Deciphering Halo Infinite's Ancient Easter Egg

[@RedNomster]

*Check my Halo Mysteries PLAYLIST:* kzbin.info/aero/PLhHjTkohIJ3-3M0bxvwWjZhqvP-L5tQuj Parts 1 and 3 of this mystery are in there too ^ Love you guys, happy holidays!

[@dope5472]

I think, u must Try with Number 7. Bungie always use the 7 for everithing, so a Cipher with "7 base" its the Key.!

[@dope5472]

For example 7x7 = 49, maybe that are Lines 4 and 9. And etc

[@fuquuu]

@red nomster, use the translations from all of the terminals in Halo 3. When the terminals appear after accessing them, they are originally in this ancient language and then translates to English.

[@akeepers02]

That's crazy that you just so happened to get your degree in pretend archeology. That's why YOU saw this code. It was too much a coincidence 😁 love the videos

[@WestCoastShredders]

dude if you stare at your image amd squint theres writing behind the actual glyphs

[@iconofsin66]

i’m not even sure if there’s actually anything to this but i’m so invested that i don’t care lol. your videos are so interesting, keep up the great work!!!

[@RedNomster]

You and me both brother. Thanks so much for the kind words!

[@zainkhanar5132]

It reminds me of secrets and easter eggs in Shadow of the Colossus. The community believed and was so invested in something that wasn't there, so much so to the point where it became true.

[@sizlac21]

It would be amazing if it was the 1 transcript of what the developers wanted the true end goal of the halo franchise to be ( in my opinion to be the 1 true ORIGINAL boss of halo existance). So basically the secret from years of development to cut out all the fillers and go straight to the point of the 1 true being of destruction.... the alien race that can withstand the blast from halo rings....

[@HandOfThemis]

@@sizlac21 well I mean, the flood alreqdy withstand the blast lol.

[@m0002856]

@@sizlac21 But how funny would it be if the translation was “The Forerunners and Humans are the same species” and somebody solves it and then 343 has to patch it out of Infinite in a panic because they never knew what it was and didn’t realize it was some old lore shit that they already changed.

[@havocking9224]

I really hope this text has deep meaning and it's not just some random image made by some game developer that is laughing at us right now. Keep it up, i cross my fingers for you! :)

[@RedNomster]

That's the exact comment the developer would type... 🤔

[@theinquiryplease4404]

A bungie dev already said that the Sandtrap text have meaning, and can be translated. The dev was surpised nobody's figured it out yet.

[@f2detaboada]

@@theinquiryplease4404 source?

[@Sonilotos]

@@f2detaboada ur mom

[@grakoe]

@@f2detaboada trust him

[@moneyindabag]

Give “Mjolnir” a try. 7 letters, and it’s literally all over the maps on signs saying things like “must activate mjolnir before entering” etc.

[@TK199999]

I always thought it looked a little like Mayan. Many ancient Mayan city states appeared to have different symbols for the same thing. Suggesting different languages, but it turns out that ancient Mayan is uniform and different looking symbols was just different 'fonts' each city used. But all Mayan is kinda like simplified Chinese or Japanese, as long as the core pictograph is written, the word always means the same thing. One thing, becareful with brute force methods of decryption. You can get false patterns.

[@HandOfThemis]

There are some of us in the Rocket Sloth Discord who have delved DEEP into this. This is a genuine breakthrough, fantastic work!

[@jamesjurgensen6332]

I love the work and effort you are going through to solve this mystery

[@RedNomster]

Being up at 3a.m. investigating Halo easter eggs isn't what I expected at 25, but it's what the people need 😅

[@DualWieldFTW]

Hey Nomster, just wanted to throw in a couple of suggestions: 1) For the keyword, it might be worthwhile to try words like 'Reclaimer', 'Reclamation' etc. since the Forerunners likely left this for their successors. 'Mantle' might also be worth a shot, if you haven't tried it already. 2) Is the text in the Infinite iterations of the cipher the same as the original ones? If the answer's no, I think trying 'Endless' might be a way in there. 3) I saw the 'repeats' line in AZdecrypt and I immediately thought of frequency analysis, which might not be the best since the body of the actual text is so limited. Though, it might be worth looking into in any case, since even with a small sample size, the frequency of alphabet use should still somewhat reflect that of larger texts, just more roughly. Edit: There is NO WAY that this is just a reusage of assets, nor is it a coincidence. The Sandtrap temple is akin to the Delta Halo ruins: Ancient Forerunner structures (even ancient at the time of construction of the newer neoteric array) being moved for preservation, like a museum world. It bears mentioning that Zeta Halo was part of the original senescent array, before being conscripted into the neoteric array after heavy damage. In short, Zeta Halo is older than all the other Halo rings, with ONI even considering it the most mysterious. It's likely that there's a further connection between the text and the two locations we've seen it. Make no mistake, 343 is following up on what Bungie had intended, and expanding on this old, obscure story. It's highly likely that there exists a document that serves to mark out the road ahead for this storyline handed over to 343 from Bungie.

[@RedNomster]

Great keywords! I've done frequency analysis, but it varies depending on if you use the correlation method or not. There's also like 70 symbols, so it's likely that there are many symbols representing the same letter, which makes it harder to assume. Perhaps there's no coincidence that there were 12 rings, 12 lines of text 🤔 And we could use your lore knowledge in the discord!

[@DualWieldFTW]

@@RedNomster Just jumped in!

[@badalrana10]

I don't think such document exists. I think Bungie originally intended forerunner to be ancient human. I think 343 is taking what Bungie left behind such as this tablet and reforging it for their own purpose and story.

[@foreverdm7000]

@@badalrana10 honestly if you only had halos 1-3 as context for the story, forerunners being ancient humans would almost make sense. Almost

[@grahamdixon1699]

@@foreverdm7000 almost? It's directly stated multiple times lmfao, the only bit of contradictory info we get is in 1/3rd of the terminals; written by the snake Frankie himself.

[@jamesmclemore9123]

Imagine if the text gets translated and it turns out to be something completely unrelated to lore, like "How long did it take you to decipher this?"

[@JellyfishRave]

I love this so much. These kinds of things take me back to something that made Halo so great-the fine, hidden, out of the way details that somehow mean so much

[@RedNomster]

Like the bungie employee in his underwear dancing in Halo 3 😂

[@RedNomster]

@@JeskyKO this entire 3 part series that you're currently watching is about Halo Infinite reintroducing and adding to a secret halo mystery... 😂

[@mcluvin707]

Given Bungie's obsession with the number 7, have you tried 7, Seven, or any other spelling? Another approach, most likely wrong but worth a shot. In Humans, we commonly use a base-10 system for our numbers because we have 10 fingers. Since Forerunners have 12 fingers, maybe their number system is base 12 as well? Just brainstorming lol Love the series, PLEASE update us with whatever you can!

[@cVanishMantle]

This is why I love theory's of lore in video games.

[@RedNomster]

[@WuBrotherNumbaOne]

Never thought I'd be so invested in an easter egg before but here I am. keep up the good work man! These are some good quality videos be proud of that!

[@RedNomster]

🥺 that means a lot, thank you! Working hard on the next one!

[@Kipperfaust2]

I’m completely blown away, this is incredible. I really hope that these symbols end up having an actual meaning or message rather than just being gibberish, but either way, you’re making the first real breakthrough into this stuff and it’s so cool to see the process.

[@RedNomster]

Awesome to hear 😁 I'm hoping these fresh eyes offer more insight though, already have good ideas appearing in my discord

[@skarmory4]

Literally watched part 1 an hour ago, went to your profile, and saw this. Beautiful work

[@RedNomster]

Thank you 😁 glad you enjoyed!

[@wysock9639]

I haven't heard any suggest this or noticed, but a lot of the symbols are identical and similar to the symbols found in the Marathon games that Bungie made before the Halo games. The Marathon games were actually the inspiration and where a lot of the source material for Halo came from. Someone should check into that and see if that helps translate any of it.

[@PhotonBread]

These last two videos just earned you a sub, brother. Amazing stuff. I really hope 343i never straight up reveals the meaning or origin so videos like this continue to exist

[@RedNomster]

Awesome to hear 😎 and I have to agree!

[@woundedhealer8575]

It’s likely that the original concept of the Banished and Endless started with their ideas of Sandtrap. Sandtrap’s texts likely say something to the effect of “the endless are entombed here for the safety of all within our responsibility. We sacrifice one to save a thousand, this is our sin,” so on and so on. It’s likely the same on Zeta Halo. The reason why they probably used the same text is to let anyone who’s been trying to solve this mystery and actually got close, know that they were damn near close to solving it.

[@hwrida]

its gonna translate, "We've been trying to get in contact with you about your spaceships extended warranty"

[@TCRP117]

Fantastic video. The Contact reference had me wondering whether placing the symbols in 3 dimensional space as if forming the inner surface of a Halo and then assessing their relation to one another in that format might reveal something.

[@rushh4677]

Common phrases and words to appear over and over in forerunner talk -mantle of responsibility, endless, flood, Halo, forerunner - Forrunner with double NN and multiple R

[@charliearnold3598]

Never thought the ravings of a madman would be so entertaining

[@CommanderCH]

Seeing how there's still some skins (legendary stances to be exact) locked behind "Campaign unlocks", eventhough I found everything in the campaign, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of easter egg you'd have to complete for these to unlock, and this here being the root of said very easter egg.

[@nitropenguinz]

Halo’s mysteries are one of my favorite things about the series. We’re the same as those in the halo universe searching for answers, trying to understand the forerunners and what they left behind. The only ones who know the answer is the devs aka the forerunners. It’s a neat parallel!

[@sneakyninja2773]

Bro is one of the coolest things I've ever seen

[@walteryellow3884]

As best as you can tell the developers can see the fan base is interested, and they know people like you are out there putting this much effort in right? I have hope they’ll throw us a bone soon. I’m excited for you and it’s always great to hear from an expert in the field of imaginary archeology.

[@RedNomster]

😅 thanks Walter. I need the campaign dlc ASAP

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

I just finished the previous vid. Fifteen minutes later this popped up. What a time, and I'm still on my toilet. BTW the soundtrack they made for whenever the Endless get mentioned reaaally fits.

[@RedNomster]

15+ minutes on the toilet, it's like looking in a mirror And yes! Sometimes I feel like the song was what motivated me to dig into the mystery and actually think the text might show up, so mysterious

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

@@RedNomster diarrhea really puts marks on the diary

[@jeremyaustin4467]

I’m with you behind this one man being a kid that grew up on halo since he was ten I’m very intrigued by this mystery and I’m looking forward to you putting your degree to hood use and solving this ancient text muster for us all, as a kin playing the sand storm map I never thought nothing of the ancient text but I am completely mind blown here now, thank you for the great videos

[@RedNomster]

[@dylanvelloca6698]

343: "OMG WE FORGOT TO ADD MEANING TO THIS" HALO INFINITE SUMMER EDITION: ALIEN EASTER EGG MEANING 9.99$

[@candidate17]

I found your other video just yesturday and was captivated. Now to see a second video ! I'm hooked , please keep this up

[@RedNomster]

I gotchu, part 3 drops Thursday 🙌

[@candidate17]

@@RedNomster absolute hero

[@nitrocoldude]

Lots of thoughts so I'm just gonna kind of list them: 1. I can't help but notice a pattern of 3s and 4s. In sand trap the image you found showed a 4 sided symbol, and the other one you showed now in halo infinite showed two 3 sided symbols connecting. Who is now developing these games? 343 industries. 343i named after 343 guilty spark aka "the monitor" "the oracle" etc. This cypher has to be connected symbolically in some way. 3 lines of cypher being displayed 4 times to create one endless pattern that can be replicated "infinitely". INFINITE 2. 343 is a palindrome, meaning it reads the same forwards as backwards. This "mirroring effect" is also seen in the cypher as you noted. Lines 1-3 make 4-6. 1-6 make 7-12. I also can't help but notice we are now playing "halo 6" the first 3 games were made by bungie the second by 343. This leads me to believe 343 chose its name as a company solely based on the lore it would tell through this cypher that was yet to be explained. 3. The game ends showing the logo Halo Infinite. Before it does this it is shown as Halo with 10 lines below it. The 10 vertical lines then fade into the word INFINITE spelled out in all caps. What does the number 10 mean, what are there 10 of? Does it follow a specific pattern before? The sum of 3 and 4 and 3 is 10. I know this is a lot of rambling and I apologize if nothing here just makes sense. Hopefully something useful was found.

[@IhsaanS]

So 343 was definitely intentional. One of the devs spoke about the fact that the script given to 343 Guilty Spark's voice actor had a typo, it said 344. So that dev had to go into the audio and copy the first 3 to replace the 3rd 4, which worked out making him sound more robotic. There was some math element to it, I forgot what specifically. But there was a big necessity to it being 343 since Halo 1.

[@TheRaptorsClaw]

@@IhsaanS 343 is 7x7x7

[@mspionage1743]

Couple things to consider. We know what Forerunner writing and characters/numbers looked like due to the first few games. So in essence we can eliminate these markers as being Forerunner as they are both vastly different. Next if we consider the history of Zeta Halo we would also know that it once held the so called "Last Precursor" who controlled it along with Mendicant during the final years of the Forerunner War before both were destroyed. Considering these things along with the "Weapons" statements about a sorrow and warning from the messages trapped within the ancient structures of Zeta we could speculate these are Precursor and it would be a pretty strong hypothesis as no other group had a presence on Zeta to do so.

[@kenny4813]

wow.. your level of knowledge is on a hole nother level... much respect!

[@themichaelconnor42]

*whole *'nother

[@raindeer2580]

Maybe 3d print out the text and make a Halo ring with each line? Also maybe some are buildings we're you find more clues? Rotate text to vertical at 5:13 and look like buildings? Dam I'm invested now

[@Ukioda]

On the Silent Auditorium, in the room where the monitor apologizes, on the back of those statues is one vertical line of code that matches.

[@RedNomster]

I'll have to take a look during my next play-through!

[@scordova98]

It looks like those dots above the symbols are lines in and of themselves. They even appear to be their own line because those dots don't appear in the regular line and are perfectly spaced. You might want to try something using them. I haven't finished the video yet so I haven't seen if you do but I'm sure the dots are a significant reason why this hasn't been solved because they appear random when theyre certainly not.

[@t2-scoops436]

i instantly begin to think of Morse Code?... Curious

[@SlaaneshiChaplain]

Might be a bit of stretch but on the map Behemoth near the sentinel spawns at either side of the base there seems to be decayed or faded markings above the sentinel beam spawn also if you stand still in the middle of the map (the subsurface bridge) long enough you can hear growling and whispering which is interesting considering the weapon said that the conduits were sentient when battling the Harbinger and that chief was given an unknown grav lift to a desert environment. And there's similar bridge like structures that lead to behemoth like the silent auditorium. I have a theory that with the transportation of chief by a mysterious entity, the deployment of Offensive Bias, the Forunner knack for burying things in deserts and the similar architecture in this instance are possibly related especially since the map description mentions it rising out of the sands after being buried for millennia

[@RedNomster]

Didn't know about the map description, might have to look into multiplayer maps more now 🤔

[@zgolkar]

Nice video! As you scrolled in 3:18 and said about fresh eyes I was reading “Desig(n)ed (b)y” in the 2nd line and “Graf(ics)” and “Anima(tion)” in the 3rd. It might be a stretch (the letters in parentheses), but... Are you sure you are not looking at credits here?

[@randomamerican783]

Keep up the good work king, just watching this makes my head spin trying to work it out even as you're explaining it

[@RedNomster]

I figured there'd be a lot of rewinding involved with this video 😅 thanks for the motivation!

[@97dtharrison]

This is the beating heart of what Halo is. Thanks friend.

[@RedNomster]

Glad you enjoyed 🥲

[@kevintan5497]

the fact that ring and arby popped up in the software makes me think that youre getting there

[@izzieb]

Been looking forward to this!

[@RedNomster]

Great to hear

[@FoxyWoxy-pc8jj]

Fascinating stuff, stuff like this is what makes our community so awesome.

[@rowangallagher4579]

Keep fighting. The deepest lores create the deepest intrigue, part of why halo is still alive.

[@RedNomster]

[@CiccoV3nom2]

You are uncovering these mysteries AND my nostalgia, and in 15 years you're the best one doing so. Subscribed. I need to follow you in this rabbit hole

[@RedNomster]

Welcome to the voyage brother :)

[@jcbq01]

I'd argue using words like 'reclaimer' and phrases of the forerunner language. Baring that I would equate it to the forerunner script we get in halo 3 itself, via the terminals. It's IMPLIED to be a 1:1 English Cypher however we don't know if the encoded text is a genuine symbol cypher, I suspect it's like Egyptian script one is the 'hireoyph' style while the others are Hiratic The issue there is if there's enough that lines up with these symbols

[@JackViersC]

If you look at line 9, you can clearly read "Design" in the glyphs....

[@JackViersC]

Also, the strange artifacts (corruptions) of the text (the weird shapes) kind of look like what happens when you look at the binary of a zipped/encoded file in a text editor in a different encoding than what was used to encode the file. My suggestion is that instead of thinking about this as a substitution cipher, you might want to consider that this may be binary/win-1252/zip/lz2 compressed data. In which case you'd want to convert the letters to their binary counterpart codepoints before attempting to decipher/unzip the message. Just to give you a whole new rabbit hole.

[@improvementeachday6866]

this dude deserves a minimum of 100k atleast in 2022

[@Ferdin4rd]

Those are clear coordenates to something that's yet to come, maybe in the new dlc

[@CrazyChiefXxX]

The hidden file for guardian battle from halo appears in Infinite holy shit....

[@Samacora]

This was like the Christmas gift that wasn't under the tree but turns up the next day with your favourite uncle

[@phantom7767]

You can take the frequency of some symbols and if its English you can determine a statistically significant likelihood of certain vowels being certain characters. Also the lack of doubles next to each other might imply that ymbols are not individual letters but entire syllables or like Kanji. The complex symbols might by just hyroglyphics to supplement the text. They look like weapons or vehicles kinda so it could be lore text with hieroglyphics of weapons and vehicles interspersed.

[@whiskey419]

Considering how this started with Bungie I hope I can help or at least point in the right direction. I’d look to Bungie’s older games, namely Pathways into Darkness as this just reminded me of that game.

[@firefightingguy9427]

The lore and effort taken by studios to implement things like this are a great nod to the diehard fans of a series who want to leave no stone unturned.

[@xXikip1018Xx]

absolute shot in the dark here but given how well transforming the text worked, and how other forerunner text in things the past have been circular symbols and circularly arranged Eld text, I wonder if printing it out and looking at it as a ring/loop would provide any insight? All the other forerunner text I can remember is circular or in like the hexagon grids like from the halo 4 era waypoint stuff, It sticks out to me that this is a square line like strip format

[@RedNomster]

I've printed the text out before trying to form a cube like in the movie contact. I've also tried the scytale method to no avail, which deals with cylindrical encoding. But good suggestions, I didn't think about lore being a possible reason to try a certain method 🤔

[@alexalesbrook9690]

Just wait until u find out u have solved halos greatest mystery. Good work

[@SNSPmedia]

Great job on these 2 videos so far. Really popping off !

[@RedNomster]

[@RavenChopper]

Makes me curious about Sandtrap and now the glyphs in Infinite. Did you notice how the ship hologram in Infinite is the same as the one in the Halo 3 map (Epitaph I think)? A different ship from the Keyship/Guardians maybe? Also, what if the "corrupted" glyphs are a result of Forerunners trying to protect the future from say...the Flood? Or maybe, like the Halo 3 Legendary Terminals, those corrupted spots are like the extra the Mendicant Bias/Didact pages?

[@Cheezmonka]

Commenting for algorithm visibility, but also you're nuts and I love it. Keep it up (not that you needed any extra encouragement after all this time haha)

[@RedNomster]

You're a real one 😎 And thanks so much! Working hard on part 3

[@Gojira_Wins]

When I was really into cryptology, one thing I would do is use mathematical equations to scramble the code before using methods like mirroring and alternative characters. Even if someone had the Cypher, the equation prevented them from understanding what the code really said. That being said, anytime I look at this text, I get the feeling that there is something more to it than just scrambled wording. There's something we are missing. My first thoughts are on any numeric symbology from Halo. Be it how many rings there are or 343s name. Who knows. Only time will tell.

[@ha-kh7ef]

I like to think that bungie had no intent to do anything with this and it was just a cool design to add. But 343 decided to make lore around this. Idk they’re could clues in Halo 3 that was missed like description of the maps.

[@tacobread3]

Watch this be a long list of people saying “happy birthday” “wow good job” and “my name is Jeff”

[@Grungswick892]

This is definitely your baby, and you should feel proud of how much of a connection you've made with your amazing observation skills. Cant wait to see what else you dig up. Also, Im not sure if this can give any help to you, but the deciphering system you had on your computer mentioned rings, and like it was trying to say universe at one point as well as storing and preserves. I think this is definitely talking about imprisoning the Endless on the halo rings and Bungie had this, to include their name, planned all along. Hence the description of sandtrap and the text being there. Crazy that it's been right in our face since Halo 3

[@RedNomster]

That means a lot, thank you :) and I know! Just so many possibilities still. The problem with the text being less broken English than before is that so many possibilities look good but so do others haha

[@MikeyDTries]

in halo infinite cortana reads part of the ancient text when you find a blue disk under a structure and says she will mark it for further investigation, but you proberly knew this already

[@343bungie]

Hey there! Im currently watching the series and you're doing amazing work. The halo universe is such a rich, mystery filled one, and you're proving that. I noticed something though, that maybe you're already aware of, but the little tiny dots and lines that surround the actual letters and symbols look VERY similar to Morse Code. Maybe thats old news and youve looked into it and it means nothing, but if not, it may be looking into!

[@RedNomster]

I've personally looked into Morse, braille, dot matrix, and a few others related to Halo that proved fruitless 🥺 thanks Solo, glad you're enjoying the ride!

[@343bungie]

@@RedNomster aw thats a shame. Id imagine maybe the dots around the symbols can provide a clue to the individual nots meaning. Either way, this mystery is extremely intruiging and youre doing amazing work!

[@hyperlovesyou]

They took a few pieces of syntax, processed them using curve filters and heavy use of the posterize filter by the looks of it. and as you figured out they just flipped and realigned the same rows to give the ilusion of variation. id be more interested in the corruption at this point than the bits of alphabet

[@Liunafeng]

It's really good to see how many people want to Decipher wat the forerunners wrote in those tables. I Guess everyone is Contributing in investigating Zeta Halo. I'm doing my own researchers and investigations myself, searching different and interesting things in the ring, easter eggs and everything. I'm trying to find a way how to get the pose Acts of Genesis, since the internet says nobody got it, I'm working investigating how to get it and after got it I will post a video how to get it.

[@disaster_chief]

it's 2am and i'm watching all of your halo mystery videos for the 5th time

[@RedNomster]

Good man 😤 New video dropping today!

[@spartanshadow90oficial]

Funny the fact that I was literally watching the last video and when I came across this continuation of this research

[@calpresto9581]

Aight I'm subbing and grabbing a seat. This is actually entertaining! Dope dude! No way right now?!

[@RedNomster]

Welcome to the journey Taylor! I'm glad this niche topic resonates with people, I love exploring it

[@I3ladeDragon]

Liked, subscribed, and belled! Also gonna join the Discord. lol. I remember this being a thing such a long time ago and you seem amazingly close to cracking the code!

[@RedNomster]

Sheesh you're making me blush 😁 plenty to read in the discord already, lots of awesome theories being discussed all night

[@gorillazzilla]

Incredible job Daniel Jackson... yes... that was a joke. I really do love this video.

[@RedNomster]

Thank you Teal'c, your human humor is getting better

[@benjaminwilson3216]

Here's a thought. And it would just probably make you go more insane. What if it was meant to be decoded using in game methods... Forge. You could change settings to make the map itself change colors, and then angles would then allow people to make in game photos which they would then share on halo 3's file uploads... perhaps fiddling with all of the options, made the text appear.

[@benjaminwilson3216]

Im talking about the original halo 3, not 343's master chief collection

[@shaxxercize8094]

But its in the campaign

[@exilestudios9546]

with this new context i think the text is some kind of forerunner Rosetta stone meant to convey a message important to their culture in a way that future space faring species may someday understand possibly some kind of apology for the extinction of all life since in the forerunner culture life in all forms was considered sacred

[@RedNomster]

That'd be a beautiful outcome in my opinion 👌

[@exilestudios9546]

@@RedNomster that's just the best outcome it could also be some sort of like legal document that basically states that the forerunners are the rightful holders of the mantle and as such are judge jury and executioner for all in the galaxy because ya know they were jerks like that

[@gfuhbfvhvfduihvfdjhv]

This is that part two I was looking forward to! Amazing content again my man!

[@RedNomster]

Part 3 is out 😁

[@gfuhbfvhvfduihvfdjhv]

@@RedNomster Trust me, I saw it 👍🏼 absolutely love this

[@TheDrewbe3]

I'm so invested in this now, can't wait for the next video!

[@RedNomster]

Good to hear rector 😁 glad to know others feel the same!

[@JJO117]

I am so happy they managed to bring back the mystery of Halo. I hope to see the precursors, Sentinal variants and AI's like offensive Bias. Would be cool to see an ancient human released from a cylixto guide humanity on reclaiming the forruner technology and unlocking the secrets or stories that were lost in time. Seeing how they utilised this text goes to show how they know the true Lore.

[@chong3632]

Unless I'm mistaken, or they are adding something new, by lore humans were already de evolved by the forerunners by the time humans would have been placed in cylixes, so opening a human cylix would release a being closer to a cro magnon man as opposed to a pre forerunner war human...

[@CommentedHere0]

@@chong3632 Unless the librarian have a secret of this...

[@chong3632]

@@CommentedHere0 well, 343 will bend the story to make it whatever they want, but... seeing as how the librarian is married to the didact, and the didact (specifically the Ur Didact) was in charge of the forerunner forces during the battle of Charum Hakkor, specifically talked about how later lamented destroying humanity because of how well they fought... And since the Iso Didact (who had the full memory set of the Ur Didact )didnt exactly share the somewhat nihilistic nature of the Ur Didact, and likewise shared lament for that destruction, one would assume that the librarian would have shared if she had still evolved humans locked away somewhere in a cylix or a cryptum...

[@CommentedHere0]

@@chong3632 Yea

[@CommentedHere0]

@@chong3632 Good thinking

[@grapeflavoredgluestick]

You make doctor Halsey proud

[@jimschuler8830]

The letters are a red herring. Focus on the numbers. And you're probably going to need an ONI decrypter set to B2. Anyway, it reads "Remember to drink your Ovaltine."

[@rodrigomelendez1545]

The first text you showed in the conservatory has a guardian symbol. I noticed every tablet has a symbol on top

[@aaryankhanna7376]

Love the effort your putting into this mystery, you will probably the one to decipher the text

[@aaronplays_]

I feel like the lines at 9:43-9:45 are more interesting than what you drew our attention to later. But I have no idea about Halo lore and could be noticing unimportant things.

[@saltypepper8514]

Amazing work holy cow I’m excited

[@RedNomster]

Thanks Salty! :D I haven't been this excited over a game in a while

[@joewray143]

I don’t care if there isn’t a solution. I’ve already learned so much about cyphers, and the halo universe simultaneously. When does course request open I’ll add your lecture, even if it’s at 8am

[@deus0rcinus889]

With the hiring of Mr Staten I'm pretty sure that he 'KNOWS' about these symbols/Language and is keeping quiet because he handed over the Mantle of Responsibility for Master Chiefs journey to 343i

[@Krypta777]

Hats off to you Lad, this is some DEDICATION

[@RedNomster]

That's kind of you to say!

[@Krypta777]

This vid and the previous one deserves every golden ounce of praise. Absolutely iconic work Nomster

[@HerrDerpington]

The Endless might be from Joseph Staten's involvement, sprinkling old Halo lore into 343 canon.

[@Liunafeng]

It's like we know many Spartans died on the ring but we ourselves are Spartans in our own way, some recon Spartans, some investigators, some just killers its like we are not in the ring physically well... Obviously because we're not there but I mean our Spartans but we are helping John to know the secrets of Zeta Halo. Just imagine that one day you enter in a dark cave and you hear the moaning of the flood and suddenly a spore jumps to you.

[@tylerhanisch2480]

Really hope that you get to the bottom of this. Best of luck! We'll being waiting.

[@RedNomster]

Thank you Tyler 🙏

[@aofdemons5391]

Hell yea!

[@bestdogshadow383]

Keywords you can try: Forerunner Time Endless Flood Ring Silent Auditorium Precursor Halo

[@OliverH_ATL]

In one of the audio logs the AI is interpreting some runes and it reads “enemy within” Can these be related?

[@oSirSniffleso]

Keep in mind a few things about who originally made this text. Bungie. Things like how they are obsessed with 7 and also things we know from Destiny. Remember how that one raid had the puzzle that required knowing binary? I can see a puzzle like this requiring knowing some sort of coding or at least coding rules. Who here can write a batch file? What else is bungie known for or what other puzzles have they made that we can look to for clues. Some say Destiny occurs in the same universe as Halo. What can we look to there for clues?

[@VitaminPack]

This may be crazy but, when the halo 3 community realized the order of rings needed to jump through to unlock the skull IWHBYD... was not random, but on a musical scale, it was the last Notes to the halo song. This made me think, can the Hieroglyphs, be in any way translated to musical notes? Harmonics?

[@RedNomster]

Wish I knew music! A couple people in the discord are looking at musical theories though

[@spencermorrison8517]

@the game theorists needs to get on this asap

[@SkSpecial1]

1. Did you try music/notes like the jumping thru the rings ? 2. Did you try comparing to the competition deciphering stuff that got you into the irl halo event?

[@TheBlackBrickStudios]

Either 343 REALLY know what they are doing, or this is the biggest string of coincidences in the series.

[@ethanwaitforitdavis]

Man I really hope there is something to all this! 😆 you really had me invested in both vids from start to finish!

[@RedNomster]

Good to hear :) it only gets more interesting from here!

[@BladesofElysian]

Imaginary archeology!? Screw that, you're like Indiana Jones meets halo. A God damn legend in imaginary cryptologic exegesis. You will be the one who will decipher this, and I swear if all this text is just an elaborate description of the second coming of our lord and savior Craig... I will not be disappointed; that would be hilarious.

[@geralddillon5746]

This guy is a living forunner