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Hidden Cipher in the Capitalized Words of the Chandrian Passage

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A Wise Man's Fear passage about the Chandrian has oddly capitalized words that might encode a secret hidden message.

About: The Chandrian

Also involves: The Archives

The theory§

A passage about the Chandrian in The Wise Man's Fear, drawn from a handwritten two-hundred-year-old octavo titled A Quainte Compendium of Folke Belief, contains words capitalized against modern convention, prompting the theory that the irregular capitals encode a hidden cipher or message. The weight of analysis runs against a true code: the capitalized terms are overwhelmingly nouns, consistent with the looser orthography of older texts that capitalized for emphasis much as a film script fully capitalizes a key prop. Etymological work weakens it further, since 'Chandrian' means 'seven of them' in Temic and the capitalization patterns track that nounal style rather than a concealed sentence. A related and better-supported observation surfaces in passing: written Chandrian lore is conspicuously scarce in the Archives, while children's songs and unexpurgated plays preserve far more, suggesting the Archives suppress such material while oral tradition escapes the purge.

Evidence§

  • In the second book, there's this passage about the Chandrian. Something that always bothered me when reading it is the random capitalized words. … Do you think there could be a secret message hidden in there?
    OP's core claim: random capitalizations in the passage may hide a secret message. — u/Ramza-Metabee
  • Master using a combination of the playfair cipher, substitution cipher and the Vigenère cipher, I think it says: … book 3 is never coming out.
    CounterJoke decryption mocking the cipher premise; top-voted but non-serious. — u/-Ninety-
  • unconventional capitalization was actually a fairly common feature in older texts. … It seemed to be used for emphasis, similar to how movie SCRIPTS will fully capitalize words indicating a key character or prop.
    CounterCounter: capitalization is period orthography for emphasis, not a code. — u/DanielNoWrite
  • It seems to be mostly nouns, I would attribute it to an old text.
    CounterCounter: capitalized words are mostly nouns, consistent with old-text style. — u/donkeybubbles101
  • I don't think we can extract information from the capitalization. But it is telling that there is very limited "written" information about the Chandrain. … children's songs and metaphors within unexpurgated plays seem to carry more information around the Chandrian. … the archives is in cahoots with limiting information about the Chandrian while word of mouth songs and plays are a less overserved or purged version
    CounterRefines: rejects cipher but raises better-supported Archives-suppression observation. — u/Sandal-Hat
  • It was in a handwritten octavo titled A Quainte Compendium of Folke Belief. At my best guess, the book was two hundred years old
    Context: identifies the source text's age, supporting the old-orthography explanation. — u/chainsawx72
  • A lot of the things Denna says/writes also end up with random capitalised words. … it may just strengthen the theory that she is somehow involved with the Chandrian.
    Adds: same capitalization quirk appears in Denna's writing, possible Chandrian link. — u/Coriander_marbles

Book refs: WMF

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