Where did this come from?!

Discussion in 'History and Lore' started by ARCHIVED-Cronyn, Feb 9, 2010.

  1. ARCHIVED-Cronyn Guest

    So, I was scribing to my Tome here, while enjoying my tall glass of ale, as I usually do. Traditionally, I'll take a drink after every word, which really is the best way to write, in case you haven't tried it. Naturally, my mug ran out quickly (I might have been taking bigger drinks this time), and I went to refill it. Then I drank the refill, and refilled it again (of course). When I returned, I found something curious laid over my Tome.
    I think I've seen this writing before, but I cannot recall where for the life of me. Perhaps this is something you all can help me with? Ugh... it looks like there's more parts, too... a lot more parts.
    Good luck, my friends! Let me know what you find out!
    *goes back to his tall... oh! It's empty again...*

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  2. ARCHIVED-lostsandman Guest

    Looks like Chinese to me but that not one of the languages on Norrath :)
  3. ARCHIVED-Brailyn Guest

    Font police! help
  4. ARCHIVED-Thrads Guest

  5. ARCHIVED-Kiara Guest

    *coughfansitescough*
  6. ARCHIVED-Thrads Guest

    Yep, it's Erudite. Working in it now.
  7. ARCHIVED-lostsandman Guest

  8. ARCHIVED-Brailyn Guest

    Zam is cereal, Cazic, bread
  9. ARCHIVED-Brailyn Guest

    EQ2Wire is Barbarian, Battle, Bixie
  10. ARCHIVED-Cyliena Guest

    Updating this thread since it's early in the post; Kiara has stated in page 2 that the names of the picture images have nothing to do with their placement, but we have been using the names to have a reference when we're solving them.
    The OP in this thread: Arasai (Solved)EQ2 Wire - Barbarian, Battle and Bixie (All Solved)
    ZAM - Bread, Cazic and Cereal (All solved or being worked on)
    Stargrace (MMO Quests) - Erudite, Froglok and Galactica (Erudite Solved)
    EQ2 Traders - Color and Dark Elf (All Solved)
    Ten Ton Hammer - Halfling, Human, High Elf and Innoruuk (All Solved)
    MMORPG Info - Gems, Half Elf and Gnoll (All Solved)
    The Anthenaeum - Lore 1, Lore 2, Lore 3 and Lore 4 (Lore 1 & Lore 4 are solved)
    Legion of Kithicor - Milk, Kittens, Kerran and Rainbow (Milk Solved)
    Massively - Ratonga, Star, Troll and Tunare (Tunare is solved)
    Thrads is keeping track of all of the currently solved puzzle pieces!
    ----
    Ok, I did some searching on the forums here, and found a link to an Erudite alphabet decoder. Hopefully it's accurate.
    Since Thrads is working on Arasai, I'll start working on Barbarian. Disclaimer same as Thrads, some characters may be off.
    Barbarian 1st Line: IONS OF THE P
    Barbarian 2nd Line: WITH A SPEC
    Barbarian 3rd Line: EED TO
    Barbarian 4th Line: IN AN
    Barbarian 5th Line: ABLE
  11. ARCHIVED-Thrads Guest

    Arasai: Thrads, Vengeance: ,

    MUST OF NORRATH AND

    F THE CREATION TO I

    VEALASH WIS OF OUR

    OUT THEIR MAY KNO

    HAND ONCE THE TI



    Barbarian: Phantie



    IONS OF THE P

    WITH A SPEC

    EED TO

    IN AN

    ABLE



    Battle:

    EMPTED TO PLACE TH
    FIND THEM THE PAGES WILL
    N EVEN WHEN HELD AGAINST
    SCRIPT APPEAR TO YOUR EYES
    THIS IS NOT HARD TO COME BY TH



    Galactica:Tylia Bread: Malachi Bixie: Phantie and Lore 4: Ventisly Human: Gaktar Erudite: Jennivere Galactica: Tylia, Bread
    ESTEEMED SCHOLARS I APOLOGIZE FOR MY LONG ABSENCE UNFORTUNATELY I WAS
    NG THE THIRD SET OF RESEARCHERS NOTES AND HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED FOR SOME TIME I CANNOT BE CERTAIN OF MY FATE ALTHOUGH WHAT HAPPENS TO ME NOW I DISCOVERED TRANSDATING THE THIRD SET OF RESEAR HER NOTES AND H

    FOR THE INFORMATION I HAVE IS INVALUABLE IT DETAILS A TROUBLING EVENT INVOLVING NOT ONLY IN THE HISTORY OF THE ERUDITES BUTPOSSIBLY ALL OF NORRATH OF LITTLE CONSEQUENCE FOR THE INFORMATION I HAVE IS INVALUABLE IT

    GHT ME I WAS ABLE TO HIDE AWAY THE PIECES OF THE JOURNAL I HAD COPIED I KNEW THAT I WAS UNDER SUSPICION AND I COPIED ALL OF THE NOTES IWHEN THE GUARDS CAUGHT ME I WAS ABLE TO HIDE AWAY THE PIECE
    DUAL PIECES OF PARCHMENT DURING MY IMPRISONMENT I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TRANSLATE THE DOCUMENTS WHERE THERE HAS BEEN AMPLE LIGHT AND FOUND ONTO INDIVIDUAL PIECES OF PARCHMENT DURING MY IMP




    Cazic
    tevoughyu
    propertie so
    he pages tor
    e or burned
    and ashuo

    Cereal
    verisvo
    chemical
    vdallowt
    it activ
    the irk


    Color:Cyliena Halfling:
    GIVE YOU NOW THE LAST PIECE OF THE RESEARCHERS
    M CONSIDER THIS IS THE LAST AS I TRANSLATED EACH
    HOWVER I HAVE BEEN KEPT IN A WEAKENED
    I BELIEVE THE PAGES ARE STUCK IN THE FINAL
    ECT I PARTIALLY MATERIALIZED PAGES




    Froglok




    Gems: Phantie, Milk: AjiaAwakener

    RRATH SEARCH NEAR THE D
    PREVENTS THE SCRIPT L
    RASH IN ORDER TO FR
    HANTED WATER ASMA
    OF THE LIBRARIES Y


    Gnoll



    Half Elf: Phantie



    MAY BE EVEN MORE

    SEND THE PARCHMEN

    NO LONGER FULLY CO

    ERIALIZATION AND

    SOMETHING AKIN

    Kerran, Unicorn: Stargatefangirl, High Elf: Cyliena, Lore1 from Anatheum: Cinyth


    ROM THE SAGES THIS WILL HELP TO PURCHASE A LEATHERBACK TOME CONERG
    RD KEEP IT SAFE FOR ALL TO SEEPRESERVE THE FRAGILE PARCHMENT A
    OME COVER AND YOU WILL HAVE COMBINE THESE ITEMS IN THE T
    ERE THIS IS THE LAST YOU WILL HEARCOMPLETED THE NOTES I BELI
    HESE NOTES NOW HAVE SEEN FROM ME I AM GRATEFUL THAT T


    Kittens

    AM NO MINIMAL SUPERVISION THUS I
    CKET LONGER FREE TO LOCATE THE
    FOR AS I HAVE DONE BEFORE
    THE TRANSFERENCE THEREFORE
    OF PHYSICAL PLANE I SUSP


    lore2

    lore3


    Rainbow:

    OF NO
    NFORM
    TURER
    NGS
    IN



    ratonga

    star

    troll


    Half Elf: Innoruuk: Pahyah


    MAY BE EVEN MORE BEYOND THIS

    SEND THE PARCHMENT THROUGH A

    NO LONGER FULLY COMPLETE THE R

    ERIALIZATION AND MIGHT NOT HAVE M

    SOMETHING AKIN TO A SMALL STORM

    Woodelf is:
    vide the
    ars
    e? well and
    e? our my
    ?ad sa
  12. ARCHIVED-Aurelis Guest

    As a lover of stories (and because I can never remember lore to save my life), I always keep tabs on the Athenaeum. It seems that our Keeper Rapha has been a busy bee and found something that may be of use to us!
  13. ARCHIVED-RaphaNissi Guest

    The 3rd letter on the second line should be an "h" instead of an "L," Thrads :)
  14. ARCHIVED-Thrads Guest

    Cyliena@Everfrost wrote:
    I assume that this is a wheel, and that we should begin reading at the one that is closest to the beginning of the alphabet (arasai, so far) then move to the next in the alphabet (bararian, then battle, bixie, bread, cazic, cereal, etc).

    That or it spirals inwards, when the wheel is done. We'll see.

    I'm working on trying to assemble all the images into a cohesive whole. Someone may be better at this though.
  15. ARCHIVED-Cyliena Guest

    Thrads wrote:
    Aye, that's what I'm gathering too. I hope you can assemble them--I'm terrible at that. Anyone know what the picture names for the ones on The Athenaeum are called?
    Ok, onward to glorious battle! (wow this is taking me a while!)
    Battle 1st Line: EMPTED TO PLACE TH
    Battle 2nd Line: FIND THEM THE PAGES WILL
    Battle 3rd Line: N EVEN WHEN HELD AGAINST
    Battle 4th Line: SCRIPT APPEAR TO YOUR EYES
    Battle 5th Line: THIS IS NOT HARD TO COME BY TH

    edit: Kithicor.org has posted four pictures now, titled Milk, Rainbows, Kittens and Kerran.
  16. ARCHIVED-Thrads Guest

    Also interesting is that when I opened up arasai in paint some additional letters showed up to the right of it...
  17. ARCHIVED-Thrads Guest

    You tricky little dwarf... arasai and barbarian don't connect properly.

    Either we're missing a piece, or the names of the pieces are purely for Cron to reference =P
  18. ARCHIVED-NiamiDenMother Guest

    So, I was on my way to lunch when Kaisha sent me a message on facebook, asking if I'd checked for mail from SOE. Did I mention that I'm famished yet? Anyway, yep, I had mail waiting from Kiara.

    I'll let you folks figure it out ... red-haired halfing needs food, badly!
  19. ARCHIVED-RaphaNissi Guest

    NiamiDenMother wrote:
    I feel your pain! My lunch had to wait too!
  20. ARCHIVED-Cinyth Guest

    I think I have Lore 1 Translated from the Athenaeum site (are those the original pic names? Lore 1, 2, 3 and 4?)
    Line 1: LP TOPURCHASE
    Line 2: O SEEPRESERVE
    Line 3: HAVE COMBINE
    Line 4: U WILL HEARCOM
    Line 5: SEEN FROM ME