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- "The walls told us of your coming. When we once were. Look at them. Are they not fascinating?" [...] "These walls tell of a tragic story. A story we transcribed on our structures, on our artifacts. The stories written into the walls of these rooms. By whom, we never knew."
- ―The Messenger, 48 BCE.[src]-[m]
The Isu script was a system of writing employed by the Isu.
History[]
Often used to decorate various Isu complexes and technologies, the script was used to tell the history of the Isu.[1] To this end, the script could be found written into the walls and floors of various locations and was often interspersed with other symbols.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Despite its fall from use following the Great Catastrophe and the near-extinction of the Isu, the script continued to be recognized and used in a symbolic manner by a number of humans. Nostradamus notably used a number of characters from the Isu script to hide his Enigmas through Paris during the 16th century.[9]
At least one document written in the Isu script, the Voynich manuscript,[10] survived up to at least the 19th century.[11]
By 2020, more examples of Isu script had been found across the world, with there being some success in translating a few fragments of it as seen in the efforts of Assassin Antony Henry.[12]
Behind the scenes[]
It is unknown whether the Isu script is an alphabet or logogram (i.e. whether each symbol represents a letter, individual phonemes, or a single word), but it is similar in look and style to cuneiform, the earliest known written script.
According to Antoine Henry of Ubisoft Singapore, the Isu script was designed to be the precursor to Indo-European languages, built from Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit.[13]
On January 2021, the Twitter user @venngar_0011 attempted to transcribe the Isu script.[14][15] Their posts were approved by Antonie Henry, who created the Isu script.[16]
Gallery[]
Appearances[]
- Assassin's Creed II (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Rogue (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Brahman (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Unity
- Assassin's Creed: Origins
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- Assassin's Creed: Rebellion – The Mask of the Ibis
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
References[]
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins - Layla Hassan's personal files – The Empirical Truth
- ↑ Assassin's Creed II – In Bocca al Lupo
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – The Da Vinci Disappearance – The Temple of Pythagoras
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – The Secret of the Cenote
- ↑ Assassin's Creed III: Liberation – Return to Mexico
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Origins
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Rogue
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Valhalla – Layla Hassan's personal files – SecureShare
- ↑ Beckhelling, Imogen (1 February 2021). Meet the developer who designed Assassin's Creed Valhalla's [sic] fictional Isu language. Rock, Paper, Shogun. Archived from the original on 9 February 2021. Retrieved on 16 March 2021.
- ↑ (SPOILERS) Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Analyzing the Isu language transliterations and making Isu alphabet, r/assassinscreed, Reddit
- ↑ (SPOILERS) Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Updated Isu alphabet and phonetics, and complete transliterations of other Isu messages, r/assassinscreed, Reddit
- ↑ Antoine Henry (@bob2356) on Twitter "More progress on understanding the Isu language found in AC Valhalla. Again, impressive work! What an awesome community!"