Word

The Word is what hunters call the strange symbols that they alone can understand. The ability to create and understand these symbols was given to them by the messengers.

System
When the messengers chose to imbune a person they give them two abilities by default, Second Sight and the ability to understand the Word. What is interesting about the Word is that any hunter who looks at it instantly understands it's meaning despite never having seen the image before. The exact meaning behind each symbol depends on the creators intent, meaning that a symbol for haven could have different meanings depending on hte creator. What is also interesting is that the supernatural don't seem to notice the symbols, suggesting that the messengers have designed the Word to be invisible to non-hunters, although several incidents of monsters discovering the code have been recorded. However any symbol not created by a hunter cause any hunter who looks at it to know that something is wrong and the symbol is fake.

Creed Symbols
Although there is a general list of symbols that is understood by all hunters, there are several ones that are seem to only be understood by members of the same virtue. Some hunters speculate that this is because members of the other virtues don't understand what the message is all about. For example an Innocent would know about the fury that an Avenger has, while the Avenger wouldn't know about the compassion of a Redeemer.

Creating new symbols
A unique ability avalaible only to Visionaries is the ability to create a new symbol. In order to do this the Visionary must have a clear idea of their vision and spend Conviction over an extended period of time. Any Hunter who views this symbol will instantly know what that hunters Vision is. What's even more impressive is that the first several symbols that the Visionary creates makes a pyshic link back to them, allowing them a vauge idea of what is happening around that symbol.

Links
Hunter Code Quick Reference - A list of most of the Word.