So I don't have the book yet...

Waiting for funds to transfer to my account first, but some people have started translating Grimoire NieR. Which is good, since now I can stop making up theories that are completely wrong~

Anyways, in a previous post, I thought that the "13 pacts" referred to DOD. Well, I don't think I'm completely wrong in that aspect since there were pacts in DOD. Not to mention that going for Ending E, everything turns monochrome and the entry mentioned "Black, and White.". Pretty easy for someone who didn't have the book and had prior DOD knowledge to think that. Turns out that the 13 pacts referred to the process where the Grimoires were created. Exactly that number, and you encounter 3 of them in-game. Rubrum, Weiss and Noir. Latin, German and French. Hm. ... I think it's Latin since it looks similar to Rubedo, probably from the same base. Not an expert in languages (in fact, I suck at them save for English).

Anyways, the translations are on-going on the PS3 NIER boards. The other ones are dead compared to that one.

Other things that finally came up from the book. The White Chlorination Syndrome (WCS) appeared when the "Giant" (Queen Grotesquery) and the "Red Dragon" (Angel/Angelus) appeared. They did see Caim, but didn't really care about it. They couldn't figure out what the giant and dragon were made of. The WCS causes people to go berserk if they don't outright die from it. Eventually, they turn into the Legion, made of SALT. The Red Eye is the "leader" of Legion and has a sense of self and can direct them to attack. So I wasn't completely wrong when I thought that Red Eye and Legion were the same thing...

And on the topic of the Black Scrawl. It appears on Replicants whose originals/Gestalts were already corrupted. Yonah was an unsuccessful case of the Gestalt process, so she was considered corrupted and all of her Replicants would have the Black Scrawl no matter what. Nier was a successful case, becoming the Original Gestalt. This is because the Replicant body is created from the data of the Gestalt. If the Gestalt process was unsuccessful, then the Replicant would also be corrupted, resulting in the Black Scrawl manifesting.


Hm. That's all I'll do for now. I wonder when everything will be translated and ready for proofreading? Will they even need a proofreader? Well, a user said that they'd love more volunteers, so...