#crack the code

[knickknackgalore]

39 Clues Card 190

Founder: Sir John Franklin

[ecnerret]

[loruleanhistorian]

There may, in fact, be at least 20 unique characters among the Zonai letter shapes! You can find several of these alternate characters on the various classes of Zonaite weapons (both swords and spears), from the basic Zonaite set all the way up to Mighty Zonaite set.

For comparison, Wilds era Hylian (first introduced in A Link Between Worlds) is an English cipher font which has 21 unique characters; with five letters acting as two different readings each (i.e., D and G, E and W, F and R, J and T, O and Z).

As discovered from the game's files and from careful observations, there are at least fourteen (14) primary Zonai letters that make up the majority of their written works. This isn't including the variant writing system seen in their magic, e.g., in the Shrines of Light or in Rauru's seal on the Demon King. That's a story for another day~

So, upon examining the Zonaite weaponry, it appears that some of these basic runes are compound characters! Since their appearance is much like Chinese hanzi or Japanese kanji, we will refer to these compound components as "radicals."

Interesting note, many of the radicals included in other characters tend to display one or both of the following traits: either an additional stroke or dot, particularly in their centre, or two added strokes extending from their sides—I call these "fins".

Since some of the basic Zonai letters also include these traits, it could be that some of these letters are compounds of even more primary forms, cobbled together as radicals in a single character. Isn't that neat?

[felixcloud6288]

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[gallade-x-treme]

Does She Know™?

[and-this-of-all-my-hopes]

Westerly. Pelican. Dreams. Tornado. Clifftops. Andante. Grief. Fingerprint. Susurration. Sparrow. Dance. Mexico. Binary.

I am almost certain that each of these words are referencing the 10th Doctor/Donna episodes. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that there are 13 words and 13 episodes. This is what I have so far:

Westerly - Turn Left, this seems super obvious to me and what’s got me theorizing

Pelican -

Dreams -

Tornado - The Poison Sky due to reference of dangerous climate

Clifftops -

Andante - Forest of the Dead, with Andante being a reference to River Song

Grief - Planet of the Ood would be my guess, while you could contend Andante since that’s a musical term and that leads to the Ood’s song, grief better encapsulates Donna’s emotions during this episode

Fingerprint - my gut says this is The Doctor’s Daughter

Susurration - it’s means whispering, so perhaps Silence in the Library

Sparrow - lots of possibilities, but sparrows are the national bird of Italy, so it could be The Fires of Pompeii

Dance - Partners in Crime, maybe. Dance Partner, how the whole episode shows how in step the Doctor and Donna are with each other.

Mexico -

Binary - Journey’s End, obviously

I could be completely wrong, but if anyone has suggestions and thoughts, please share!

[crocodile-says]

Many have asked, and today I’m here to confirm—

Yes, I am an actual gator.

The Grandline is vast and strange, one day a group of explorers, one with a stupid white mustache, accidentally turned a gator into a child.

He took me to his captain and raised me. I couldn’t talk, my teeth were sharp, and my eyes growled red in the dark—

It was tough learning the ropes of being human, but I picked it up quick since I was still so young. It took a while to stop trying to drown my food, get used to vegetables, and learn the nuances of human behavior.

Tomatoes reminded me of the rotten flesh of a well aged drowned carcass, so those became my favorite. Over time my tapetum lucidum faded, and my teeth became less sharp, but I will never forget.

The ones who raised me forgot, they told me they don’t know what species I used to be, but I know. I must have been one of the kings of gators, the bananawani. It only makes sense that I’d be the best.

Is any of this true?

Who knows.

[king-k-ripple]