It is no secret that my spouse is in love with a mutant. Yes, she’s one of those Nightcrawler groupies. She has been for years. Her one criticism of X2 was that there wasn’t enough Kurt Wagner in it.
The other thing she wasn’t thrilled with (though it wasn’t too bad) was the self-mutilation thing he had going on. In the comic, he’s got dark blue fur. In the movie, they changed it to dark blue skin with a bunch of angelic symbols he’d scarred onto himself – “One for every sin.”
She was hanging out at one of the fan sites, NightScrawlers (get it?), when she found evidence that the symbols are an actual form of writing, called Enochian. This is a language that supposedly came to a pair of alchemists in the 1500’s by way of the angel Gabriel. Pretty interesting stuff – especially if the filmmakers went so far as to research and use it properly with Nightcrawler.
Anyway, the point of this post is that she also found a nifty site that is devoted to various systems of writing, called Omniglot. It is packed with every sort of alphabet and writing system from Abkhaz to Younger Futhork. They even have 12480 (invented for use in the computer game Ecclemony). Here is the entry on Enochian.
What’s really cool is that the page for each alphabet or symbolic writing system has links to where you can download them as fonts.
Re-write the Gettysburg Address in Tagalog? No problem!
A report on the mating habits of carpenter ants done in Ogham? Piece of cake!
The sky’s the limit.
Well… they don’t have Pirillo font, but I’m sure that’s just because their experts are still trying to decipher it.
Oooh interesting. I’ve always been curious about Ogham becuase it’s supposedly the only form of written language the Celts used.
Ahh, fonts. Kim is addicted to ’em, and I like ’em, too! I downloaded hundreds a year or two back to assist in creating cool-looking documents for RPGs.
My computer will BURST if I add any more fonts!! Thanks alot Sol! Now you know I am going over there to check them out, don’t you?? :op
I am a wolverene fan, we shoud start a club your wife and I…
and they don’t have the one that Chris made of mine either 😛
*mwah*
Fegguck Yeggou.
Hi,
Thanks for all the info and she is not the only one who wishes that there was more of Kurt Wagner in the X2 movie. Also, there is a rumour of a X3 and X4 in the future but, fr now this is ony a rumour and nothing more.
Guten Tag!
Blue Wolf