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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 5526650" data-attributes="member: 34175">Usually I use real world languages that my players are unfamiliar with, however I have on a couple of occasions taken basic human speech patterns and rules and crafted ancient variations of languages; one was the centerpiece of an entire campaign based on this simple clue:Een ehr sulden, Een erh galtEen ehr hooten, Een ehr kalt,Een dar shonder dagd mittgard ZheenUnd vohn mittenhock, Feer maks Een.That was what they got AFTER they decoded it from Dethek runes.  (A puzzle within a puzzle that was actually a riddle, they both loved and hated me for that one.)  But as you can tell it takes lots of little things from different languages and mashes them together with a few choice nonsense words here and there to really kick them in the teeth.[sblock]What the riddle breaks down to:One of silver, one of goldone of hot,  one of coldone that shines like the midday sunand all together five makes oneIt was a weapon that was created by five very unrelated looking working parts (a silver rod, a gold ring, a fire forged spike, an ice forged shuriken and a rather large diamond)  Similar to the rod of seven parts each one had special abilities on their own, but when assembled created a pretty kick ass mace.  Of course the difference is, each of the objects had nothing in common unless you knew the poem/riddle and each would function without the other in such a way that you could own one and never realize it was part of a larger whole. [/sblock]</blockquote>

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