Ancient Texts

Ancient Texts are a series of coded messages viewable from the Records Hall in My Castle, in Fire Emblem Fates.

Overview
Upon accessing the Records Hall in My Castle, players have the ability to view a series of coded messages under the "Ancient Texts" heading. These messages contain various plot-related prophecies and background info on the world, under a simple substitution cypher. The final text, "Monument", acts as a rosetta stone for the cypher, as it depicts the entire alphabet in order.

Please note that the final translation below contains major spoilers.

No. 000 Poem
A dragon neither white nor black

saw his future self

as no more than a caged beast

A dragon neither white nor black

sang three songs of prophecy

so someday his soul might be released

No. 001 Prophecy of Sky
In the white light

a hand reaches through

A double edged blade

cuts your heart in two

Waking dreams fade away

embrace the brand new day

No. 002 Prophecy of Land
Embrace the dark

you call a home

Gaze upon an empty white throne

A legacy of lies

a familiar disguise

No. 003 Prophecy of Depths
A burdened heart

sinks into the ground

A veil falls away

without a sound

Not day nor night

wrong nor right

for truth and peace we fight

No. 004 Dragons & People I
Once dragons fought against each

other using humans as pawns

They empowered their pawns

with drops of their own blood

In time the dragonblooded humans

became royalty even as the

dragons descended into beasthood

No. 005 Dragons & People II
To escape madness the dragons

threw off their mortal flesh and

became ascended spirits

They left the world to humanity

except for the few dragons who

chose to remain

No. 006 Bloodline 1
The white princes and princesses are

born of Sumeragi and Ikona the black

princes and princesses are born of

Garon the first prince with Katerina

the first princess with a concubine

the second prince with yet another

the second princess with another still

No. 006 Bloodline 2
The child of light kidnapped in

the dark is not of nohr blood

nor a child of the hoshidan king

The child was born of

the white queen and silent dragon

Anankos is the true father

No. 008 Monument
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