Summary
This guide shows the mapping from the runes found in Old Arcadia to the English alphabet, as well as translations of the text that uses these runes
If you find any additional locations that use these runes, please let me know and I'll update the guide
As far as I can tell, there aren't any secrets to be found as a result of translating the runes, just additional lore
I've marked some places as spoilers, but TBH this whole guide is somewhat of a spoiler for a cryptogram, so if you'd rather figure out the translations yourself, stop reading now! 😁
Mapping
So far I've only found 22 distinct letters. If any text using J, Q, X, or Z is found, I'll update this mapping
(I was able to decode this by recognizing the word Arcadia in one of the rooms, after which it was relatively easy to pick off the remaining letters one by one)
Translations
Boss Rush Entrance
PROTOTYPE ROOM USED TO TEST AND VALIDATE DESIGN CONCEPTS
Boss Practice Room Entrance
TEST ROOM
Elegy Boss Room
ELEGYS REST
Secret Room Behind Waterfall
BY SEALING OFF OLD ARCADIA WE OBSCURE OUR CREATORS ORIGINS
IT KEEPS THEIR MEMORIES SEPARATE FROM OUR FLOWERING EVOLUTION
MERE FRAGM ENTS OF A FORGOTTEN PAST WITHIN THESE HIDDEN WALLS
Virus Boss Fight
This one was a little trickier to figure out
Each of the segments of text streaming down the screen includes only 9 letters at any given time, but they are scrolling through a single looping message which reads (spaces added by me):
GO HAIKU THE ROBOT THE END IS NEAR
with the single dot (the inverse of the "O" rune) at the end. I didn't add that to the mapping because it's not clear exactly what type of punctuation it's supposed to be.
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2983765185
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