Harbinger language/symbol translation
" Firstly, it is not gibberish nonsense put randomly :) Each symbol has meaning and they are categorized into two groups: First group is "word symbols" (GREEN). Each symbol has general word connected to it, though its meaning might vary a bit depending on adjacent symbols. Second groups is "connection symbols" (RED), they describe how word symbols interact/connect with each other (more on this a bit later). Here are some "word symbols" I've managed to translate: Now the "connection symbols". For example, lets take symbol: It shows one "word symbol" dependency on another, like something on the right side of the symbol is "coming out" of the left side of the symbol, to put it in a simplest way it could represent word "of". For example, if we wanted to write "Harbinger of storm" it would look like this: Ofcourse, more research is needed :) P.S. Sorry if I made any grammar mistakes or anything like that, English is not my first language (its a bit hard to express words/sentences exactly the way I want), it would be better if I wrote it in my native language, though you wouldn't understand it :) "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke Last edited by Toshis8#1464 on Aug 11, 2017, 3:17:01 PM Last bumped on Nov 3, 2023, 3:30:30 AM
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Wow, very clever, I like the symbolism. Congratulations for your success. Really, I am impressed by you and PoE staff.
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Would change "direction" to "projectile" to make it more in line with terms from the game. A guess on the last one is "Area of Effect", but it could easily be "Aura" as well.
Last edited by Shagsbeard#3964 on Aug 8, 2017, 9:08:45 AM
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" Thanks! :) I am very eager to know what all flavor texts mean, though its very time consuming "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
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aint no one got time to decipher that when playing lol...
just for try, for see and for know
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" This, good finding. Well done, to both you and the devs. I love symbolism and I would like to help you with this task, but unfortunately I have too little free time this week and all of it will be spent killing those Harbingers, no time for research :) but please keep going on, you have my attention. |
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Now for science purposes each encounter i have get couple screenshots of harbingers names with effects for later study.
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how does the translation hold up with the items?
I need more purple titles
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Interesting find.
How did you come up with what each symbols mean? "The launch day went quite well with just a few small hotfixes to address minor problems."
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After the fact it seems obvious that the symbols have meaning and can be translated. Good work. I would guess that the language is a harbinger of things to come in future expansions.
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