Niall's Journal

[Red Moon]

Entry: 1


(ooc: Kudos goes to whomever can properly translate this.)

[BadAdam]

Nice, I totally have a garou glyph now! And it is for Vendetta!

Oh yea, and translation = We totally beat their asses Glory, Honor, Wisdom foo!

[Winston / Tegan]

Half done, but it is hard to figure out some of these glyphs.

[Will S]

I have no clue, but I think I am mentioned twice in it.

[Fiona]

I'm impressed at how much effort was put into this and how well this actually manages to tell a story. This is my rough translation (some of which gets pretty rough since I was with the other group and don't know exactly what happened).

Top row: metal joins together [pack of wise trees] friends with [pack of resilient earth] to go to war at the caern rivaling [pack of black spiral dancers] who violate to create a hive.
Second row: cowardly [pack of black spiral dancers] hide in forest where black spiral dancers sacrifice [fomori beasts]. Silver [claws death fomori beasts]. [V alpha] stone watches [cowardly black spiral dancers alpha].
Third row: [Suffering rain? alpha] [death claws fomori beast silver] jump air. [Bastet Z] wind (something) [death? fomori beasts]. Black spiral dancers defile rite scarred [bastet Z]. [Klaive? howl alpha] [death claw fomori beasts].
Fourth row: [Metis inverted wisdom] frenzy [cowardly black spiral dancer alpha]. Metal suffering (something) black spiral dancer hiding in tree. Lightning [V alpha] jump over [metis inverted wisdom] air crescent moon black spiral dancer cresent moon. [Pack of black spiral dancers] dead.
Fifth row: Caern peace
Last row: Glory honor wisdom

[Red Moon]

Thank you for the compliments. There will be more of these so it's inspiring to know they're appreciated.

Feb 27, 2010 4:15:00 GMT -8 Fiona said:

I'm impressed at how much effort was put into this and how well this actually manages to tell a story. This is my rough translation

You translation is close, but too literal. Think of each glyph as, instead of meaning one solid thing, representing a different concept or idea. I'll be sure to post translations to each entry when I release each next page. It may also help you to understand how I read glyphs, making future entries easier to read.

[Fiona]

I left the translation as straight literal when I was writing it. I could tell that when you had glyphs over each other, they were directly related or a name. Still, I wasn't doing too bad at translating it for the first time I'd tried reading garou and for not knowing the details. Take it as a compliment that I'm able to get things even this clear when this is the first accounting I've heard of how the fight with Trickery Pack went.

I guess the less literal translation would be "Niall went with The Wisdom in the Woods Pack and The Unstoppable Force Pack to fight the Black Spiral Dancers who were attempting to turn the caern into a hive. The Trickery Pack (cowardly) BSDs were hiding in the forest and summoned fomori creatures to fight for them (were there 3 fomori, because there is that little counter mark that goes away when this glyph reappears). Niall attacked the fomori (and killed one?). Vasili (used some sort of gift, I'm not sure) on the BSD alpha. Strange Blood (guessing for who that glyph means) leaped into the air attacking the fomori. Zephyrus (moved like the wind?/used some sort of gift) against the fomori. The BSDs responded by using one of their twisted gifts on Zephyrus that marked him somehow. Someone (not sure who. Hannibal, perhaps?) finished off the last fomori. Another someone (Makes No Sense?) went into frenzy and attacked the BSD alpha. Niall (did something. A gift?) to a BSD hiding in a tree. And then Vasili jumped over the frenzying metis to finish off the last BSD. Peace was restored to the caern and the glory, honor, and wisdom of those involved should be known."

[Wilhelm Opens-the-Way]

Nice! Where can I get all these glyphs?