Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-34600037-20200307022815/@comment-31763506-20200307033648

It's probably gibberish, although I did post a facetious recording of what it would sound like when spoken aloud.

https://sndup.net/9nf4/TLS+Ch+5+Wandering+Chosen+Recording.wav

If you compare it to the encrypted texts of "Dariese", you'll see some key differences. First is that it looks like all 26 letters and 10 digits are used in the three samples of the "code", there are 34 distinct characters in the 3rd screenshot, not counting differences from upper and lower case, so it's impossible for it to be any kind of alphabetic substitution cipher with a 1 to 1 correspondence. If it were such a cipher of an English language text, the hard limit on the number of characters used would be 26. The frequency with which the letters and numbers appear is also inconsistent with a substitution cipher on English text. I copied the three Chosen "paragraphs" into a simple alphanumeric frequency counter. "H" is the most common of the 344 characters, occurring 22 times. The conversations between Dari and the dudes in Ghenalon have 417 characters in which the most frequent is "R" at 66 times. "E" is the most frequent letter in English text and non-coincidentally "R" = "E" in the rot13 substitution. Lastly, the spacing of the words in the chosen texts implies too many ridiculously long words. There are 36 spaces in the 344 characters giving an average word length of 9.6. There are 93 spaces in the Dari conversations totaling 417, an average word length of 4.5.

So there's a very strong presumption that it isn't any kind of direct character substitution, and if it's any kind of cipher at all, it's one where the spaces are either part of the code or added randomly to cause confusion.

Does that mean that it ISN'T a cipher? No. But the Dari stuff was in rot13, which is about as simple as codes get. So you have to ask yourself which is more likely, that SL took the time to find a significantly more advanced encryption method with a complex key she knew we'd have no means of guessing; or that she just used a random noise text generator to troll us?