Secret language deciphered by gamers
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Fans have deciphered the fictional Isu language from the video game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. They don’t get much out of it – but the fact that the language follows clear grammatical rules shows how much effort the developers have put into this aspect of the gaming world.
In the game world of Ubisoft’s action-adventure game Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, there are scattered texts that were written in a fictional language. Players can find translations of these texts elsewhere. The operators of the Assassin’s Creed fansite Access the Animus have undertaken these translations in painstaking detail and derived the basic rules of the language from them.
If you are interested, you can now use two YouTube videos to learn how the grammar of the fictional language works and how the team proceeded to decipher the language. The Ubisoft employee responsible for the story also showed this Darby McDevitt excited. “I never doubted you guys,” wrote McDevitt on Twitter to the translation team.
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Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: fictional language translated – what now?
In principle, it is of little use in the real world to be able to translate a fictional language. At least there are some short texts written in the Isu language on the packaging of the limited edition of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The Access the Animus team has now been able to translate this for the first time and thus find out that the soundtrack CD reads “hidden inside” and “this lake” on the game cover. It’s not overly informative, but the hobby translators are likely to have done their work on a complex puzzle for fun.
Valhalla is the twelfth installment in Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed video game series. The game was released at the beginning of November 2020 and, according to the manufacturer, was sold more frequently in the first week than all previous parts of the series. This also coincides with information from the market research company Superdata, according to which the latest part of the Assassin’s Creed series sold as a digital download 50 percent more often than its predecessor Odyssey from 2018.
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