two things repeat...

» Sun May 16, 2010 9:21 am

I'm almost done decoding this. I'm multilingual so when I look at this I can see English. It's a little challenge, but not too much. Still looking forward to the decoder though.

» Sun May 16, 2010 1:25 pm

Second line first 4 words, "Who is the one"?

Dang it, ignore that again I was wrong

» Sat May 15, 2010 11:15 pm

Could it be those blasted lyrics we've been trying to figure out?

That's what I am thinking, the two words repeating at the begining seem to be the bigging hint. Plus this from GSTAFF (a dev)

Faulgor, on 06 January 2011 - 11:09 AM, said:
The first stanza looks like the lyrics from the teaser. The first word is repeated twice (Dovahkiin, Dovahkiin), and it's the same as the first word in the last line.

Trying to work with that now.

Good detective work

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1155947-the-february-game-informer-cover-thread-xi/page__st__200

» Sat May 15, 2010 11:36 pm

As a note: the best way to do translations is to figure out a word that we know (two and three letter words are most common, since they are most limited) and then transcribe the letters onto the rest of the text until it makes sense. So if you think the first line is "Dragons" or "Dovahkiin" please carry the translation through and see if it works.

This post is just my attempt to keep the thread productive