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LMFAO??? he says to call it the 高考 (gaokao) and 高 means tall/high while 考 means text/exam so sure higher exam is correct. but 高考 is literally also what we call the. fucking. national college entrance exam lmaooo

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this randomly blew up on twitter so i figured i’d post it here bc lord knows everyone on this app is neurodivergent

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( Mr Fool so cute... )

(Oh... should I call you 'Zhuo Mingrui' in this world )

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I finally had a breakthrough with understanding how Hermes in the Lotm donghua works! (ฅ>ω<*ฅ)

Or at least I've discovered a pattern to it. Visual explanation time!

In the beginning, Hermes didn't make any sense because as you can see, directly translated hermes doesn't give you words like Ancient Hermes and Loenese does. With the exception of the mid episode info slides, every other time hermes appeared it looked like gibberish. (-_-;)

But earlier this week I suddenly had a breakthrough! ＼(^o^)／

I was trying to see if there was any connection between the Chinese characters and the hermes. I discovered that when the characters were spelled out in the latin alphabet, the first letter of each character matched the hermes letters and always ended on the same last letter.

As you can see in the picture, this pattern fits almost every time we see Hermes, to the point where it's hard to call it a coincidence.

Btw, I literally know next to no Chinese at all and only discovered this through guessing my way through google translate.

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So that's the usual Hermes pattern, which means that it usually doesn't give you any new info.

That changed with the intro of the slumber charm.

Suddenly I had to try figure out the characters based on only the Hermes letters. Which is kinda hard when you don't know the language at all. (；´∀｀)

Alone, I could only guess that the CMN could be "Chén MiáN" (沉眠) which can be translated to 'Deep sleep/slumber'. Which could fit. But the rest? I couldn't solve alone. (-_-;)

Thankfully I got some help from zeeshiry on Reddit! (๑•̀ㅁ•́๑)✧

Who knows some Chinese and with her help we were able to come up with some theories about the writing on the charm!

Our current theory is that 'HYECMN' is split into two, 'HYE' and 'CMN'.

Because 'HYE' could mean "Hēi yè" (黑夜) which can mean 'Black night' and is also the characters used for 'Evernight'.

Basically, this means that 'HYECMN' can stand for "Hēiyè Chénmián" (黑夜沉眠). Meaning "Black night deep sleep/slumber" or "Evernight deep sleep/slumber". Both of which feel like they'd fit the slumber charm.

As for the rest of the text on the charm...

It's harder to tell because we don't know how it's supposed to be read. Additionally, 'NNS' is almost impossible with the current pattern because practically no Chinese characters ends with S.

So one theory for NNS that Zeeshiry came with was that it could be rearranged into NSN, which could be "Nü shén" (女神) meaning 'Goddess'.

If this is the case, then a possible translation of the other hermes text on the charm could be:

H -> "Hēi" (黑) [Black]

YE -> "YÈ" (夜) [Night]

CMN  -> "Chén MiáN" (沉眠) [Deep sleep]

HYE -> "HēiYÈ" (黑夜) [Evernight]

NNS (NSN) -> "Nü ShéN" (女神) [Goddess]

That is currently our best guess and theory, even if it doesn't match perfectly with the previous pattern. It's the best we could come up with until we learn more about charms.

If you have any better suggestions, then please share.

Even though there's still a lot unsolved about Hermes, I'm honestly just really proud I discovered anything at all. It really confused me in the beginning and it's so satisfying to have been able to find a possible key to decoding hermes.

This might not seem like a big deal to casual veiws, but to us who've hit a wall of confusion whenever we tried translating Hermes, this is a significant discovery.

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"After all... I am just a dog." ― Lord of Mysteries: The Clown, Episode 4

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Lord of Mysteries - episode 4

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Lord of Mysteries - episode 4

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Lord of Mysteries - episode 4

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Susie & Audrey Hall ♔ Lord of Mysteries: The Clown, Episode 4

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"If an animal were to drink a Sequence 9 Potion, what would happen?" ― Lord of Mysteries: The Clown, Episode 4

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I'm finally here with the collection of translations of Loenese/Hermes from Lotm episode 3! (ฅ>ω<*ฅ)

Sorry it took a while, but I was really trying hard to decifer the Hermes on the Slumber charms. (；´∀｀)

Good news is: I actually might've cracked how most of the Hermes language works! •̀.̫•́✧

It isn't just gibberish and there's actually logic behind it.

Bad news is: Still haven't figured out the slumber charm. m(_ _;)m

Unfortunate, but I'm honestly just enjoying the feeling of having figured out at least something about Hermes to be too hung up on it. I won't give up on solving it, just can't yet.

If you're curious about what I discovered about how Hermes works, I plan on making a separate post for that because I need to explain a bit for it to make sense.

But for now, I hope you enjoy this small collection!

Even if it feels a bit unfinished (sometimes, some text is simply too blurry for even me to guess what is written).

See y'all in the comments or on the next translation post! (ฅ>ω<*ฅ)

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LEONARD MITCHELL [ 伦纳德·米切尔 ]

LORD OF THE MYSTERIES · 诡秘之主 (2025)

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LEONARD MITCHELL [ 伦纳德·米切尔 ]

LORD OF THE MYSTERIES · 诡秘之主 (2025)

#02. beyonder · 非凡