Chapter 1 Secret
(Big thanks to Stichez and Shadowking over at the TFH Discord server for bringing this to my attention. I didn't discover this by any means, I'm just documenting it in full!)
At the Reine City Museum, one of the art exhibit rooms has a particular painting:
Inspecting it nets you this dialogue:
This is the first step towards a secret that spans the majority of Chapter 1, however, it's just the only one for a hot while.
It isn't until the Foggy Mountaintops part of Chapter 1 that we stumble across the second second step. Exploring the maze eventually gets you to this old tree:
Interacting with the tree nets you this flavor text:
Interacting with the tree again makes Arizona repeat the last line, however, to activate the second step you MUST keep interacting with the tree, until finally this pops out:
This script is called Foenician, which is supposed to be something of Foenum's lingua franca. Each character corresponds to a consonant in the Latin alphabet. It results in words without vowels, however it's perfectly possible to translate it without issue. There's guides online to decrypt Foenician (here and here). The text you just saw translates to this:
The final step is over at the Altar of Esurience.
First you must go through the usual fight against the predators that spawn. Once it's over, head over to the two small "altars" at the sides and interact with them (they won't have the blue arrow indicating something can be interacted with).
The right one will do this:
You'll then get a prompt after a few lines hinting at the reindeer painting, make sure to answer 9.
Here's what happens at the left one:
There'll be flavor text alluding to the tree. You'll then get two prompts, make sure to pick the answers that are the decrypted words in Foenician: return and stalwart.
DO NOT PICK THE WRONG ANSWERS, ELSE THIS'LL HAPPEN AND YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO UNLOCK THE SECRET AND YOU'LL HAVE TO RESTART ALL THE WAY FROM THE FIRST STEP:
If you did everything right, this happens:
Which leads you to this room, that has a mural with some more Foenician!
I'll make a post based on what people have managed to decrypt of this mural (myself included), but for now this is going up there for the sake of archival purposes.
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