Isles of Sea and Sky

Isles of Sea and Sky

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Glyph Dictionary
By hide?
A quick translation of the different glyphs and what they represent from the Mysterious Update. Spoilers ahead!
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Islands
World Map vs Glyphs not all are pictured but it helps to visualize at a high level.


Large Islands 5 x 5

Glyph
Meaning



Rock Island - Stoney Cliffs



Water Island - Tidal Reef



Fire Island - Raging Volcano



Wind Island - Frozen Spire

Medium Islands 3x3

I know I'm missing Serpent's Stack, but I couldn't find the glyph or map in game so I'm leaving it out. Note: Serpent's Stack doesn't have an in game map.

Glyph
Meaning


Ending Island - Sanctum


Beginning Island - Ancient Island




Serpent's Stack

Mini Islands 2 x 2 or smaller

I also couldn't find the glyph for Eastern Shoal, I think all of the mysteries there use more environmental clues matching with other screens compared to a step by step glyph guide.

Glyph
Meaning




Small Rock Island - Rolling Rock




Small Water Island - Sunken Island



Small Fire Island - Aggro Crab



Small Wind Island - Sea Nunatak



Star Topic




Lost Landing




Forgotten Lagoon



Beast Ridge


Time Block Island - Locked Key
Directions
Screens
After heading to a specific island/location, you may need to move to a nearby screen according to these glyphs. Screens are represented with two dashed lines with a bar in the specific direction.

Glyph
Meaning
Left Screen
Right Screen
Up Screen
Down Screen

Steps
You can see footsteps in general when walking over magma. Toes are the wider part with a skinnier heel in the back. It can look a bit backwards, but just remember the wider side is facing forward.

Glyph
Meaning
John
Left Step
Gitte
Right Step
Sussie
Up Step
Sussie
Down Step

Push
Glyph
Meaning
Push Up (against wall)
Push Down (on button)
Blocks
Glyph
Meaning



Wood Block



Crystal Block



Ice Block



Combustion Block



Cloud Block
Buttons
Glyph
Meaning




Blue Button




Purple Button




Green Button




Orange Button
Elementals
Glyphs with the different elementals can mean making them match a picture, be in a certain spot, or to push the elemental according to different footstep directions.

Glyph
Meaning



Rock Guy



Water Guy



Fire Guy



Wind Guy
Environmental
Here are some specific environmental glyphs.

Glyph
Meaning



Hole



Spikes




Rock



Stairs




Key



Obsidian



Star




Portal



Whirlpool
Music Notes
Not to be confused with the music notes on the same screen as the various musical instruments. Using Water Music as an example, from lowest to highest notes, but as you can see it will work with other instruments as well.








Glyph
Meaning




Blue - Lowest Note



Green - Lower Note



Yellow - Middle Note



Orange - Higher Note



Red - Highest Note
Flags
These flags are the markers you can place on the map. Use the same button to add a flag to cycle through the different flag colors/shapes.



















Glyph
Meaning
Orange Flag
Example
So even with all of these glyphs, there can still be confusion on what it means. I'll break down a small glyph phrase step-by-step to see how it fits together.

Here's the example in Sea Nunatak B-1 referring to a pattern in Sunken Island A-1













Glyph
Meaning
Sunken Island
One Screen Down to A-1
Step right, up, right, up, right.

This won't be exactly where you enter the room, look for any kind of spiral/pattern that matches with these steps. In this case, it's the water puddle in the center of the screen.
Sussie
Reward is a key.

If no reward is at the end, it is associated with the pyramidion collectible and can have additional steps in the room.

Let me know if there's anything I missed, I'll do my best to update inline.

8 Comments
titouan.gerbier 9 Sep @ 7:25am 
You save me thks
Engamer01 31 Aug @ 11:33am 
Then I probably need to do that last as I work through the remaining glyph puzzles. Thank you for putting together this guide to help others navigate through the Mysterious Update! :)
hide?  [author] 31 Aug @ 11:23am 
Ah! That's "unique" to your save file as it's not on my screen. It's part of the meteorite community puzzle
Engamer01 31 Aug @ 8:33am 
Here's a screenshot (the glyph is to the right of the main character): https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3559635608
hide?  [author] 31 Aug @ 2:42am 
Hmm, I'm not sure what sun glyph you mean, do you have a screenshot of the icon?
Engamer01 29 Aug @ 4:43pm 
There is a sun-looking icon, but I have no idea of what it represents. It can be found on Raging Volcano A-1 after the original wall mural fades. The icon will appear on a rock after the wall mural fades out.
commietommie 26 Aug @ 1:00pm 
This is super helpful! I totally had the step directions backwards!
Siluni 24 Aug @ 3:58am 
Missing the snake icon https://ibb.co/dq1srcy for snake island i think