Our second child was born! So we had to make a new weird shrine with the umbilical cord so we’re not playing favorites.

When our daughter was born we made a shrine in reference to the artifacts you find in the game Bloodborne (see: baby projects).

My wife and I had recently played the game “Chants of Sennaar”, so we decided to make the shrine using glyphs from that game.

The game focusing on decoding a series of languages from glyphs by finding how the glyphs are written and spoken while solving puzzles to progress through a Tower of Babel.

We made a message saying “We love you little XXX” where we wrote out his name using a somewhat creative interpretation of the alchemist language:

https://chantsofsennaar.miraheze.org/wiki/Alchemist_(language)

building on the fan made periodic table.

As a fun update, I got a response from the person who originally made the periodic tables when I posted this on the Chants of Sennaar Reddit:

Oh wow, never imagined this could be an indirect outcome of my going a bit mad and making a periodic table a couple years ago! Many congratulations on your new arrival, and the memento looks beautiful.

A little behind-the-scenes on it - the silicon symbol technically breaks the rules of Alchemist glyphs as the circle on the right ought to be connected to the main symbol, but it looked unsatisfying like that and rules are inevitably broken now and again in languages. It’s meant to be an abstract representation of a logic gate (with the dot as a 0 and circle as a 1), given what I associate with silicon, although that logic probably doesn’t make sense in-universe.

Oxygen is far more straightforward - it’s a nonmetal that incorporates the cross symbol seen in some living things like Plant and Monster. A particularly suitable glyph for a piece celebrating a new life.

Congratulations again!