How would I go about solving this cipher? I am not sure this is the right place to post this... recently I was given the following image by my friend in the context of a game we play together. Please note the characters at the bottom.

I would like to figure out what the characters say, but I am not even sure how I would go about it. I suspect it's some sort of cipher where each symbol represents one specific letter. 

What techniques could I use to start trying to figure out what the characters say?
"I suspect it's some sort of cipher where each symbol represents one specific letter."


If your assumption is true then I would recommend frequency analysis, even though this cipher text is rather short.