Now after reading this article again (Translating the gnomish binary and revealing the secrets!) this quest came back to my mind and I begun to figure out it's meaning.
Here is the actual book I started from.
I used this pattern I figured out myself to translate this to binary:
Code:
O=1 o=0 Code:
1010101 1101100 1110100 1101001 1101101 1100001 100000 1001111 1101110 1101100 1101001 1101110 1100101 100000 1001110 1100001 1110000 1100001 100000 1010110 1100001 1101100 1101100 1100101 1111001 100000 1001011 1101110 1101001 1100111 1101000 1110100 1110011 100000 1101111 1100110 100000 1000011 1101000 1100001 1101111 1110011 1010101 = U
1101100 = l
1110100 = t
1101001 = i
1101101 = m
1100001 = a ... and so on
TIP: If you want to do it yourself, do it for each character.
You get this:
Ultima Online Napa Valley Knights of Chaos
Now what is this?
I assume that one of the dev's/designers played 'Ultima Online' on the realm 'Napa Valley' and he was in the guild 'Knights of Chaos'.
It's a Ultima Online -joke. When you were dead all you were able to say was:
"OoOooOooo", some players even learned to translate it so they could understand each others.
So it's supposed to be a joke, or a 'advertisement' of some kind. But I must say, as long as Blizzard keeps adding stuff like this into WoW, they keep me quite happy and interested
carlfish on Reddit wrote this:
ReplyDeleteI tried to add this comment to the site, but the site was broken.
This is a direct homage to Ultima. In Ultima Online, when you died you would become a ghost at the point of your death and then have to go and find yourself a healer to rez you. While dead, anything you attempted to say would come out as "OoooooOOooooo" unless you or the person listening to you had the Spirit Speak spell/ability.
(This mechanic in turn comes from the single-player Ultima games)
Even the book is lifted from Ultima. There was some book in the game called "Talking to the Dead" (the exact name escapes me), and the joke was that when you read it it was just ghost talk like the WoW book pictured in the article.
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