{"id":152,"date":"2013-05-20T18:07:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T00:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/?page_id=152"},"modified":"2015-11-29T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T05:31:14","slug":"secret-codes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/secret-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Codes For Unlocking Free Content!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"goleft\" alt=\"Sample Ogham In Merlin's Blade\" src=\"\/secret\/Ogham_Sample.png\" width=\"200\" \/><strong>If you don&#8217;t already know,<\/strong> at the beginning of every chapter in Merlin&#8217;s Blade is a secret code that wraps around the chapter number. If you translate the code and enter it as a password on the following pages, you can unlock FREE content\u2014such as missing chapters and the historical background to the novel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEP 1: <\/strong>To see the free content, <strong>you must be a MEMBER of King Arthur&#8217;s Feasting Hall<\/strong>. To become a member, please register by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/enter?action=register\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you&#8217;re already a member,<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/enter\">make sure you login<\/a><\/strong> before continuing.<\/p>\n<p>(Note: If you happen to have purchased the e-book version of Merlin&#8217;s Blade, the &#8220;secret code&#8221; graphics were probably not included in your edition. Never fear &#8230; I&#8217;ve made them available to you by <strong><a href=\"\/feastinghall\/ogham-chapter-headings\/\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>STEP 2:<\/strong> Translate the secret messages. Each message is encoded using Robert Treskillard&#8217;s version of Ogham, which is an ancient &#8220;tally-mark&#8221; language carved on standing stones in ancient Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that the standard Ogham has been extended is because it did not include all letters from English, nor did it have any punctuation. Here is the special key that you will need to translate the secret codes in Merlin&#8217;s Blade:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/secret\/Ogham_Cipher_Key.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/secret\/Ogham_Cipher_Key.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>STEP 3:<\/strong> Enter the codes in the following web pages to unlock your free content!<\/p>\n<p>(Note that I only have the first ten chapters worth of free content available at this time. And though I do hope to add more content sometime, I&#8217;m too busy writing the next book in the series at the moment!)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch00\/\">Prologue<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch01\/\">Chapter 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch02\/\">Chapter 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch03\/\">Chapter 3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch04\/\">Chapter 4<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch05\/\">Chapter 5<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch06\/\">Chapter 6<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch07\/\">Chapter 7<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch08\/\">Chapter 8<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/feastinghall\/mbch09\/\">Chapter 9<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t already know, at the beginning of every chapter in Merlin&#8217;s Blade is a secret code that wraps around the chapter number. If you translate the code and enter it as a password on the following pages, you can unlock FREE content\u2014such as missing chapters and the historical background to the novel. STEP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-152","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/152\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kingarthur.org.uk\/feastinghall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}