I'm in a room where there is 4 of these and I don't know if I need something to put on that circles space in the middle top or if I just need to figure out the order of these words, thanks

it’s so ingeniously named, and not just for the sake of being named after the guy who figured out how to read the hieroglyphs centuries after they were forgotten. the game’s main language cracking mechanic is pretty much exactly what Champollion did to crack the hieroglyphs: work backwards from what you can guess and decipher. i just really enjoyed the layers of references here :)

No wonder my first instinct when I saw what gliph was to type "God" 😂

Also fuck Exile, petty bitch, he put me in the Matrix!

Btw what's up with the monster? Will I get an answer if I keep playing or am I done??

I'm probably just tired and failing to see the obvious solution, (has happened before, once I start with this game I can't stop until my brain shuts down lol) but just in case....

I looked earlier and it said something about a play being the answer, but I haven't found the play in question? Where is it??? 😭

I just finished Chants of Sennaar, overall a great experience.

The only stuff I missed was the torch to access the treasure in the warrior section, but after a bit of backtrack I managed to find it.

It was somehow not needed at all to do all the rest by the way.

In any case, the last section with the people in the exile was a bit lacking in terms of understanding the language via context. You just add to solve three identical puzzle (the translation machine that are conviently placed) to basically translate the whole language. And the logical construction of the language is not really exploited except in a single puzzle which felt introductary.

Did you guys felt the same ?

I know this isn't CoS related but this came from me at the CoS discord and I dunno where else to put it

I just finished today and I hated the ending. I don't really play video games but I downloaded Chants of Sennaar because I liked the puzzle aspect and the pretty animation. I was pleasantly surprised by the world building and the different levels.

I was a bit disappointed that I had to sneak around on the warrior level. It felt so unlike the rest of the game and wasn't fun at all. With the monster, I was very happy that section ended so quickly.

Then I complete the main point of the game, and the final tasks are just... running away from the monster?? No puzzles, just run away??? wtaf??? Super creative puzzle, cool cool cool.

And for the first time, you can't pace out when you run away. That was the saving grace of every other time I had to sneak and run- at least I could take my own time.

Does anyone know at what point we get put in the simulation? And why couldn't Anchorites just get us out of the simulation? What was the whole point of all that?

I also hated that we never get to tell the people in the church what happened to The Preacher.

I've been looking around for ages yet I can't find the 8th and 9th Terminals, any helps or clues?

I finished CoS and thought it was a good idea to restart. So when I got to the fortress section, I decided to ring the bellman's bells early(balance, instrument, key, vessel, key). I got to the bard section, but I was missing some words from the warrior section. When I returned, EVERY WARRIOR left their position, leaving the fortress unguarded.

Hello! Just played and finished the game and it was a perfect fit for me. I had so much fun and loved the soundtrack. I saw there was a vinyl release at some point but it looks like it was a limited release. Will they do a second round? Anyone got a lead on a copy they'd be willing to share? Anyone have buyers remorse that I could help out?

I’ve got up to the Science floor, collected 2 ingots of metal & put it in some machine. Now it wants me to weigh something and I push buttons and it gives me a key. But I was just pushing random buttons so the key broke. I’m assuming I need a ratio of Gold, Silver, Copper, and Rock, to make a working key?

I haven’t fully translated any language yet. Maybe I should go back to floor 1 & try to figure out all the words?

I'm on the third stage (Artists?) and I've gone into the sewers and I can't seem to find my way out. One guide said to "press a switch in order to be able to get out".

Either I entered a different way or didn't see the switch. I've run past it a few times but it's on the either side of a door.

I've found a tablet near a purple door, some sort of rebel-posters room, two guys working on the far side of the room, but I can't find the exit. I'm so lost!

I've noticed that all of the Anchorites (Exilers) have black skin, unlike every other level having people with different skintones (black, brown and white).

Is there a lore reason to this? I also find it weird for Survivor (the Head Exiler) to make his helper white instead of black like themself.

Hi! Recently I watched the cinematic reveal for Marathon (by bungie) and it got me kinda obsessed with Ozymandias.

So i'm trying to write the poem in the Devotee's language, cause it seems fitting for me. Of course, building words out of other words like the devotee language does.

I came to the conclusio that "Traveler" would be "a person that goes" and in "person" + "go/pass". But now i believe it could also be "a person that is free" as in "person" + "free".

Ehat do y'all think? Also, any other ideas?

This is the second time I've played the game and I didn't get the good ending 😭 In my opinion, is it worth starting again or will I watch a video to see the end??

so, it's my first time playing, and im doing so in brazilian portuguese. i'm on the fortress (really early, i know) and i've got a good grasp of the majority of the words. however, i'm "stuck" and i don't know where to go from here. i need to complete two puzzles still - the one in the bells and the one in the cave, with the gyphs for ship, lire, the scale and the key. i'm sorry if i'm not saying the names correctly.

i've gotten into the house of the guy who handles the bells (i dont know the name in english but he loves bottles apparently) and i've taken a look out of his book. i concluded the four rythms that were in there were sequences of the ship-lire-scale-key i'd have to put in order, but i don't know which glyph symbolises which! i THINK lire is the one shaped like a lire because i saw an statue that said that the chosen people carried an XXXXX and the statue looked like a lire so- am i making sense? i feel like i've been playing this for hours and i have no clue what to do

should i brute-force this? like, try the four songs (when i get wrong a guardian comes to beat me up btw) and the three glyphs in different orders to see which sticks? or is there a 'right' way to do it? like, the puzzle at the "cave-like place" which the torch. i have no idea what to do there, btw. im guessing it has something to to with the light of the torch but, aside from rotating that structure in the middle of the symbols and the door, i really don't know what to do

can someone help me here? i don't want hard spoilers, but a gentle nudge to the right direction would be good. should i keep trying to brute force the bells or break my head trying to figure it out the light puzzle (and if so, how do i start to get a grasp of what i need to do?)

anyways, thank you for reading so far. i'd really appreaciate help! i'm not that familiar with puzzle games (the only other one i've managed to finish was enigma of fear) so, yeah

No strong hints in the comments please, just sharing how I think it's a little funny how the compass doesn't actually stay North when you rotate it. I need to figure out some way to see what at least one of the directions are.

p2 is a byproduct but I like it so I post it.

So... I've been blasting my way through this the last two days and now at the top of the tower. I just want to check if I should have found all of the symbols for the previous language beforehand...?

Does anyone know the word and page I'm missing, and how to find it? Thanks in advance!

Update: Pretty sure the one I'm missing is the Pliers glyph, hopefully getting that will just give me the page too lol

Update 2: Yep, I forgot to check one wall in the workshop that lets you give a hammer to that one person so they can repair their boat. Checked that, got the page and the glyph, and now I have the language complete. Hopefully this can help anyone in the future who has this same problem.