Smarty-pants fans over at Access the Animus have cracked the Isu language found throughout Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
The video below, which goes into granular detail of the fans’ exhaustive efforts, was praised by Valhalla narrative director Darby McDevitt after it went live last night.
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The Isu language, used by Assassin’s Creed’s infamous precursor race, can be found in a few spoilery places within Valhalla.
In the game’s modern day portion, you’ll also see some translated texts from around the world in photos on Layla’s computer.
It’s these translations that have acted like a Rosetta Stone for the language, allowing fans to work out Ubisoft has created a vocabulary that includes verb tenses, grammar, conjugated words and a specific sentence structure.
Accompanying notes found on the laptop put in as clues to help translation note the language is an ancestor of the Indo-European family of languages. (These were sent to Layla by someone whose name looks like that of Ubisoft Singapore designer Antoine Henry, who worked on the language.)