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Assassin's Creed Valhalla - We have Deciphered The isu Secret Language!

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At last we were able to decipher the secret Isu Language from Assassin's Creed Valhalla!
In our new video we are taking you with us as we try and solve one of the big mysteries of the game, that is the Isu Language.
For those of you who might not know, Assassin's Creed Valhalla contains several documents written in a secret coded language belonging to the First Civilization, which can be found both within the game world and by completing specific activities and will subsequently end up Layla in the SecureShare folder of Layla's laptop.
What you might not know is that that same language also appears on various objects of the Collector’s Edition of the game and differently from the in-game files, they are, very interestingly, without translation.
In the video we actually plan to teach you how to understand and translate the language while also having a look at some of the ciphered text on the Collector's Edition of the game, which we'll complete in the second part of the video itself!
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@Ahasverus92 3 года назад

Insane dedication, from both authors and dechipers!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you so much, that really means a lot! It was indeed a "labour of love" on our side and we're pretty sure it was the same on the devs' side!

@kris2893 3 года назад

The fact that you actually managed to do this is insane, well done!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you so much! We really put everything we had in this (and its second part!)

@SanelyRed 3 года назад

Hope they keep the written Isu language in future games to give us puzzles to solve now that we can actually translate the language. Awesome work 👍

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

We hope that too! Our video(s) are designed for that purpose too, to help fans trying understanding the language on their own as well, if they ever need it :D

@COOLPEAK 3 года назад

Petition for Duolingo to make a isu language lesson

@Elchinodiabolero 3 года назад

These type of things are what keep me hooked to the franchise

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

And we'll always be here to discuss them! (also cause they have the same effect on us :P)

@juselara02 3 года назад

I play AC because I want to get head scratching mysteries! I love this

@carlosalbertofernandezvele7574 3 года назад

It would be better for the franchise to put the present day story on a pause and let assassins from the past to fully cover the game so that assassins from future eras can continue their work whilst adding a little piece of their own until the present day protagonist can sumarize all events.

@rohit_parashar 3 года назад

Dude this is genius. I am happy we are getting the slight Isu references and documents like those from the days of AC2.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you so much Rohit! Indeed, it's so nice to see the First Civ back as an important story topic in so many different ways ^^

@lukyjusczlp6409 3 года назад

Keep these videos coming! I can't even explain how I love these aspects of this game. First the ISU videos of yours and now this? That's what I love about Assassin's Creed. You do a great job guys!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Ha! Thank you so much! Yes, we've been hardcore fans since 2009, we always try and focus on these aspects of the games as not so many other people and channels talk about them!

@squishevlz6187 3 года назад

isu is also a big mistery in ac origins with some very special audios about another civilisation and about time edit: you have to listen to the audios of ac origins there tons of informations about isu

@slickx82 3 года назад

This is next level awesome! Well done Access the Animus!!!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you so much!

@riteshmishra3773 3 года назад

I finally caught up with your lore analysis on Valhalla and man I am impressed with Valhalla even more. This is what Origins was missing after all the good story of Bayek, some deep lore and lore related events or story.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Oh wow, thanks for watching all of those videos! We have some more analyses coming up!

@mlhm4164 3 года назад

You deserve more Views and like, keep up the good work brother👊👊👊

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Hopefully those will come in time! Thank you so much!

@madrag_838 3 года назад

Great work guys!,you deserve a lot more recognition and i hope you do get it.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you! We do hope that too, in the meantime we'll keep putting our best effort in every video we create!

@BashDaGoat47 3 года назад

You prove how assassins creed never fell off topic like most people claim and you on point and you bring clarity to a lot of my own theories as a long time fan ! Good lookin bro

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you so much! We really try our best to help and show all the details that fans might have missed - and we've always been fans of code breaking so we had so much fun cracking this!

@JaggedFel621 3 года назад

For the final text and achievement translations, can the differences in "The" be that the "the weak" and "the strong" both refer to a plural/group subject, due to the inclusion of the plural suffix you pointed out earlier in the video, and the "The" in the achievement, which lacks that character, is referring to a singular subject?

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Yes, that's what we think too, the "^" character *may* indicate the plural in the article in the Stonehenge files, while it may be in its singular form in the achievement Good job though, we love seeing you guys getting the hang of this :D

@cornholio4049 3 года назад

Incredible, while playing I thought that someday someone would decode the script. And now I am here. Amazing, I applaud you.

@abuzaidkhan5773 3 года назад

you guys are awesome, you deserve more subscribers and I think ubisoft should chose you as the official representatives of assassins creed fan base.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Hahaha :D Thank you so much, it's all so much appreciated!

@diegomenjivar2024 3 года назад

"Fate is what the weak name their cowardice. The strong craft their own future"... Aletheia in Odyssey: "tell me, would this doomsday have appeared had you not pulled on the threads of the universe in the first place?"

@tristanbackup2536 2 года назад

That last sentence you mention. I wonder that the universe "fought back" or it sprung back at them not knowing the consequences of messing with the laws of physics because given how they can basically rewrite reality with their technology.

@RevoVansen 3 года назад

So Morrigan and Lug come from Irish Mythology! Since the next DLC is going into Ireland, do you think we'll be exploring Irish-Isu lore?

@jeremyprinzen5954 3 года назад

With the Stonehenge inscriptions being written by Lug the Polymath and Morrigan, I wonder if perhaps this'll have some connection to Wrath of the Druids, since both are gods in Irish mythology

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

B I N G O

@mirandagoldstine8548 3 года назад

Probably. Lug is known as a guardian deity of many professions and is said to possess many a legendary weapon including Fragarach, the sword of Nuada the silver-armed (so named because after he lost an arm he had it replaced with an arm made of silver made by Dian Cecht which in turn is replaced with a flesh and blood arm by Micah, Dian Cecht’s son). There’s a wealth of legendary weapons in Irish mythology that could be explained as being Isu artifacts in game and there are also the four cities the Tuatha de Dannan (the children or folk of Danu or Don) are said to have come from when they invaded Ireland. Those could be explained as being Isu settlements and perhaps we’ll get a mention of Hy-Brasil, a legendary and myth-shrouded island whose existence is debated. We had DLC revolving around Atlantis so who’s to say Hy-Brasil won’t get mentioned. Another weapon of Irish legend is the sword of light or Claíomh Soluis which is said to have come from one of the four cities of the Tuatha de Dannan.

@darklou91 3 года назад

Wow what an achievement ! Awesome !

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

It is indeed, at least as AC fans :P There were moments where we thought this could not be done but alas!

@la_garde_sombre 3 года назад

Very good jod access animus !! Keep up the very good work !!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Haha! Thank you very much! We shall do that for sure!

@lavin214 3 года назад

Clear as mud, I'm pretty sure my mind just melted. Its wild that the developers did this.

@CornballLyric 2 года назад

Absolutely amazing work. I loved seeing how you folks worked all this out. Incredibly well done and thank you very much.

@AccessAnimus 2 года назад

Hey The-Quiet-One! Thank you very much, I'm happy you enjoyed it!! 🥰

@edmaister 3 года назад

Bel lavoro filologico, video molto interessante che riesco a comprendere meglio anche grazie ai miei studi di linguistica e filologia. Ben fatto!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Oh wow, grazie! Assolutamente anche per noi sarebbe stato impossibile se alcuni di noi non avessero studiato almeno il latino (e come funzionano alcune delle lingue indoeuropee :P)

@altadorcupfanatic1 3 года назад

This is a lot to wrap my head around. May have to watch both videos twice! Excellent work!

@rcfbeto 3 года назад

OMG! Congrats Man! Awesome Work! Cheers from Brazil!

@12Keshan 3 года назад

You did a damn good job

@holly9096 3 года назад

This is absolutely brilliant. Never underestimate AC fans!!!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

NEVER

@rubenvanholder3108 3 года назад

Seeing this reminds me a lot of how old Greek is build up (conjugation of verbs and use of genitive similar suffixes to connect words etc) it makes a lot of sense that they tell us it was a “pre indo-European” language I think that if you compare the inner workings of languages like Greek latin Celtic Hebrew you will find a lot of similarities and extrapolating those mechanics to this “language” would give a lot of positive relations

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

That is indeed true, we used Latin because our admins who worked on the "language" had studied it in high school, but of course you can approach them starting from any kind of language :D

@byksEBM 3 года назад

Love these kind of videos, great channel!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you so much!

@BlackHermit 3 года назад

Wonderful! We need a Duolingo course for this language!

@ignacionunez4159 3 года назад

Watching this makes me want to pick up the game, I love when developers put puzzles like this into their game. I guess i'll just have to wait till it's on sale.

@isulibrary9986 3 года назад

I can't imagine the effort you put in this to decipher and present this to us. Fantastic job and kudos to Ubi for making this a thing. Actually how long did it take to make it?

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Haha! Thanks, that means a lot, especially coming from "The Isu Library" about an Isu language video :P The video itself took a few (almost full) days to do, but cracking the language... let's say that it took two of us since mid November until early January, every now and then :P At least 10-20 hours of comparative work over these 2 months? Maybe more?

@szewcc 3 года назад

this is so good

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

We aim to please :D

@92Nizo 3 года назад

To the text in minute 15: You assume the third word of the second line to be "workers", derived from the same root as "neighbour". But could it not also be possible that the word "site" is derived from "neighbour"? What, paying attention to the genitive rule, would rearrange that line to "worker-s construction-of site-from", or "workers from the construction's site"? (both examples omit the "of the lake" part for convenience) Just speculating here. I'm not that deep into the matter. By the way: Great work and great video! I find it very interesting and really appreciate your efforts. Keep on unpacking that language! Also, it would be interesting to have a video about the pronunciation :)

@pulpytonight 3 года назад

Kudos man that's definitely a crazy amount of time and dedication to deciphering! pretty sure there's also another secret thing that Darby mentioned that would only be deciphered with these and be able to unlock an item in game.

@jflamen 3 года назад

Y'all are seriously the best! If it makes y'all feel any better about your amazing work, just know that these vids have gotten me through some hard days, and Valhalla has been a great distraction from my chronic pain, so I sincerely thank you all. This vid delivered just as the rest have 💯

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Oh wow, you're going to make us cry... We're so very happy we were able to indirectly help you in such a troubled time ❤️ We'll strive to do our best to do even more, we promise ❤️

@jflamen 3 года назад

@@AccessAnimus Haha y'all are so sweet! You're already doing plenty so don't overwork yourselves please 😅, this is already more than I could ask for! Fantastic channel!

@thanatos_razl 3 года назад

I love this! I was trying to do this myself. Didn't get far cause I'm not exactly good at cryptography. But it is still a fun hobby. I've always loved the smaller and bigger pieces of the series regarding the Isu.

@TheDon7684 3 года назад

Holy moly! This is epic!! Good job guys!!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you Donnie! And thank you so much for always been there all these years!

@Weensho 3 года назад

I have to say, you sound like a young Sigurd.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Maybe the Yggdrasil experiment had more Sages planned to be born in the 20th century, I dunno :P

@Weensho 3 года назад

@byksEBM 3 года назад

@@Weensho maybe hes also from norway

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

@@byksEBM Hehe nopes, I'm from Italy :P (as half of our team is)

@byksEBM 3 года назад

@@AccessAnimus Very nice! 😊

@tystimyr 3 года назад

Awesome work, I'm impressed! Two linguistic remarks: A preposition behind a word is called a postposition. I think it is not so precise to call that case an Ablative since normally this is specifically for 'coming from something (locally or semantically)' (in Latin the meaning became way broader, but this is not generally so). Therefore, I would rather call it a Locative since all occurrances express some remark to a location (incl. the more abstract ON this day). In my view it is more likely that a Locative also takes over directive meanings (in absence of specific directive cases).

@DMPTC 3 года назад

the inscription on the audio disc is interesting, I would analyze the tracks in an audio spectogram, look for hidden isu messages in the songs, and use some Black light on the rest of the collectors edition components too

@josiahtheobald5084 3 года назад

I remember when the first civilization was awesome

@jackblack5393 Год назад

for the excalibur morrigan inscription, isnt "the" a bit different than the one from the achievement because it has the plural sign? That would indicate its referring to multiple subjects, so "The weak" - "the weak ones"

@slimghost2311 3 года назад

Bravi raga, un ottimo lavoro!

@SanTM 3 года назад

Great channel, great video! Nice work

@DrewTriebe 3 года назад

The ^ symbol appears to be a pluaraliser in all cases, so its appearance in 'the' on the Morrigan text appears to be a collective 'the' or 'them'.

@danigombos9663 3 года назад

this was a very fun watch, thank you!

@Arday60 3 года назад

This is really amazing, thank you for the effort and time.

@jcers 3 года назад

My brain is still recovering...

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Wow! Were you able to survive the entire video? That's pretty brave!

@jcers 3 года назад

@@AccessAnimus maybe if I watch it 3 more times, I’ll actually have processed everything, lol

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

@@jcers Hahah! It is actually unfair :P We had several hours and days to process all of this while you got it all crammed in 30 minutes!

@JoFoAKAForteen 3 года назад

25:42 this would mean that the article on the achievement is an article on a singular conjugation, and the one in the document is in plural; I say that because in languages like portuguese and spanish we change the articles to match the conjugation too like "the weak" in singular is "o fraco", and in plural would be "os fracos". (in portuguese)

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Yes indeed, it's the same way for us in Italian, we believe that the " ^ "symbol" in the article in the Stonehenge file is there to indicate it's plural :D

@jflamen 3 года назад

Maybe the "do" root in "when" can refer to "when" being used as in describing something that is certain to happen, or at least believed to happen? Also the ^ mark in "the" is when the noun after is plural I think

@bakunawa2242 3 года назад

I hope we'll have a website that translates the Isu language in the future!

@logang.2953 2 года назад

Can someone translate this english phrase into ISU? "We are what we choose to be." I'm trying to get a tattoo of this sentence on my arm encrypted in ISU, I've been trying to understand how to conjugate the symbols but I'm having difficulty.

@harikrishnans5024 3 года назад

Wow,You do so much work on this..hats off mentor

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you! Yes, we really did put everything we had in this!

@Zero_cool_G39 3 года назад

Amazing dedication

@lucascapelao 3 года назад

Shovels for shoveling. Axes for Axeling.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

And in Dark Ages England, Athe for Atheling

@IndovinoX 3 года назад

OMG! Amazing job guys ♥️

@teresiaputri5323 3 года назад

The tenses have similar structure as Korean as I remember. They both put prepositions and conjunctions close/integrated to the referred word, but after the subject and before the verb. Subject first, verb last. I may be wrong or used the wrong term since I'm not Korean, cmiiw. Anyway, great job 👍👍👍

@beasty_xboy7550 3 года назад

Now we only need to learn how to pronounce the words and to speak the language👍🏻👍🏻

@Mariam-uv6hh 3 года назад

Great video! Keep it up!

@HereticASSassin 3 года назад

What is Isu Lore= Easy it makes my head hurt🤯 / Amazing work i never thought that there was a real language behind this

@AmirJKhan2006 3 года назад

Darby sweating right now 😂😂😂🤡🤡🤡

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Hahah, we actually hope he's happy cause fans were able to solve this!

@SRosenberg203 3 года назад

What would be even funnier and cooler is if he didn't even plan it out this intricately, and now he's going to adopt the linguistic rules described in this video for the future.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

@@SRosenberg203 We do hope they keep using this language and these rules - otherwise it'd be somewhat of a waste, the devs that created this must have spent so much time in creating all the rules and making them work with each other

@SRosenberg203 3 года назад

@@AccessAnimus I hope so too. I can't wait for the next video!

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

@@SRosenberg203 Maybe you won't have to wait too much... if all the stars align 👀

@Ajnadain 3 года назад

Great work guys as always 👍

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Thank you so much Joel!

@ritabrataroychowdhury8958 3 года назад

Love your dedication. Juat wow

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Haha, thank you so much!

@buckleyplatt4665 3 года назад

Well done now im wondering if the soundtrack has a hidden track as well as if there are more things to translate in earlier installments

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Haha! We thought of potential stuff to translate in earlier installments, but they never gave us any anchor point to believe that those symbols actually held any meaning :)

@buckleyplatt4665 3 года назад

@@AccessAnimus you so need to! Id watch all of them even if they lead to nothing. If you do please start with the monolith that desmond stands near in ac3 while talking to juno in the Grande temple

@buckleyplatt4665 3 года назад

@@AccessAnimus also. Did you check other collectors editions to see if they had symbols?

@SRosenberg203 3 года назад

This is so fucking awesome, thank you for putting in what must have been countless hours of research and experimentation to figure all this out. I suppose these documents all come from the Norse Isu, correct? Which means that there might be language differences from written Isu documents we find in later games? What an excellent video, about an even more excellent game series.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Hey! Thank you so much for the compliments, indeed we put countless hours into our comparative work in order to make sense of all of that :P But it was so much fun, especially at every single tiny discovery ^^ So, we believe these are not only from the Norse Isu both because of the content of the various messages and also because of the locations where these inscriptions were found. For example, the Stonehenge files mention Morrigan and Lug the Polymath who are gods that actually belong to the Irish pantheon. The Saga Stone, instead, was originally placed at the entrance of the Yggdrasil Vault, so *that* was probably written by the Norse Isu. We believe that the reference to the ways the language was written by different Isu is placed in the game for two reasons: one is to justify how in several of the previous games players can find symbols that can be considered as Isu text (but they don't have any meaning) - we even wrote an article about it 3 years ago: www.accesstheanimus.com/GIN_Coded_Language_Isu.html. The other reason... well, we'll explain it in our next video :P

@SRosenberg203 3 года назад

@@AccessAnimus That's the best kind of work; when you also enjoy it. But just because you enjoyed doing it doesn't mean that you deserve any less praise for working hard and putting together a great product for your fans. Keep up the great work!

@shadowlord4277 3 года назад

Woah! That's amazing! It's good to know what do they mean. How much time did it cost to solve this mystery? Thank you for making this video!

@TheGameIsOverCy 3 года назад

I'm amazed ! Subscription well worth.

@hyrulehero101 2 года назад

This is hurting my brain I just need a translation tablet

@tobbcittobbcit8899 3 года назад

FKN AWESOME DONE!!! rlly hyped seing this non understandable thing getting solved truly is amazing EDIT: better fucking give the vid a like so it spreads

@waffle7210 2 года назад

Dude why do i immediately understand this incredible shit you guys are pulling of. But in Math i getting a fucking D - Streak?! Well done jeez

@AccessAnimus 2 года назад

Ahah Waffle!! You are in good company! I was the same and understanding the Isu language was so simple in comparison to equations and the likes! - Sary

@relaxedgamer93 3 года назад

Soon there will be a full alphabet to this beautiful language i do intend to learn and use it

@quanthai201 3 года назад

Can you make a video explain how asgard, jotunheim or nine realms exist in the AC universe? How other isu divide into different land. Is atlantic also included in the nine realms or is it just a different place? Jotunheim is how norse see the isu land of minerva, jupiter and juno. So how jotunheim is called in greek myth, roman, or the isu themselve? I thing how the isu in asgard see the isu in jotuheim as frost giant because they actually larger than those in asgard. For example those isu we have met (jupiter,juno, aletheia, etc..) are all larger than normal human while those in asgard has the same size as human.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Hey! We have touched upon this very topic in the second part of our analysis! You can find it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f3d1vDhtX6Y.html

@kazekagejichujisoo7838 3 года назад

Speed?

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Speed enough! And for a huge occasion like this one, you honor us Kage ❤️

@brokenbridge6316 3 года назад

I can see the super fans of this franchise wanting to know this language. And if they learn it. More power to them. But me. Hey I have enough trouble with language as it is.

@edo-teenseeei7228 3 года назад

I was hoping to found the words "nothing" , "everything" , "permitted" lol

@ethanlee2835 3 года назад

Absolutely. Fantastic.

@Alexignazio93 3 года назад

Vi siete veramente superati 👍

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Facciamo sempre del nostro meglio!

@Ish7923 3 года назад

Did u forget to mention that fulke’s saga stone has isu language on it?

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Hey the Boondocks Fan! Nope, the text on the saga stone is the one you can find in the "readme" file on Layla's laptop :) -Sary

@VacadoRay 3 года назад

Bout to start writing isu on everything.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

As you do

@raj0288 3 года назад

Nice

@FelixCrazzolara 3 года назад

Kudos!

@ikraikgaming 3 года назад

Is it rude to say I want the next video ASAP? As a famous artist would say "How Exciting" (Also it's canon that you should hug this artist)

@midknight9715 3 года назад

If I'm not mistaken it's actually a criminal offense to not hug him... or at least it should be.

@AccessAnimus 3 года назад

Sooooooooooooon

@matejklacik 3 года назад

I really dont know what are you talking about but good job bot you and developer

@areyoubigmadorlittle8144 3 года назад

I have a question might sound stupid but how do u think basm remembered his past life when he got the staff he said my love and on other youtube vids they were saying that it was lokis wife.

@fateweaver3 3 месяца назад

A. Henry said that there is more than one isu script and that the first civ was not monolithic. Is ther more than one isu language? Indo european doesn't equal afro asiatic. Is this issue going to be accounted for?

@pegasusu1094 3 года назад

Hey access the Animus! I know there is Transliteration too (from both text and voice lines) so is it possible to translate them into the actual Isu words? There has to be an alphabet because of the Transliteration. And with the Transliteration, we should be able to start speaking the language