Chaos Elemental Letter 14

This time, the Chaos Elemental answers to a letter sent in by Catdude61. His original text was:

His text must be read from bottom to top, right to left and is translated as follows (spelling errors corrected for clarity):

Next the Chaos Elemental replied:

This is deciphered into a new text using the following rules:


 * The title is read the same as the letter from Catdude61, completely from right to left.
 * The first word in each line follows the same rule as the original letter, read from the right to the left.
 * In the first line, only words must be read from the right to the left (word order is left to right). Note that the positioning of spaces has been altered.
 * For the second line, every letter has been replaced by the opposite letter in the order of the alphabet. ( A = Z, B = Y, C = X, D = W, etc.)
 * In the third line, the letters in the words shift place by one in the alphabet, each next letter a place more. The first letter is correct, the second letter needs to be shifted once, the third letter twice, and so on.
 * The fourth and fifth line are read from right to left again.
 * The signature follows the same rule as line 3.

Then it says:

Updates from Letter 14

 * From beneath you, it devours. Jungle, desert, ice. Defeating it shall reward many kinds of adventurers.
 * (Strykewyrm Slayer update)

Unreleased updates from Letter 14

 * "The plAnets aRe set to aligN; kith anD kin will fight. More than one judGe is fAted to die thiS yeaR howevEr."
 * The capital letters, when unscrambled, spell "grandmaster". It has been confirmed that there will be a Grandmaster Mysteries of the Mahjarrat quest in the future.
 * "The planets are set to align" is a reference to syzygy, a previously-noted phenomenon that is required for The Ritual of Rejuvenation.
 * "Kith" and "kin" mean "friends" and "family," respectively, and during previous rituals, warfare amongst the Mahjarrat has broken out. "Kin" may also refer to the Dragonkin, who are believed to have come from Freneskae, the same dimension as the Mahjarrat.
 * The Mahjarrat were once known as the Stern Judges of Icthlarin, and as part of the ritual, one of their race must die. The fact that more than one Mahjarrat "is fated to die this year however" means that at least two Mahjarrat will be killed, and since previous rituals have only sacrificed one Mahjarrat, the other death is believed to occur outside of the ritual itself. As for the phrase "this year," it may either refer to Year 169, the RuneScape year which has been the same since RuneScape Classic, or it could refer to calendar year 2010.
 * "The pieces are black and white; like good mysteries they come in fours. But the game is void; there are no Grandmasters here. A temple may sit between the pieces."
 * The appearance of the phrase "the game is void" refers to the Void Knights, who wear black and white. It has been revealed in a Developers' Blog that both a new Void Knight quest series — which will contain three quests — and an additional Void Knight-related activity are currently in development, which references the phrase that, "like all good mysteries, they come in fours."


 * The phrase: "There are no Grandmasters here." hints that the Void-Knight quest series will most likely not contain a Grandmaster Quest.


 * "A temple may sit between the pieces." gives a hint that a temple may be involved in either the quests or the activity, or in both.

Other notes from Letter 14

 * "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!" is a famous palindrome describing the Panama Canal, which joins the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific through the middle of the Americas. This was either a joke by Jagex or a hint that some of the Chaos Elemental's letter should be read backwards. It may also be a reference to the canal and barge being built in the Digsite.