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2011-10-14T16:27:19Z

FontAnon: Created page with "I was wondering, where did this rune come from? --~~~~"

I was wondering, where did this rune come from? --[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 16:27, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Witch Runes

2011-10-14T16:17:13Z

FontAnon: Back to the normal Y.

[[File:Runes_chart_expanded.gif|thumb|A reference sheet displaying runic alphabets.]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==
[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

You can find the full discussion (900 posts long!) in threads [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290 #21], [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44790618 #22] and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44797549 #23]

===Trivia===
*The runes are an original art by Inu Curry.
*During the [[Aniplex USA Madoka Premiere]], production staff was very surprised when overseas fans cracked the runes. It was stated that even obsessive Japanese fans had not gone that far.

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough, work-in-progress reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets as they were being deciphered.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The most common variant is known as archaic and it is presumably the main set from which others are based on. The modern variant is a simplified version of the runes and corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores and many of the runes are quite different in structure.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
| [[File:Modern Q.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
| [[File:Modern F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
| [[File:Modern W.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
| [[File:Archaic X.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
| [[File:Modern Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
| [[File:Modern Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß(ẞ)
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Unidentified
|
| [[File:Archaic_unidentified.svg|95x95px]]
|
!
|
|
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
| [[File:Runes_6.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
| [[File:Runes_7.svg|90x90px]]
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
| [[File:Runes_8.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Opening|Opening]]
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Runes:Novel|Novel]]
**[[Runes:Kazumi Magica|Puella Magi Kazumi Magica]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]
**[[Madoka_Magica_Café#Runes|Madoka Café, promotional uses]]
**[[Runes:Tiro Finale Book|Tiro Finale Book]]

==Extras==
At first, a custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak. Afterward, lots of other scripts appeared here and there.

=== Fonts ===

==== Archaic and Modern Font ====

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?t180ctwv3xvnt9m Download TTF font] (Last Update: 09-22-2011 - Modern F, Q, W, Y, Z + new special characters and extra diacritical marks for typing other languages + fixes.)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]

The archaic version of letters can be accessed by using uppercase letters, the modern variant is on lowercase letters.

==== Musical Font ====

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

==== Other Fonts ====

These fonts have been found on external sites and have not been created by wiki contributors.

*[http://www.jarchive.org/akami/aka063.html Madoka Font] (used for the logo and other material)
*[http://hwm3.gyao.ne.jp/shiroi-niwatori/nkf10_magicum_comicum_crassum.zip Comicum Crassum] (a fanmade "comic" runic font). [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=18599749 More information (Japanese)]
*[http://hwm3.gyao.ne.jp/shiroi-niwatori/nkf11_magicum_texturae.zip Texturae], a fanmade "gothic" version of the archaic runes). [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=18854083 More information (Japanese)]
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3949789/MadokaLetters.ttf Madoka Letters], a fanmade font based on MadokaRunes, with rune-style Latin and Cyrilic letters (made by -v- using MadokaRunes). [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3949789/madoka_letters.png Example]

==== Special Characters ====

[[File:Anja A.svg|thumb|right|95x95px|Stylized A.]]

Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, #, *, ^ and &. Archaic ß can be accessed using this character: ẞ (uppercase ß(U+1E9E), not included in all browsers; copypasting the character should do the trick though).

=== Scripts ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

==== GreaseMonkey ====
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script for 4chan] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script for 4chan] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)

To use GreaseMonkey scripts:

#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

==== Runes translators ====
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

The runic fonts are embedded on this wiki via CSS. This should make the fonts visible without installing them in the operating system, and is confirmed to work with recent versions of [http://www.mozilla.com Firefox], [http://www.opera.com Opera] and [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome]. If you have trouble seeing the runes, update your browser or install the font files ([[#Archaic and Modern Font|MadokaRunes.ttf]] and [[#Musical Font|MadokaMusical.ttf]]) on your system.

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

File:Modern Y.svg

2011-10-14T16:04:48Z

FontAnon: uploaded a new version of "File:Modern Y.svg": Zoomed in here: :File:BD_6_SS_01.jpg, there's a clear view of the rune and there's no line.

Talk:Witch Runes

2011-09-22T20:29:06Z

FontAnon: /* The Shape of Archaic Rune O and Ö */

== Old stuff ==
This is a temporary layout. The translated parts should be displayed in a table or something; like one column for the screencap, one for the transcription/translation, and one for additional notes and speculah [[User:Homerun-chan|--[[Homerun-chan]]]] 12:45, 19 January 2011 (CST)
:Archaic 'L' and modern 'I' are the same. Archaic 'I' should be changed. [[User:Commie|Commie]] 06:30, 20 January 2011 (CST)

The rune font is pretty awesome. One improvement could be tho, that it could probably be adjusted better to the full height, instead of x-height. --[[User:Piparkaq|Piparkaq]] 03:25, 21 January 2011 (CST)

Just wondering, why are there some parts in bold? If there is a particular reason (which I guess there is, there's no way shaftfags would do things randomly), then it should be explained somewhere (right before the chart maybe) --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 11:54, 21 January 2011 (CST)

== 2011 ==

How does 5 symbols translate into 2011? No matter how I look at it, it absolutely cannot be 2011. If you must insist into making it "numerical runes", then it's something like 22*11 Voting for revert. [[User:Mic2070|Mic2070]] 00:55, 22 January 2011 (CST)

2 is actually the 0-0 thing seen in the screencap. It's one symbol. I think some in a recent thread have been looking at the barcodes present in the mami mogu mogu box and the bottles, and analyzing the barcodes for their numbers. [[User:Holycrap|Holycrap]] 01:07, 22 January 2011 (CST)
:Ok, I saw it. I'm currently catching up on the threads, sorry. I'll add that to the image's description, because it's really subtle [[User:Mic2070|Mic2070]] 01:10, 22 January 2011 (CST)

== Image dump ==

WIP image dump --[[User:0x99|0x99]] 01:45, 22 January 2011 (CST)
:Why don't we agree that the 3rd rune shown is 2? It appears in the "Prolog Im Himmel 2011" shot too, so it's consistent --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 17:03, 31 January 2011 (CST)

<gallery>
File:Runes_numbers.png|Work-in-progress deciphering of number runes
File:Ellycountdown.jpg|The runes flashing on Elly's screen look like a countdown showing the runes for the numbers 4 and 3.
File:Runenumbers.JPG|The runes for 0-6 as well as Q and X.
File:E11MadokaQbey.jpg|Clear version of Q
File:runes678.jpg
</gallery>

== Musical runes ==
Seems like the musical runes are made up of "real" musical notation parts. Going to make a set of the elements to make it easier to make the runes. --[[User:Piparkaq|Piparkaq]] 09:16, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

== Cross Review ==
[[File:Cross_review_runes.jpg|thumb]]
Edit: no new runes [[User:Prima|Prima]] 10:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

== IE9 TTF support ==

It seems IE9 will not render a TTF font located on the web, unless it's "allowed to serve it from a web server", in order to avoid license problem.
Does any people know how to fix it and make it shown properly under IE9?
--[[Special:Contributions/113.140.78.26|113.140.78.26]] 14:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
:Someone just fixed it?--[[Special:Contributions/113.140.78.26|113.140.78.26]] 16:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

== X and Q ==
Forgive my curiosity, but I'm wondering where the "X" and "Q" runes appeared in the anime. -- [[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 12:51, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
:They appear in the OP, in the scene where Madoka transforms with the assist of the other pink-haired girl. From ep2 onwards, there are runes floating all around the transformation bubble. Ep6 is best for inspection, thanks to its background color alternation (some shots have darker background that way). Apparently someone inspected that scene veeeery closely <s>and found two unidentified runes. How did he conclude which of them is Q and which is X, remains a mystery to me.</s> and found that some runes are spinning and fading into each other in alphabetical order. It's even pointed out in the ''"The runes for 0-6 as well as Q and X."'' image above. --[[User:KFYatek|KFYatek]] 13:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
:: Oh! Can't believe I missed that! Thanks! -- [[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 15:02, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

== Q Rune ==
Now that we've gotten a good look at the Q rune, is someone going to add it to the page, and/or the ttf? [[Special:Contributions/74.100.21.198|74.100.21.198]] 04:52, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
:I'll probably do it later today. --[[User:KFYatek|KFYatek]] 15:29, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
::NVM, [[User:FontAnon]] made it already. Now just use the new version as the embedded font... --[[User:KFYatek|KFYatek]] 22:05, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

== Other fonts ==

Randomly found on Twitter, [http://www.jarchive.org/akami/aka063.html Madoka font] (i.e. the font for the logo and stuff) --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 22:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Runic fonts found on Pixiv. [http://hwm3.gyao.ne.jp/shiroi-niwatori/nkf10_magicum_comicum_crassum.zip Comicum Crassum] [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=18599749 Information(Japanese)]; [http://hwm3.gyao.ne.jp/shiroi-niwatori/nkf11_magicum_texturae.zip Texturae] [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=18854083 Information(Japanese)] [[Special:Contributions/140.129.20.212|140.129.20.212]] 06:34, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
:Oh f... that Texturae font is epic. --[[User:KFYatek|kFYatek]] 09:21, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
:Amazing. The Texturae font distinguishes ß's lower and upper case. Our main font treats lower case ß as Archaic and doesn't support its upper case. How about putting "Modern Runic ß" on "capital ß (U+1E9E)?" [[Special:Contributions/58.115.51.125|58.115.51.125]] 05:43, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
::I'm not familiar with this letter, so I didn't know there's a capital ß, thanks for the info. Added it in the runic font.--[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 21:07, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
:::It was only added recently in the standards (2008). Since ß is never used at the start of a word, the uppercase form is only used in all-caps words, where it is usually replaced by SS. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%BA%9E -- 16:49, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
::::Just what I saw. The capital ß in the runes' page is replaced by SS. An "SS" but a SINGLE character. It changed to its original form after being copied into MS Word. [[Special:Contributions/140.129.20.212|140.129.20.212]] 06:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Added a Latin/Cyrilic font. It gives the feel of runes but can be read. [[Special:Contributions/109.205.249.121|109.205.249.121]] 19:38, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

== Handwritten MadokaRunes ==

<gallery>
File:Madokarune prima.jpg|Prima's madokarune
File:Madokarune stuf.jpg|Piparkaq's madokarune
File:Madokarune neo.jpg|Homerun-chan's madokarune
</gallery>
[[user:Piparkaq]] and I have been working on a script version of madokarunes. Has anyone else been giving it a shot? - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 07:36, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
:Looks like [http://twitpic.com/50rnx9 some twitter dude] did. Anyway I'll give it a try too since I don't have anything better to do today ... --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 11:37, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
::Oh shit, you're onto my second twitter account! Σ(ﾟДﾟ) --[[User:Piparkaq|Piparkaq]] 06:46, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
:::Yeah, I noticed it when you posted your link on the IRC yesterday. Well that explains the Yuno-anthony avatar --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 08:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
::Wow, someone was bored in class. Though it's only normal, Kazumi and half the other pages I started were written by hand in class as well :P --[[User:BrickBreak|BrickBreak]] 11:51, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Addin my share with the runes I tried this morning. Most of the time, we can consider the modern and archaic runes to be coming from a common "ancestor", so I tried to do something in-between (just like prima and Piparkaq actually). Most of the time you end up with either version by writing faster (i.e. miswriting the circles, closing parts that shouldn't be, etc.) --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 18:27, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

== Greasemonkey Script ==

The Greasemonkey Script is quite out of date. It accesses alphabets by the early deciphering table which has a mistake on runic W. [[Special:Contributions/118.160.144.123|118.160.144.123]] 10:14, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

== Madokarune: Numerials ==

[[File:Carsalesman_numerials.jpg]]

Stumbled upon this on reddit and immediately noticed some similarity between this and madokarune, even if it wasn't one-to-one correspondence.

Roughly, the madokarune matrix is appx

* 1, 2, 4 {{runes|1, 2, 4}}
* 3, 7, 8 {{runes|3, 7, 8}}
* 6, 9, 5 {{runes|6, 9, 5}}

The only odd-rune-out is 9. Maybe I am overthinking this, when is OST2 coming out? - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 22:36, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

== Typos ==
"Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words."

I would bet on being a mistake since Japanese people tend to misspell western words often in anime. Evidences: http://anime.thenexxus.org/engrish/ (You can easily find more) --[[Special:Contributions/79.145.233.35|79.145.233.35]] 00:26, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
:All of the spelling errors occurred during transcription from German into runes. If you look at those German sentences in the [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/File:Productionnotetrans.jpg production notes], they are spelled correctly. --[[User:Kureru|Kureru]] 02:06, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

== The Shape of Archaic Rune O and Ö ==

Through the BD version, we can see clearly that runic O(archaic) is like a reversed S. Will you fix it or just keep the current ʔ-shape? [[Special:Contributions/118.167.38.35|118.167.38.35]] 16:59, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
:Yeah, the current vector is kind of off. You can see the rune really clearly in [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/File:Oprunes8.jpg this shot from the OP], and it's a single S-shaped stroke rather than the two we currently have. [[User:Neuchadjinys|Neuchadjinys]] 23:22, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
::Oh, um, also, the archaic B and C vectors look much smoother than the actual runes do. Those should probably be fixed too, if it isn't too much trouble. [[User:Neuchadjinys|Neuchadjinys]] 23:24, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
:::Well, let's make a list, then. It'd be great if someone could fix them. Feel free to add more. --[[User:TATZL|TATZL]] 17:45, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
::::Fixed archaic O, modern T and modern Y. I'll work in archaic B and C and update the font in a while.--[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 19:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
::::Fixed archaic B and C. Font updated. --[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 20:29, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

{| class="wikitable todo" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Rune
! Current vector
! Example of revision
! Problem/Explanation
|-
|class="done"| B (Archaic)
|[[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
|
|Vector looks much smoother than the actual rune
|-
|class="done"| C (Archaic)
|[[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
|
|Vector looks much smoother than the actual rune
|-
|class="done"| O (Archaic)
|[[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
|[[File:Oprunes8.jpg|95x95px]]
|The rune should have a reversed 'S'-shape.
|-
|class="done"| T (Modern)
|[[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
|[[File:BD_6_SS_01.jpg|95x95px]] (Bottom left, in in the word "not")
|rowspan="2"|They look a bit off
|-
|class="done"| Y (Modern)
|[[File:Modern Y.svg|95x95px]]
|[[File:BD_6_SS_01.jpg|95x95px]] (Bottom left, in in the word "you")
|-
! Ä (Musical)
|rowspan="4"|Currently, the runes are missing
|rowspan="4"|[[File:Runes_chart_expanded.gif|95x95px]]
|rowspan="4"|ÄÖÜ should look like their normal counterpart with two dots, while ß looks like an upside-down B
|-
! Ö (Musical)
|-
! Ü (Musical)
|-
! ß (Musical)
|}

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== Old stuff ==
This is a temporary layout. The translated parts should be displayed in a table or something; like one column for the screencap, one for the transcription/translation, and one for additional notes and speculah [[User:Homerun-chan|--[[Homerun-chan]]]] 12:45, 19 January 2011 (CST)
:Archaic 'L' and modern 'I' are the same. Archaic 'I' should be changed. [[User:Commie|Commie]] 06:30, 20 January 2011 (CST)

The rune font is pretty awesome. One improvement could be tho, that it could probably be adjusted better to the full height, instead of x-height. --[[User:Piparkaq|Piparkaq]] 03:25, 21 January 2011 (CST)

Just wondering, why are there some parts in bold? If there is a particular reason (which I guess there is, there's no way shaftfags would do things randomly), then it should be explained somewhere (right before the chart maybe) --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 11:54, 21 January 2011 (CST)

== 2011 ==

How does 5 symbols translate into 2011? No matter how I look at it, it absolutely cannot be 2011. If you must insist into making it "numerical runes", then it's something like 22*11 Voting for revert. [[User:Mic2070|Mic2070]] 00:55, 22 January 2011 (CST)

2 is actually the 0-0 thing seen in the screencap. It's one symbol. I think some in a recent thread have been looking at the barcodes present in the mami mogu mogu box and the bottles, and analyzing the barcodes for their numbers. [[User:Holycrap|Holycrap]] 01:07, 22 January 2011 (CST)
:Ok, I saw it. I'm currently catching up on the threads, sorry. I'll add that to the image's description, because it's really subtle [[User:Mic2070|Mic2070]] 01:10, 22 January 2011 (CST)

== Image dump ==

WIP image dump --[[User:0x99|0x99]] 01:45, 22 January 2011 (CST)
:Why don't we agree that the 3rd rune shown is 2? It appears in the "Prolog Im Himmel 2011" shot too, so it's consistent --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 17:03, 31 January 2011 (CST)

<gallery>
File:Runes_numbers.png|Work-in-progress deciphering of number runes
File:Ellycountdown.jpg|The runes flashing on Elly's screen look like a countdown showing the runes for the numbers 4 and 3.
File:Runenumbers.JPG|The runes for 0-6 as well as Q and X.
File:E11MadokaQbey.jpg|Clear version of Q
File:runes678.jpg
</gallery>

== Musical runes ==
Seems like the musical runes are made up of "real" musical notation parts. Going to make a set of the elements to make it easier to make the runes. --[[User:Piparkaq|Piparkaq]] 09:16, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

== Cross Review ==
[[File:Cross_review_runes.jpg|thumb]]
Edit: no new runes [[User:Prima|Prima]] 10:12, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

== IE9 TTF support ==

It seems IE9 will not render a TTF font located on the web, unless it's "allowed to serve it from a web server", in order to avoid license problem.
Does any people know how to fix it and make it shown properly under IE9?
--[[Special:Contributions/113.140.78.26|113.140.78.26]] 14:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
:Someone just fixed it?--[[Special:Contributions/113.140.78.26|113.140.78.26]] 16:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

== X and Q ==
Forgive my curiosity, but I'm wondering where the "X" and "Q" runes appeared in the anime. -- [[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 12:51, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
:They appear in the OP, in the scene where Madoka transforms with the assist of the other pink-haired girl. From ep2 onwards, there are runes floating all around the transformation bubble. Ep6 is best for inspection, thanks to its background color alternation (some shots have darker background that way). Apparently someone inspected that scene veeeery closely <s>and found two unidentified runes. How did he conclude which of them is Q and which is X, remains a mystery to me.</s> and found that some runes are spinning and fading into each other in alphabetical order. It's even pointed out in the ''"The runes for 0-6 as well as Q and X."'' image above. --[[User:KFYatek|KFYatek]] 13:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
:: Oh! Can't believe I missed that! Thanks! -- [[User:Universalperson|Universalperson]] 15:02, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

== Q Rune ==
Now that we've gotten a good look at the Q rune, is someone going to add it to the page, and/or the ttf? [[Special:Contributions/74.100.21.198|74.100.21.198]] 04:52, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
:I'll probably do it later today. --[[User:KFYatek|KFYatek]] 15:29, 22 April 2011 (UTC)
::NVM, [[User:FontAnon]] made it already. Now just use the new version as the embedded font... --[[User:KFYatek|KFYatek]] 22:05, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

== Other fonts ==

Randomly found on Twitter, [http://www.jarchive.org/akami/aka063.html Madoka font] (i.e. the font for the logo and stuff) --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 22:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Runic fonts found on Pixiv. [http://hwm3.gyao.ne.jp/shiroi-niwatori/nkf10_magicum_comicum_crassum.zip Comicum Crassum] [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=18599749 Information(Japanese)]; [http://hwm3.gyao.ne.jp/shiroi-niwatori/nkf11_magicum_texturae.zip Texturae] [http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=18854083 Information(Japanese)] [[Special:Contributions/140.129.20.212|140.129.20.212]] 06:34, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
:Oh f... that Texturae font is epic. --[[User:KFYatek|kFYatek]] 09:21, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
:Amazing. The Texturae font distinguishes ß's lower and upper case. Our main font treats lower case ß as Archaic and doesn't support its upper case. How about putting "Modern Runic ß" on "capital ß (U+1E9E)?" [[Special:Contributions/58.115.51.125|58.115.51.125]] 05:43, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
::I'm not familiar with this letter, so I didn't know there's a capital ß, thanks for the info. Added it in the runic font.--[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 21:07, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
:::It was only added recently in the standards (2008). Since ß is never used at the start of a word, the uppercase form is only used in all-caps words, where it is usually replaced by SS. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%BA%9E -- 16:49, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
::::Just what I saw. The capital ß in the runes' page is replaced by SS. An "SS" but a SINGLE character. It changed to its original form after being copied into MS Word. [[Special:Contributions/140.129.20.212|140.129.20.212]] 06:41, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
Added a Latin/Cyrilic font. It gives the feel of runes but can be read. [[Special:Contributions/109.205.249.121|109.205.249.121]] 19:38, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

== Handwritten MadokaRunes ==

<gallery>
File:Madokarune prima.jpg|Prima's madokarune
File:Madokarune stuf.jpg|Piparkaq's madokarune
File:Madokarune neo.jpg|Homerun-chan's madokarune
</gallery>
[[user:Piparkaq]] and I have been working on a script version of madokarunes. Has anyone else been giving it a shot? - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 07:36, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
:Looks like [http://twitpic.com/50rnx9 some twitter dude] did. Anyway I'll give it a try too since I don't have anything better to do today ... --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 11:37, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
::Oh shit, you're onto my second twitter account! Σ(ﾟДﾟ) --[[User:Piparkaq|Piparkaq]] 06:46, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
:::Yeah, I noticed it when you posted your link on the IRC yesterday. Well that explains the Yuno-anthony avatar --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 08:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
::Wow, someone was bored in class. Though it's only normal, Kazumi and half the other pages I started were written by hand in class as well :P --[[User:BrickBreak|BrickBreak]] 11:51, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Addin my share with the runes I tried this morning. Most of the time, we can consider the modern and archaic runes to be coming from a common "ancestor", so I tried to do something in-between (just like prima and Piparkaq actually). Most of the time you end up with either version by writing faster (i.e. miswriting the circles, closing parts that shouldn't be, etc.) --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 18:27, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

== Greasemonkey Script ==

The Greasemonkey Script is quite out of date. It accesses alphabets by the early deciphering table which has a mistake on runic W. [[Special:Contributions/118.160.144.123|118.160.144.123]] 10:14, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

== Madokarune: Numerials ==

[[File:Carsalesman_numerials.jpg]]

Stumbled upon this on reddit and immediately noticed some similarity between this and madokarune, even if it wasn't one-to-one correspondence.

Roughly, the madokarune matrix is appx

* 1, 2, 4 {{runes|1, 2, 4}}
* 3, 7, 8 {{runes|3, 7, 8}}
* 6, 9, 5 {{runes|6, 9, 5}}

The only odd-rune-out is 9. Maybe I am overthinking this, when is OST2 coming out? - [[User:Prima|Prima]] 22:36, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

== Typos ==
"Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words."

I would bet on being a mistake since Japanese people tend to misspell western words often in anime. Evidences: http://anime.thenexxus.org/engrish/ (You can easily find more) --[[Special:Contributions/79.145.233.35|79.145.233.35]] 00:26, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
:All of the spelling errors occurred during transcription from German into runes. If you look at those German sentences in the [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/File:Productionnotetrans.jpg production notes], they are spelled correctly. --[[User:Kureru|Kureru]] 02:06, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

== The Shape of Archaic Rune O and Ö ==

Through the BD version, we can see clearly that runic O(archaic) is like a reversed S. Will you fix it or just keep the current ʔ-shape? [[Special:Contributions/118.167.38.35|118.167.38.35]] 16:59, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
:Yeah, the current vector is kind of off. You can see the rune really clearly in [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/File:Oprunes8.jpg this shot from the OP], and it's a single S-shaped stroke rather than the two we currently have. [[User:Neuchadjinys|Neuchadjinys]] 23:22, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
::Oh, um, also, the archaic B and C vectors look much smoother than the actual runes do. Those should probably be fixed too, if it isn't too much trouble. [[User:Neuchadjinys|Neuchadjinys]] 23:24, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
:::Well, let's make a list, then. It'd be great if someone could fix them. Feel free to add more. --[[User:TATZL|TATZL]] 17:45, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
::::Fixed archaic O, modern T and modern Y. I'll work in archaic B and C and update the font in a while.--[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 19:32, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

{| class="wikitable todo" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Rune
! Current vector
! Example of revision
! Problem/Explanation
|-
! B (Archaic)
|[[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
|
|Vector looks much smoother than the actual rune
|-
! C (Archaic)
|[[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
|
|Vector looks much smoother than the actual rune
|-
|class="done"| O (Archaic)
|[[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
|[[File:Oprunes8.jpg|95x95px]]
|The rune should have a reversed 'S'-shape.
|-
|class="done"| T (Modern)
|[[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
|[[File:BD_6_SS_01.jpg|95x95px]] (Bottom left, in in the word "not")
|rowspan="2"|They look a bit off
|-
|class="done"| Y (Modern)
|[[File:Modern Y.svg|95x95px]]
|[[File:BD_6_SS_01.jpg|95x95px]] (Bottom left, in in the word "you")
|-
! Ä (Musical)
|rowspan="4"|Currently, the runes are missing
|rowspan="4"|[[File:Runes_chart_expanded.gif|95x95px]]
|rowspan="4"|ÄÖÜ should look like their normal counterpart with two dots, while ß looks like an upside-down B
|-
! Ö (Musical)
|-
! Ü (Musical)
|-
! ß (Musical)
|}

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[[File:Runes_chart_expanded.gif|thumb|A reference sheet displaying runic alphabets.]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==
[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough, work-in-progress reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets as they were being deciphered.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
| [[File:Archaic X.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
| [[File:Runes_6.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
| [[File:Runes_7.svg|90x90px]]
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
| [[File:Runes_8.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]
**[[Madoka_Magica_Café#Runes|Madoka Café, promotional uses]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?1kqh3wtjqgqa1m3 Download TTF font] (Last Update: 05-20-2011 - Full Archaic Alphabet + all the Numerals)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, # and *.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

Madoka Magica Café

2011-05-13T21:33:05Z

FontAnon: /* Dishes and desserts */

[[File:Cafe 1.jpg|right|350px]]
The Madoka Magica Café is an event taking place in Good Smile Café, a café specializing in otaku culture. Located in Matsudo-chi, Chiba prefecture, it was entirely devoted to the Madoka universe: signs and interior decorations, but also special food served for the occasion, official merchandise for display with some items available for purchase.

The event is taking place from May 3rd until July 18th, 2011.

==Special Menu==

In addition to their regular menu of traditional dishes and drinks, the café offers a "special menu" of Madoka-themed dishes for the event. Note that at times items were sold-out or otherwise not available.

===Soul Gem Drinks===

{|style="width: 100%"
|style="width: 10%"|[[File:Sayaka's drink.jpg|100px]]
|style="width: 40%"|
;There's no way I'd regret this (後悔なんて、あるわけない)
''Coming soon''
:Blue drink, a reference to Sayaka.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
|style="width: 10%"|[[File:Kyouko's drink.jpg|100px]]
|style="width: 40%"|
;I'll never allow that (そんなの、あたしが許さない)
''Coming soon''
:Kyouko's drink. Red colored.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
|-
|[[File:Madoka's drink.jpg|100px]]
|
;That sounds wonderful (それはとっても嬉しいなって)
''Available from May 3rd till May 22nd''
:Pink-colored Madoka drink
:Tropical peach flavor (トロピカルピーチ味)
:Sold 350 yens
|[[File:Mami's drink.jpg|100px]]
|
;I'm not afraid of anything anymore (もう何も怖くない)
''Available from May 3rd till May 22nd''
:Mami's drink. Yellow.
:Mango flavor (マンゴー味)
:Sold 350 yens
|-
|[[File:Homura's drink.jpg|100px]]
|
;My best friend　(わたしの最高のともだち)
''Coming soon''
:Homura's drink. A suspicious dark drink.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
|}

===Dishes and desserts===
{|style="width: 100%"
|style="width: 10%"|[[File:Kyubey Plate.png|150px]]
|style="width: 40%"|
;Kyubey's plate (キュゥべぇプレート)
''Available starting May 3rd.''
:Did you ever rage so much by seeing Kyubey's face that you wanted to eat him? Now is your chance to do so!
:Home made hashed beef with rice (自家製ハヤシライス)
:Sold 850 yens
|style="width: 10%"|[[File:Dessert witch's obsession.png|150px]]
|style="width: 40%"|
;Dessert witch's obsession dessert (お菓子の魔女の執着デザート)
''Available starting May 3rd. Usually sold out.''
:A dessert plate with Charlotte's face on it.
:Chocolate rollcake (チョコレートロールケーキ)
:Sold 700 yens.
|}

==Runes==

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 0;"|Image
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 20%;"|Item
|-
|[[File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|CAFE DU MADOKA MAGICA}} Cafe du Madoka Magica
|This is supposed to mean "Madoka Magica Café" in French, but there is a grammatical error.

The "du" article can be used only as a possessive for a male possessor, i.e. the grammar used implies male grammatical gender for "Madoka Magica".
|The back of the Shop Card, with information about the surrounding area.
|-
|[[File:21.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|PUELLA MAGI}} Puella Magi
|The text below the runes reads 「魔法少女」 (''Mahō Shōjo''), meaning "Magical Girl".
|The ladies' bathroom sign
|-
|[[File:Cafe_19.jpg‎|150px|]]
|[Modern] {{Runes|incubator}} Incubator
|The text below the runes reads 「インキュベーター」 (''inkyubētā''), which is "incubator" spelled in Japanese katakana.
|The gentlemen bathroom
|-
|colspan=4|
* The runes are believed to be written using the fanmade font file, a newer version of which can be found on [[Deciphering the runes|Runes]] page.
* The signs are written in singular rather than seemingly more appropriate plural form. This is probably because the Japanese language does not have a concept of singular and plural forms, so both are identical.
|}

==Images==

===Advertisement and Promotional Products===
<gallery>
File:Advertisement for a madoka cafe.jpg|Advertisement for the Madoka cafe event
File:Madoka Cafe 1.jpg|Complementary coasters
File:Madoka Cafe 2.jpg|Other goodies
File:Shop Card front.jpg|The front of the Shop Card
File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|The back of the Shop Card with information
File:Puella Magi Madoka ★ Magica Cafe Original Mini Sticker.jpg|Your own "Witch's Kiss" in sticker form!
File:Cafe 3.jpg|Advertisement
</gallery>

===The Café===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 1.jpg|Outside the front entrance
File:Outside different angle.jpg|different angle
File:Madokafe 20.jpg|Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Madokafe 21.jpg|The other side of Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Cafe 4.jpg|Long line of fans. Reported wait 2.5hrs on day of opening, May 3rd, a public holiday in Japan (part of the Golden Week).
File:Cafe 5.jpg|Inside the cafe
File:Cafe 22.jpg|Another interior view
File:Cafe 23.jpg|Wall of witches
File:Cafe 24.jpg|View at table
File:Cafe 14.jpg|Bathrooms
</gallery>

===Drinks and Food===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 8.jpg|The menu
File:Cafe 15.jpg|Food and drinks served
File:Soul gem drinks cafe madoka.jpg|Soul Gem Drinks, each named after 5 episodes in the series with respective Puella Magi color.
File:House special.jpg|The House Special: Kyubey's Plate and Dessert Witch's Obsession
</gallery>

===Merchandise for Display and Items for Sale===

<gallery>
File:Cafe 6.jpg|Official merchandise
File:Cafe 7.jpg|More official merchandise
File:Cafe 11.jpg|Homura weapons
File:Cafe 12.jpg|Scripts
File:Cafe 25.jpg|Close-up view of scripts
File:Exchange Notebook.jpg|An Exchange Notebook where patrons get to draw in it
File:For sale.jpg|Items for sale
File:Cafe Sales.jpg|More items for sale
</gallery>

==See also==

*[http://www.goodsmilecafe.jp/ Official website] (in Japanese).
*One brave pilgrim decided to visit the holy site and [http://extrovertedotaku.blogspot.com/2011/05/puella-magi-madoka-magica-cafe.html wrote down the experience] to be recorded in sacred digital text.
*The Madoka Café on [http://twitter.com/#!/gsc_cafe Twitter].

[[Category:Runes]]

Talk:Madoka Magica Café

2011-05-11T23:54:14Z

FontAnon: /* Runes */

== Runes ==
>Notice the runes are written with the font from the Runes page. 
Err, what? I didn't pay close attention (and I'm pretty bad at discerning fonts anyway), but they're not using the official font? --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 20:20, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
:We are being watched. Smile! --[[User:BrickBreak|BrickBreak]] 21:18, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
::Oh, Sh... they are unto us!!! --[[User:Mutopis|Mutopis]] 21:20, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
:That seems outright silly. Why would they be using a font the fans made when the show creators are supporting this café thing with tons of material? It seems more likely that they're getting the runes directly from the source.
::That's exactly why I asked. I'd like to know what lead people to think they used our font rather than the official one ... --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 21:45, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
:::Well, I thought it was obvious they used our font just by looking at it (compare the font here with the font used on the witch cards or the manga), and specially by the fact they're using an old version where the archaic P letter isn't fixed to include the hole in the base. Anyway, if you still don't believe me, here's some evidence to back my claim: [http://i.imgur.com/dlvQ0.png] (I wrote above the original pic using our font with blue color and black outline) --[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 23:54, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

==About Good Smile Café==
Small question: should we mention GSC's past ventures? I knew it falls a bit out of our focus, but some background's always nice. Plus, IIRC, there were still some items from the old ventures lying around. --[[User:BrickBreak|BrickBreak]] 21:05, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
:Yeah, we could make a section "About the Café" or something, makes sense to me ... Also it's relevant for [[User:Randomanon|randomanon]]'s comment below :) --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 21:44, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

==About this page==
I'm somewhat amused by this. It's only a temporary event so I didn't think the page would stay after the event is done. There were some interesting pics but nothing you wouldn't find at an equivalent themed restaurant like a Hollywood cafe. How much are people planning to expand this and is it going to be kept around permanently? -[[User:Randomanon|randomanon]] 21:28, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
:Actually, it started to become a little too big to stay on the merchandise page, and it didn't really belong there anyway, hence it got its own page, that's all. Aside from that, it's Madoka-related and it's quite an amusing event, so there isn't really a reason for it not to be here. For the two last questions, I'd say "wait and see". It'll probably stay here for archiving purposes, but the content and size of this page is pretty unpredictable --[[User:Homerun-chan|Homerun-chan]] 21:44, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
::Yeah, it's a bit my fault there for dumping so many photos for it. I thought it'd be fun but temporary and at the time there wasn't this great coverage by this guy's blog [http://extrovertedotaku.blogspot.com/2011/05/puella-magi-madoka-magica-cafe.html#info] who did a really great job. --[[User:Randomanon|randomanon]] 21:54, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
:I predict there will be more future Madoka events. There is no way SHAFT wont milk this --[[User:Mutopis|Mutopis]] 22:14, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

Madoka Magica Café

2011-05-11T18:29:26Z

FontAnon: /* Soul Gem Drinks */

The Madoka Magica Café is an event taking place in Good Smile Café, a café specializing in otaku culture. Located in Matsudo-chi, Chiba prefecture, it was entirely devoted to the Madoka universe: signs and interior decorations of course, but also special food served for the occasion, and even some goodies for sale.

The event took place from May 3rd until July 18th, 2011.

==Special Menu==

Along with the usual menu (omelettes, traditionnal meals, desserts and usual drinks), the café proposed a "special menu", a lot more Madoka-related. Note that all products weren't necessarily available at all times.

===Soul Gem Drinks===

;There's no way I'd regret (後悔なんて、あるわけない)
''Coming soon''
:Blue drink, a reference to Sayaka.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens

;I'll never forgive that (そんなの、あたしが許さない)
''Coming soon''
:Kyouko's drink. Red colored.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens

;That sounds wonderful (それはとっても嬉しいなって)
''Tropical peach flavor'' (トロピカルピーチ味)
:Pink-colored Madoka drink
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens

;I'm not afraid anymore (もう何も怖くない)
''Mango flavor'' (マンゴー味)
:Mami's drink. Yellow.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens

;My best friend　(わたしの最高のともだち)
''Coming soon''
:Homura's drink. A suspicious dark drink.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens

===Dishes and desserts===

;Kyubey's plate (キュゥべぇプレート)
''Home made hashed beef with rice'' (自家製ハヤシライス)
:Did you ever rage so much by seeing Kyubey's face that you wanted to eat him? Now is your chance to do so!
:Exact content unknown. Kyubey seems to be made of rice
:Sold 850 yens

;Dessert witch's obsession (お菓子の魔女の執着)
''Chocolate rollcake'' (チョオレートロールケーキ)
:A dessert plate with Charlotte's face on it.
:Exact content unknown. Looks like some sort of cake with chocolate sauce.
:Sold 700 yens.

==Runes==

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 15%;"|Image
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 35%;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 20%;"|Item
|-
|[[File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|CAFE DU MADOKA MAGICA}} Cafe du Madoka Magica
|This is a failed attempt at french for "Madoka Magica Cafe". The grammar error here is that "du" is only used as a possessive for a male possessor, i.e. the sentence litterally translates to "Cafe of the Madoka Magica" (with the implication that Madoka is a male). 
|The back of the Shop Card, with information about the surrounding area.
|-
|[[File:21.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|PUELLA MAGI}} Puella Magi
|Note that below the runes, the line is translated in Japanese (魔法少女, Magical Girls)
|The ladies bathroom sign.
|-
|[[File:Cafe_19.jpg‎|150px|]]
|[Modern] {{Runes|incubator}} Incubator
|Here too, the runes are translated in Japanese below
|The gents bathroom
|-
|colspan=4|Notice the runes are written with the font from the [[Deciphering the runes|Runes]] page.
|}

==Images==

===Advertisement and Promotional Products===
<gallery>
File:Advertisement for a madoka cafe.jpg|Advertisement for the Madoka cafe event
File:Madoka Cafe 1.jpg|Complementary coasters
File:Madoka Cafe 2.jpg|Other goodies
File:Shop Card front.jpg|The front of the Shop Card
File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|The back of the Shop Card with information
File:Puella Magi Madoka ★ Magica Cafe Original Mini Sticker.jpg|Your own "Witch's Kiss" in sticker form!
File:Cafe 3.jpg|Advertisement
</gallery>

===The Café===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 1.jpg|Outside the front entrance
File:Outside different angle.jpg|different angle
File:Madokafe 20.jpg|Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Madokafe 21.jpg|The other side of Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Cafe 4.jpg|Long line of fans. Reported wait 2.5hrs on day of opening, May 3rd, a public holiday in Japan (part of the Golden Week).
File:Cafe 5.jpg|Inside the cafe
File:Cafe 22.jpg|Another interior view
File:Cafe 23.jpg|Wall of witches
File:Cafe 24.jpg|View at table
File:Cafe 14.jpg|Bathrooms
File:21.jpg|Ladies bathroom in runes
</gallery>

===Drinks and Food===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 8.jpg|The menu
File:Cafe 15.jpg|Food and drinks served
File:Soul gem drinks cafe madoka.jpg|Soul Gem Drinks, each named after 5 episodes in the series with respective Puella Magi color.
</gallery>

===Merchandise for Display and Items for Sale===

<gallery>
File:Cafe 6.jpg|Official merchandise
File:Cafe 7.jpg|More official merchandise
File:Cafe 11.jpg|Homura weapons
File:Cafe 12.jpg|Scripts
File:Cafe 25.jpg|Close-up view of scripts
File:Exchange Notebook.jpg|An Exchange Notebook where patrons get to draw in it
File:For sale.jpg|Items for sale
File:Cafe Sales.jpg|More items for sale
</gallery>

==See also==

*[http://www.goodsmilecafe.jp/ Official website] (in Japanese).
*One brave pilgrim decided to visit the holy site and [http://extrovertedotaku.blogspot.com/2011/05/puella-magi-madoka-magica-cafe.html wrote down the experience] to be recorded in sacred digital text.
*The Madoka Café on [http://twitter.com/#!/gsc_cafe Twitter].

[[Category:Runes]]

Madoka Magica Café

2011-05-11T18:21:35Z

FontAnon: /* Dishes and desserts */

The Madoka Magica Café is an event taking place in Good Smile Café, a café specializing in otaku culture. Located in Matsudo-chi, Chiba prefecture, it was entirely devoted to the Madoka universe: signs and interior decorations of course, but also special food served for the occasion, and even some goodies for sale.

The event took place from May 3rd until July 18th, 2011.

==Special Menu==

Along with the usual menu (omelettes, traditionnal meals, desserts and usual drinks), the café proposed a "special menu", a lot more Madoka-related. Note that all products weren't necessarily available at all times.

===Soul Gem Drinks===

;There's no way I'd regret (後悔なんて、あるわけない)
:Blue drink, a reference to Sayaka.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;I'll never forgive that (そんなの、あたしが許さない)
:Kyouko's drink. Red colored.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;That sounds wonderful (それはとっても嬉しいなって)
:Pink-colored Madoka drink
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;I'm not afraid anymore (もう何も怖くない)
:Mami's drink. Yellow.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;My best friend　(わたしの最高のともだち)
:Homura's drink. A suspicious dark drink.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens

===Dishes and desserts===

;Kyubey's plate (キュゥべぇプレート)
''Home made hashed beef with rice'' (自家製ハヤシライス)
:Did you ever rage so much by seeing Kyubey's face that you wanted to eat him? Now is your chance to do so!
:Exact content unknown. Kyubey seems to be made of rice
:Sold 850 yens

;Dessert witch's obsession (お菓子の魔女の執着)
''Chocolate rollcake'' (チョオレートロールケーキ)
:A dessert plate with Charlotte's face on it.
:Exact content unknown. Looks like some sort of cake with chocolate sauce.
:Sold 700 yens.

==Runes==

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 15%;"|Image
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 35%;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 20%;"|Item
|-
|[[File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|CAFE DU MADOKA MAGICA}} Cafe du Madoka Magica
|This is a failed attempt at french for "Madoka Magica Cafe". The grammar error here is that "du" is only used as a possessive for a male possessor, i.e. the sentence litterally translates to "Cafe of the Madoka Magica" (with the implication that Madoka is a male). 
|The back of the Shop Card, with information about the surrounding area.
|-
|[[File:21.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|PUELLA MAGI}} Puella Magi
|Note that below the runes, the line is translated in Japanese (魔法少女, Magical Girls)
|The ladies bathroom sign.
|-
|[[File:Cafe_19.jpg‎|150px|]]
|[Modern] {{Runes|incubator}} Incubator
|Here too, the runes are translated in Japanese below
|The gents bathroom
|-
|colspan=4|Notice the runes are written with the font from the [[Deciphering the runes|Runes]] page.
|}

==Images==

===Advertisement and Promotional Products===
<gallery>
File:Advertisement for a madoka cafe.jpg|Advertisement for the Madoka cafe event
File:Madoka Cafe 1.jpg|Complementary coasters
File:Madoka Cafe 2.jpg|Other goodies
File:Shop Card front.jpg|The front of the Shop Card
File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|The back of the Shop Card with information
File:Puella Magi Madoka ★ Magica Cafe Original Mini Sticker.jpg|Your own "Witch's Kiss" in sticker form!
File:Cafe 3.jpg|Advertisement
</gallery>

===The Café===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 1.jpg|Outside the front entrance
File:Outside different angle.jpg|different angle
File:Madokafe 20.jpg|Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Madokafe 21.jpg|The other side of Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Cafe 4.jpg|Long line of fans. Reported wait 2.5hrs on day of opening, May 3rd, a public holiday in Japan (part of the Golden Week).
File:Cafe 5.jpg|Inside the cafe
File:Cafe 22.jpg|Another interior view
File:Cafe 23.jpg|Wall of witches
File:Cafe 24.jpg|View at table
File:Cafe 14.jpg|Bathrooms
File:21.jpg|Ladies bathroom in runes
</gallery>

===Drinks and Food===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 8.jpg|The menu
File:Cafe 15.jpg|Food and drinks served
File:Soul gem drinks cafe madoka.jpg|Soul Gem Drinks, each named after 5 episodes in the series with respective Puella Magi color.
</gallery>

===Merchandise for Display and Items for Sale===

<gallery>
File:Cafe 6.jpg|Official merchandise
File:Cafe 7.jpg|More official merchandise
File:Cafe 11.jpg|Homura weapons
File:Cafe 12.jpg|Scripts
File:Cafe 25.jpg|Close-up view of scripts
File:Exchange Notebook.jpg|An Exchange Notebook where patrons get to draw in it
File:For sale.jpg|Items for sale
File:Cafe Sales.jpg|More items for sale
</gallery>

==See also==

*[http://www.goodsmilecafe.jp/ Official website] (in Japanese).
*One brave pilgrim decided to visit the holy site and [http://extrovertedotaku.blogspot.com/2011/05/puella-magi-madoka-magica-cafe.html wrote down the experience] to be recorded in sacred digital text.
*The Madoka Café on [http://twitter.com/#!/gsc_cafe Twitter].

[[Category:Runes]]

Madoka Magica Café

2011-05-11T17:58:04Z

FontAnon: /* Runes */ - I found really funny they're using the font from this wiki.

The Madoka Magica Café is an event taking place in Good Smile Café, a café specializing in otaku culture. Located in Matsudo-chi, Chiba prefecture, it was entirely devoted to the Madoka universe: signs and interior decorations of course, but also special food served for the occasion, and even some goodies for sale.

The event took place from May 3rd until July 18th, 2011.

==Special Menu==

Along with the usual menu (omelettes, traditionnal meals, desserts and usual drinks), the café proposed a "special menu", a lot more Madoka-related. Note that all products weren't necessarily available at all times.

===Soul Gem Drinks===

;There's no way I'd regret (後悔なんて、あるわけない)
:Blue drink, a reference to Sayaka.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;I'll never forgive that (そんなの、あたしが許さない)
:Kyouko's drink. Red colored.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;That sounds wonderful (それはとっても嬉しいなって)
:Pink-colored Madoka drink
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;I'm not afraid anymore (もう何も怖くない)
:Mami's drink. Yellow.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens
;My best friend　(わたしの最高のともだち)
:Homura's drink. A suspicious dark drink.
:Content yet unknown
:Sold 350 yens

===Dishes and desserts===

;Kyubey's plate (キュゥべぇプレート)
:Did you ever rage so much by seeing Kyubey's face that you wanted to eat him? Now is your chance to do so!
:Exact content unknown. Kyubey seems to be made of rice
:Sold 850 yens
;[Charlotte's dessert, someone please translate its name]
:A dessert plate with Charlotte's face on it.
:Exact content unknown. Looks like some sort of cake with chocolate sauce.
:Sold 700 yens.

==Runes==

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 15%;"|Image
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 35%;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 20%;"|Item
|-
|[[File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|CAFE DU MADOKA MAGICA}} Cafe du Madoka Magica
|This is a failed attempt at french for "Madoka Magica Cafe". The grammar error here is that "du" is only used as a possessive for a male possessor, i.e. the sentence litterally translates to "Cafe of the Madoka Magica" (with the implication that Madoka is a male). 
|The back of the Shop Card, with information about the surrounding area.
|-
|[[File:21.jpg|150px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|PUELLA MAGI}} Puella Magi
|Note that below the runes, the line is translated in Japanese (魔法少女, Magical Girls)
|The ladies bathroom sign.
|-
|[[File:Cafe_19.jpg‎|150px|]]
|[Modern] {{Runes|incubator}} Incubator
|Here too, the runes are translated in Japanese below
|The gents bathroom
|-
|colspan=4|Notice the runes are written with the font from the [[Deciphering the runes|Runes]] page.
|}

==Images==

===Advertisement and Promotional Products===
<gallery>
File:Advertisement for a madoka cafe.jpg|Advertisement for the Madoka cafe event
File:Madoka Cafe 1.jpg|Complementary coasters
File:Madoka Cafe 2.jpg|Other goodies
File:Shop Card front.jpg|The front of the Shop Card
File:Shop Card Back Info Cafe Du Madoka Magica.jpg|The back of the Shop Card with information
File:Puella Magi Madoka ★ Magica Cafe Original Mini Sticker.jpg|Your own "Witch's Kiss" in sticker form!
File:Cafe 3.jpg|Advertisement
</gallery>

===The Café===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 1.jpg|Outside the front entrance
File:Outside different angle.jpg|different angle
File:Madokafe 20.jpg|Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Madokafe 21.jpg|The other side of Green Board Menu Advertising Sign
File:Cafe 4.jpg|Long line of fans. Reported wait 2.5hrs on day of opening, May 3rd, a public holiday in Japan (part of the Golden Week).
File:Cafe 5.jpg|Inside the cafe
File:Cafe 22.jpg|Another interior view
File:Cafe 23.jpg|Wall of witches
File:Cafe 24.jpg|View at table
File:Cafe 14.jpg|Bathrooms
File:21.jpg|Ladies bathroom in runes
</gallery>

===Drinks and Food===
<gallery>
File:Cafe 8.jpg|The menu
File:Cafe 15.jpg|Food and drinks served
File:Soul gem drinks cafe madoka.jpg|Soul Gem Drinks, each named after 5 episodes in the series with respective Puella Magi color.
</gallery>

===Merchandise for Display and Items for Sale===

<gallery>
File:Cafe 6.jpg|Official merchandise
File:Cafe 7.jpg|More official merchandise
File:Cafe 11.jpg|Homura weapons
File:Cafe 12.jpg|Scripts
File:Cafe 25.jpg|Close-up view of scripts
File:Exchange Notebook.jpg|An Exchange Notebook where patrons get to draw in it
File:For sale.jpg|Items for sale
File:Cafe Sales.jpg|More items for sale
</gallery>

==See also==

*[http://www.goodsmilecafe.jp/ Official website] (in Japanese).
*One brave pilgrim decided to visit the holy site and [http://extrovertedotaku.blogspot.com/2011/05/puella-magi-madoka-magica-cafe.html wrote down the experience] to be recorded in sacred digital text.
*The Madoka Café on [http://twitter.com/#!/gsc_cafe Twitter].

[[Category:Runes]]

Witch Runes

2011-04-28T04:33:12Z

FontAnon: /* Extras */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
| [[File:Archaic X.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
| [[File:Runes_6.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
| [[File:Runes_7.svg|90x90px]]
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
| [[File:Runes_8.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?cx90dzzfza1cmdf Download TTF font] (Last Update: 04-28-2011 - Full Archaic Alphabet + all the Numerals)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, # and *.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

Witch Runes

2011-04-28T04:26:49Z

FontAnon: /* Table of runes */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
| [[File:Archaic X.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
| [[File:Runes_6.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
| [[File:Runes_7.svg|90x90px]]
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
| [[File:Runes_8.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?efx69c4ngx3120x Download TTF font] (Last Update: 04-25-2011 - Includes the entire Archaic Alphabet.)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, # and *.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

File:Runes 8.svg

2011-04-28T04:25:15Z

FontAnon:

File:Runes 7.svg

2011-04-28T04:25:06Z

FontAnon:

File:Runes 6.svg

2011-04-28T04:24:54Z

FontAnon:

Witch Runes

2011-04-25T04:28:09Z

FontAnon: /* Runic Font */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
| [[File:Archaic X.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
|
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
|
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
|
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?efx69c4ngx3120x Download TTF font] (Last Update: 04-25-2011 - Includes the entire Archaic Alphabet.)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, # and *.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

File:Archaic X.svg

2011-04-25T04:25:59Z

FontAnon: Blanked the page

File talk:Archaic X.svg

2011-04-25T04:24:07Z

FontAnon:

==Orientation==
[[File:Runenumbers.JPG|600px]]

I believe the bar-bottom orientation is correct, based on the OP sequence. [[User:Prima|Prima]] 02:48, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
:Oh, I forgot we had that, changed the file orientation to bar-bottom.--[[User:FontAnon|FontAnon]] 04:24, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

File:Archaic X.svg

2011-04-25T04:23:33Z

FontAnon: uploaded a new version of "File:Archaic X.svg": Changed orientation according to :File:Runenumbers.JPG.

A rough version of the X rune.

I have totally no idea what the orientation of this rune should be, but judging from the opening analysis, it should be this way.

User:FontAnon

2011-04-24T21:32:32Z

FontAnon: Created page with " <div style="text-align: center;">{{Runes|WALPURGISNACHT}}</div> <div style="text-align: center;">File:walpurgisnacht_circle.gif</div>"

<div style="text-align: center;">{{Runes|WALPURGISNACHT}}</div>
 
<div style="text-align: center;">[[File:walpurgisnacht_circle.gif]]</div>

File:Walpurgisnacht circle.gif

2011-04-24T21:20:52Z

FontAnon:

Witch Runes

2011-04-24T20:55:01Z

FontAnon: /* Runic Font */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
| [[File:Archaic X.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
|
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
|
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
|
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?05b7azikxdp3thp Download TTF font] (Last Update: 04-24-2011 - Includes the entire Archaic Alphabet.)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, # and *.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

File:Archaic X.svg

2011-04-24T20:53:48Z

FontAnon: uploaded a new version of "File:Archaic X.svg": Archaic X following the style used in the other letters. I think this is the correct orientation because it's very similar to the Archaic letter F.

A rough version of the X rune.

I have totally no idea what the orientation of this rune should be, but judging from the opening analysis, it should be this way.

File:Archaic P.svg

2011-04-24T20:50:21Z

FontAnon: uploaded a new version of "File:Archaic P.svg"

Witch Runes

2011-04-24T04:24:01Z

FontAnon: /* Special Characters */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
|
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
|
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
|
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
|
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?bujczsv1omxdyea Download TTF font] (Last Update: 04-22-2011)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 9 are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, # and *.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

Witch Runes/Episode 11

2011-04-22T19:56:37Z

FontAnon:

[[Deciphering the runes|Runes]] listing and translation for [[Episode 11]].

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 35%;"|Screencap
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: left; width: 5%; background: #efefef;"|Time
|-
|[[File:E11Rindfleisch.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|RINDFLEISCH}} Rindfleisch
|Beef
|04:59
|-
|[[File:E11Chciken.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|CHCIKEN}} Ch[ic]ken
|Chicken (the i and c are swapped)
|05:00
|-
|[[File:E11Schwein.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|SCHWEIN}} Schwein
|Pig
|05:01
|-
|[[File:E11Vieh.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|VIEH}} Vieh
|Cattle
|05:13
|-
|[[File:E11Fleisch.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|FLEISCH}} Fleisch
|Meat
|05:21
|-
|[[File:E11Muh_muhten.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|MUH MUHTEN}} Muh muhten
|The moo mooed.
|05:27
|-
|[[File:E11MadokaQbey.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|MADOKA}} Madoka {{Runes|QBEY}} QBEY
|The runes of their names fly past Madoka.
|06:06
|-
|[[File:E11HoerbeispielCle.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|HÖRBEISPIEL CLE}} Hörbeispiel Cle[opatra]
|Audio example Cle[opatra]
|06:14
|-
|[[File:E11HoerbeispielHi.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|HÖRBEISPIEL HI}} Hörbeispiel Hi[miko] (卑弥呼) {{Runes|23-}} 23-
|Audio example Hi[miko] 23-
|06:24
|-
|[[File:E11HoerbeispielJeh.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|HÖRBEISPIEL JEHA}} Hörbeispiel Jeha[nne] {{Runes|1429}} 1429
|Audio example Joan 1429
|06:30
|-
|[[File:E11Walpurgisnacht.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|WALPURGISNACHT}} Walpurgisnacht
|Walpurgisnacht, the witch's name.
|15:56
|}

[[Category:Runes|Episode 11]]

Witch Runes

2011-04-22T19:38:10Z

FontAnon: /* Extras */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
|
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
|
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
|
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
|
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?bujczsv1omxdyea Download TTF font] (Last Update: 04-22-2011)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals 0, 1, 2 and 3 are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @, # and *.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

Witch Runes

2011-04-22T19:31:07Z

FontAnon: /* Table of runes */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German, though they appeared later on).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical P.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical B.svg|95x95px]]
! Q
|
| [[File:Archaic Q.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical G.svg|95x95px]]
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical H.svg|95x95px]]
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
|
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Y.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical Z.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical L.svg|95x95px]]
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical M.svg|95x95px]]
! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
|
|
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
|
|
|
|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
|
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
| [[File:Runes_9.svg|95x95px]]
|
|}

==Translated runes by appearance==
[[File:Digitalrunesv0.png|thumb|200px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on musical runes.]]
[[File:Digitalrunes-archaic.png|thumb|100px|right|A speculative digital runic alphabet based on archaic runes.]]
*The episodes
**[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
**[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
**[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
**[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
**[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
**No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
**[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
**[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
**[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]
**[[Runes:Episode 10|Episode 10]]
**[[Runes:Episode 11|Episode 11]]
**[[Runes:Episode 12|Episode 12]]
*Other sources
**[[Runes:Manga|Manga]]
**[[Characters#Witches|Cards of witches and familiars]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?0hy5iatt48g31sg Download TTF font] (Last Update: 02-17-2011)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Musical runes font ===

A very rough font made from already vectorized musical runes. 

MediaFire links:
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?muzsvbsg4cu2shu TTF font file]
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?304q49vv133mb0f FontForge source file]

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

To use musical runes, add <tt><nowiki>|variant=musical</nowiki></tt> to the template, eg. <nowiki>{{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SECKENDORFF|variant=musical}}. The font does not distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters, so either will produce the same results.

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals 0, 1, 2 and 3 are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @ and #.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

File:Archaic Q.svg

2011-04-22T19:29:51Z

FontAnon:

File:Runes 9.svg

2011-04-22T19:29:08Z

FontAnon:

Izabel

2011-03-25T13:04:10Z

FontAnon:

__NOTOC__
'''Izabel''' ({{Runes|IZABEL}}) is one of the [[Witch|witches]] that appeared in [[Episode 10]]. Her name appeared in the episode as '''Isadel''', however a card that was released later corrected her name to be Izabel.

{{Card
|name = Izabel
|runes = IZABEL
|image = File:Card_Isabel.png
|japanese_desc = 芸術家の魔女。その性質は虚栄。自らを選ばれた存在であると疑わぬ魔女。誰かに自分の作品を見せたくて仕方が無く人間にも積極的に干渉してくるが、その結界内はどこかで見たようなものばかり。この魔女を倒したくば著名な批評家を連れてくればよい。
|english_desc = The artist witch. Her nature is vanity. Without a slightest doubt, she believe her existence is blessed. Wanting someone to see her work, she often interfere with human world. However within her barrier only exist works that you have probably seen somewhere before. To defeat this witch, just bring a well-known critic with you.
|type = Artist witch
|nature = Vanity
|episodes = [[Episode 10]]
}}

==Minions==
{{Card
|name = Michaela
|runes = MICHAELA
|image = File:Card_Michaela.png
|japanese_desc = 芸術家の魔女の手下。その役割は作品。魔女によって命を奪われた人間はその体の一部分を盗まれ、この中に組み込まれてしまう。
|english_desc = The artist witch's minion. Her role is to be a piece of artwork. Any human that has been killed by this witch will have their body parts placed within this familiar.
|type = Artist witch's minion.
|task = Artwork
|episodes = [[Episode 10]]
}}

==Speculations and Observations==
*She seems to be able to speak, being the only witch who spoke something so far (Except Elly who could speak with Backmasking).
**There is a possibility that a witch's speaking can be understood only by people who have been targeted by her.
*Her barrier seems to be art-related. For example, the patterns Homura walks over before being engulfed by her barrier bear a striking resemblance Pablo Picasso's ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(painting) Guernica]'', and Izabel is killed while bound to a facsimile of the ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Triomphe Arc de Triomphe]''.
*Her name may have been derived from Princess [[wikipedia:Izabela_Czartoryska|Izabela Czartoryska]], founder of the first Polish museum.

==Gallery==
<gallery captionalign="left" position="center">
File:Isadel.jpg|Izabel (written as "Isadel" in the episode)
</gallery>

==External links==
{{card_link|id=21}}
{{card_link|id=22|name=Michaela}}

[[Category:Witches]]

Witch Runes

2011-03-05T22:05:44Z

FontAnon: /* Table of runes */

[[File:runes_translated.jpg|thumb|Runes as of Episode 2]]

The runes that randomly appear in the Magic World have nearly been solved. This page is meant to show the current works and discoveries in the domain, as well as the latest discussions and hypothesis.

==History==

Initial efforts at codebreaking began by identifying each unique rune and assigning it a random letter for identification. The general (correct) assumption was that each rune corresponded to a letter in German but at the time it was still possible that the text was encrypted, a newly constructed language or even that they were just scattered completely at random. German was chosen as the most likely candidate because it appeared as direct quotes from Goethe's Faust and the Cottonballs/Pringlemen/Anthony's were observed to be chanting in German. Other candidate languages were; Japanese, English and Latin (due to the use of "Puella" in the title).

A number of codebreaking methods were tried unsuccessfully. For example; attempts at identifying the letters through numerical analysis of their frequency failed, implying that the runic script was not really a language (see complications below). A more focused approach, taking a single word or short phrase and attempting to match an appropriate German word to it also failed due to large amount of possible matches.

After some urging to use the Faust quotes as a [[wikipedia:Rosetta Stone|Rosetta Stone]], an anonymous found and [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/44782290#p44786690 posted] a line of runes which matched one of those quotes. The runes and the German sign they matched are marked in red on the translation chart for episodes one and two.

This discovery confirmed that the runic script was a direct substitution for German letters and provided an initial set of translated runes to work with. /a/ quickly got to work using this starting set to translate more lines and fill in the gaps. Within 21 hours of this discovery, the vast majority of runic text appearing in the first two episodes had been translated into German and English, all letters had been identified (except Q and X which are extremely rare in German).

==Complications==
[[File:Runes_chart.gif|thumb|Rough reference sheet showing the different rune alphabets.]]
Throughout the translation process, efforts were hampered by several complications:

;Runic fonts
:There are at least three structurally distinct variants of the runic script. The two most common variants are known as modern and archaic. Corresponding letters are generally quite similar with only mild variation in their overall structure but a few letters, such as T, are completely different from each other. The third and least common variant is constructed from elements found in musical scores, and many of the runes are unrecognizable.
;Typos
:Whether by mistake or on purpose (to frustrate codebreakers) approximately half of the lines of script contain one or more typos or misspelt words.
;Spacing
:Many lines of script have no spacing between the words or may be seperated in a deceptive manner. Also, some lines have multiple adjacent letters overlaid on the same space.

==Table of runes==

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" width="100%"
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Alphabet
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! A
| [[File:Modern A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic A.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical A.svg|95x95px]]
! P
| [[File:Modern P.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic P.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! B
| [[File:Modern B.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic B.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Q
|
|
|
|-
! C
| [[File:Modern C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic C.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical C.svg|95x95px]]
! R
| [[File:Modern R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic R.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical R.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! D
| [[File:Modern D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic D.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical D.svg|95x95px]]
! S
| [[File:Modern S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic S.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical S.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! E
| [[File:Modern E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic E.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical E.svg|95x95px]]
! T
| [[File:Modern T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic T.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical T.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! F
|
| [[File:Archaic F.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical F.svg|95x95px]]
! U
| [[File:Modern U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic U.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical U.svg|95x95px]] 
|-
! G
| [[File:Modern G.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic G.svg|95x95px]]
|
! V
|
| [[File:Archaic V.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical V.svg|95x95px]]
|-
! H
| [[File:Modern H.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic H.svg|95x95px]]
|
! W
|
| [[File:Archaic W.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! I
| [[File:Modern I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic I.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical I.svg|95x95px]]
! X
|
|
|
|-
! J
| [[File:Modern J.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic J.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Y
|
| [[File:Archaic Y.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! K
| [[File:Modern K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic K.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical K.svg|95x95px]]
! Z
|
| [[File:Archaic Z.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! L
| [[File:Modern L.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic L.svg|95x95px]]
|
! Ä
| [[File:Modern Ä.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ä.svg|95x95px]]
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|-
! M
| [[File:Modern M.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic M.svg|95x95px]]
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! Ö
| [[File:Modern Ö.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ö.svg|95x95px]]
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|-
! N
| [[File:Modern N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic N.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical N.svg|95x95px]]
! Ü
| [[File:Modern Ü.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic Ü.svg|95x95px]]
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|-
! O
| [[File:Modern O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Archaic O.svg|95x95px]]
| [[File:Musical O.svg|95x95px]]
! ß
| [[File:Modern_SS.svg|90x90px]]
| [[File:Archaic_SS.svg|95x95px]]
|
|-
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
! Numbers
! style="width:95px;"| Modern
! style="width:95px;"| Archaic
! style="width:95px;"| Musical
|-
! 0
|
| [[File:Runes_0.svg|95x95px]]
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! 5
|
| [[File:Runes_5.svg|95x95px]]
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|-
! 1
|
| [[File:Runes_1.svg|90x90px]]
|
! 6
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|
|
|-
! 2
|
| [[File:Runes_2.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 7
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|
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|-
! 3
|
| [[File:Runes_3.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 8
|
|
|
|-
! 4
|
| [[File:Runes_4.svg|95x95px]]
|
! 9
|
|
|
|}

==Translated runes by episode==
*[[Runes:Episode 1|Episode 1]]
*[[Runes:Episode 2|Episode 2]]
*[[Runes:Episode 3|Episode 3]]
*[[Runes:Episode 4|Episode 4]]
*[[Runes:Episode 5|Episode 5]]
*No runes were featured in [[Episode 6]].
*[[Runes:Episode 7|Episode 7]]
*[[Runes:Episode 8|Episode 8]]
*[[Runes:Episode 9|Episode 9]]

==Extras==
=== Runic Font ===

[[File:Shaftspeak.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"This is so cool, I can write in Runespeak!"]]

A custom font had been created using the Runic characters and a Greasemonkey script allowed 4channers to communicate on the board in Runespeak.

*[http://www.mediafire.com/?0hy5iatt48g31sg Download TTF font] (Last Update: 02-17-2011)
*[http://www.mediafire.com/?2i1swqecae4v84n Single Letters (SVG)]
*[http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/94741 Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers by Runespeak)
*[http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6792608/madoka_tag.user.js Greasemonkey script] (replace spoilers and [madoka] tags -- please refrain from using [madoka] tags though)
*[http://p.mcfog.com/madoka-runes/ Online Converter] (just type and get runic text immediately)
*[http://starlet.s145.xrea.com/madoka-rune-converter/ Madoka Rune Converter] (type and get runic text)
*[http://kirie.net/~melon/app/madoka_rune/ MADOKA RUNE TRANSLATION] (type runic characters and get normal text)

=== Using runes on this wiki ===
You can also use runes on this wiki with the <nowiki>{{Runes}}</nowiki> template, e.g. <nowiki>{{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}}</nowiki> becomes {{Runes|DENY THE OBVIOUS, UPHOLD THE INANE}} (use uppercase for archaic variant and lowercase for modern variant).

=== Special Characters ===
Aside from the basic alphabet, runic numerals 0, 1, 2 and 3 are included in the font, as well as a number of special characters which can be viewed using ?, ~, ®, @ and #.

=== Using Greasemonkey scripts ===
#Download and install the Greasemonkey add-on:
#*[http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/748 Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox]
#*[http://d.hatena.ne.jp/os0x/20100612/1276330696 NinjaKit extension for Safari]
#*Chrome natively supports userscripts
#Download and install the MadokaRunes font
#Install the script
#Restart your browser if necessary
#Spoilers and/or [madoka] tags will now be displayed in runic script

[[Category:Community Content]]
[[Category:Runes]]

File:Runes 5.svg

2011-03-05T22:03:56Z

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File:Runes 4.svg

2011-03-05T22:03:45Z

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Witch Runes/Episode 9

2011-03-04T19:17:10Z

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Runes listing and translation for [[Episode 9]].

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 35%;"|Screencap
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: left; width: 5%; background: #efefef;"|Time
|-
|[[File:E9-octavia-intro.JPG|300px]]
|[Musical] Oktavia Von Secken Dorff
|Probably Sayaka's witch name. In real life, [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Siegmund_von_Seckendorff Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff] was a German poet and composer who set a text from Goethe's Faust to music.
|00:20
|-
|[[File:E9-additional-octavia.JPG|300px]]
|[Musical] Oktavia Von Seckendorff
|Additional runes seen throughout the episode displaying the witch's name.
|
|-
|[[File:E9-heraldry-runes.JPG|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|OKTAVIA VON SEKNDORFF}} Oktavia Von Sekndorff
|The witch's heraldry bears horizontally mirrored runes reading "Oktavia Von Sekndorff". Even witches make typos.
|
|-
|[[File:E9-schicksal-hope.JPG|300px]]
|[Musical] Schicksal and Hope
|Schicksal is a German word that means "destiny."
|00:20
|-
|[[File:Episode 8 poster back.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|LOOK AT ME}} Look at me (repeat)
|Probably a reflection of [[Sayaka]]'s conscious and her yearn for [[Kamijou]]'s attention.
|17:47
|-
|[[File:Ep9 poster runes.jpg|300px]]
|See pic
|These are actually the air dates of the episode. "Con Amore" at the bottom is a musical term and means "with love".
|18:23
|}

Witch Runes/Episode 9

2011-03-04T04:33:51Z

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Runes listing and translation for [[Episode 9]].

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 35%;"|Screencap
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: left; width: 5%; background: #efefef;"|Time
|-
|[[File:Ep9 Von Seckendorff.png|300px]]
|[Musical] Oktavia Von Secken Dorff
|Probably Sayaka's witch name. In real life, [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Siegmund_von_Seckendorff Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff] was a German poet and composer who set a text from Goethe's Faust to music.
|00:20
|-
|[[File:E9_shicksal.PNG|300px]]
|[Musical] Schicksal and Hope
|Schicksal is a German word that means "destiny."
|00:20
|-
|[[File:Episode 8 poster back.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|LOOK AT ME}} Look at me (repeat)
|Probably a reflection of [[Sayaka]]'s conscious and her yearn for [[Kamijou]]'s attention.
|17:47
|-
|[[File:Ep9 poster runes.jpg|300px]]
|See pic
|These are actually the air dates of the episode. "Con Amore" at the bottom is a musical term and means "with love".
|18:23
}

Witch Runes/Episode 8

2011-02-25T03:20:59Z

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Runes listing and translation for [[Episode 8]].

{|class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.6em; width: 100%;"
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 35%;"|Screencap
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Transcription
! style="text-align: center; background: #efefef; width: 30%;"|Explanation/Translation
! style="text-align: left; width: 5%; background: #efefef;"|Time
|-
|[[File:E8_Runes_ElsaMaria.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|ELSA MARIA}} Elsa Maria
|The witch's name.
|00:00
|-
|[[File:E8_Runes_Sayaka.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] {{Runes|SAYAKA}} Sayaka
| rowspan="2" |Runes on Sayaka's ring.
|03:55
|-
|[[File:Sayaka runes3.jpg|300px]]
|[Archaic] -{{Runes|KA}} -ka
|14:59
|-
|[[File:Sayaka runes.jpg|300px]]
|[Musical] Tempestoso
| rowspan="2" |Affettuoso and tempestoso are musical styles. Affettuoso means to play a piece with a lingering sort of affectionate tone. Tempestoso means to play it loud and angry. (from [http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/a/thread/46359511#p46360153 Thread #233])
|21:41
|-
|[[File:Sayaka runes2.jpg|300px]]
|[Musical] Affettuoso
|21:41
|}

File:E8 Runes Sayaka.jpg

2011-02-25T03:18:34Z

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File:E8 Runes ElsaMaria.jpg

2011-02-25T03:16:23Z

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User talk:FontAnon

2011-02-24T20:58:35Z

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Can you also upload [[File:Archaic_SS.svg]], it's the one that still lacking SVG version? I've switched SVG rendering in Wiki to use Inkscape, so replacement images are unneeded now. Thanks. --[[User:0x99|0x99]] 20:48, 24 February 2011 (UCT)

'''Done, file uploaded and table updated.'''