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mqstout · Feb 03, 2007, 05:42 PM // 17:42

I don't know if anyone's ever pointed this out before, but take a look at the maps found around Tyria. This particular one is from Ember Light Camp, but I've seen them as early as around Piken Square. The typos are probably intention. There seem to be one in all of them, except the two short ones (Tyria and Kryta).

Feme Assassin · Feb 03, 2007, 06:26 PM // 18:26

if you typed the locations man you rly need to check the names again

mqstout · Feb 03, 2007, 06:34 PM // 18:34

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Originally Posted by Feme Assassin

if you typed the locations man you rly need to check the names again

I typed the names in based on what the in-game map's letter system said. It's easy to see that the \~-ish character (first one in the big word at the top) is a "T" from all its uses in the various words, and yet it's used in place of the "c" in Ascalon and the "C" in Crystal desert. So perhaps the "C" and "T" are the same character. For the P/J, there is only one instance of each, so you can't tell which is which, but I went with the idea that each word has but one typo, so Maguuma Jungle is the one that got the misspelling. It's also pretty clear that the ^|-ish character is an "A", which is what gives us RinA of Fire (the correct G is in Maguuma Jungle).

-.- · Feb 03, 2007, 06:52 PM // 18:52

This was has been discussed before, maybe you should have used the search button.

Anny · Feb 08, 2007, 09:06 PM // 21:06

Also. why have you posted the same pic 3 times..there is slight variance in each one due to the world, and the time between when you pressed the print screen button.... and yeh, dude your spelling.

thezed · Feb 08, 2007, 09:12 PM // 21:12

His misspellings were intentional. He was trying to translate the map. But I don't think it was done with an understanding that not all languages have a 26 letter system. In this language it appears the \~ is used for both the T sound and a hard C sound, as it is used in place of a T, and a C.

Any Linquists out there care to take a crack at learning Tyrian?

Eldin · Feb 09, 2007, 12:49 AM // 00:49

If you go to the Guild Wars OGaming site, they have several nice articles on "Tyrian Paleology", as they call it. Here is a link to a translated alphabet, which seems pretty accurate (I haven't checked each letter). No difference in the C and T, although one of them has a slanted main line and one doesn't, though I can't tell if the T/C is slanted in your map images (since the map is all crinkled and distorted), and you can see the letters in the image I posted have been made differently (some in paint, some in photoshop) so I don't know if the slant can be taken seriously.

gilgameshx · Feb 09, 2007, 07:11 AM // 07:11

That same map is on page 27 of the prophecies manual, it's translated to english.

Taala · Feb 09, 2007, 07:27 AM // 07:27

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Originally Posted by gilgameshx

That same map is on page 27 of the prophecies manual, it's translated to english.

The same translated map was also included in the Prophecies Special Edition as a poster. Had to check it right after I saw this topic as I remembered that it wasn't translated. But as it was, it's no use for this thread.