Isu script
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- "The walls told us of your coming. When we once were. Look at them. Are they not fascinating?" […] "These walls tell of a tragic story. A story we transcribed on our structures, on our artifacts. The stories written into the walls of these rooms. By whom, we never knew."
- ―The Messenger, 48 BCE.[src]

The Isu script was a system of writing employed by the Isu.
Often used to decorate various Isu complexes and technologies, the script was used to tell the history of the Isu.[1] To this end, the script could be found written into the walls and floors of various locations and was often interspersed with other symbols.[2][3][4]
Despite its fall from use following the Great Catastrophe and the near-extinction of the Isu, the script continued to be recognised and used in a symbolic manner by a number of humans. Nostradamus notably used a number of characters from the Isu script to hide his Enigmas through Paris during the 16th century.[5]
At least one document written in the Isu script, the Voynich manuscript,[6] survived up to at least the 19th century.[7]
By 2020 more examples of Isu script had been found across the world with there being some success in translating a few fragments of it as seen in the efforts of Assassin Antony Henry.
Behind the scenes
- It is unknown whether the Isu script is an alphabet or logogram (i.e. whether each symbol represents a letter, individual phonemes, or a single word), but it is similar in look and style to cuneiform, the earliest known written script.
Gallery
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Oun-mAa Niye Ressoot adorned with script
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Script in the activated Qeneb.too Kah'Aiye
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Isu script in the Grand Temple
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Script on the ceiling of the Vatican Vault
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Script inside the Pythagorean Vault in Rome
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Script on the pedestal within the Pythagorean Vault
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Script on pillars in the Chichen Itza Temples
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Isu script appearing on Desmond Miles' arm, 2012
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Script on the mould of the Spear of Leonidas within the Ancient Forge
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Isu script on a piece of ceramic found in Jerusalem
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Isu script on a tablet found in Qobustan, Azerbaijan
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed II (first appearance)
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Rogue (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Brahman (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Locus (Voynich manuscript)
- Assassin's Creed: Unity
- Assassin's Creed: Origins
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
References