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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Imperial Fister said:
When Steinarr starts speaking again, his voice is quiet, a near-silent whisper that has your ears straining, "She said that there's something in Vestfold for you, something that the amulet belongs with."
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Oh for fuck's sakes, we have to haul our house all the way to fucking Ireland? Seriously? Well, we've got the Catholics with us to guarantee some modicum of safe passage if we stick to the churchlands, but Vestfold is a blight on our good names. Still, god, just- urg. Next thing you know we're gonna have to participate in the Traditional Firebomb Tossing or somesuchshit, that or get suckered into a raiding expedition since the entirity of Eire is good for thraltaking.
 
Since it seems like you missed it.

I posted an anagram some time ago, in relation to runes. I don't think anyone figured it out or even recognized it was an anagram.

Well, it is.

Runes are often puzzles. While I can't visually represent it, I'll have to use alternative means to make puzzles. Like, for example, anagrams. I will be very disappointed if you use a website or machine to help you figure it out, and then tell me you used a machine or computer to do it.

If you're going to cheat, do it right.
 
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Hmm, one of the first bits of Wikipedia involved the Danes putting down the local rulers in Vestfold in 815. Given the Expanded Timescale, I wonder if Mom is a secret princess whose line fled the Danes?
 
Imperial Fister said:
Since it seems like you missed it.

I posted an anagram some time ago, in relation to runes. I don't think anyone figured it out or even recognized it was an anagram.

Well, it is.

Runes are often puzzles. While I can't visually represent it, I'll have to use alternative means to make puzzles. Like, for example, anagrams. I will be very disappointed if you use a website or machine to help you figure it out, and then tell me you used a machine or computer to do it.

If you're going to cheat, do it right.
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Uh.

I mean, I'm willing to give it a go, but that requires me to know where the Anagram's supposed to be. Though I have a few ideas, I remember something struck me as odd once... I'll see if I can find it again.

EDIT: No, that wasn't it. TBH, I'm not sure where to even begin to look for this, especially if Attention wasn't drawn to it. Was it in an update or one of your comments for instance? Because combing through Literally Every Post You've Made In This Thread looking for a specific word that's also an anagram for something else is... Uh, a thing.
 
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Alectai said:
EDIT: No, that wasn't it. TBH, I'm not sure where to even begin to look for this, especially if Attention wasn't drawn to it. Was it in an update or one of your comments for instance?
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Comment, stroll gone horribly wrong, I believe it was after the first update but I can't remember precisely
 
WELL THEN.

Okay, let's give this a go, thanks for catching that. Let's try to decode it!

I won't put it in an Anagram Solver, but I will look up a generic guide for solving them!
 
STEP ONE: Separate Vowels and Consonants.

DTBKCETAROFMAH

VOWELS: E, A, O, A,
CONSONANTS: D, T, B, K, C, T, R, F, M, H
 
It's all bunched together, so it's probably not multiple words. Vowels also almost certainly not next to each other.

There's a total of 14 characters. 4 of which are Vowels. O is almost certainly not the last letter though, E and A are plausible candidates though.
 
Now, what are logical words that can be made from this? Again, it's probably one word, because it's all grouped up together.

The characters for Track are absolutely in there, and it seems likely. That being said, that only accounts for five out of fourteen characters, which means we have 9 unaccounted for. That being said, as mentioned, Track can be formed from that. Let's try separating this out.

POSSIBLE WORD: TRACK
REMAINING VOWELS: E, A, O
REMAINING CONSONANTS: D, B, T, F, M, H
 
Checking for Suffixes... I don't see any way to form "Ing", "ed", and I don't see any way to form "And" for a conjunction, so this probably isn't a complicated multi-part command word either.

Notably, I don't see the letter R in here either, which seals off 'or' and other such words. So from what remains, I can't see any way to make sense of this if Track is part of it. So that's probably a red herring.
 
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Back to square one then.

VOWELS: E, A, O, A,
CONSONANTS: D, T, B, K, C, T, R, F, M, H

We know that whatever this is, it does not have the following words in it.

"Halla"
"Draugr"
"Abjorn"
"Steinarr"
"Horra"
"Track"

The characters to create them don't exist in this anagram.
 
I hope it's an English word. My Norse vocabulary is just slightly sub par.

Form? Core? Roam?
 
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Okay, let's try to simplify this, by establishing what letters are Not in the Anagram.

VOWELS: E, A, O, A,
CONSONANTS: D, T, B, K, C, T, R, F, M, H

LETTERS NOT USED: G, I, J, L, N, P, Q, S, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

So that's... 14 letters of the alphabet that are not used in this.

LETTERS THAT ARE USED TWICE: A, T,
LETTERS THAT ARE USED ONCE: E, O, D, B, K, C, R, F, M, H

There are a maximum of Four possible words in this phrase, but given it's 14 characters, chances are good it's in the range of 2 or 3, where the Vowels are distributed accordingly. One word is extremely unlikely, as there aren't a lot of 14 letter words that would make sense in this context.

So this is either 2 words with 7 letters in them each, 2 words with 4 letters and 1 with 5, or any similar comparison of it. Let me get out a dictionary...
 
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