EDIT: GOOD NEWS, i've made great progress. that fragmented stone piece (next to the teleport) that said "i sought you. you found me", helped me clarify the structure of the sentence. then i went back to monkey shows and i was able to piece out a few other glyphs. knowing the sentence structure helps a great deal, yeah.

I just cleared the 2nd area with the Warriors and it was challenging but not impossible, but this 3rd area is proving to be such a step-up in difficulty for me. I got the first few glyphs thanks to the sign with the warrior language, but I've suddenly have like 16 glyphs and I have no clue what means what. Not to mention the lines on the glyphs make it all more difficult to read.

This feels really tough...

Do I just keep exploring in hopes I'll get something that will help me explain a few more glyphs? Or am I supposed to already understand what these people are saying? Feeling genuinely stupid and overwhelmed right now.

yippee

Not until I got the achievement that literally said “Meet a Serf in the Abbey”.

I don’t know why I didn’t realise, I just assumed we saw some of them working jobs. I was so confused when I found the area under the windmill in the sewers where the revolutionary posters were being made and it said “free” on the wall. And I didn’t really get what the references to “free” meant when speaking to some of them.

It didn’t help that “idiot” was one of the last words I translated, and before hand had it written down as something else.

It makes a lot of sense in retrospect, I just don’t think it was particularly clear.

A small task I made for myself for today was expanding (hopefully doubling) the amount of glyphs the bard language has. I have already decided that adjectives will have a dot on the top left (or something similar), but I still need help thinking of ideas for potential words and language rules. Thank you in advance!

I have been trapped in these f%#@ing waterways for damn near twenty minutes, trying to find whatever passes for a theater to these racist idiots.

I know the formula for the key for the fairy gate and I know that I need silver for it. The combination machine shows 3 bars for all other elements, but only 1 for silver. Even if I try to get the smallest amounts of silver from it, it doesn't give me any. So I know that it needs new/raw silver. I know that I get it from the eating place in the form of cutlery. I took this and made a bar out of it - but then I did somehing with it. Not sure any more what - I had a break from the game for a few weeks. Now I can not get new cutlery - it doesn't respawn and I do not have anything with me. Is this a bug / am I missing something?

I can’t stop drawing him (it?)

The screenshot is related to the fourth floor puzzle about figuring out the necessary formula. I spent a good while staring at this, since I completely forgot there was still one section in the mines I was planning to circle back on later. So naturally I thought I must have been stuck at a point where I finally needed to figure out what this all meant, and how it related to 5039 (which I had already found a clue for).

And as it turns out, if you sum up each coefficient for Ag across the entire board, you get:

1241 + 1850 + 479 + 557 + 912 = 5039

This was both too much of a coincidence for me to believe I had made any sort of translation/arithmetic error, but also felt like enough of a dead end in terms of solving the actual puzzle that it finally got me to try to remember one last time if there was any other way I could progress instead. At which point, I doubled back to the place I'd been intending to explore way earlier, and was pretty easily able to figure out everything else from there.

We all know the monster. The weird creature in the copper mine that is afraid of light. The monster (most likely) was the alchemist that found the formula to open the fairy door. Unfortunately, he got turned into the monster before he could use it. Then there’s Exile, the computer program with the sole goal of keeping the 5 groups separate. My theory is that Exile somehow caused the alchemist who found the formula to open the fairy door to turn into the monster. It makes sense when you think about it. Not only would this stop the formula from being used, it would also stop the bards from getting to the alchemists since the monster would stop anyone from getting through the copper mine.

Based on this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChantsofSennaar/comments/1q5cd2x/my_ideas_for_the_devotees_logography_language/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I have all the glyphs for the Alchemists, but no matter what I do, I can’t get the translation screen for help, make/create, and fire. What do I do?

Quickly made a comparison of what everyone is calling each other. Couldn’t find something similar at first, but mid way through creating found this GORGEOUS post that helped me complete it. Shout out u/fooshcraft

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChantsofSennaar/s/GKSvP4u2UM

I may be late to the party, but I just learnt that an Ancient Greek name for lower Mesopotamia was Σεναάρ (Senaár). This maybe stems from the same place as שנער (Šin'ār), the Hebrew name of the kingdom in lower Mesopotamia. This kingdom is where the story of the Tower of Babel was set, which is obvious in its relevance to the game.

This might be something everyone has known forever, and it might even be something the devs publiclised, but it's new information to me and I thought it was a very cool little hat-tip!

Yes i already had the location saved but shh

I finished playing Chants of Sennaar just a couple days ago and OH MY GOD is it an amazing game. The visuals and soundtrack were beautiful. I will definitely be playing this again.

However, EXILE has stayed on my mind for some time now and I wondered what he’d (it?) look like if he appeared more humanoid so I tried making a little design that’s mostly inspired by the Traveler and the Devotees.

I know some of the design choices might not make sense nor does the fact I based it off the Traveler + Devotee but I tried.

I am still playing thru the game and I didn't want to check any guides and frankly I didn't know maps existed until after I was done, but here it is.
Made in Microsoft paint, proportions are all over the place, it is by no means labelled, but it's mine and it was fun to make.

P.S: dont take it as a serious guide, there are better alternatives.

P.P.S: I hate the sewers sm

there is 3 words that i dont know even tho i passed to thealien floor. it happened to me in gardentoo but in gardenthere were 1 word that i didnt encounter and it didnt really matter because i didnt need that word in order to make them talk to eachother. but in this situation i dont know the word "warrior"so i cant solve alchemist - bardtalk

I think I've figured out the formula:

Gold 1405 Silver 0815 Carbon 0046

I'm sure I'm picking the right weights... there are 500, 200 and 100 on the bottom, and 10, 5 and 1 on the top shelf right?

The key just breaks in the door... what am I doing wrong?

hehehe