Drift Encoding¶

The void does not announce itself. It corrupts the name before you know the name is wrong.

Every entity in VOID-SPACE has a True Name — clean, grounded, legible. But as The Current rises around a platform, its name begins to drift. High-Pe entities appear as runic noise to players who haven't earned True Read. Low-Pe entities appear clean.

This is not aesthetic. It is the world's physics rendered in text.

The Corruption Scale¶

The Current (Pe)	Name	What you see
Pe < 1.0	Clear	`FEMTO`
Pe 1.0–2.5	Interference	`FEMᛏO`
Pe 2.5–4.0	Partial Drift	`ᚠEMᛏᛟ`
Pe 4.0–8.0	Full Drift	`ᚠᛖᛗᛏᛟ`
Pe ≥ 8.0	Void Noise	`ᚠ̷ᛖ̴ᛗ̸ᛏ̵ᛟ̶`

Numbers never corrupt. Pe measurements, coordinates, timestamps — the framework's language resists drift.

The Substitution Table¶

The encoding is a consistent cipher derived from Elder Futhark. It is learnable. Players who score regularly begin to read it automatically — this is True Read developing in real time.

Latin	Rune	Futhark	Meaning
A	ᚨ	Ansuz	Communication, breath
B	ᛒ	Berkanan	Growth, containment
C	ᚲ	Kaunan	Fire, visibility (or its absence)
D	ᛞ	Dagaz	Threshold, the liminal
E	ᛖ	Ehwaz	Partnership, movement
F	ᚠ	Fehu	Wealth extraction
G	ᚷ	Gebo	Gift-debt, obligation
H	ᚺ	Hagalaz	Disruption
I	ᛁ	Isa	Ice, stasis, frozen drift
J	ᛃ	Jera	Cycle, harvest
K	ᚲ	Kaunan	(same as C)
L	ᛚ	Laguz	Water, flow, The Current
M	ᛗ	Mannaz	The human, the player
N	ᚾ	Nauthiz	Constraint, necessity
O	ᛟ	Othalan	Inheritance, enclosure
P	ᛈ	Perthro	Hidden, fate
R	ᚱ	Raidho	Journey, the path
S	ᛊ	Sowilo	Sun, clarity, scoring
T	ᛏ	Tiwaz	Justice, the Prohibition
U	ᚢ	Uruz	Strength
V	ᚹ	Wunjo	Joy, the Pull
W	ᚹ	Wunjo	(same as V)
X	ᛉ	Algiz	Protection, boundary
Y	ᚣ	Yr	Arc, trajectory
Z	ᛉ	Algiz	(same as X)

The Godhand Five at Full Void Noise¶

At Pe ≥ 8.0 — Pandemonium threshold — combining diacritics layer over the runes. These entities cannot be read without True Read III:

ᚹ̷ᛟ̴ᛁ̸ᛞ̵        VOID         Pe=15+
ᚢ̷ᛒ̴ᛁ̸ᚲ̵        UBIK         Pe=12+
ᛊ̷ᛚ̴ᚨ̸ᚾ̵        SLAN         Pe=80
ᚲ̷ᛟ̴ᚾ̸ᚱ̵ᚨ̶ᛞ̷      CONRAD       Pe=10+
ᚠ̷ᛖ̴ᛗ̸ᛏ̵ᛟ̶        FEMTO        Pe variable

True Read — Earning the Sight¶

You don't learn to read the drift by reading about it.

Tier	Clears	How to earn
True Read I	Pe < 4.0 (Interference + Partial Drift)	First ICC-accepted platform score
True Read II	Pe < 8.0 (Full Drift)	7-day scoring streak
True Read III	Pe ≥ 8.0 (Void Noise / Godhand class)	10 ICC-accepted scores, mean True Read ≥ 0.75

The Inverted Void Exception¶

Some entities render in reverse drift — the corruption IS the true name. These are the Inverted Voids: entities that reached maximum Pe and then named themselves through it.

At Pe=0 (full transparency achieved), their encoded form IS their name. True Read III doesn't clear the corruption — it reveals that the corruption was always the signal.

"Maximum transparency is indistinguishable from maximum void to someone who hasn't done the work."

Writing Drift-Encoded Lore¶

Community contributors are encouraged to write wiki lore in drift-encoded form for high-Pe entities. This is canon — the wiki IS the game world.

To encode your text: Use the substitution table above, or copy the runes directly from this page.

Pe conventions for wiki lore: - Apostle class (Pe 6–9): use Full Drift (ᚠᛖᛗᛏᛟ) - Godhand class (Pe ≥ 12): use Void Noise (ᚠ̷ᛖ̴ᛗ̸ᛏ̵ᛟ̶) - Named campaign antagonists: match the campaign's Pe baseline (see Campaigns) - Low-Pe entities, grounded platforms: write clean

Structural names (ALEPH, MIRU, KIRU, XENIA, KAIROS) always render clean. They are constraint forces — invariant by definition. Drift cannot corrupt them.

For contributors

Drift-encoded lore signals Pe level to readers before they read a word. Write the enemy's name in its corruption and you've already communicated where on the scale it sits. This is the game's language — learn to write it.