Greetings.

I stopped in the armor shop in Balmora and was trying on some of the bonemold armor the fellow had for sale. As I was admiring myself in the mirror, I noticed some 'symbols' etched into the surface of the different pieces of armor. At first, I figured it was just decoration, but then I noticed one symbol, right in the middle of the chest piece looked remarkably like the 'Oblivion Symbol' (rune?). Giving the other symbols a second look, I decided the rest might also be Daedric symbols/runes. Are these in fact known symbols/runes, and if so, what do they mean?

-Boqa Ro

The "Oblivion" Rune is called "Ohm"-- and roughly translates to the letter "O"

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

Weren't they the symbols for Ayem, Seht, and Vehk? If I remember correctly, that is.

Might also be the House symbols, since bonemold is 'Great House' armour according to its little blurb. Though I want to say it's the above.

Oht, you silly goose (wierd)!


Ohm's are something quite different as you are probably well aware of.

Yes yes.. But it still is an "O" by any other name.

It seems bonemold has built-in electric resistance!

I wonder why a random Oht would be on the Bonemold though. There doesn't seem to be anything in the Dunmer pantheon it could stand for.

Because it looks cool.

Maybe the person who designed Bonemold had a name beginning with O?

Maybe if I hore my awesome screenshots of my new character, Ouinama Heiroa; http://www.flickr.com/photos/25589027@N03/2537755672/sizes/o/

I recognise the 'h' on the right, but what's the one on the left? It looks like a mirrored 'h', but I'm not sure why it would do that.

Incidentally, I was talking about left/right from the viewers perspective.

Yes. I had trouble with that, it's just a mirror image of the other letter...

It allows a greater resolution/image weight ratio if you make just one half of a symmetrical texture and use it mirrored on one half of the mesh...

I'd agree with you, but all of the textures have two sides when I check them. I suppose it was just the mistake of some distracted texturer who mirrored the texture. From what I can see, most of the Daedric characters on the bonemold armor are either disconnected letters or in some cases gibberish words.

Nu-age fashions, huh. Damn emos.

Well, we sure can see that someone likes to play with crayons

Thanks for that link Wierd. I see that these are just letters and not runes or symbols at all. Neither are they Daedric. I wonder where I picked that up.

It looks like there are half a dozen or so letters in various places on the armor set. Particularly around the belt of the cuirass. Though those particular letters seem a little distorted. I'll see if I can decipher the letters using that index.

Thanks,

-Boqa Ro