Glyph Book

The Glyph Book is an item obtained in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. It allows the player to read certain stone tablets written in the language of the ancients.

Encyclopedia entry


 * This tome is a primer to the lost language of the ancients. It was kept safe in Konpa so that future generations could learn its legacy.

The glyphs translated by this book are notable for being actually translatable. In English versions of the game, there is a one-to-one mapping between glyphs and alphabet characters. For example the letter 'e' maps to a symbol that looks like λ. All other letters are uniquely mapped to an English alphabet character. Glyphs are not case-sensitive.

After observing these characters, it is possible to translate sections of glyphs that the game does not automatically translate.

A prominent example of this is the red book seen in the menu screen. This book has some glyphs on its cover and inside has the three save slots. The title of this book is "Golden Sun", written in glyphs.