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(spoilers)

...You know Augustus died, right?

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Inuktitut symbols represent consonants. To represent vowels, the symbol is simply turned around: Upward to represent the "i" sound, left for "a", etc. It's actually based off of an earlier syllabary originally used for the Cree language. I think Wikipedia can explain it better than I can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuktitut_syllabics

And it's parent writing system, the wiki page for this has nice diagrams: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics