Haha, I was wondering how long it'd take for someone to translate that text   Awesome!

And last but not least for the other Concept Art, all four sides are the same and it says:

Top:
The Kingdom of ????           Elemental           The Empire of ???

Left:
In The First Age after the cataclysm was born the One who would cover the
world with death

Right:

In the First Age after the cataclysm was born the One who would bring life
back to the world

Bottom:

Part \(Perhaps 1?) of the ELEMENTAL circle(One character used for ir?) ? WAR of MAGIV (Which should be C, typos! Oh noes!)

Not enough letters, unless the Elemental Language has one character for Sh.

Well to be honest, I just matched characters up with the letters you know, like creature, dragon, ect. The letters I didn't know I figured out while translating the rest of the text. Except for the J and X, which I have not come accross. Funny thing is I really liked doing it... maybe I should become a written language translator, anicent egyptian shouldn't be that hard

Ohh and a big Thank You! goes out to Starhound. Because you made me go back and really look at it, and as it turns out the Elemental language does have one character for Sh. So infact it is Shadow Dragon. Thanks!

Thanks Jalicos, strangly I found a character for ir too. They might have had a Thorn (th) as well but had not used it yet.

But something I just came accross was that a Stardock Employee, Trent aka Mittens, just said that the runes in the corners are words as well. Unfortunatly I can not match them to any of the charaters I know. But I believe starting at the red one and going clockwise it is: Fire, (Magic or Element), Water, Earth, and Air. Of course I can't back that up.

But I must say that Paul Boyer, of Icon fame, did a great job on them, and I'm guessing the language as well.

Guess I'll have to wait for one of the great Stardock employes to confirm or contradict what I think.

The reason I think the middle one may be Magic is because there is a character used that looks alot like it in the paragraphs that I've translated. And that character would only make sense if it was roughly translated to magic/element. But of course like I said it is still speculation.

Also the reason I though air was yellow and earth was green, was because I can't see Air being green. If you look at the poster the bottom right is green, I know on the website it looks bluish but the borders edge is in itself green.

He did an outstanding job to be sure! If that does not warrant him some solid karma for him from you I don’t know what would. Anyway, I'll give him what I can.

So man-up, step-up and give-up!

I just thought I'd chime in and say you did an excellent job.  I know it is something my puny brain could never handle!

I think that's where the "guardian" part comes from. The script-like markings are nearly identical to the ones on Amaterasu Okami, and wolves, especially white ones, are often depicted as nature guardians in Japanese myth. What bugs me are the other markings, on the paws and tail. They're more indicative of foxes than wolves, enough so that I originally assumed I was seeing a fox with Okami markings. How strange.

I'm impressed that folks figured out a trick like that, but I kind of hope Elemental has a similar system of spell books that you *can't* decrypt except by in-game research.

I really liked not knowing exactly what spells would be there at the end of a given MoM game--it was a good part of the replayability factor for me.

The other day while i was taking some screenshots for the user manual of one of the applications we work in, i found the TRUE meaning of the symbols in the four corners:

Or maybe Stardock's guys are really smart (they are anyways) and have been advertising the game long before we knew?

In any case, it's cool the attention to details (typos and all) that we can see in the game and the stuff related to it. Keep the good work!

Indeed. Even though I hope CondarF's skills won't help anyone decode spell books in advance once we have the game, I love fictional alphabets and languages and appreciate folks with the skills to reverse-engineer them.