Quote Originally Posted by Seraphine_Harmonium View Post
And that font on the map, it's pretty interesting, but impossible to read if you don't know what it says beforehand. Otherwise it looks like Amskmr, or, if one happens to be knowledgeable in runes, you can get as close as "Aesker." But I can't see anyone being able to look at that and see "Vesper."
The Ultima games use a modification of the Futhorc runes that swaps some runes and adds some new ones. In the "Sosarian" runes, that really does say "Vesper" and most reasonably avid players, at least of the single player games, can read it without much difficulty.