Prophecy 18

Key

I'm not a programmer, but luckily, people on KryptonSite are and were able to determine that this prophecy is written in hex code. I can't even begin to try to explain (okay, or to even understand) how this translates, so I'll just provide the translation and a link to madCoder's explanation.

Using this key allows the main message to be deciphered. The remaining bits, consisting of letters and numbers, can be deciphered using a technique similar to that used to decode Prophecy 12, Prophecy 13, Prophecy 15, and Prophecy 16. Continue reading...

Translation and Hidden Message

When the key is used to decode the prophecy, this message is revealed:

Thanks for playing and posting. It's been fun. Here's one for the road:

V65I4A3P1W21 V63I48A4P4W14 V65I11A1P3W5.

V66I16A2P8W3 V64I15A1P1W5(i-v)W6(i)W17(i)W19(i,ii).

V66I22A1P3W37.

Beppo will return...

To decipher the middle three lines, it's time to go back to the Ledger archives. In each chunk, V stands for volume, I stands for issue, A stands for article, P stands for paragraph, and W stands for word. To translate each chunk, go to the indicated volume, issue, article, paragraph, and word. That's what must be written down. For the chunk containing small Roman numerals, these indicate which letters of the indicated word are to be used. By doing this,

V65I4A3P1W21 V63I48A4P4W14 V65I11A1P3W5.	translates to	Renowned in battle.
V66I16A2P8W3 V64I15A1P1W5(i-v)W6(i)W17(i)W19(i,ii).	translates to	More desirable.
V66I22A1P3W37.	translates to	Coming.

Interpretation

Thanks for playing and posting. It's been fun. Here's one for the road:

This is self-explanatory, but a nice way to finish off the season's run of prophecies.

Renowned in battle. More desirable. Coming.

Google "renowned in battle" and "more desirable" to find:

LOIS: Biblical name meaning "more desirable." Also variant of Old German name meaning "renowned in battle."

This foreshadowed the appearance of Lois Lane in Smallville; we met the awesome gal in "Crusade," Season 4's premiere. Similar to the meaning of the name 'Lois' found in Prophecy 5.

Beppo will return...

Christopher James Beppo is the man who discovered Ezra Small's writings. More fun Prophecies are to come. THANK YOU, CHRISTOPHER!!!