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I didn’t think I was going to be able to decipher the alphabet in Overlord because there was very little on-screen text whose meaning could be guessed. That is, until episode 6 of season 3 showed the sign of the establishment known to be called “Singing Apple”:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord8.jpg)
Most of the on-screen text was clearly English, so the rest of the alphabet was easily deciphered from the Adventurer’s Guild notice board:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord10.jpg)
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord9.jpg)
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Overlord17.jpg)
Only some background text appears to be gibberish:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OverLord1.jpg)
Scrolls appear to be recycled text:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OverLord2-5.jpg)
The rest of the characters were identified from the legends on a few maps:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord5.jpg)
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord4.jpg)
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord3.jpg)
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Overlord2-1.jpg)
All the text in every magic circles seems to be “firewall”.
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord7.jpg)
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord6.jpg)
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord13.jpg)
There is some text that appears to be in other alphabets, such as on the coins:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord2.jpg)
and in Eight Fingers’ ransom letter:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/OverLord11.jpg)
There’s no clear frame of the Eight Fingers’ logo, but from what is visible it seems the text on it is all gibberish:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Overlord16.jpg)
The season IV opening has some text that is mostly romanized Japanese names, unfortunately partially obscured, but surprisingly offers the first clear and unambiguous example of “X”:
![](https://truefork.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ASW-Overlord-IV-02-1080p-HEVC4D275EEE.mkv_snapshot_01.58_2022.07.14_00.00.10-1024x576.jpg)