The History of the Ancients

Now there are a couple of complicated pieces to the puzzle we have to answer first until the answer to 469 emerges and starts to become obvious. I'll hold your hand through epic tales of ancient times that are riddled with riddles and inconspicious details that unlocks doors to bizarre new ways to look at Tibia.

An extremely interesting place is the Shattered Isles and its history.

Player: researches
Malunga: These isles hold more secrets than those that meet the eye. I am convinced that once a great civilisation prospered here. Some sort of disaster wiped out almost completely any trace of it.

Player: magic currents
Malunga: Magic is not available everywhere at the same strength and intensity. There are areas that are dry like a desert, magically spoken, others are rich of magic. At some places magic flows as strong as if there were springs of magic …
Malunga: At those places the savants build magical centres of great importance. My researches have shown that the chaotic currents of magic must have been more structured once and much stronger than today …
Malunga: With the right knowledge the civilisation of the past could have worked literally marvellous with those energies …

This sounds exactly like what we have been looking at, strong 'magic-currents/red-lines/ley-lines/web-of-the-dragon kings', and magical centres of great importance on the gates of the magic web.

Player: disaster
Malunga: The disaster took place at least some centuries ago. Our researches convinced us that the isles here belonged to a single landmass in the past. That should give you an idea of the extent of this catastrophe.

If this was once a single landmass, it seems utterly and completely destroyed.
Funny how It kinda looks like Roshamuul belonged to the Daraman continent at some point, and we can also find that Issavi and Krailos were one until the 'great scar' separated them.

Player: disarranged
Chondur: Hm, well one could call it like this I guess. Magic is strong on these isles. Too strong for many to handle it safely.
Player: civilisations
Chondur: The spirits tell about two powerful races that once called this area their home. They annihilated themselves in a war.

Player: secrets
Chondur: The spirits speak about a great battle on these isles. Cause for the conflict was the strong magic here. …
Chondur: The peaceful dwellers, that used to live here in a magical paradise created by themselves, were attacked by a dark power from the depths of the ocean. …
Chondur: The war destroyed both races and changed the flow of magic forever.
Player: dark power
Chondur: In the shadow of the depth, a strange and enigmatic race evolved. Using magic to the darkest purposes. …
Chondur: What they lacked in understanding magic like the dwellers, they made up for in number and destructive determination.
Player: disaster
Chondur: Yes, the ancestors hint that there has been some disaster in the past that disarranged the magic of the isles and destroyed whole civilisations.

And finally, a third variant of the story:

Player: magic currents
Ocelus: Yes, magic is strong on these isles. In the past, two ancient races lived here. One on land and the others in the shadows of the deep sea

Alright, so we have:

• Way too much confusion going on
• At least two races - both humanoid.
• A single landmass that was shattered into isles in some gargantuan catastrophe.
• Immense amount of magic on the shattered isles, which once were even greater on the Non-shattered continent, which could explain why:
• Ferumbras tower is nearby - Morgaroth, Ghazbaran as well.

We can find varying information on this ancient subject, some of these are:

• Two races, one on land and one in sea
• Several races who lived on land while being attacked by the sea

Could it be the Quara?

BSTH4E

Player: quara
Chondur: This race rose from slavery to a shadow of their former masters. The dark power that once ruled the ocean here was annihilated by some disaster and the quara used to be one of their serving races.

The quara does not seem to be the ones that are in 'control', they rather look like some experiments, amalgamations.
Humans call them fishes, but undersea beings call them frogs.

There are mermaid NPCs who lives underwater, Marina.
Part humanoid part fishoid.

Those frog-faced idiots

And Maritima.

Player: visitor / job
Maritima: I’m a mermaid. I sing songs and play with the fishes.
Player: fishes
Maritima: Fishes are my friends. I really hate that the quara treat them so badly.

I mean, they'd know right? Being part fish and all.

Okay.. so what are they?
Well, they are amalgamations.
We see combined creatures everywhere.

Here is a dwarf and an elf.

Shaped in dreams, what the old shadowy Ankrahmunians were researching.

We now have about 3~ places to look, where

• Calassa contains Quaras and is very close... but these are seemingly feral. Not so interesting. But they got coral and pearls.
• Fiehonja does not contain Quara, however, it does contain a lot of gold and deeplings, 'Creatures of the Deep'.
• Sunken City, is kinda faraway but also contain Quara, where the fire-feathered serpent lies by a highly advanced civilization, which has monsters such as the huge Ankrahmunian mummy 'The Ravager' and renegade Quaras, with temples full of snakey decorations.

Rathleton

Barnabas Dee: Yes, take care, the gate is opening! Can you see a bright light?

In Rathleton lore, we find that some time before the humans arrived in Rathleton, some highly advanced researchy things had abandoned the city. Could this have been right after the catastrophe?

It's beautiful! And look at all those dragoy- I mean gargoyles!

Oramond folklore

Rathleton is run on glooth, which is in reality just slime enhanced with different elements- often energy. This can create a wide range of practical every-day uses, such as clothing and immortality by sammiches.

Excerpts from research on Oramond Folklore:

They commanded some technological knowledge beyond what I've seen anywhere. Perhaps those ancient ruins are all what's left from the mythical civilisation of Yalahar. Perhaps while strolling through Rathleton I've walked through what the ravages of time left over from the famous city itself? However, when the first humans arrived, the city had been abandoned and lain in ruins since long ago. The humans, wherever they might have come from, settled for a simple life in the ruins, in ignorance of the marvels and wonders around them.

• Highly technological ancient race
• Ruins, that were either quite recently destroyed or were abandoned a long time ago.
• However, things seems to have been kinda operational, since the humans were able to rebuild and use it somehow.

It is uncertain what exactly happened, but I assume at some point their digging and exploring awakened some ancient evil, something so powerful that they stood no chance of resistance. They were overwhelmed and enslaved by an entity that was drawn to sacrifices, and especially blood.

Cracked jade flooring! And salamander of ire, salamander of fire... ?

But if any of the ancient fairy tales are worth something, it was not some vampire, perhaps not even a physical being. Nonetheless, dark times of servitude began for the people of the isle. Slavery and taxes in blood was their lot for many generations.
This did only change with the arrival of 'princess' Ramora. Now this person is shrouded in mystery, too. Though each story claims highest nobility for her, there is no record at all about such a princess in any archive that I had access to. This might mean nothing though, as it is entirely possible that this princess and her conquest date back to the last days of the mythical Corpse Wars. Though native lore and that of the invaders mingle here, it is often mentioned that things took place in the time when 'dead men walked'.

This must be during the Corpse Wars, which suddenly ended <chough catastrophe cough>

Given the constant threat of the Corpse Wars, it seems likely that those incidents triggered the exodus of said princess and her people. Still, the nobility of this princess is disputable. Granted, there is next to no record that survived from those times. It is entirely possible that the princess was some tribe's ruler or something like that. The key here is that no heritage or title but that of 'princess' in her name connect to her in any existing lore. Knowing to what an end the nobility goes to preserve their family names, at least ist must strike one as odd that no traceable surname survived in all those tales. The next thing are clashing reports about how the exodus took place.

We have a princess, the researchers had not heard of a kingy ruler.
We also see a lot of details pointing at this happening a really, REALLY long time ago.
The snakemen talk of kings and princes in the old times.. Prince Drazzak in Roshamuul.. as written by Mahatheb's scribe: 'the dark prince Arkhothep', or perhaps you've heard about the fair, garden-loving princess Maharuh - perhaps this is why they named the Tiquandan river: Mahaji

Hinting at the true extent of the djinn wars.. we are getting side-tracked, let's move on:

Yet in even other stories it is said that the 'goodly seapeople' took pity of the plight of the princess, and that their ships came from the mists to carry her people away. Interestingly, the 'seapeople' are a consistent element in various tales about the exodus.
...
In several other stories, the seapeople at least encountered the princess and for some reason or other agreed to guide her through the sea that was in turmoil due to violent storms and savage sea creatures. Most descriptions of the seapeople picture them to be tall, slender, with pointy ears and bluish skin.

Here we get some information that we can actually cross-reference with Malungas researches...

Malunga: The little we know about the extinct civilisation hints about a magically advanced race of humanoids, possibly of elven heritage, that once inhabited those isles until the disaster struck …

In the final part:

they fought the 'other minions' of the blood lord, often described as beasts entirely made up of blood and gore.
It is likely that having fought in the Corpse Wars and having survived them, Ramora and her followers had weapons, tactics and magic available to fight even such abomination, without running away screaming at the first confrontation. Finally they cornered and slew the beast that oppressed the isle. Probably in a gesture of unification she married (? the stories here a irritatingly vague) a local man that was declared to be some hero in the whole affair. Bringing with them more determination than the natives had and possessing some knowledge that was alien to them, the new arrivals changed the isle's civilisation significantly. Houses were built, the crude machines where put to a more efficient use, and more effort was put into understanding the relics of the past.

Apparently a hero with alien technology some time after the catastrophe charmed and married the extremely powerful princess Ramora. That's mad!

Curious that they fought the 'other minions' as described by the quite reliable blue Djinn Ocelus:

One on land and the others in the shadows of the deep sea

Like we read about the Shiron'Fal:

Making their hidden moves, manipulating people and events, taking whatever they needed to increase their power. Their agents travelled the world in many forms and disguises, looking for relics and recruits.

This makes me think they are a mix of races, outcasts.. because yeah, pretty much all traces we find of them are that, amalgamations & grunts.
Imagine the gathered knowledge of all of these races.

So from now on, I'm going to refer to them as the others - instead of snake-men-lizard-quara-fish-minotaur-zathroth-demon-stuff-etc. There are many other mentions of 'the others' as well.

I think we see mayhaps two of these races while crashing during a 'shortcut' from Port Hope to Yalahar. (but could be another shortcut). This would otherwise be concealed by the Yalaharis usual masks...

Looks like som humans and knobheads! By the looks of it, they were friends at some point on the shattered isles. I get strong Yalaharian vibes. These were supposedly the good guys, the lightbringers. The wise philosophers and relentless scientists.

This leaves us with, the Njey - The creatures of the deep, and Sunken City.
In Sunken city, which lies just west of Rathleton, we find tons of snakes and teleporters. This just HAS to be remnants of the ancient Shiron'Fal.

Rathleton powerplant, which is run on tons of slime, energy and heat.

Quara sacrifice dragon/demon bones

Zao plainssssnake

Snakemen built this pyramid city Banuta

Optical cording forge and snek

Right by the forge, where Groam can be found - is two huge eyes.

Cracked Jade flooring!

There are tons more, as you've seen throughout the world.

One reason i'm showing all of this is because figuring out who is fighting who and which side is which - and where - is difficult to understand, considering our protagonists Zathroth, Kirok and the bonelords had a wide arsenal of literal nightmarish creatures and goofy cattle, and were able to teleport around as they please.

And we can without a shadow of a doubt say,
that the others, the outcasts.. created the quara, sea serpents, dragons and pretty much everything snakey. We can connect multiple places to the Ankrahmunians, where our dear serpentine tower lies.

This leaves us with little left, but still some ways to go.

Elves and humans?

Following the elven lead, we will be visiting Fiehonja, the "Light of the Depth", below Grey beach - which lies very close to Kilmaresh, Zao and Ankrahmun.

Fiehonja

Ahh this place had me tearing my hair for weeks. It's so difficult.
But oh boy was it worth it.

Quite a lot of gold down here. Good zteel.

For those of you that don't know, Deepling language, or "Jekhr" is a custom language in Tibia.
As described by the Yalaharian researcher Lagatos - who has written every english book in Fiehonja:

The Deepling language is not yet understood to its fullest. However, it mostly consists of nouns and basic, infinite verbs.

Lagatos has also provided us with a couple of dictionaries.

Exercises, Chapter I: Pronouns
I/me = jh
we/us = jey
you = na
the/that/this = jeh
...

Some books are written by deeplings. These are difficult to understand but are closest to the truth.

When talking to NPC's, we use written(latin) form so the NPC can understand us.
When translating to English, we can use the written form to lookup in provided dictionaries, and if we want, transpose the words to pronounced form - however, this has no documented gain at all. Flavour?

Note that when spoken aloud, a 'T' (as in 'h' or 'H') will be pronounced 'aa'. It is only pronounced 'h' if at the beginning of a word. The word 'jakhn' (to destroy/destruction) will be pronounced: "jakaan"

Additional notes: Most complex words are constructed of smaller basic vocabulary. For example: 'surface' ('gouthn') consists of 'over/up' ('gou') and 'face' ('thn'). Ligatures appear as consonants only as in 'Qjell' ('Qjell'). An 'i' at the end of a word will always be pronounced as 'ee'. A verb is negated if it is followed by 'ro'. For example: 'lume' ('reach') followed by 'ro' ('not') means 'not to reach'.

And now you know what tools we have to work with.
The Njey seem to worship a god called Qjell, or to us: Kjell.

Let's read about the first coming of Qjell, the most important event to all deeplings.

The Book of Qjell, The First Coming

Edition II, Translation from 'Jekhr' (language of the Deeplings)
By Lagatos, Chronicler and Scholar

When the creatures of the deep were born under the eternal suns, a great evil befell the seas. An evil never described in writing nor mentioned by a scholar for it was blackness incarnate. Chaos and darkness reigned and the deep suffered direly. For centuries our world was shattered and occluded from light and warmth. Those born under a weak tide were abducted, captured, eaten by fiends of the void. The strongest would prevail, but their numbers were small. Our race was facing extinction before they were touched by even a single beam of light. It was in these darkest of nights and the deepest of depths that a Deepling would rise to face the unlight. It was Qjell who was the first, the one to stand against these vile odds. He lived as one of us, he suffered among us. He reached for the surface and brought the light, his gift, to undo the deeds of the wicked. To cleanse the deep and to wash our faces for we were to expect the twin suns. And he drove away the evil and was light incarnate. This was the time known as the First Coming. We shall await the Second Coming. And for we are given time on this world, we shall use it to erect walls and pillars, temples and towers, gardens and cities. For we shall prosper and grow to await the Coming of our God King Qjell.

It sounds like Qjell came from the deep, came from the surface and lived as one of them.
I think whatever ascended just died, and sometime after someone "non-deepling" lived as one of them.

We know that this is a religious book about ancient happenings, so details are a bit dark and fluffy.

• There was a darkness in the depths
• Something came, that brought light
• This brought a lot of joy, they built temples, cities, gardens, towers, started writing...

And! it does share similarities with what Ztiss told us earlier

1. He ztole ze zecret of zteel from ze evil lordz of ze deep and flooded zeir cavez to drown zem.

Continuing this fish and frog-lore, at some point there was a shift:

It is not known how old (or young) this civilisation was when they decided to "reduce" their society to cattle and shepherd, but it is possible that they found this to be the only form that guarantees survival of the race as a whole. So far this concept did not fail.

Although violent and often primitive in nature, these creatures of the deep are strangely interconnected and should be considered intelligent beings. They communicate and interact with each other on a higher level than most inhabitants of the Tibia oceans. However, each of their existences is mostly focused on specific tasks.

It's also interesting because we have been looking at several languages.

As each Deepling has to play its role, the social structure of their society is clearly structured and layered in strict castes. From what is known through collected studies and vague interpretations of writings in the foreign language of higher Deeplings, higher castes suppress members of lower classes systematically. This is achieved by radical control of everyday life of lower Deeplings and strict classification. Besides fear and oppression, higher classes especially utilise limitations to reach these goals. Parts of the society will not be able to access specific religious sites, sacred writings or even habitats of higher members.

And it's up to us to figure out what caused the shift - while decrypting cruel ciphers and especially tricky quests such as liquid black.

An easy book to decipher is depicting the welcome of a male visitor some time after Qjell.

Smiles
Creature arrived from over the surface.
He came in peace.
We let him in, he was a visitor, and Qjell smiles.

or as a deepling would pronounce it,

Solesteaa!

Corej jarkaa ho gou jeaa goutaan.
Jarkaa uw dibidej
Jey jul ku laa ku en vuaael, ut kjell solesteaa!

I de-maddened the dictionary slightly without changing any meaning by removing some clutter like boil/boiling -> boiling.
Makes it easier to get the gist of it while not changing any meaning that Lagatos gave us.

Some of these books are quite strange and deceiving, where we have to use some thinking with the dictionaries to get the meaning, which without cross-referencing, looks like a book with a good message - VERY sneaky from Cipsoft...

Who do you kohn kjell! | (obey) from roqohn which is non-believer/non-obeyer
Who you we kjell! | (belong) 'we' interpreted as belong
KJELL BRINGER LIGHT

So this could've easily been interpreted as "who do you believe? KJELL! who you we? Kjell! Kjell brings light" Sneaky.. this coincides with what we read about the deeplings apparent shift in societal behaviour.

Still weird that Qjell bringer light, eh?

Could it be related?

We find another book hailing Obujos, Tanjis and Jaul-
and more books hailing Qjell, The first coming, and they're awaiting the second.

And Kjell ascends the depths.
And Kjell walks the surface.
And Kjell brings the light, perseverance in death.
And Kjell will rise.
The second arrival is at hand.

I just love these translations, they bringer me so much joy.

Following is a book depicting a sinister swimmer-

The Swimmer, translation by Lagatos.

And when the Swimmer reached the bottom of the sea, he was enlightened by the beauty of the deep. The lively cities of the Deeplings greeted him from the bosom of the ocean. Drowning in colour and light, the Swimmer reached the sea's moist bed, surrounded by guardians of the deep. But their welcome was of little warmth. They did not see a foreigner nor a stranger, not a visitor but a threat.

The Swimmer Part II
Translation from 'Jekhr' (language of the Deeplings)
By Lagatos, Chronicler and Scholar

Held captive for two lifetimes he became one with the stone and coral that bound him. He longed for the world above. Wandering the skies again in broad daylight. Roaming the deserts, mountains and vast plains of the world like he used to. Floating a drop above the rain and dodging beams of the twin suns, he would embrace the disembodied freedom of his true self.

He was a spirit and a ghost. His soul moved into the very walls and fences of every house and court. Claiming the very foundations of this watery city as his own.

The Swimmer now lingers in shadowy corners, damp and dark and hollow. Chasing flickers of light touching the ground like a cat born of fog. When the creatures of the deep fell for the first visitor, he mourned the loss of the good in their souls. When the colour finally fled from its last enclave, he longed for redemption.

What is left of the light once brought to us, what remains of the fires once thriving us, it is he.

Funny how these are the only 'first edition' books in all of Jekhr.
There are other inconspicuous details, such as, how do the Deeplings know what the swimmer longs for?
We also find that the swimmer was the first visitor.

In another confusing book of Lagatos, it seems that the library was abandoned long ago, and apparently there has been a second coming?

The Drowned Library
Personal notes of Lagatos, Chronicler and Scholar

The once bright centre of the Deepling community has been given up ever since the days of the Second Coming. After their leaders were convinced that their future lied above sea level, more and more of them stopped maintaining the archives and tending for the books. With the Deeplings rallying for war, the great halls of the library were soon abandoned. The culture of these creatures is complex enough to produce a significant amount of literature. I have found several works about sea animals, food, architecture and even early philosophical theories. However, progression of the Deepling culture in this direction has long been abandoned in favour of war preparations or social oppression of lower castes.

Let's do a small recap:

• At first there was evil all around.
• Qjell came and brought light, lived as one of them, suffered among them.
• Qjell gtfo
• The deeplings started building libraries, temples, started writing- philosophy prospered.

There has been at least three visitors depicted by different races.
Humanoids:

• Qjell
• "The first visitor": (Swimmer)
• Shorty after, female Ramora
• A 'second' coming

And as depicted by the Njey, Deeplings:

• Qjell
• Friendly male visitor that makes the deeplings smile.
• A certain thing called SENX which we have not read about yet, but he was a threat.

And then:

• Deeplings went haywire
• QJELL BRINGER LIGHT, PERSEVERANCE IN DEATH
• Eventually stopped writing and tending for the library

Meanwhile, just to make it a bit more difficult and a bit more solveable, on the same island - Quirefang, shit went down.

The name Faltugios pops up numerous times in a series of (8!) books we find in the hive.
It seems to have been written by a paranoid Yalaharian captain-researcher on a mission to create a crawler-army to save the world from IT. I will show you some excerpts of IT.

The hive is above Gray beach, just east of Zao and north of Kilmaresh.

The journey has been uneventful so far and the weather is fine. Faltugios suggested to run the ship with full power but I decided it is better not to take even the slightest risk on our mission. I am still convinced that IT will not allow us that easily to continue with our plans. Admittedly, I am extremely nervous, but this is no surprise considering the circumstances. Our knowledge is a burden not easy to bear. Therefore I keep these notes, knowing I'll have to destroy them when the time has come. I'm a bit nervous but I'm also anxious to learn what we will be able to do for the best of the world. Time will tell. ... A sea serpent has attacked our ship. Could it be IT's doing? Though the serpent was quite huge, it was no match for our ship's weaponry. Still, could IT know our power? Or the strength of IT's tools? Even if IT is not working consciously against our efforts, it might be an instinctive reflex like an animal that flicks flies. If it was an effort to stop us, it would mean that IT is aware of our movements. Could it be?

The eight books are COMPLETE madness, extreme paranoia. Very fun to read, it reminds me of my descent into madness second-guessing every idea and thought.

I will not allow IT to triumph. ... Several members of the expedition seem suspicious to me. Faltugios is the most vocal of them of course. He was criticising me right from the start and I wonder if he is an unwilling - or perhaps even a willing - tool of IT. Yes, perhaps some of them know more than they admit. It has been always our nature to be inquisitive and sceptical. What if one of them has learnt more than he was meant to know? What if he'd become tainted by the knowledge and perhaps was seduced with lies and promises?

And at some point, Faltugios started to investigate the deeplings, "fishmen".

The attacks of the fishmen continue. The more we kill, the more they seem to call from the depths of the sea for their next attack. This can't be a coincidence anymore. It has to be IT's work. Nothing else makes any sense. Faltugios suggested to capture the creatures to try to communicate with them to learn their motivation.

All the while the situation in Yalahar grew tense

The reinforcements still did not arrive. Actually, they were not even sent. I wonder what is happening in Yalahar. I heard about some quarrels in the circle and civil unrest. All foreigners are put under greater surveillance and the defences are strengthened against an attack that the circle can not specify to the masses.

The captain requested backup forces, however did not go along with the new commander at all.
At some point, the captain kills Faltugios and Traks, the commander of backup forces.

The unrest in Yalahar is growing. I am on my own. I wonder if there are contingency plans? Am I expendable? Is my project already deemed a failure due to the whisperings of IT? I cannot allow them to succeed. It is up to me to stop them. I alone can do it, stop them. I will save the world! ... It is done! I locked up Faltugios and that stupid brute in a chamber and let some of the experimental specimens free. As expected the creatures perished, but they distracted this duo of traitors long enough to flood the room with gas. The others seem shocked by 'the accident'. If they only knew! If they only knew! But only I know it, know about IT. ... What have I done? What if I was wrong? What if Faltugios and Traks were innocent. No, no, I was right. They were in liege with IT.

Then it turns out, that Faltugios is actually alive? He whispers something at night...

Faltugios is alive!!! He sneaked into my room while I was sleeping and whispered something into my ears. I can't recall what. When I switched on the light, he was gone. Perhaps IT has saved him and granted him ghostly powers. Or was it his ghost? Has IT turned him into a ghost? I am so shaken, so tired. I don't understand. We have some apparatus that should prove effective against ghosts. Tomorrow, I will set some of them up. ... The others are eyeing me suspiciously. I know I look tired and act nervously but perhaps they know what I have done. Perhaps the ghost of Faltugios talked to them. Or he is truly alive.

Is IT whispering or is it Faltugios that whispers?

Yalahar is in uproar. I think the knowledge is spreading somehow, making things only worse. I have spoken to Tjule of the circle and he claimed to have no knowledge at all about my mission. What is happening here? Is it not the will of the circle what we are doing here but the work of a splinter group? Whatever!

In the final parts, something strange happens with the captain.

If I could only concentrate better. But they are haunting me. It is not only him but also others. Or is it him taking other forms? Some faces of my past, some faces I don't even know. I see them in the corners of my eye, only to vanish when I look at them. ... They are after me. The ghosts and the others. I sent the scholars into the fish caves again and again but they do not die. They even brought me a living fishman as I requested. Now I have this creature here in my laboratory and it seems, it is eyeing me, too.

While the rest of the crew wants to go back to Yalahar, the captain plants some explosives on the outbound ship.

I was horrified as the ship exploded shortly after it left. There were no survivors. But I had no choice. They forced me to do it. It was their fault, not mine. It is IT's fault.

We are short of food. I will have to rely on eating dead experiments. ... Rehus was attacked and killed by one of his experiments today. My only concern upon learning this was that he might join the ghosts that haunt me. The captured fishmen seems to be mocking me, too. I know what he is thinking. He thinks that my experiments will fail, that I have been unsuitable to lead such an expedition at all. He seems motionless and untouched when I yell at him, but I know he is snickering when I leave. ... Failure after failure. ... No one here to take care of the machines. No one here. ... Tired. So tired. No idea what Hiona is doing. We rarely speak. I wish she had left with the others. No word from Yalahar. The others. They are dead, aren't they? Something with the ship.

Finally he loses his mind, and doesn't even care that he will die.

Hiona is gone. No idea when I last saw her. Was it yesterday? Has it been a week ago? A month? The fish-thing is gone, too. Its prison must have been cracked as I threw things at him in a fit of rage. Now I am alone? No, I have been alone since the beginning.

I hope Faltugios or Ramiar take care of the labs for a while. ... Hungry. Where are the others? They left me? It's so hard to remember. So hard to concentrate. ... I am the creator of a new race. Does this make me a god? ... The others are dead I think. ... I create life and fight an evil entity for the fate of the world. I am the only sentient being on this world. ... I am alone and the guardian of the world. I am a god. A god does not have to explain his actions. A god knows no guilt. I know what's best. Yes, that's good. ... So many crawlers on the loose. They attacked me. Me, their creator! I will strike them down with my godly wrath and the chorus of ghosts that accompanies me will sing a hymn of my vengeance! All will die. I will cleanse this rotten world and create a new one! ... I am dying. They wounded me. But this is fine. When they can kill a god, they are strong enough. In the end I succeeded. But will the world not end when I die? I am the creator, the centre. Time will tell.

What was going on in Yalahar, can be found in some old plaques around the city.

The great race of the Yalahari was one of the most advanced and gifted races that were created in the godwars. However, their major flaw - at least in the eyes of the warring gods - was their intelligence.

In Yalahar, the ancient race pursued their quest for knowledge and science. Their power was so enormous and their magic and weapons that advanced that they could repel the attacks of the warring factions with ease. However, this immense knowledge also initiated the beginning of their downfall.

By analysing the very structure of the universe, their mago-scientists became aware of a 'missing factor' in all world-views, calculations and sciences. All their research hinted at something to be missing from the big picture, something that had to exist as their calculations clearly proved, but yet undiscovered and seemingly eluding comprehension.

The Yalahari eventually managed to establish an 'approximation theory' of a place between reality and non-reality, a place that should not be. And that place was not void, but inhabited by one thing which our words could only feebly describe as an 'entity'. Knowing about the power of words, they gave it the name 'Variphor'.

The Yalahari tried to understand and interact with Variphor, but soon their initial thrill was replaced with creeping fear. Variphor was perfectly aware of his existence and that of our universe, and his subtle influence seemed to be responsible for many dire and destructive things which happened in the past. Suddenly it also became shockingly clear to the Yalahari that by giving the entity a name, they had also given it some more substance in our universe.

The horrified Yalahari tried to undo their actions, but it was too late - most of them had gained too deep an understanding of the things that were not supposed to be. Tainted with forbidden knowledge and unable to resist that influence, sisters and brothers turned against each other and in a night of slaughter, most of the once proud race was wiped out. The remaining Yalahari knew about their irreversible corruption and decided to part from this world.

So we can basically figure out that the Yalaharian researchers found out about IT/Variphor, and were trying to make an army to destroy IT before IT destroyed them, but the knowledge of IT just made it worse.. feeding on their fear, causing more fear that eventually breaks you in a vicious cycle.

What did the Yalahari do?

They created the Lightbearers, whose sole purpose is to fight Variphor.
To spread the light, to stop the corruption.

QJELL BRINGER LIGHT!

They built towers of great importance across Tibia.

We can see, that not all towers were built by The Others.

In Yalahar Sunken Quarter. Do you see how the paint has wore off? Recognize the red bricks?

Eventually, a catastrophe happened, and the Yalahari fled.. where did they go?

There is a single snakeman that doesn't use Z's, and he is the only one I found to worship a great serpent. All others worship a snake or dragon. (two NPC with S has since been added to Marapur but I cannot speak to them)

And when asked about the yalahari

It seems that they've hid under a rock..
This sound suspiciously like what we find in the hidden city of Beregar and Kazordoon. Through some nagging for a poem, we finally get to hear it:

Lokur: There was a time when all was right. ... | Pre Variphor?
Lokur: Two tribes united in the land of the gods. ... | Above ground at Yalahar?
Lokur: They envied themselves and there was a fight. ... | Civil unrest?
Lokur: One tribe left against great odds, ...
Lokur: never to see the great citadel again, ...
Lokur: abandon their forges, their former home. ...
Lokur: All thoughts of homecoming have been in vain, ...
Lokur: Kazordoon was founded and ended their roam.

The rock Zarak talks of

Could it have been Fenrock?

Player: Yalahar
Pythius the Rotten: I HAVE SEEN THE GLANCE OF THIS CITY BACK IN THE DAYS AND I WATCHED THEM DOING THEIR RESEARCH. IT WAS FUNNY TO SEE THAT THEY COULDN’T HANDLE WHAT THEY EVOKED. I TOOK THEIR TREASURES AFTER THEY SLAUGHTERED THEMSELVES. HAHAHA!

Angelina: The elves have lost their balance and identity. In this unstable state they can easily be misled or might draw the wrong conclusions.

This could actually explain why DURIN is a celestial Paladin! And lead the way for the dream-shapen Elve- i mean Dwarves.

Emperor Rehal: Look at these dwarven legs. They were forged years ago by a dwarf who was rather tall for our kind. I want you to have them. Thank you for rescuing my son Player.

We also find that there was a mix of good people, and a mix of bad people... The old noble yalaharians were the 'good' ones.

Simula: Uth'Amon
Edowir: The luminescent brightsteel is used for artwork mainly. In ancient times, items of great magic power were crafted using brightsteel. Those crafts were lost with the races who held the secret to them.

I wonder why Uzgod is the 'only' one we know of that can smith ancient steel..

In Beregar we find the elf- i mean dwarf Rehon..

Player: name
Rehon: I’m Rehon, son of Rehal. Don’t be afraid, I don’t bite.

Rehal is the Beregar emperor.

Do you remember the yalaharian Rehus from The Hive?

Rehus was attacked and killed by one of his experiments today.

Spooky?

From the book Elven Names:

Elven names are chosen in adulthood. Until they acquire a name, elves are called 'son/daughter of ___' usually naming the parent with the same gender.

In Beregar we find the sibling of a lightbringer god, Frafnar ;)
And we gather the rewards of the Lightbearers from Kazordoon.
Go figure!

Now we're going to see the final final parts, where we will visit Fiehonja again for some unbelievable parts, Roshamuul and Opticording Sphere. We are so close now.

The Navigator

We can find an interesting person, the Navigator, who has a strange story to tell.
With all the information I've provided you, can you read between the lines? Is he lying?

Navigator: I was once captain of a ship, the Skyflare. We were traders for King Tibianus and on our way home when we got into a storm. We fought hard to escape the cold grip of the sea. ...
Navigator: When none of my men returned, I forced myself to make a decision. Either dying on this dead ship or plunging into the liquid black beneath. ...
Navigator: In my desperation my thoughts fell onto a strange armor - a gift from a trader we dealt with just before the storm. Strange ornaments and fish-like elements decorated this armor. We thought it would fit just perfectly into the captain's cabin. ...
Navigator: He said something like a 'blessed breath' and 'to subdue the drift'. We thought he wanted to sell us worthless decoration and make it look interesting. If I had only listened to what he said. ...

The armor was working. After some time I was surrounded by darkness and could only see as far as my shimmer glower would me allow to. But I didn't feel the cold - I could even breathe through that helmet. ...
Navigator: I dived into the deep black. Across rugged mountains, vast fields of kelp, swarms of strange fish. ...
Navigator: And then I laid my eyes on a creature I have never seen before. I now know that they call themselves Njey. You would call them the 'Creatures of the Deep' or 'Deeplings'. ...
Navigator: I am now convinced that when they first saw me descending in that suit with the light of the shimmer glower encompassing me, they took me for their God King Qjell. And that's when it all started to make sense. Don't you agree?

Navigator: Of course you do. And they did, too. They obeyed me. They adored me. They followed me. ...
Navigator: I learnt everything about their culture, their life, their goals and their problems. I found out about vile insect-like creatures inhabiting the surface of the island. And their waiting for the return of Qjell. ...
Navigator: I practically rewrote their history. I WAS THE SECOND COMING. I WAS QJELL. I, THE NAVIGATOR. ...
Navigator: And I navigated them out of their miserable lives. Away from their petty interests. I led them to a greater purpose - to form chaos out of order, to bring back the storm to the seas and to make THINGS MOVE. well?

Navigator: I control EVERYTHING from this room, navigating the fate of this land for more than a century now. Can you see all these funnels? My voice travels through them and throughout everything down here! ...
Navigator: The stones on the beach? The trader up there? That was ME ALL THE TIME! I lured YOU into creating all this chaos up there and down here! ...
Navigator: You thought you could choose sides? Think again! I nearly led you into the destruction of two species! ME, THE NAVIGATOR! I CONTROL YOU, I OWN YOU! QJELL AFAR GOU JEY!

Did you spot them?

• Was given a strange armor from someone who somehow knew how to subdue the drift and could breathe underwater.
• He was the captain, yet calls himself the Navigator numerous times.
• He calims he is from Thais, yet has an ornamented carpet and a house built of zteel.
• He has a 469 machine, and steelwork that is only made by Yalaharian Golems.
• He has a SHIMMER GLOWER, which can only be made with eyes of deeplings.........
• He actually responds to the keyword LAGATOS!

And I also think that Navigator = Lagatos, likely also Faltugios.

When we first met him, we use gold on a huge golden anchor, which resonates a tune that teleports us exactly 45 degrees southeast. This small golden anchor somehow ended up in the brood of the deeplings, I am guessing the Navigator has been there, corrupting.. shaping the unborn in dreams.. Working from the shadows, amplifying his voice through the dream machine.

You see all those stones up there?

See that copper tubing?

It only fits IF...

The swimmer is Lagatos personal recount - describing himself and what he longs for - the only books that does not have a 'second edition'...

And when the Swimmer reached the bottom of the sea, he was enlightened by the beauty of the deep. They did not see a foreigner nor a stranger, not a visitor but a threat.

Held captive for two lifetimes he became one with the stone and coral that bound him. He longed for the world above. Wandering the skies again in broad daylight. Roaming the deserts, mountains and vast plains of the world like he used to. Floating a drop above the rain and dodging beams of the twin suns, he would embrace the disembodied freedom of his true self.

Wandering the skies? Floating a drop above the rain?
I want to get up there, please let me up!

He was a spirit and a ghost. His soul moved into the very walls and fences of every house and court. Claiming the very foundations of this watery city as his own.

The Swimmer now lingers in shadowy corners, damp and dark and hollow. Chasing flickers of light touching the ground like a cat born of fog. When the creatures of the deep fell for the first visitor, he mourned the loss of the good in their souls. When the colour finally fled from its last enclave, he longed for redemption.

What is left of the light once brought to us, what remains of the fires once thriving us, it is he.

It is he. He has grown some coral-head.

Now, let's translate the last remaining two books - that cannot be found anywhere online and can barely be translated using the provided dictionaries. They are very difficult.

Using the provided dictionaries of Lagatos, when translating these books we get this mess:

SENX invader deep/depth/profound. 
TON when/if creature shall JET deep/depth/profound DONSAXT JET two/second JARXT JET TON gift were JET FLAT shall SENX invader deep/depth/profound. 
when/if JET JUVN shall two/second JARXT strike/force XU turn/turned JTLI UWTE fame. 
where/wherever XU touch/touched JET WOT XOLX shall ROQOTN were LOUDJOT by/with JET boil/boiling JTLI. 
XU VOLWOT JET XWEIJ and herald/heralded JET two/second JARXT. 
we/us bow shall you UW ARJAX SENX invader deep/depth/profound.

SENX invader deep/depth/profound. 
TON when/if creature shall JET deep/depth/profound DONSAXT JET two/second JARXT JET TON gift were JET FLAT shall SENX invader deep/depth/profound. 
when/if JET JUVN shall two/second JARXT strike/force XU turn/turned JTLI UWTE fame. 
where/wherever XU touch/touched JET WOT XOLX shall ROQOTN were LOUDJOT by/with JET boil/boiling JTLI. 
XU VOLWOT JET XWEIJ and herald/heralded JET two/second JARXT. 
we/us bow shall you UW ARJAX SENX invader deep/depth/profound.

It's extremely difficult to work with.
However, with some crossreferencing of the dictionaries, we find that the language has evolved. Some syllables and consonants have been exchanged. These books also seem quite long and.. 'intellectual', perhaps this was some time after the First Coming, and before Lagatos?

Crossreferencing, we find very similar words:

TO = ho = from/of the
 DONSAXT = donsakh = embrace
 JARXT = jarkh = coming/arrival/come
 FLAT = flah = dawn
 JUVN = jubn = tide
 UWTE = umte = into
 XOLX = kolk = carcass
 LOUDJOT = loudjou = swallow
 JTLI = jhli = sea/water
 XWEIJ = kweij = way
 WOT = moh = ground
 VOLWOT = bolmoh = pave/paved
 ARJAX = arjak = battle

TO = ho = from/of the
 DONSAXT = donsakh = embrace
 JARXT = jarkh = coming/arrival/come
 FLAT = flah = dawn
 JUVN = jubn = tide
 UWTE = umte = into
 XOLX = kolk = carcass
 LOUDJOT = loudjou = swallow
 JTLI = jhli = sea/water
 XWEIJ = kweij = way
 WOT = moh = ground
 VOLWOT = bolmoh = pave/paved
 ARJAX = arjak = battle

We see that:
T becomes H
X becomes K
W becomes M
V becomes B
H can become T. (next book)

Using this, we now get:

SENX invader deep/depth/profound. I 
when/if creature shall the deep/depth/profound embrace the two/second coming the first gift were the dawn shall SENX invader deep/depth/profound. 
when/if the tide shall two/second come strike/force him turn/turned water into fame. 
where/wherever he touch/touched the ground carcass shall non-believer were swallow by/with the boil/boiling sea/water. 
he paved the way and herald/heralded the two/second coming. we/us bow shall you in battle SENX invader deep/depth/profound.

SENX invader deep/depth/profound. I 
when/if creature shall the deep/depth/profound embrace the two/second coming the first gift were the dawn shall SENX invader deep/depth/profound. 
when/if the tide shall two/second come strike/force him turn/turned water into fame. 
where/wherever he touch/touched the ground carcass shall non-believer were swallow by/with the boil/boiling sea/water. 
he paved the way and herald/heralded the two/second coming. we/us bow shall you in battle SENX invader deep/depth/profound.

or..

Senx, book one.
When the creatures of the deep shall embrace the second coming, the first gift will be the dawn of Senx the invader of the deep. When the tide of the second coming strikes he'll turn water into fame. His touch will swallow the dead bodies of non-obeyers in the boiling sea. He paves the way and heralds the second coming. We shall bow to you in battle, our deep invader Senx.

The next book is equally difficult, and by using the same system and exchanging the same letters as above book:

SENX invader deep/depth/profound. II
watch we/us XUT TETON GITTN. blind/blinding we/us XUT TOUNTT and fame. 
TON supreme VAYL UW ARJAX. 
he defy/defies all GRUW shall our REYXTN QJELL. 
XU were our NAXX UW JET dark. 
TIDOR shall ORDER and RUNJT. 
TOVAJ XENT and avenge/avenging/avenger JET OSXIJAT.

SENX invader deep/depth/profound. II
watch we/us XUT TETON GITTN. blind/blinding we/us XUT TOUNTT and fame. 
TON supreme VAYL UW ARJAX. 
he defy/defies all GRUW shall our REYXTN QJELL. 
XU were our NAXX UW JET dark. 
TIDOR shall ORDER and RUNJT. 
TOVAJ XENT and avenge/avenging/avenger JET OSXIJAT.

Watching us with solitary gaze.
Blinding us with courage and fame.
First supreme master in battle.
He defies all enemies of our god-king QJELL.
He is our weapon of the dark. Keeper of (ORDER?) and balance.
Repulse the intruders and avenge the fallen.

It's interesting how there's been a shift in the language, the texts after the first coming were written in a younger tongue - and now we have an older tongue.

The Book of Qjell, The Second Coming

Edition II, Translation from 'Jekhr' (language of the Deeplings)
By Lagatos, Chronicler and Scholar

Note: The texts I discovered that deal with the time after the First Coming seem to be in a younger tongue and written entirely different from the older works. The newer passages are more like chants to be recited and memorised.

And Qjell rose and brought light.
And Qjell conquered and became light.
And we awaited the return of our God King Qjell.
And in the darkest of nights,
in the twin sun's nadir,
their touch fading from the ocean's bed,
He returned.

This time shall be known as the Second Coming.

And Qjell spread word of the light.
And Qjell pointed upward beyond.
And Qjell united us to obey.
And Qjell marched onward.
And follow we will.

So the language is evolving. It also looks like, the language became chanty. Sea shanty if you will. (sorry)

We can find that the book of SENX uses very similar Jekhr that the lying Lagatos, I mean Faltugios- sorry.. the Navigator uses..

• Navigator: 8O'''' |(( JT(|W-T -( J-T =|- (CW- BO:
• GO ILL JHLIMEH EL JEH FIE LUME RO?
• go ill jaalimeaa el jeaa fie lume ro?
• GO ILL seabed when/if the/that/this light reach not/non believer/not obeying?

ILL is pronounced very similarly to YILL, which means colour in our dictionary.

Gonn = what
GO = which?

So the navigator asks:

Which colour is the seabed when light does not reach it?

Answer is flou, or black.

Navigator: QJELL AFAR GOU JEY!
QJELL WATCHES US!

And according to the swimmer, he was trapped for some centuries before his control. Could he be Senx?
Chasing flickers of light, hiding in the shadows - As described by the paranoid Captain experience after 'killing' Lagatos.

But.. there's something really strange with Jekhr.

• Jekhr became chanty, and way simpler after their grotesquification
• Jekhr looks funny when written

• Their english is broken, yet they know it (subdue the drift, blessed breath guy taught them?)
• This also shows us that J is inserted pretty much everywhere possible, J is one of the most common letters in Jekhr.
• Jekhr is nuanced with infinite verbs.. like gharonk..?
• The language contains a ton of H characters and 'a's, like another book we find in SERPENTINE tower...

At this point, I am just wondering, why do we even have some odd 7 languages in Tibia?
Staring at the pronounced translations for days, scouring as much lore as I could and reading tons of names and books, I just couldn't shake the feeling that... there might not be seven different languages... there may just be one... they all seem so, simular somehow..

Mehrah asram cha mehe than.
Uth a'thul at cha there.
Orum tha cha elik jahara.
Udhun zah fahr mal.
Chamek at uthul hatradek asram.
Mehrem alir iktha at uthun.
Kasin tha Ur ch helim doh.
Mah dah direm. Athul as hathu, athul as dofah, athul as mereth.
Cha ukhtu muhn dahra.
Sethor mah amin dah.
At meruhm cha me dah.
Chamek persim kaharah bah tufi.
Moh dah rah.
Moh Udhin cha uthul.
Meheth Zuhl tha berah.

Let's transpose...

Meaaraa asram caa meaae taan.
Utaa a'taaul at caa taaere.
Orum taa caaa elik ja'aara.
Udaaun zaa faar mal.
Caamek at utaaul hatradek asram.
Meaarem alir iktaa at utaaun.
Kasin taa ur caa helim doaa.
Maa daaa direm.
Ataaul as hataau, Ataaul as dofaa, Ataaul as meretaa.
Caa ukaatu muaan daara.
Setaaor maa amin daa.
At meruaam caa me daa.
Caamek persim ka'aara baa tufee.
Moaa daa raa.
Moaa udaain caa utaaul.
Meaaetaa Zuaal taa beraa.

I checked which words are reasonable and within one character diff to what we can find in the provided dictionaries-
even though we had to switch out two characters in the first book of SENX.

• orum ~ grum = enemies,
• orum ~ krum = will
• taa ~ taan = face
• moaa ~ moaa = ground
• da'aa ~ daa = to
• dojaa ~ doaa = wipe
• meaa ~ meaa = bed, meaarem = sleep? dream? Mehrem...

Pretty sinister words, and funny that it might seem like they might be talking about dreams and sacrifices.
But alone, this is not enough. And qute far-fetched

Note: The texts I discovered that deal with the time after the First Coming seem to be in a younger tongue and written entirely different from the older works.
The newer passages are more like chants to be recited and memorised.

Newer passages were written post-corruption.
Ankrahmun is corrupted.

Let's compare to this sea shanty..

And Qjell rose and brought light.
And Qjell conquered and became light.
And we awaited the return of our God King Qjell.
And in the darkest of nights,
in the twin sun's nadir,
their touch fading from the ocean's bed,
He returned.
And Qjell spread word of the light.
And Qjell pointed upward beyond.
And Qjell united us to obey.
And Qjell marched onward.
And follow we will.

Or from another shanty symbol -> Jekhr

Ut Kjell forfaee nja.
Ut Kjell motom jeaa goutaan.
Ut Kjell bur jeaa fie.
Lorkulaa um brok. | Brok = death, Brog?
Ut kjell krum cie.
Jeaa rau jarkaa en roff.

Becomes

And Qjell ascends the depths.
And Qjell walks the surface.
And Qjell brings the light.
Perseverance in death.
And Qjell will rise.
The second coming were at hand.

And another passage hailing the three.

Tanjis tanakk ho nja ut Kjell afar. | Qjell watches
Obujos obu ho nja ut Kjell laanjeee. | Qjell greets
Jaul jau ho nja ut Kjell solesteaa. | Qjell smiles

There are some striking similarities, but not enough on its own.

Let's look at the structure of a "randomly" picked & transposed English book.

Waaen taae creatures of taae deep were vorn under taae eternal suns, a great ebil vefell taae seas. An ebil neber descrived in writing nor wentioned vy a scaaolar for it was vlackness incarnate.
Caaaos and darkness reigned and taae deep suffered direly. For centuries our world was saaattered and occluded frow ligaat and warwtaa.
Taaose vorn under a weak tide were avducted, captured, eaten vy fiends of taae boid.
Taae strongest would prebail, vut taaeir nuwvers were swall.
Our race was facing ekstinction vefore taaey were toucaaed vy eben a single veaw of ligaat.
It was in taaese darkest of nigaats and taae deepest of deptaas taaat a deepling would rise to face taae unligaat.
It was kjell waao was taae first, taae one to stand against taaese bile odds.
He libed as one of us, he suffered awong us.
Heee reacaaed for taae surface and vrougaat taae ligaat, aais gift, to undo taae deeds of taae wicked.
To cleanse taae deep and to wasaa our faces for we were to ekspect taae twin suns.
And he drobe away taae ebil and was ligaat incarnate.
Taais was taae tiwe known as taae first cowing.
We saaall await taae second cowing.
And for we are giben tiwe on taais world, we saaall use it to erect walls and pillars, tewples and towers, gardens and cities.
For we saaall prosper and grow to await taae cowing of our god king Kjell.

Structure is not at all similar.
The books of SENX are not at all similar.

Sure, we can skew it for our theory and make it better. But we need something more..
Naturally, a fantastic place to look for clues is Drefia.
During the time of Arkhothep's rise, a lot of Ankrahmunians went to Drefia to study necromancy.

Incantations

The lesser two-headed Hound of the Night

Symbols that writhe and dance?

Words of power..

Fake chant syllables that distorts..

"Start with humming, deep in your throat. Chant syllables that have sacred meaning."

The book is written by Darruk the practical joker, but the only thing that tricked the pupils were the 'demon language words'..

Strange symbols? Glyphs?

There is something similar in Yalahar as well...

Telas: While I was doing my research in Yalahar I stumbled upon reports about a remote scientific outpost of the Yalahari. There they were experimenting with something they called MI, short for magical intelligence. .

Magical Intelligence ;) brain patterns.. did you know that the blueprints looks like the map we used for coordinates before.

Your mission is to reconstruct the ancient golem ritual from their books. ...
Telas: There are hints scattered throughout the books in the library. Be warned! Yalahari literature is not easy reading! You might get a headache, which will make you forget what you just read. ...
Telas: The chances of recreating the ritual are greater the more you read. On the other hand the more books you read the more likely it is that you'll get a headache and forget everything you have learned. ...

Is the Circular canon of Eternal Darkness a lithurgic chant? From a powerful language only powerful mages, priests can read? Considering the structure.

It's getting a bit too much eh? Can we find more?
It is believed that this language is or is similar to the Elven language. Asha Thrazi! (Hi!)
There are strong indications of elves living amongst humans at some point in Ankrahmun, but I won't make this too long. Our chanty book from Ankrahmun is enough for now.

One commonality is that there is an extreme abundance of the letter 'A'.
This also holds true for all the Djinn names, all the previous Pharaoh, and especially the cavemen.. every single one. While it's true for english and many other languages, it's not common in this abundance combined with other vowels. However, with some biased transposition, we can make 'A' in abundance.

The texts I discovered that deal with the time after the First Coming seem to be in a younger tongue and written entirely different from the older works

I did collect every language of Tibia and most instances of them from Cavemen ugha language to Chakoya, transposed them, did frequency analysis of characters.. and I found that there are similarities in the top 7 characters, enough that enough suspicion arose. I tried many other languages unrelated to eachother, such as Finnish, French, English.. but even after transposition and frequency analysis, the characters are completely different to eachother. Not at all as close as the Tibian languages are to each-other.
BUT, knowing that there are always answers in the lore, and knowing that the language has evolved with time, made frequency analysis not as useful. So I kept trucking on with more confidence.

One deepling is called deepling spellsinger...

You hushed the songs of war in the black depths by sliencing more than three hundred Deepling Spellsingers.

In Roshamuul, we are supposed to learn 'good night songs' from flowers. (!!!)

Humming a disturbing and grating tune... like the book from Darruk, 'start by humming, from deep in your throat'

But hold on.
This implies.. I mean, ONLY works if:

• The elves of Ankrahmun were "old deeplings" that likely ascended to the surface? Which frankly the books talk about quite a lot.
• And that the humans are older than elves?

Huh?

Well...

Remember how dwarves are elves?

Groam is a friend.
...
when i turned around to ask Groam about it, he just said something about an entrance and then he disappeared...

And this happened right on the EYE of the salamandery place by Opticording Forge.

And how the creatures of the deep were described as 'tall, slender with pointy ears'

Remember how individuals can turn.. especially that dwarf and elf that our Eclesius tried to combine, which turned out... pretty damn bad. Deepling/Gozzler kind of bad.

Are the humans older than the elves?

About Chelabdil, one of two pale elven castes whose appearance is portrayed:

The 5th elven cultural group are the Chelabdil. Their role in the war and their fate is yet unclear, but they have few contact with the other elven castes. They are usually a bit taller and stronger than elves of the other races, and their skin is silvery-white or in blue to greenish tones. Their eyes are often pale blue or green, sometimes a faint yellow.

What could a Pharaoh / Ankrahmunian 'ascendant' look like?

After a journey that might have lasted hours or days he arrived at a huge chamber whose geometry mocked the laws of nature. It was barren but for a single colossal throne in its centre. On this throne of greyish stone sat a regal but horrible figure of nonhuman origin. The mummified thing had multiple arms and an elongated skull with shark-like teeth. When Ilos approached it, he felt that this had to be the source of the catacomb's evil. His sword drawn he stepped closer. And the thing arose. Then it was all dust and blades. A fight of epic proportions erupted.

That vampire thing is from Ankhrahmun.. I'd count that as a hint.

It doesnt translate well, but looks really really close. Remember that the language evolved, and some of the earlier scriptures were written COMPLETELY different...

I mean, the language seems to have evolved reeeeeeally really much - but the essence of it seems to be somewhat similar, it's like some extreme dialect, like German to English, Swedish to Danish kinda way. Or how the language you speak IRL has changed the last 250-2500~ years or so.

Incantations yesterday and tomorrow - a comparative study on the evolution of rituals. Revised 155th edition with a preface by His Dark Excellency, Tarkeolos Blacksand.

It's also funny that the colors we find in Gharonk books, are the same colors that the Cavemen use for their rituals- but instead of gold we use orange. I guess gold is in pretty short supply for the cavemen. Not one of their missions grant gold, most grant ancient knowledge.

Your reward is ancient knowledge of tribe! Me teach you something. <whispers in your ear>

Gharonk:

"glub" means "no", but it's also the word for "none", "not", and so on.

Jekhr:

The Deepling language is not yet understood to its fullest. However, it mostly consists of nouns and basic, infinite verbs.

Some Djinn names:

Ashta'Daramai, Mal'ouquah, Kha'zeel, Kha'labal, Alesar, Baa'Leal, Malor, Rata'Mari, Ubaid, Yaman, Bo'Ques, Djema, Fa'Hradin, Gabel, Haroun, Nah'Bob, Umar

Pretty excessive use of 'a' and 'h' if you ask me.

Cavemen words:

Makao: Ti ta, ta toka, toka ti!

• Namasa, Makao, Lazaran, Ulala, Tatak, Kito

Player: lizard
Lazaran: No, no, me called Lazaran. Not Leezaraad.

No such thing as lizard? Mayhaps

Charach Humak!
Kaplar!
Asha Thrazi.

Fanatics of Zathroth claim that the library also contains at least parts of 'the true speech', the first and only true language, the syllables the gods whispered at the dawn[night] of creation.

Move-earth:

I envy the priests for the elemental powers they are wielding.

But I found something that just does it for me.

In Jekhr, X = KS in current tongue, K in older tongue.

Here we have Jaccus Maxxen to the right. He likes weapons.

Lazaran reminisces over his friend, Tatak, and tells us this information for some reason.

The deepling word for weapon? nakk, (or Naxx in another tongue we saw earlier).

The deepling word for armed? tanakk! (or tanaxx in another tongue we saw earlier).

He sound our war drums! That were name come from. Tanakk! Tanakk!

That is, three different and connected places- using very similar words with the same meaning.

My spidey senses were tingling when we find the meaning of Tatak, and I had remembered a similar word in Jekhr..
Why would they give us the meaning of the word 'war drums', 'arm up for battle!'? That's what I tried to explain and that's how I came across this.

Why do we have English? One explanation I reasoned is that the priests did not want to share their knowledge to the commonfolk, to not spill the secrets that might come around and bite them in their arse.
They likely want to protect and hold this knowledge for themselves, any prying or scrying ears might be listening... or challenge their titles as priests.

BUT! ARE THE HUMANS OLDER THAN THE ELVES??????

Yes!

I witnessed Ss'rar making his move on ascension to become the serpent god. I watched the first elves struggling to form a nation with the help of the lightbearers. It was me who assisted the great calculator to assemble the bonelords language. And you come here to this mountain and ask me how to win the heart of some shepherdess? This world has become a ridiculous mockery.

QJELL BRINGER LIGHT!

And!

LIGHTBEARER BRINGER LIGHT!

The joy I felt, underscribable. Tantalizing questions. I've read that book close to a hundred times yet that detail eluded me, only really thought of it now while writing. Always assumed that the Yalahari were mostly elves.

OK. Maybe we can translate more words, I don't know. Probably not too much, maybe something more.

It's also completely reasonable, if you think about it.. we have strange glyphs.. these are found all over the world, The Others - outcasts were a mix of races - why would the languages be completely different? Legend goes that The Others / Zathroth created the Djinn.

It's also a great plot device for the content creators, as they likely didn't intend for the language to be completely translatable. It's a way for them to still make it understandable and "solveable", while still giving us the reason why it can't be translated. It was never intended to. But we can use this to get further in the lore, and we will use it to understand 469.

Player: books
The First Dragon: Your books are an amazing thing. Draconic glyphs are so different. ...

Of course our Lurin' Durin' knows these strange glyphs.

To add to the pile of hints, a book within Zhandramons chambers, from Demona earlier.

This book is made out of an odd leather and it's covered with strange symbols. You are not able to decipher the title but according to the pictures you guess it is about summoning creatures.

RECAP

We have followed quite heavy new lore all over the place and answered many but far from all mysteries they hold.

• Yalaharians quest for knowledge and their ultimate demise by schemes and oppression.
• The deeplings quest for enlightement and worship, and their ultimate demise of oppression, twice.
• We've made some extremely confusing bits of lore a bit more manageable, such as:
• The confusing clusterf* of fishlore that somehow answers three of the most pressing questions in lore.
• The "demon language"
• The origin of the elves
• Glyphs

We also know

• The origin of the humans
• The bases of the ancients and their teleports

And the appearance of several deeplings and deepling idols in Optical Coordinating sphere quest suddenly makes sense. ;)

Perhaps take a break, we are closing in, and the final part requires some energy but is not as heavy nor as long as this part =)

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