The Othardian Script

[FJerome]

(I love you a lot too right now, Hinoto-no-Ryuji)

Discord claims the bottom-most symbols are numbers, ie a date: 2017-2-14

Also, ooooooh, finally, numbers! That's fantastic.

. . . Wait, never mind, those are Eorzean numbers (as seen at the Gold Saucer). I wonder if that's because this is just an Easter Egg or if it's something cooler, like a nod to how Hindu-Arabic Numerals worked out in the real world. It could be that both Eorzea and Othard use Thavnarian Numerals due to mutual trade-links and cross-cultural exchange.

Based on pure guesswork, the top rows of both middle and left batches are roles. Going by the middle top trio, from left to right, are "gakunin" (scholar; our own Scholar Job is "gakusha"), "narita" (this one I have no idea; Googling just gives the airport), and "maibito" (dancer). The left top quartet repeats the same words.

I think those may actually be stage names rather than roles, kabuki acting guild "families" have a set pool of family names they use for their stage names, with actors cycling through them as they advanced through their careers. Narita specifically is possibly a reference to the Ichikawa acting lineage.

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Carrying over the conversation that's currently going on in the reddit thread, we've also got a few kanji we know. Besides the one for Doma there's also;


人 (jin), Mankind - as seen on the Oriental Wall Scroll (JP description).


天 (ten), Heaven - because if symbol for the Jin mudra is a kanji then the other two probably are as well.


地 (chi), Earth - same line of thinking as with 天 above.