A Challenge For The Community

[Alj23]

A few years back I bought a faction called "Avalon" (no longer in my possession) that was a large mansion/estate located in the desert of New Ceardia. Located deep within the faction were a bunch of chest owned by a player named Xskill. I believe he mainly roleplayed, and a lot of the contents of the chest were lore items.

One item stood out though. An original book written by Xskill, titled "Unfinished." Riveting right?

What I've found so interesting about the book is it's written in a language I've never seen before. (Not that I've seen a lot of languages, but this wasn't something common enough for me to even begin to guess what it was.) It seems as though whatever it was he was trying to say, he only got one sentence or thought down, as he ends it with a period.

It's bugged me for at least the past 2+ years every time I see the book and have no clue what it says, or if it says anything at all. I ran it through google translate today, and all I got back was a bunch of gibberish as it flipped between detecting the original language, which included: Latin, Bulgarian, Hindu, and I think some type of Chinese.

Simply put, I'm at a loss. That's why I come to you for help. Maybe you roleplayed with him a long time ago and knew what he was working on. Maybe you recognize whatever the language is from somewhere. I'd just like to crack the code of what he was trying to say so maybe one day I can put it in my library and have some backstory with it.



All info and leads are greatly appreciated. If you think you know something, don't be afraid to comment down below.

 

[MonMarty]

Knowing Xskill it's probably an excessively difficult puzzle with no rewarding outcome.

 

[Lizmun]

Maybe it's like. Elvish.

 

[Enkiduu]

In text:
Evestis nali ofar halth etis osti Na'Narwi karli ofar relitis ular efisi osal vis vas yasali hilg tosali.

Things to note:

• This is punctuated as a single sentence, beginning with a capitalized word and ending with a period.
• The term "Na'Narwi" includes capitals, most likely some kind of name or proper noun.
• "ofar" is repeated twice.
• Multiple words end in "-tis": Evestis, etis, relitis
• Multiple words end in "-li": nali, karli, vasali, tosali
• "vis vas" I just found that interesting.

I tried running it through a cipher decoder but there wasn't any good results.

 

[Ninja124r]

I've done this before with a different book by Vibri. Turned into a staff scavenger hunt finding nothing since I already found it by accident lol. though it did inspire the first scavenger hunt event

 

[MokeDuck]

Now, The best way to do this, since it isn't a real language, is first to run it through existing fictional languages. Elvish (quenya and sindarin) being the first you should try. Next, You should probably at least try to run it through some scrambling things, and perhaps try scrambling all non-vowels.

Once this is done, the best way is to try to determine which words are nouns and verbs and which aren't (if you can). frequent repeating could help with this. Also, look for Greek, Latin, and elvish roots within the words.

With this in mind, -li and -tis probably hold some significance along with os-

oh and also -ali

 

[MokeDuck]

ofar also appears twice so it is probably some grammar part I don't know the name of but am thinking of RN

 

[Last_Link]

Im far from a langue expert but Na'Narwi is weird because it has a ' in a nonpossesive way, cause theres no s after it (atleast this is how it works in english). Also Na is the first two letters of Narwi, and Narwi is still upper case even though it appears to be one word.

This must mean its a name as @Enkiduu has said or maybe a combination of two words like aren't.

As for the title "Unfinished" I think it hints at it being his own langue that still needs improvement.

This might also just be a dead langue that he picked up somewhere, some native american langues now have fluent speakers in numbers less then a hundred if im not mistaken.

 

[Jalapeno690]

Being a speaker of the traditional Irish language which is a branch of the Celtic lineage of languages, I detect strains of Celt in the text, then it goes completely off into something which seems more Eastern European

 

[Reaperess5066]

Not by any means a grammar nerd, but I dabble a good bit in cryptography.

Its not any standard Caesar Cipher of any sorts, ROT1-25 all return some sort of gibberish.
Though you could try substituting the letters with different rotations, with vowels having one and consonants having another.

"osal" and "tosali" might be related, considering one contains the other. This also hints slightly at it being his own language, with custom suffixes and/or prefixes. Other words also have an "i" ending as though it were a suffix. "sali" is also found in "yasali"

Cipher wise the only reason for repeating suffixes like that would be possibly a substitution of some sort? Replacing existing prefixes and suffixes with imagined ones. I'm going to continue looking into this, however. Its extremely intriguing. Do hope it leads somewhere.

 

[Arganam]

@Sherlok_Holmes where are you?

 

[flp97]

Incredible! I am very intrigued by this, perhaps there is a cipher contained somewhere in that storage room? I am rather optimistic there is a lead for those who want to crack this cryptic message, but the questions that remain are where this lead might be and how accessible it is. For all we know the cipher might be inside Xskill's mind...

What's his last known location/login date?