Is Henry Dyslexic?

[Juicy Lime]

I ask because, When you really think about it, A bunch of words in texts are jumbled and backwards (ironically mostly only the easy ones like "the")

Does he ever make sense of the words and destroy the typos with reading levels, or is this a permanent thing?

[YOGI]

HENRY is Illiterate as he's a PEASANT to start with..and did not LEARN to read/write....only LORDS/KNIGHTS/KINGS/MONKS Read/write in Medieval Times...Question is..."Do you THINK...you can get HENRY to Learn to Read and Write...by Making Him stronger/smarter/tougher/etc. along with Being Recognized by the Kings/Nobles he talks to? (HINT HINT)....Ah well....Your GONNA have to PLAY as Henry...and FIND out.....RIGHT?

[YOGI]

Psst....IM not a game spoiler..so Hang in there 53rd...Game on Dude...but DONT rush along...talk to people ok....Seeya...(you tube has game spoilers if your REALLY REALLY STUCK)...

[Juicy Lime]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

Psst....IM not a game spoiler..so Hang in there 53rd...Game on Dude...but DONT rush along...talk to people ok....Seeya...(you tube has game spoilers if your REALLY REALLY STUCK)...

I'm done the entire game except side quests.

[Juicy Lime]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

HENRY is Illiterate as he's a PEASANT to start with..and did not LEARN to read/write....only LORDS/KNIGHTS/KINGS/MONKS Read/write in Medieval Times...Question is..."Do you THINK...you can get HENRY to Learn to Read and Write...by Making Him stronger/smarter/tougher/etc. along with Being Recognized by the Kings/Nobles he talks to? (HINT HINT)....Ah well....Your GONNA have to PLAY as Henry...and FIND out.....RIGHT?

uhhhh... yeah, but he learned how to read by way of scribe, and I doubt the scribe would leave him off mistaking "the" for "teh"

[Evol_Prodigy]

Yes.

[Paco]

I haven't gotten that far yet, but historically speaking there wasn't a standardized way of writing until the dictionary was created way after the middle ages. So back then everyone's writing was based entirely on sounding out the words. Look up a middle ages hymn or poem online, it's actually hilarious trying to read them because they'll make no sense unless you say it out loud

[CloudSeeker]

Do you think being dyslextic means words are jumbled? HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! No, no it isn't. I have had it all my life and it really isn't. Being dyslextic also doesn't mean you can't read and write. When I got my grades back in the day I was able to destory other people in reading and writing. It is all a matter of how much energy and time it takes to do it.

[Hammer Of Evil]

for a peasant who had a week long lecture with some scholar, henry is doing pretty good. it's not like he had 12 years of training.

[Darc]

Originally posted by mattdilllon:

HENRY is Illiterate as he's a PEASANT to start with..and did not LEARN to read/write....only LORDS/KNIGHTS/KINGS/MONKS Read/write in Medieval Times...Question is..."Do you THINK...you can get HENRY to Learn to Read and Write...by Making Him stronger/smarter/tougher/etc. along with Being Recognized by the Kings/Nobles he talks to? (HINT HINT)....Ah well....Your GONNA have to PLAY as Henry...and FIND out.....RIGHT?

IS it NECCESARY to... TYPE... like this AT ALL....
Sorry to be off-topic but this was just hard to read.

On topic: Henry starts out completely illiterate and it is all a jumbled mess. Once he's learned how to read he can begin to learn from just from reading. Since most books only require time it's a good idea to set a few days aside and to buy a handful of books to read and train your reading level. It's kinda like all of Henry's other skills. He starts off incompetent and clumsy but by training it you can potientally master it.

[Azunai]

i actually found the jumbled letters a funny idea to represent the lacking reading skills of the player character.

i noticed that the random jumbling becomes less frequent as the reading skill improves. i guess if you get the skill high enough it will go away altogether. or become infrequent enough to not notice

[Juicy Lime]

Originally posted by Hammer of Evil:

for a peasant who had a week long lecture with some scholar, henry is doing pretty good. it's not like he had 12 years of training.

Blacksmith.

[TheSaboteur]

Maybe the lexicon is different to match the time period. The spelling of certain words have changed throughout time so maybe the developers took that into account. Consider this. Often in medieval times, there was a "language barrier" between the common folk and the nobility. The best example are nobles knowing latin as well as their native country's language. It's meant to differentiate them further so perhaps the written portion is in the noble version. Henry might only know the common version of words and will have trouble understanding the subtle differences between the two types.

[theo]

Words are completely messed up when you don't have the reading skill, and it's getting better gradually when you level it up. At a certain skill level (5 or so) you won't see any signs of 'dyslexia'.

You don't need 12 years of training to learn to read. I could read my native language at age 4 before I had any proper education. It depends on genes and I guess it's easier for younger people, but speed learning ain't anything too unrealistic.

[n0mad23]

The misspellings are a way for us, the Player, to experience the diifficulty Henry has as an beginning reader. We stumpble over the misspellings and have to decypher them for meaning.

This isn't the case as Henry becomes more literate.

Not dyslexia, but the Devs trying to replicate the experience for the players I'd guess.