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The Runic Reading Primer
by David Youd

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 Contents

Acknowledgements ................................... vi
Introduction ................................................... 1
The Shunned House ..................................50
 Acknowledgements
A quick (but sincere) shout out to:

Dan Siemens, for his gamer insights and

gracious feedback on my early drafts.

Gallara Dragon (of the Facebook UDIC

group www.facebook.com/
groups/UltimaDragons), for her
indispensable runic fact checking. If I
commit runic errors herein, know that I
would have committed many more
without Gallara's input.

Alisa Hagerty Miller, for generously

offering her weapons-grade editing skills,
and for polishing my initial draft's
grammatical blemishes to a shine.

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And to Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Dragon,
for eyeballs on the final draft, and for
tolerating my punctuational predilection
for logical (over typesetters') quotes.

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 Introduction
This book you're holding (or viewing on
your e-book reader) is a Britannia runic
reading primer. Britannia runic 1 is a form of
writing found in the series of Ultima2
computer games. If you take a quick peek at
the remaining 75% of this book, you'll see
that there is quite a bit of runic script waiting
back there for you. Those arcane symbols tell
the complete story of The Shunned House by
H.P. Lovecraft.

1
For the purposes of this effort, "runic", as a
noun, refers to writing made using runes, the system of
that writing, or to the fictional language achieved by
that system. As an adjective, runic means to consist of,
or to incorporate runes.
2
Ultima is a registered trademark of Richard
Garriott.
 The Shunned House was written in 1924
and published in the October 1937 edition of
Weird Tales magazine. The text is in the
public domain3, making the creation of new
(and derivative) editions a straightforward
process. This rendering of the tale is likely
the largest book of Britannia runic text
available from which to practice reading at
speed.

Many people aren't familiar with

Britannia runic, or with video game fictional
languages in general. So before the Lovecraft
begins, I'm going to describe why curious

3
A thorough search was conducted to determine
that the expired copyright was not renewed. See the
Project Gutenberg's transcriber's note:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31469/31469-h/31469-
h.htm

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things like Britannia runes exist, and how you
can make sense of them.

Fictional Languages in Video Games

For nearly as long as there have been
home video games, fictional languages have
been used to create more immersive player
experiences. Usually, these are linguistic
facades, the language equivalent of theatre
props. But invented languages can do more
than merely provide atmosphere to a game's
speech and visuals. Sometimes developers
integrate fictional languages with the in-game
challenges the player must overcome. And in
massively multiplayer online game (MMO)
settings, a fictional language can serve to
create a sense of community among
conversant players. These languages are
uncommon, but they are by no means rare.
On to a few examples…
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 Fictionaries / Ideograms
One of the earliest examples of a video
game fictional language comes from the
interactive fiction (IF) 4 game Infidel (©1983
Infocom). Infidel casts the player into the
role of an archeologist's assistant, a puerile
antihero who sets out to discover and explore
a lost pyramid. Interactive fiction games date
back to the less capable computers of the
1970s, so the game experience is generally
text only. Interacting with Infidel requires
reading descriptions of locations and events,
and then entering short sentence commands
for the game's protagonist to carry out (e.g.,
"PUT GOLDEN CHALICE IN SACK").

4
Back in the day, games in this genre were
known as "text adventures".

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 Infidel's fictional language features
hieroglyphics, which were drawn using
symbols available on standard keyboards. A
few of the hieroglyphs (along with their
meanings) were given in the printed game
materials, but the majority of them are
discovered while exploring. These
hieroglyphs were designed to be deciphered
based on the context in which they are
encountered. Understanding the hieroglyphs
is essential to solving puzzles and avoiding
the pyramid's traps. By the end of the game, a
player would know that…

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 Figure 1: Some ASCII hieroglyphics from Infidel

…translates to "place the book on the

queen's [sarcophagus's] large recess and the
scarab on the queen's small recess". As you
can see, this language is basically a word-for-
word substitution, an approach that TV
Tropes5 refers to as a "fictionary".

Another game that incorporates fictionary

language elements into its challenges is
5
tvtropes.org is a crowdsourced repository of
named creative conventions used in the construction
and presentation of most forms of media.

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Ingress (©2013 Niantic Labs), a location-
based, augmented reality game. Using smart
phones, millions of players worldwide
compete in a single massive ongoing game
setting.

Players are divided into two opposing

factions, the green (the Enlightened) and the
blue (the Resistance). Much of the game is
spent attempting to gain control over portals,
which exist as a virtual construct atop real-
world landmarks. When two portals are
controlled by the same faction, a portal link (a
straight connecting line) can be made between
them, as long as it doesn't intersect any other
existing links. Three linked portals create a
triangular field, claiming the surrounded
"mind units" therein.

During portal hacking, Ingress makes use

of its 100+ different fictionary glyphs. All
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glyphs are constructed within a common
template — a hexagon in which eleven
vertices are arranged. Each glyph word is a
unique connected path through two or more of
these vertices. Depending on the player level
and portal defenses, a player is shown
between one and five glyphs in rapid
succession, and then given a limited amount
of time to retrace those glyphs on her smart
phone screen. Players who memorize the
word meanings of the glyphs can more easily
recall the sequence as a sentence.

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 Figure 2: Glyph sequence: "Pure Human Failure, Now
Chaos" 6

6
Smartphone screen captures from the game
Ingress, ©2013 Niantic Labs. The author believes that
the use of these images 1) to illustrate the subject in
question, 2) where no free equivalent is available or
could be created that would adequately give the same

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 Closely related to fictionaries is the use
of ideograms. Instead of representing specific
words, ideograms convey concepts (e.g., the
standard text-less no smoking symbol on
airplanes). Oquonie (©2014 David Mondou-
Labbe) is a puzzle game notable for its
complete lack of text. New players are
bewildered by the frequent encounters with
the game's Mayan-like ideogram-based
language, the meaning of which (as with
Infidel) is gradually revealed via exploration
and experimentation.

information, and 3) through minimal extent of use,

qualify as Fair Use under United States copyright law.

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 Figure 3: Oquonie for "key inside"7

7
A cropped screen capture from the game
Oquonie, ©2014 David Mondou-Labbe. The author
believes that the use of this work 1) to illustrate the
subject in question, 2) where no free equivalent is
available or could be created that would adequately
give the same information, and 3) through minimal
extent of use, qualifies as Fair Use under United States
copyright law.

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 Conlangs
Now and then, games will attempt a high
degree of realism in their fictitious languages.
At their most sophisticated, these are referred
to as constructed languages, or "conlangs". 8
They can be a key part of the overall
worldbuilding during game development,
adding historical and cultural depth to the
setting.

When the race of Gargoyles was

introduced in Ultima VI: The False Prophet
(©1990 Origin Systems), the story became
one of a cautionary tale of prejudice. A
gargoyle conlang known as Gargish was used
to create an initial language barrier in the
8
For those wanting to get started in creating their
own conlangs, see: Rosenfelder, Mark. The Language
Construction Kit. Chicago: Yonagu Books, 2010.

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game, allowing the player to engage in worst-
first thinking about the gargoyle race.
Herman Miller crafted the Gargish conlang,
infusing it with a heaping dose of gargoylian
weltanschauung.

The language has a 30-letter alphabet…

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 Figure 4: The Gargish alphabet 9

…and around a 500-word vocabulary.

Many Gargish words are constructed from the

9
This image found at the Ultima wiki's "Gargish
Alphabet" article
(http://ultima.wikia.com/wiki/Gargish_Alphabet),
which is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike License.

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combination of other words in its vocabulary,
and many of the language's suffixes are words
in their own right. Figure 5 shows the first
few Gargish words from Ultima VI's in-game
Book of Prophecies. I enjoyed digging out my
old copy of Captain John's Gargish
Dictionary10 to do the following translation:

10
Captain John's Gargish Dictionary found within
this book: Dr. Cat. Ultima VI Cluebook: The Book of
Prophecy. Austin, Texas: Origin Systems, 1990.

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Figure 5: Translation of the opening words from the
Book of Prophecies

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 Another noteworthy conlang comes from
the puzzle / adventure game Riven (©1997
Cyan, Inc.), the second installment to the
Myst series. Riven introduced players to the
D'ni language, which was created by Richard
A. Watson. In addition to a 35-letter alphabet
and a 700+ word vocabulary, D'ni has a
fascinating base-25 number system:

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 Figure 6: D'ni has glyphs for twenty-five digits

Figure 6 shows D'ni's twenty-five

numerical digits. Notice that the five symbols
across the top row, when rotated 90°
counterclockwise, match the symbols in the
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leftmost column. Each of the other sixteen
glyphs in the layout is derived by
superimposing its (topmost) column symbol
with its (leftmost) row symbol. For example,
the glyph representing the value six is arrived
at by combining the glyphs that represent one
and five.

With these symbols, D'ni can expresses

arbitrarily large numbers in base 25 as shown
in Figure 7:

Figure 7: Conversion of a number into D'ni base-25

representation

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 Perhaps the most ambitious conlang
undertaking to date was Tho Fan, developed
for the action RPG Jade Empire (©2005
BioWare). It took linguist Wolf Wikeley four
months to create the conlang's fully fleshed-
out grammar and whopping 2,500-word
vocabulary. However, the overall reception
to this game-design extravagance was mixed.

"Cipher" Languages
Conlangs may not be worth the game
development effort, especially when the
fictional languages are used as atmospheric
incidentals and not integrated with gameplay
goals. When just the thin veneer of an
otherworldly language is needed, generally
little more is required than an otherworldly
font. The effort-to-payoff ratio of this
approach easily hits that "good enough" game
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design sweet spot. Strange fonts have been
(and continue to be) the prevalent form of
fictional languages across the span of video
games.

That said, merely changing the font can

be surprisingly effective. In practice, some
set of alien, cyber-like, or other genre-
adhering glyphs replace each of the standard
symbols in the alphabet, making the text, at
first glance, unreadable. These kinds of
fictional alphabets are referred to as a cipher
language (or sometimes as "wingdinglish").
They have the form of a classic simple
substitution cipher, structurally on par with
the Sunday paper's cryptogram, but a bit more
visually appealing. 11

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As an aside, one of my favorite non-video
game examples is to be found while waiting in line at

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 A number of games have used this
concept, including the fictional language
Hylian from the fantasy/action Legend of
Zelda series (©1986 Nintendo), Daedric from
the open-world RPG Elder Scrolls series
(©1994 Bethesda Softworks), and Unitology
from the sci-fi horror Dead Space series
(©2008 Visceral Games).

the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland. So-called

"Marabic petroglyphs" (or "maraglyphics") are carved
into the temple walls, giving would-be adventures
instructions and ominous warnings. With plenty of
time waiting in line, and a generous helping of
contextual clues, many of the Disneyland guests are
able to translate the symbols by the time they're finally
strapped in. It also helps that over half of the symbols
look roughly like their English equivalents.

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 Figure 8: A cipher language comparison

Frequently, the mapping from symbols to

letters is explicitly given within the game or
the game's instructions. And often the ability
to translate isn't required to fulfill the game
objectives. This means that the more onerous
methods of interpreting single substitution
ciphers (such as letter frequency analysis) are
rarely required.

A ridiculously convoluted example is

found in the Luminoth fictional alphabet,
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created for Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (©2004
Nintendo), in which each letter is represented
by a complex, three-dimensionally connected
set of uniform-length line segments. Words
are formed by joining these letter structures
together, creating even larger 3D shapes.

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 Figure 9: The Luminoth word "dark", from Metroid
Prime 2: Echoes 12

12
This image found at the Metroid wiki's
"Translator Door" article
(http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Translator_Door),
which is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike License.

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 Color highlighting occurs for sections of
the shape visually obscured by its parts in the
foreground, and more importantly, where the
vertices overlap at word boundaries. For
example, the word "dark" (Figure 9) is
formed from the three-dimensional glyphs
shown in Figure 10:

Figure 10: Some of the 3D glyph-to-alphabet mappings 13

13
This figure adapted from a Luminoth alphabet
image found at the Metroid wiki's "Luminoth Symbol"
article
(http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Luminoth_Symbol),
which is licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share Alike License.

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 Ultima Runic / Britannia Runes
I have a favorite video game cipher
language — the Britannia runes from the
Ultima series of games. My on-and-off
fixation with runic is why this practice-
reading book exists.

The Ultima series was created by the

celebrated game designer Richard Garriott.
The original series began with Ultima I: The
First Age of Darkness (©1981 California
Pacific Computer Company) and concluded
with Ultima IX: Ascension (©1999 Electronic
Arts). The Britannia runic letters were
present in the maps (usually cloth) and other
feelies14 that came with the games.15

14
Feelies are collectable physical content that are
included with some boxed video games.

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 Here's my fancy cloth map that came
with Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (©1985
Origin Systems):

15
While Ultima I came with runic maps, these
were added in the 1986 rerelease; so runic was first
used in Ultima II (©1982 Sierra On-Line). The runic-
to-alphabet mapping was not explicitly given to players
until Ultima IV (in which translating a runic word was
required to complete the game).

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 Figure 11: Ultima IV cloth map with a close-up on
Britain 16

Runic text made a first, but minimal, in-

game appearance in Ultima IV, but was fully
incorporated into the gameplay by Ultima V:
Warriors of Destiny (©1988 Origin Systems).

16
This is a personal photo of material distributed
with Ultima IV. The author believes that the use of this
work 1) to illustrate the subject in question, and 2) as a
low-resolution representation, qualifies as Fair Use
under United States copyright law.

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Ultima V extended the runic system used in
the first four games by adding a symbol for Q,
a unique symbol for V (which was previously
indistinguishable from U), and by modifying
the J symbol (which had previously looked
similar to the I symbol). This is considered
by many to be the "canonical" set of thirty-
one Britannia runes. It was this runic set that
was to be used throughout the remainder of
the original series. The associations between
English letters and the runes are shown
below:

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 Figure 12: Runic-to-English alphabet mapping 17

The five double-letter glyphs (shown at

the bottom of Figure 12) are sometimes
referred to as ligatures, and they represent any
sound appropriate to their letter pairings. For
example, the EA glyph À can be used in the
words "EAt" (long e), "sprEAd" (short e), and

17
You should now be able to translate the runic
on the map shown in Figure 11. Go ahead, I'll wait…

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"yEA" (long a). The ligatures can span
syllables, such as using the EA glyph in the
word "arEA". However, a ligature glyph
cannot be used to span stems in a compound
word. For example, you wouldn't use the NG
symbol  in "mooNGate".18

The Ultima V game engine made use of

standard kernel19 routines for displaying runic
along with conventional game text. This
means that on the older 8-bit target platforms
(i.e. Commodore 64 and Apple II), the runes
just barely fit into the standard character
display resolutions. As an example, here is

18
In the Lovecraft story that follows
"kiNGSTown" uses the glyph for NG, but not for ST.
Likewise, "THerEAfter" uses the glyph for TH, but not
for EA.
19
On the C64, it's spelled "kernal"

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some runic encountered during Ultima V
gameplay, as displayed on a Commodore 64:

Figure 13: A sign reading "Beware the deep forest" 20

20
A cropped screen capture from the game
Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (©1988 Origin
Systems). The author believes that the use of this work
1) to illustrate the subject in question, 2) where no free
equivalent is available or could be created that would
adequately give the same information, and 3) through
minimal extent of use, qualifies as Fair Use under
United States copyright law.

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 C64 characters are designed within an
8x8-pixel display:

Figure 14: Runic glyph for "B" in the C64 port of Ultima
V 21

21
While these pixels are shown as square, a 1:1
pixel aspect ratio was uncommon in the 80s. For
instance, on a C64 NTSC display, the pixels were
closer to a 0.75 X/Y-aspect ratio.

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 Characters on the Apple II are even more
constrained, with only a 7x8-pixel display
area per character.22 In these systems,
characters are placed pixel-adjacent to each
other on screen. Because of this, pixel gutters
are included in the character design (generally
on the bottom, and one or both sides) to
provide gaps between the characters, as
shown in Figure 14.

I first encountered Britannia runic in my

early teenage years, and I instantly fell in love
with the aesthetic. I found writing in runes to
be a mix of beauty and secrecy, as well as an
escape from the mundane. For me, this

22
If that didn't make reading runic challenging
enough, the Apple II's infamous "color fringing" would
create color-bleeding artifacts alongside the otherwise
white text.

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fictional language provided a way to bring
some of the game out into the real world. I
would occasionally write runic notes to a
friend in class that also played Ultima games.
Who, among children that have passed
enciphered school notes, didn't harbor the
juvenile hope that the message might be
viewed by someone other than the intended
recipient? I delighted in the fantasy that the
contents would be impenetrable. In reality, of
course, no one cared. But thirty years later, I
find that the runes have stuck with me. More
than once, I have written runic messages in
bed-and-breakfast log books. Years ago, I
nearly made a "my other car is a moongate"
bumper sticker in Ultima runic, but held my
geek in check at the last minute.

During the burgeoning years of the role-

playing video game genre, the Ultima series
was consistently groundbreaking in its
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innovations. Many of the features of the
series were quickly adopted as game industry
accepted practices. Ultima games are credited
with having coined the term "avatar" to refer
to the player within the game, with being the
first to feature tile-based worlds and 3D-
perspective dungeons, and many other (now
conventional) processing advancements
developed to address the MMO-scaling
demands of Ultima Online (©1997 Origin
Systems)23.

Unsurprisingly, many gamers that grew

up playing Ultima were inspired to become
game programmers themselves. Though the
internet fanboys haven't seemed to notice,

23
Ultima Online was the first MMORPG
(Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) to
reach 100,000 players.

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some tiny-font Ultima runic graced the
bottom of every page of the Diablo (©1996
Blizzard Entertainment) game instructional
manual:

Figure 15: Blizzard's hat tip to Ultima 24

Some of the developers of Diablo (i.e.

David Brevik, Erich Schaefer, and Brian

24
Cropped image from the Diablo game manual
(http://ftp.blizzard.com/pub/misc/Diablo.PDF), ©1996
Blizzard Entertainment. The author believes that the
use of this work 1) to illustrate the subject in question,
2) where no free equivalent is available or could be
created that would adequately give the same
information, and 3) through minimal extent of use,
qualifies as Fair Use under United States copyright
law.

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Fargo) have mentioned their formative
exposure to the Ultima games.25

I had the opportunity to dust off my rune-

craft on a recent trip to Austin, Texas. Just
outside of Richard Garriott's impressive
mansion is "Necropolis of Britannia Manor
III"26, one of Garriott's hidden geocaches27.
After a long trek through an elaborate display
of skeletons, zombies, coffins, and
tombstones, the cacher arrives at a code-
locked 12' tall wooden structure which

25
Craddock, David L. Stay Awhile and Listen:
How Two Blizzards Unleashed Diablo and Forged a
Video-Game Empire. Digital Monument Press, LLC,
2013.
26
http://coord.info/GC2B034
27
Geocaching is an outdoor game where hidden
containers are meant to be located using a GPS
receiver. Sometimes puzzle solving is involved.

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contains a wooden chest holding the
geocache28. It also houses a hand-cranked
machine that will elongate a quarter while
pressing a design into it. The front of the
pressed coin shows Garriott's portrait, and the
back his nearby mansion. 29 Both sides make
use of his runic system:

28
This is much easier to find than the geocache
Garriott placed aboard the International Space Station
when visiting via a Russian Soyuz-TMA spacecraft
(http://coord.info/GC1BE91), or the geocache he
placed 2,300 meters under the ocean on hydrothermal
vents in the middle of the North Atlantic via a Mir
Deep Submergence Vehicle
(http://coord.info/GCG822). Not kidding.
29
Coin designed by Scott Jones, see: Emond,
Stephen. Ultima: The Ultimate Collector's Guide. 2012
ed. Calgary, Alta.: Falcon Designs, 2012. Page X.11

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 Figure 16: Back of pressed souvenir quarter 30

If you haven't played Ultima games, but

the runic script looks familiar, it may be
because Garriott adapted the symbols from
J.R.R. Tolkien's dwarf runes 31, a cipher

30
The use of this pressed coin image in this book
(specifically) is provided courtesy of Richard Garriott.
31
My assertion is based on Garriott's professed
love for Tolkien's works, and that the Ultima IV rune

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language used in Tolkien's 1937 book The
Hobbit.32 Tolkien based the glyphs on both
Anglo-Saxon (5th to 11th centuries) and Elder
Futhark runes (2nd to 8th centuries).33

glyphs (irrespective of their letter assignments) all

belong to the set of glyphs Tolkien used for the dwarf
runes. Had Garriott adapted his runes from earlier
runic systems (i.e. Elder Futhark, Anglo-Saxon,
Marcomannic, Younger Futhark, Medieval, or
Dalecarlian), there would have likely been a least a few
glyph differences from the dwarf runes (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runes). Also, Tolkien
appears to have invented a glyph for K, which is the
same K glyph in Ultima Runic.
32
Dwarf runes are also called moon letters, when
referring to the invisible runes on Thrór's Map.
33
For example, borrowing the symbol for C from
the Anglo-Saxon runes, and the symbol for W from
Elder Futhark.

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 It was Tolkien himself that drew Thrór's
Map. Below are some runes written on its
margin:

Figure 17: Some runes on Thrór's Map 34

34
This is my personal photo of an insert from the
book The Hobbit (Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. London:
George Allen & Unwin, 1937). The author believes

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 The dwarf runes in Figure 17 translate to
"Five feet high the door and three may walk
abreast. Th Th", where the last two symbols
stand for Thrór and Thráin.

Ultima IV runic is similar to dwarf runes

in that the two systems share the same J
symbol, they both reuse the same U symbol
for V, and neither have a Q (Tolkien replaced
the letters "QU" with the phonetically-similar
"CW"). Britannia runic differs from dwarf
runes by swapping the H with the W, the X
with the Z, and the NG with the EE symbol.

that the use of this work 1) to illustrate the subject in

question, 2) where no free equivalent is available or
could be created that would adequately give the same
information, and 3) through minimal extent of use,
qualifies as Fair Use under United States copyright
law.

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Tolkien used a dot to separate horizontally-
adjacent words, a practice frequently
observed in Britannia runic. 35 Runic has no
word-group delimiters, however Tolkien used
a symbol consisting of a column of three dots
for sentence termination, and two of these
symbols for a paragraph end. With dwarf
runes, words will sometimes break on margin
boundaries, whereas Britannia runic employs
word wrapping.

In 2013, New Britannia runes were

established for Garriott's upcoming game
Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues
(©2015 Portalarium). Changes were made to

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But not always — for example, the Ultima VIII
(©1994 Origin Systems) cloth map never uses the dot
separator between runic words. Separators are
apparently optional.

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the runes, most notably, the dropping of the
two-letter ligatures (which will undoubtedly
make it easier for new players). In addition,
the symbols for H and W were swapped,
matching Tolkien's dwarf runes assignments.
J, K, and P have also changed to glyphs that
can be found in Anglo-Saxon and Elder
Futhark runes (albeit with different letter
assignments).

This reading primer will not be using

New Britannia runic, but serves to reinforce
the old ways.

Concluding Thoughts
I collect books on all aspects of video
game studies, and thought that there weren't
any that addressed video game fictional
languages. But after I wrote this introduction,
I did one last check, and found From Elvish to
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Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages
(©2011 Oxford University Press). This is a
multi-author compilation, and James Portnow
has contributed a chapter on this much-
neglected topic. He gives similar treatment
to the D'ni numbering system (recall Figure
7), but goes into far more depth than I on
Gargish. Check it out.

My selection of H.P. Lovecraft's The

Shunned House was based on its short length
and public domain status. That, and it seemed
a better fit for Garriott's mystic runes than,
say, Pride and Prejudice (also public
domain). To avoid tedium and the errors that
come with it, I wrote a program to automate
the conversion of the Lovecraft story into
runic text. This included auto-translating
numbers and dates into words, as runic has no
symbols for digits. These should be the only
changes to the original text.
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 For what little practical value nostalgia
imparts to us, it's ridiculously compelling.
Writing about these things is a way to revisit
old toys again. Through this effort, I'm
creating precisely the kind of retro-geek book
I'd like to have on my shelf. Generation Xers
were among the first to have been raised with
digital experiences, and video games often
feature prominently among their formative
cultural touchstones. So it's no surprise that
there's a growing population of those who
indulge in retro-geeky techno-reminiscing,
especially when (as with classic Ultima
games) their memories are bound up in music,
art, and storytelling.

The low costs of self-publishing mean

that such niche interests don't constitute a
barrier to expression. I'm looking forward to
reading through this runic (that follows) in my
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hammock while the warm evening weather
lasts.

David Youd.
2015

Or, in dusting off my circa '97 membership

signature…

YOFA·DRAGON
-==(UDIC)==-

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The Shunned House

BY · H · P · LOVECRAFT

FROM · EVEN · ÄE · GRÀTEÃ
OF · HORRORS · IRONY · IS
SELDOM · ABSENT
SOMETIMES · IT · ENTERS
DIRECTLY · INTO · ÄE
COMPOSITION · OF · ÄE
EVENTS · WHILE · SOMETIMES
IT · RELATES · ONLY · TO · ÄEIR
FORTUITOUS · POSITION · AMOÂ
PERSONS · AND · PLACES · ÄE
LATTER · SORT · IS · SPLENDIDLY
EXEMPLIFIED · BY · A · CASE · IN
ÄE · ANCIENT · CITY · OF
PROVIDENCE · WHERE · IN · ÄE
LATE · FORTIES · EDGAR · ALLAN
POE · USED · TO · SOJOURN
OFTEN · DURIÂ · HIS
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ÄE · GIFTED · POETESS · MRS
WHITMAN · POE · GENERALLY
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INN · WHOSE · ROOF · HAS
SHELTERED · WASHIÂTON
JEFFERSON · AND · LAFAYETTE
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AND · HIS · FAVORITE · WALK · LED
NORÄWARD · ALOÂ · ÄE · SAME
ÃRÁT · TO · MRS · WHITMANS
HOME · AND · ÄE · NEIGHBORIÂ
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FOR · HIM · A · PECULIAR
FASCINATION

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WALK · SO · MANY · TIMES
REPÀTED · ÄE · WORLDS
GRÀTEÃ · MAÃER · OF · ÄE

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TERRIBLE · AND · ÄE · BIZARRE
WAS · OBLIGED · TO · PASS · A
PARTICULAR · HOUSE · ON · ÄE
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OF · IT · NOR · IS · ÄERE · ANY
EVIDENCE · ÄAT · HE · EVEN
53
NOTICED · IT · AND · YET · ÄAT
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CERTAIN · INFORMATION
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HIDEOUS

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ÄAT · MATTER · ÃILL · IS · OF · A

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KIND · TO · ATTRACT · ÄE
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PROGRESS · OF · TAÃE · AT · ÄAT
TIME · IT · FACED · SOUÄ · WIÄ
55
ONE · GABLE · END · BURIED · TO
ÄE · LOWER · WINDOWS · IN · ÄE
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GRAVEYARDS · OF · ÄE · FIRÃ
56
SETTLERS · AND · ÃRAIGHTENED
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TIME · OF · ÄE · REVOLUTION
57
SHÀRED · OFF · MOÃ · OF · ÄE
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LINE · OF · PUBLIC · TRAVEL
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OUT · A · CENTURY · AGO · ÄE
LAÃ · OF · ÄE · INTERVENIÂ
SPACE · WAS · REMOVED · AND
POE · IN · HIS · WALKS · MUÃ
58
HAVE · SÁN · ONLY · A · SHÁR
ASCENT · OF · DULL · GRAY · BRICK
FLUSH · WIÄ · ÄE · SIDEWALK · AND
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OF · TEN · FÁT · BY · ÄE
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ÄE · HOUSE · PROPER

ÄE · FARM · LIKE · GROUND
EXTENDED · BACK · VERY
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SPACE · SOUÄ · OF · ÄE · HOUSE
ABUTTIÂ · ON · BENEFIT · ÃRÁT
WAS · OF · COURSE · GRÀTLY
59
ABOVE · ÄE · EXIÃIÂ · SIDEWALK
LEVEL · FORMIÂ · A · TERRACE
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RUÃED · KETTLES · FALLEN
FROM · TRIPODS · OF · KNOTTY
60
ÃICKS · AND · SIMILAR
PARAPHERNALIA · SET · OFF · ÄE
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TOLD · WAS · WHY · ÄE · ORIGINAL
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61
SOME · TWENTY · YÀRS
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62
MY · ANTIQUARIAN · UNCLE
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A · METROPOLIS · WIÄ · A · SHIFTIÂ
MODERN · POPULATION
63
ÄE · GENERAL · FACT · IS · ÄAT
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66
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68
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AND · FEÃOONED · INTO
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SHAPES

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BUT · AFTER · ALL · ÄE · ATTIC
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TERRIBLE · PART · OF · ÄE
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71
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72
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FÀTURES · OLD · AND · YOUÂ
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IMMINENT · CONTACT · WIÄ · ÄE
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GRÀT · CARBOYS · OF · ACID
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SOURCE · ÄEY · TELL · TOO · OF
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NO · FRESH · VAPORS

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AND · ALL · ÄE · ÃRAÂE · FUÂI
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TÀRS · WIÄ · WHICH · I · HAVE · PAID
UNAFFECTED · TRIBUTE · TO
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MEMORY

ÄE · NEXT · SPRIÂ · NO · MORE
PALE · GRASS · AND · ÃRAÂE
WÁDS · CAME · UP · IN · ÄE
SHUNNED · HOUSES · TERRACED
GARDEN · AND · SHORTLY
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IS · ÃILL · SPECTRAL · BUT · ITS
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AND · I · SHALL · FIND · MIXED · WIÄ
MY · RELIEF · A · QUÁR
REGRET · WHEN · IT · IS · TORN
DOWN · TO · MAKE · WAY · FOR · A

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TAWDRY · SHOP · OR · VULGAR
APARTMENT · BUILDIÂ · ÄE
BARREN · OLD · TRÁS · IN · ÄE
YARD · HAVE · BEGUN · TO
BÀR · SMALL · SWÁT · APPLES
AND · LAÃ · YÀR · ÄE · BIRDS
NEÃED · IN · ÄEIR · GNARLED
BOUGHS

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Front cover illustration by David Youd.

It started as a black sharpie marker drawing of
a C64 Ultima IV screen capture. Once
scanned, the free software Paint.net was then
used to create a negative image, and the
resultant white sketch on black background
was processed using the recolor tool.

The book text font is Times New Roman.

The Shunned House text uses the freeware
OpenType Ultima Runes Font, created by
Micro Dragon in 1997
(http://www.dafont.com/ultima-runes.font).

At first publishing, two versions of this book

were made available, both in (non-
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(ISBN 978-1-329-54750-6).
2) A differently paginated format for e-
readers. This version is tailored to the
common e-reader aspect ratio of 4:3, and
to a smaller e-reader display size.

My intent is to earn $0 from this book.

The e-book should be free, and the paperback
should be as near to printing costs as possible.