SCH / INV / ACN's book, what is written ?

[Didimiaou]

Hi guys,

Now we have the /gpose, it's easier to see what is written on our books. However, I can hardly translate what is the meaning.

Has someone translated it ?


Didi.

[TinyRedLeaf]

This has been asked before and, if I recall correctly, the Lore Team did not confirm whether the "text" actually says anything. It's mostly illegible, as you can see from the picture itself.

The Lore Team did say this:

Many grimoires can be wielded by arcanists, scholars, or summoners. However, each grimoire is tailored to a single profession, which can be determined by examining its contents.

Arcanist grimoires contain geometric symbols that shape and direct the power of arcanima; summoner grimoires contain incantations used to call forth and command primal egi; scholar grimoires contain a wealth of tactics and stratagems which can be applied during battle.

Each grimoire will display one of these three patterns when opened. However, we’ve heard your requests for more variety, and will relay them to the art team. Thanks for the feedback!

The tome in the picture is a Scholar tome and, as described, the "text" outlines strategems and tactics for combat. Arcanist tomes contain geometric patterns, in keeping with arcanima's focus on manipulating the aether in objects. Summoner tomes are similar to arcanist tomes, but almost all of them contain a pattern similar to the Vitruvian Man. As for why, I don't think it was explained, but it does evoke (pun intended) the image of a summoning circle, no?

[Didimiaou]

Ah thank you TinyRedLeaf !

I didn't find this answer when I looked for it. (I don't have the great keywords probably ).

That fits perfectly with what I was looking for

And I agree with you with the difference between INV and SCH's books. The Vitruvian man seems to be a good exemple.

And what about this spell ?

[Jyera]

That spell looks to be encircling its own kind of aetherogram (I'm just gonna call it that for now xD). Vitruvian man is a fabulous comparison, too. It also reminds me of anatomical drawings of specific systems, like detailed maps of the major nerves.

[ObsidianFire]

Both the high-level SCH and SMN spells get more custom animations then the low-level ones do. I'm pretty sure that is the cast animation for SCH only spells like Broil I/II and several of their heal spells. SMN has their own version which looks like a rune surrounded by several rings of script (Ruin/Bio/Miasma III).

If I had to guess, I'd say that spell geometry originated in Nym while the SMN cast animation is of Allagan origin. But that's just me guessing.

I do know that the text around that spell is the generic "aetherial script". It shows up on both the SCH and SMN spells, several of the DRK abilities and even in places like on some of Sinryu's actions. There currently isn't any way to know if it's actually translatable.

[TinyRedLeaf]

And what about this spell ?

It says: "Leeches are love. Leeches are life. If you love life, love your leeches."

I'm joking, of course.

Like Obsidianfire said, they're generic runic glyphs that can't be translated as of now. They're just meant to look cool.