Deciphering Halo Infinite's Ancient Easter Egg 

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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!!!

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! :)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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.

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.

Never thought the ravings of a madman would be so entertaining

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.

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

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?"

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

Been looking forward to this!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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."

Amazing work holy cow I’m excited

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

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

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

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)

“Bias” could be an important keyword

Love this, you really got me invested

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

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.

You make doctor Halsey proud

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.

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

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.

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.

Keep doing this man🔥🔥

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

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

Imagine for the 15th anniversary of halo 3 bungie just straight up announces that it was gibberish

this dude deserves a minimum of 100k atleast in 2022

Love how he said a Degree in imaginary Archeology

I swear this "ancient text" was in one of the original halo 3 manuals as well

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

Seems like the actual literal mantle given to them by the precursors. Try Sumerian. The blocky choppiness reminds me of it, and it is literally the Ur language that really good fiction grabs hold of for its most important moment, like the songs Duel of Fates and that Matrix III ending.

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

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

What if after all this time it's just some forerunner prank. Like "something came in the mail for you today "

red, love the work you've put into these videos and honestly i respect it, keep up the great work, from a LORE HUNGRY HALO fan ^^ :)

The further we dig the deeper the hole

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.

Look for poetic keywords like Bungie's ship naming conventions, and the Covenant vehicles are named after supernatural phenomena, and human vehicles are named after animals. I also wouldn't get too set on this being a basic substitution cipher, it probably is, but we can't assume that.

Better than Christmas Morning! Thank you Santa Nomster!

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.

The whispers in the end feel like the words from grand edict in legendary ending.

I keep thinking to when the Librarian was talking to Chief about his, "Gene Song". I'm not 100% this. But what if you're supposed to, "play" the song? What if it's "music"? Music is very structured and has patterns. 3/4 timing. 16ths. Rhyming schemes. ABBABAAB. Beats from lines as spoken, like a Haiku, has 5 7 5. 3 6 6 3. ... 3 4 3.

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.

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

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.

This is amazing work, man.

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!

Thought, maybe the corruption segments are like cartouches.

love this series

Hats off to you Lad, this is some DEDICATION

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

Amazing work! I am so invested in this now

It feels great to get in on a mystery right at the start.

“It must be done, we have no choice” Sounds like someone at a counsel speaking then the text deciphered looks like at some parts says “as they go leading in the universe. Showing its ants to what comes” idk just looking at the evidence that was presented and putting 2 and 2 together