I've been trying to figure out the different alphabets they use in XIII, and I'm not having much luck. The hints I've been looking at so far?
1. The stores. When you first click on them, they have this little animation, right? With the store name. It's legible if you already know what it says, but they're not really the Roman alphabet, just close. Problem is, not all of them look like they're the
same alphabet, either. A few of them look like completely different languages, so I'm wondering if they made up a bunch of different ones, all for the game.
2. This. (
Screenshot from Chapter 12! No major spoilers except a new proper noun mentioned, but might not want to look anyway.) So anyway, what's written here is being narrated, but in this case, it's clearly not a straight cipher. There aren't enough letters. The first word looks like it could be Cocoon, but I can't make much sense of the rest. I'm wondering if it might be like it is in Tales of Eternia, where they kind of fudge things in Melnics, probably
because they don't expect anyone to actually try and figure it out for time and space constraints. I don't really think Squenix would do that, but... don't know what else it could be.
3. The little sentence or so on the back of the strategy guide... the collector's edition, anyway. I've seen no other mentions of the writing in the guide, unfortunately, and I've no idea what that text says...
4. In-game signs and stuff. Those look the same as the back-of-the-guide text, but not the screenshot text.
So, um... basically I have no idea how this works so far, but I'm determined to figure it out. I haven't found anything else online about it, which I'm surprised about, but maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. Anyone have any clues that I'm missing?
Particularly really obvious ones I'm going to hate myself for mssing? 
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