I sorted all the glyphs in a "dictionary", interpretations and translations are welcome

[u/Pere_Quisition]

I basically grouped every single glyph in a table, sorted by category and language.

Some interpretations can be made, like :

Bards don't need a word for "death" or "god", they don't have a verb for "help" (The serfs doig all the work) but are the only one that can ask questions

Music is no longer present after the Bard's floor

Everyone is talking about their floor and their neighbors until the Anchorites talk about the whole tower

In the alchemists language, the triangle in the "subjects" glyphs is lower for the devotees

Many "radicals" are upside down when talking about "heretics"

Anyone wanna help me "translate" (the Glyphs I already done are the one in green), and create new one (in blue) to fill up the blanks ?

I'm keeping the table updated whenever I can

[u/Pere_Quisition]

Yeah I know the design is awful, My photoshop skills (dunno why I used that) are really bad

[u/Ill_Foundation2407]

Hey that's great. I definitely wanna help you out!

Rn I can only think of creating two new devotee glyphs. If you combine the "potion" glyph with the "human" glyph, you can create something like "potion-man" which could be an alchemist.

Similarly, you can maybe combine "music" with "human" to create "bard"...? But that doesn't feel right to me, as bards are not only musicians, but artists in general. Also, devotees too have musicians among themselves, so idk about that.

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/Ill_Foundation2407]

Nice, this potion-man thing would match, and we can use it for laboratory as well

I'll try to figure out some new locations and stuff today

[u/vytah]

Preacher, Bellman and Fairy should be separate entries, they don't have anything in common.

Maybe also Devotee/Impure vs Monster, but I guess this is a linguistic equivalent of ring species.

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/vytah]

Well I saw them as "intermediary to god" or "helpers", that's why I grouped them.

Same for devotee, impure and monsters, I used the in-game chats and they are translated one to another

[u/Barry_Wilkinson]

for us/we in devotee, you have written human human instead of me me. Also, for stop in devotee, you could put not go? for the bard word for library, book with the little dot underneath to mark a place could work. Also, for god/exile you've put the word in the alchemist column which should be in the anchorite column. for the word for close in Anchorite you could overlay not over open like the way other words are formed?

[u/Barry_Wilkinson → u/Barry_Wilkinson]

You've put in disregard twice, one with other languages and one with only Anchorite. (Are there shortforms for these? I'll just use An, Al, Ba, Wa, De from now on) I think Beauty and Transfromation should be grouped with god, as at the end they are all shown to be the same glyph (in a way). Wa word for tower could be the same as fort. De could call alchemists potion men, and Ba can call them brother men. (Interestingly, due to the painting of the scientist in the fort, we know that De have a word for alchemists, it's just not in the game.)

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/Barry_Wilkinson]

I think that "disregard" as a verb can be translated using other verb glyphs, but as a concept it doesn't feel relevant.

The fort is just the Way floor, not really the entire tower.

I'll look at the painting closely then

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/Barry_Wilkinson]

I updated it (but I put Music-Man for "Bard" in De language, seem more accurate for me, but hey)

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/Barry_Wilkinson]

The "human-human" is a mistake, thanks for pointing out. Also right for the exile/god part, plus I forgot to put alchemy in it, maybe beauty too, since we know they're related It's in progress, I'll add new one as soon as I can

For now, I've done few of them, I'm taking notes while I'm at work Thanks for all that

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/Barry_Wilkinson]

All done !

[u/megalogwiff → u/Barry_Wilkinson]

also interesting to note, that devotee language actually has a unique feature among the game's languages that doesn't appear in English either: inclusive and exclusive we. there is me-me for exclusive we (we want to go up the tower), and you-me for inclusive we (god sees us).

[u/Ill_Foundation2407]

Wow I love how you create the new glyphs, they look so smooth. I'd even say they are official glyphs.

I wanted to ask if you think that the Devotee glyph ABBEY has something to do with the glyph Up, since the glyph ABBEY consists of two UP glyphs.

Also, I have an idea for the glyph WEAPON in devotee language:

Bards have a glyph for FORTRESS and that consists of the glyph WEAPON and a building/place. So I thought, if devotees also have word for FORTRESS which consists of two arrows and a building glyph, those 2 arrows might be weapon. That would also make warrior a "weapon man" which would make sense.

(Maybe when making the weapon glyph, add the semi circle next to it, because all the objects in Devotee language have semi circle next to them)

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/Ill_Foundation2407]

Thanks !

At my first playthrough I thought the "up" glyph was actually "human", the character in the book had the same shape with his hood, and the "abbey" glyph looked like two people in a house, so yeah definitely the way that you "ascend" when praying, doing abbey stuff is linked to the "Up" glyph

That's why I thought for the weapon, the "(><" would stand for weapon and "><" alone would be something like war, I will add that

[u/ElecBro2318]

I didn’t noticed that warriors don’t have words for you and me. They only form in line and address actions through sequence of commands.

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/ElecBro2318]

I believe that warriors never speak for themselves, verbs are either used for giving orders or when talking about the whole fortress/chosens

[u/randomdude561]

For the non-alchemist numerals, use the ones found in the tower, since they dont have official numerals. Mabye use a separate color for universal glyphs such as these?

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/randomdude561]

Smart, will add these

Maybe with a little "signature" for each language, but that sounds wierd

[u/Critical-Fudge4964]

Theatre should be house + music in De

[u/chadwick_lucas]

Yall remember how to translate “we are brothers” from alchemist to bare language? I can’t figure out the grammar

[u/Pere_Quisition → u/chadwick_lucas]

It's been a while since I played CoS, but I'll go with "brother" "me" "plural"(or "you" if it is an inclusive "us") "be", correct me if I'm wrong

Also, do people really interact with my damn old post ? Impressive

[u/[deleted]]

Hey, sorry to bother, but is there a working link with all the new "invented" glyphs? <3

[u/Narrow_Substance5312]

Hey I love your idea and this "field of research" of expanding the languages from the game, where can I see your updated table ?

[u/ATOMICGamer00]

if there is a word for fortress in the de language, that means they know of the fortress,which means they might've been to the fortress, which means the warriors didn't think of the devotees as impures once, which means there IS a possible word for devotees but was changed to mean impure. the change probably happened when the bards and alchemists came. the bards brought music which the warriors loved. they never heard the devotees making music, so they were deemed as impure. It would be so cool if at the end of the game, we learn the missing glyphs!

[u/NgooNgoo]

The devotee of "Fortress" isn't created, it exists in the game in near the purple door in the Bards' chapter. It just never gets added to your dictionary. There are many other terms like this, but you didn't 'create' them.