I wasn't really sure where to put this, but since I was going to use it for a somewhat artistic intent, I decided to post it here. Does anyone know what rune font the border of the Diablo boxes is done in?
Somehow I doubt it's something you'd be able to download. I wish I could help more. It does look really cool though. What would also be cool is if I could get the actual characters of the runes in the game into a font.
Honestly I never realized it was a font untill I made some boxarts and then was told that I butchered the words up. I then looked at the boxarts and was quite supprised... I figured they were just generic runes...
The diablo boxes don't use runes, well not runes in the Viking/Tolkein sense. it's latin. Runes are generally symbols, those words are (fairly) legible, Malum Superest, or in English, Evil over or Evil's end, I think, my latin is a little rusty, well just on the word Superest, it's one of those annoying words that has several different meanings in Latin, Malum is easy, means Evil.
I haven't seen the font downloadable anywhere yet, but when it is, assuming I do not do it first, would someone care to post it up here, thank you.
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The diablo boxes don't use runes, well not runes in the Viking/Tolkein sense.
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Runes are generally symbols, those words are (fairly) legible, Malum Superest, or in English, Evil over or Evil's end, I think, my latin is a little rusty, well just on the word Superest, it's one of those annoying words that has several different meanings in Latin, Malum is easy, means Evil.
Runes are like another language, if your talking about real runes. But nothing in fantasy games/books are based on real history, so yea...
those words are (fairly) legible, Malum Superest, or in English, Evil over or Evil's end, I think, my latin is a little rusty, well just on the word Superest, it's one of those annoying words that has several different meanings in Latin, Malum is easy, means Evil.
I used a translator a while back. It came up with something that I interpreted to be 'Evil Is Upon You'. Makes more sense and sounds cooler than Evil Is Over, because when you first buy the game evil is only beginning. But I could be wrong, it is only a translator afterall.
Superest does mean 'Upon' yes. So Evil upon, or Evil's Upon you does make sense.
The line is only two words, so you can't really tell which tense it is in, which would usually dictate which meaning for Superest you use.
Still latin isn't quite as bad as French is, to me. Goddamn 9 tenses. What the hell is 'Future Past' tense?
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
LOL, French has nine tenses!? Wow. haha, future past tense. "I was in the future"? "I did do this tomorrow"? Instead of "I will be in the future" and "I will do this tomorrow"?
I figured it meant 'Evil is upon you' rather than just 'evil upon' because the phrase Memento Mori is translated to 'Remember you are mortal'. The two latin phrases kind of seem similar, so I made their translation similar too.
Wow, I like how I posted this a week ago and got all the replies within two days, lol. Yeah, I see the latin thing now. Before I was thinking it was a scroll of runes, but apparently you have to read it sideways on the box cover to get it right. Silly me
Latin appears somewhat often in the Diablo series.The manuals, especially the Diablo 1 manual, are full of it. The various denizens of Hell have a latin name, like we give species of animal and plants here on earth.
Also at one point, in Diablo: Hellfire, the character you play as, speaks the line Inspritu Sanctum.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Sorry for necroing this thread. I thought I should clarify since this is one of the first Google results for "malum superest". If anyone else google's this phrase like I did, I figure they should find the correct answer.
"malum superest" means something like either "evil is still alive"/"evil remains" or "evil abounds"/"evil is abundant".
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Huh? I was just saying that I thought it was just pictures, not actually letters/words.
I don't know if it's a font that is/has been used for other things...
I haven't seen the font downloadable anywhere yet, but when it is, assuming I do not do it first, would someone care to post it up here, thank you.
Off topic: Tolkein's a worthless hack. (And no, not using the term "hack" in a computer sense.)
Runes are like another language, if your talking about real runes. But nothing in fantasy games/books are based on real history, so yea...
I used a translator a while back. It came up with something that I interpreted to be 'Evil Is Upon You'. Makes more sense and sounds cooler than Evil Is Over, because when you first buy the game evil is only beginning. But I could be wrong, it is only a translator afterall.
The line is only two words, so you can't really tell which tense it is in, which would usually dictate which meaning for Superest you use.
Still latin isn't quite as bad as French is, to me. Goddamn 9 tenses. What the hell is 'Future Past' tense?
I figured it meant 'Evil is upon you' rather than just 'evil upon' because the phrase Memento Mori is translated to 'Remember you are mortal'. The two latin phrases kind of seem similar, so I made their translation similar too.
Also at one point, in Diablo: Hellfire, the character you play as, speaks the line Inspritu Sanctum.
Sorry for necroing this thread. I thought I should clarify since this is one of the first Google results for "malum superest". If anyone else google's this phrase like I did, I figure they should find the correct answer.
"malum superest" means something like either "evil is still alive"/"evil remains" or "evil abounds"/"evil is abundant".