Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-79.66.191.26-20160316021014

I was curious about the language on the parchment wrapped around the wonderstick, so I took a still of it to examine it further.

Read as it appears directly (ignoring any potential different languages other than English) what parts can be read read as; "he grew his fur(far)" which doesn't make much sense.

Judging from the script of the language, this is an Indo-European language, as what words can be glimpsed from the text don't have the distinctive strokes that a written language such as Hebrew, or the blocky lettering of Akkadian.

I do notice the 'A' on the last discernable word does look similar to a Latin 'A', but it's written in a uncial way, with rounded unjoined letters which is mostly found in 4th-8th century European manuscripts, however, while that fits the timeline of 'being before the crusade', if this thing has been in Constantinople for some time, then it would most likely be a language heavily used and relied upon around the area for business and trade, and has since gone extinct between the crusade in 1204 and 2016.

As Constantinople is right on the Bosphorus, where as part of the Byzantine Empire had a lot of commerce and imports coming into it, as well as loads of people as well because it was like the New York of its day. Or maybe more comparable to Rome, considering. Now the language that this potentially increases our list to includes; Lydian (which may include languages like Luwian Trojan), Carian, Lycian, Pisidian and Sidetic, as well as potentially various dialects of Greek (was used as a lingua franca for business and trading in the mediterranean in the heyday of Rome.)

Ideally, I want to believe that the script is written with a specific extinct language in mind. But I don't think that's a possibility and that it simply could be written in code (which will then have Nick and Monroe trying to translate the code to find out what the Wonderstick is from and what it does), or it could be written in some sort of cursive Enochian.

Thoughts, anyone? 