Guild Wars 2

I have been trying to decipher what is written in the cirlce at the top of the archway, but I can’t seem to make it out. Tried googling it, but it’s hard to find something as old as 8 years, but I’m sure it was a topic at some point and someone must’ve gotten it.

Thanks!

Could just be random gibberish, or some ancient language irrelevant to GW2.

I remember ANET used the Mayan calender as a texture for the Hall of Monuments in GW2. I even found the original image before they removed saturation from it and called it a texture.

I can’t zoom in close enough to read, but it’s definetly translatable, since Old Ascalonian is a simple runic alphabet (meaning you only have to replace a Rune with a letter to decipher it)
(Seeing Ascalon Catacombs and “Necromancer Munne” brought up tears)

In the attachment, the alphabet is shown as :
line 1 : ABCDEFGHIJKLM
line 2 : NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Sorry for double-posting, but after searching a bit more on the wiki, I’ve found the exact same runes, as seen in the attachment. According to the wiki, they can be found in the Catacombs (as you have noticed), the Underworld and the Hall of Heroes.

And if you observe correctly the runes in the circle, they repeat themselves. They have nothing in common with Old Ascalonian, but the 1st, 3rd and 5th runes seem to be the letter Q in Old Ascalonian, but that’d mean the word is “Q…q…q” which is most probably not what it’s meant to be. I think that’s as much help as I can provide you. If you manage to decipher the meaning of these runes, don’t forget to post it!

It isn’t translatable. It’s one of the untranslatable random runes from Prophecies. The runes are interestingly enough found in 4 places:

The Catacombs (pre-Searing Ascalon)
The Underworld (The Mists)
Various Heroes’ Ascent/ToPK maps (The Mists; path to The Rift)
Vabbi (on doors blocking steps – a reused object/decoration that’s seen in HA maps).

Thank you for the reponses, was busting my head out trying to translate it to any known alphabet. It is very interesting indeed.

I’ve also been trying to decipher this Orrian Runestone in Sparklfy Fen. There’s matching symbols with Old Ascalonian and Krytan, but doesn’t belong to any. I think I recall someone mentioning ANET has the Orrian alphabet shelved up though.

There is a unique Orrian alphabet – that’s translatable even. But that obelisk is the sole source we have of it in game. That was the situation behind it being shelved – we have only one source of information for it.

You would think we’d have more oppurtunity to see “Orrian” in Orr.

Apparently that was the plan, but there wasn’t time/resources/something to be able to put it in the game properly so they scrapped it.

Sad, really. I hope that whenever they get to improving Orr in the living world they include some objects with Orrian writing.

What I would just absolutely LOVE is some sort of large stone similar to the Rosetta Stone that features all seven known human alphabets – Ascalonian, Old Krytan, Orrian, Elonian, Canthan, Kurzick, and Luxon. Then, even if there isn’t an actual cipher translation for five of those alphabets (Old Krytan, Elonian, Canthan, Kurzick, and Luxon) we can go and say “this is how one would read this sentence, learned from Ascalonian translation, in these alphabets.”

Would make perfect sense to have that somewhere in the gardens at Divinity’s Reach.

But I think a tendency I’ve noticed is that Tyrians now generally don’t tend to look back much at the past; except of course for the Priory, historians, scholars, people interested in history, etc. And have a more live the present/worry about the future mindset. So probably not many would be interested at looking back at old/dead languages.

so there’s nothing in the priory like that? it’d make sense/be pretty cool if they owned a rosetta stone

and as for catacombs, what happened to the kryta catacombs? i was looking forward to doing that in release.. oh well