Magical Script Sigil

Write the intent in a magical alphabet rather than compressing it: the substitution itself is the concealment.

Origin

Europe

Era

13th–16th century

Summary

Write the intent in a magical alphabet rather than compressing it: the substitution itself is the concealment.

Steps

Write the sentence plainly.Substitute each letter for its character in the chosen script.Set the result as a single line or a device rather than as readable cursive — the scripts are alphabets, so a plain transcription is a substitution, not a sigil.Add the character for the intent's planet or element where the script has one.

Requires

the sentencethe script's table

Deterministic

true

Renderable

Fully mechanical: substitution plus layout. This is the easiest method to render faithfully, because the table is the whole method.

Caveats

A substitution cipher conceals a readable sentence; it does not compress it. Whether that is a sigil at all depends on the theory of the operator, and the traditions that use these scripts used them to write, not to conceal intent from themselves.

Keywords

ThebanCelestialpassing the riverAlphabet