# Campaign Lore Cypher **URL:** \ **Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\ **Created:** [December 23, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814 "2020-12-23T18:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![blindnighto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@blindnighto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/blindnighto)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/1 "2020-12-23T18:48:30Z")
I started playing around with decrypting the campaign lore text. Before I spend too much time on it, I was curious if it’s actually decryptable or if it’s complete gibberish. Hopefully @Saltypatra can answer. I’m not looking for how it’s encrypted, just whether or not the runes are a gibberish placeholder or whether there is a method to the madness. Or maybe someone has already cracked the code. This is just something I find entertaining. Hopefully there is a cypher. ---
**Author:** ![Lorien1973](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lorien1973/32/75546_2.png) [@Lorien1973](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lorien1973)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/2 "2020-12-23T21:13:05Z")
It’s gibberish. The symbols are celtic runes; but they are seemingly random - they don’t seem to correlate to the ending words in a meaningful way. If you ever played the Ultima series back in the 80’s 90’s then the characters are very familiar. ---
**Author:** ![BUSCHKA25](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/buschka25/32/50428_2.png) [@BUSCHKA25](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/BUSCHKA25)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/3 "2020-12-23T21:24:17Z")
I immediately thought of Ultima too! Was going to revisit my cloth maps when I returned home from work. Thanks for letting me know it would be a wasted effort, but enjoyed that others had a trip down memory lane. ---
**Author:** ![blindnighto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@blindnighto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/blindnighto)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/4 "2020-12-23T22:02:41Z")
Will still await official reply but this is pretty much what I assumed. While the runes match in number of characters, I also have not found any correlation (yet). That’s what happens when you get excited that one of the Zodiac cyphers was finally solved. ---
**Author:** ![Lorien1973](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lorien1973/32/75546_2.png) [@Lorien1973](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lorien1973)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/5 "2020-12-23T23:35:41Z")
There are repeated runes too often in the code where the final word does not have this. It is more apparent if you screenshot the code then the final phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Rockwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@Rockwell](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rockwell)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:56pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/6 "2020-12-23T23:56:18Z")
I tried this when it first came out, using a variety of runic alphabets such as Futharc and Tolkien, but then I noticed on word had the same rune three times in a row! So, it’s not a cipher, it’s just random characters ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Graeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Graeme](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Graeme)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/7 "2020-12-24T01:23:28Z")
Slightly off topic, but did anyone else decipher the runes at the top of Dwarven Gate? I remember spending considerable time doing this. Yeah, I must have been really bored 😆 They aren’t completely random like the campaign lore 😉 ---
**Author:** ![blindnighto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@blindnighto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/blindnighto)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 1:32am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/8 "2020-12-24T01:32:18Z")
> [@Lorien1973](#): > > There are repeated runes too often in the code where the final word does not have this. Hence why I think it’s a cypher and not straight substitution. Something like: - Change them all to numbers - Add last letter value to current - Write new word backwards Something complicated and convoluted. Or just complete gibberish. I’m hopeful for this puzzle. But won’t spend longer unless it’s confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Lorien1973](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lorien1973/32/75546_2.png) [@Lorien1973](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lorien1973)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/9 "2020-12-24T15:27:16Z")
You think a game with so many spelling and grammar errors has a complicated cypher? Ok. ---
**Author:** ![Rosenkreuz1979](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/rosenkreuz1979/32/61425_2.png) [@Rosenkreuz1979](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Rosenkreuz1979)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/10 "2020-12-24T15:39:04Z")
That’s easy. Get to C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Pipeworks\GemsofWar\Localization\ GemsOfWar\_[your language].json and get to the ARTIFACT\_30002\_LORE01 - LORE010 for the current artifact and there you go ---
**Author:** ![blindnighto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@blindnighto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/blindnighto)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/11 "2020-12-24T16:01:07Z")
While I appreciate the answer key, I’m more interested in the problem itself. However, this would be useful to check against if it’s confirmed that there is indeed something to solve. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jonathan/32/66724_2.png) [@Jonathan](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Jonathan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 12:27am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/12 "2020-12-25T00:27:44Z")
When we asked about it on the beta server, we were told it’s just gibberish/there’s no cypher. ---
**Author:** ![blindnighto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@blindnighto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/blindnighto)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/13 "2020-12-25T03:03:01Z")
Well, there goes that project. At least I still have my Guild War scoring formula project to fall back on. ---
**Author:** ![blindnighto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@blindnighto](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/blindnighto)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/14 "2020-12-25T13:15:30Z")
Sorry to bump it but how do I go about closing this thread? ---
**Author:** ![Graeme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@Graeme](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Graeme)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/campaign-lore-cypher/67814/15 "2020-12-25T13:24:35Z")
You can’t close a thread yourself. Once people stop replying it will quickly fade into obscurity. Unless some random necros it years later 😆