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roadkill
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There are various messages in Neverwinter that I have not yet found a corresponding alphabet. Hell Pit included yet another unknown language embedded in the event stage, the rest zone and the contract that a player would sign. I guess I have to search more outside the game, but I really wish language acquisition from player relationships (ie. character creation) and/or knowledge questlines, or even the libraries with readable books/lore were included in Neverwinter so I wouldn't have to search so much outside a game to learn what's happening inside a game.
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From what I read Neverwinter is based on D&D 4th Edition. I was able to find a 4e Player's Handbook which lists 10 languages total and 6 scripts to write those languages, however the book only has 2 of the 6 scripts included. I searched for the Dungeon Master's Guide and found no additional scripts in it. I'm wondering now how languages are acquired in D&D if only 2 scripts are found in the PHB. Anyway, in total now I've found 8 D&D scripts (possibly a 9th but uncertain about the source), and some match with Neverwinter. My sentiment is frustration that the seemingly basic aspect of learning languages in D&D did not make it into Neverwinter, and yet the game is abound with scripts (not to mention runes) with no apparent means to transcribe or acquire knowledge of them.
In addition to most of the Hell Pit event:
1. All hostiles, aka critters, and more easily seen on bigger targets like bosses, have a script that circles them on the ground that looks like it could be a scripted language and not just runes.
2. Large crystals can be found in various zones and instances, including outside the Stronghold's Gemmonger shop. The crystal holders all seem to have the same writing on them.
3. Stone circular structures can be found in various zones and instances, including the Sharandar, Dread Ring and inside the Stronghold's Gemmonger shop, the top of these have writing on them.
4. The Workshop's bulletin board has various postings, one seems to be Futhark and another Chinese, but these seem like Easter Eggs than game related per se.
Maybe I should consider all the runes and scripts as Easter Eggs?
5. Avernus has what looks like a script on the canisters in the Stygian Docks area.