# Runes surrounding home kingdom

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/runes-surrounding-home-kingdom/13495>\
**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PC/Mobile)\
**Created:** [October 9, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/runes-surrounding-home-kingdom/13495 "2016-10-09T17:14:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/runes-surrounding-home-kingdom/13495/1 "2016-10-09T17:14:35Z")

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So, I got bored and noticed that the circular decoration around my home kingdom contains six symbols that look like Norse runes. After spending far too long squinting at tiny characters, I think they’re the following:

ᚠᚢᚪᚲᚱᚦ  
Fuacrth

Means nothing in English, and I don’t speak any Scandinavian languages. Anyone have any ideas before we bug the devs for the answers?

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**Author:** ![JasonAshcroft](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jasonashcroft/32/1974_2.png) [@JasonAshcroft](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/JasonAshcroft)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/runes-surrounding-home-kingdom/13495/2 "2016-10-09T17:16:24Z")

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Runes are actually german, but it doesnt make any sense in german either (in case you translated them correctly).

EDIT:  
Runes (Proto-Norse: ᚱᚢᚾᛟ (runo), Old Norse: rún) are the letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets, which were used to write various Germanic languages before the adoption of the Latin alphabet and for specialised purposes thereafter. **The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fuþark (derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K)**; the Anglo-Saxon variant is futhorc or fuþorc (due to sound changes undergone in Old English by the names of those six letters).  
Runology is the study of the runic alphabets, runic inscriptions, runestones, and their history. Runology forms a specialised branch of Germanic linguistics.

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**Author:** ![TaliaParks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/taliaparks/32/11738_2.png) [@TaliaParks](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/TaliaParks)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/runes-surrounding-home-kingdom/13495/3 "2016-10-09T17:19:11Z")

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> [@JasonAshcroft](#):
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> Runes are actually german, but it doesnt make any sense in german either (in case you translated them correctly).

Not quite Fuacrth, I believe it’s actually Fuerth, which is a real district in Germany

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**Author:** ![Blacklaser](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/blacklaser/32/17604_2.png) [@Blacklaser](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Blacklaser)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/runes-surrounding-home-kingdom/13495/4 "2016-10-09T17:45:11Z")

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It kind of looks like the Seal of Orichalcos from Yu-Gi-Oh!.

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**Author:** ![Grundulum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/82dd89/32.png) [@Grundulum](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Grundulum)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/runes-surrounding-home-kingdom/13495/5 "2016-10-10T04:06:05Z")

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> [@JasonAshcroft](#):
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> **The Scandinavian variants are also known as futhark or fuþark (derived from their first six letters of the alphabet: F, U, Þ, A, R, and K)**

Those are the six runes, but not the order in which they appear. I’m chalking it up to a typo at the moment.