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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 234131" data-attributes="member: 3146">I think you have the wrong idea about decipher script. The description you give sounds like someone translating a long passage or book from one language that they understand into another language that they understand. It takes time to do that to a book--perhaps as much time as it took to write the book in the first place.On the other hand, decipher script is a carryover from the 1e/2e understand language thief ability. It's the ability to piece together the meaning of an inscription in a language you don't understand based on having seen those characters elsewhere and putting two and two together. Kind of like me trying to decipher latin: "Hmm "Fidelis"--I think that means faithfulness (that's the root word for fidelity)--don't understand those two words. "unum" That's one. "From many one", unity and all that. "Deos." I'm pretty sure that's God--we say "Deus ex machina all the time--that means god from the machine and greek is pretty close to latin." So faithfulness blah blah blah one. It's on a tomb in the basement of a church. I think it's an epitath saying that this man was faithful to the One God--which implies that, at the time, some people thought that there was more than one. Oh, "agonistas." That sounds like agony. So, he was probably martyred for his belief in one god. That makes sense."That's much more of an instinct thing--it's also not likely to get me anything precise enough to understand prophecy or anything else where precision is important.</blockquote>

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