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Languages

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There are many languages throughout Aether Spira. Languages are categorized as common, uncommon, rare and unique.

Learning a language requires 1 month of study and skill roll of 15 for a common language, 20 for an uncommon language, and 25 for a rare language. This difficulty increases by 5 if the language is dead or unique or if you are not the correct type of creature meant to speak it (or by 10 if two of these things are true or by 15 if all three are true). For example, creatures that do not have the Aquatic or Water type have difficulty speaking Hydros.

You can repeat these attempts as many times as you like. Having a teacher or tome to study give you a circumstance bonus to these rolls. Once you've learned a language, you become able to communicate casually with it, requiring a skill roll of the same DC -5 to do so. If you learn a language again while already knowing it, you become fluent in it, requiring no such roll to communicate with it again.

The maximum number of languages you can know is 2 + half your Cipher (Linguistics) or Civilization (Lore: Society) modifier, whichever is greater. If you learn more languages than this, you forget whichever you haven't used in the longest time.

Language	Rarity	Spoken by
Abyssal	Rare	Great old ones, eldritch horrors
Aeros	Uncommon	Air elementals
Aklo	Rare	A secretive language spoken by aberrations and occult spellcasters
Ancient	Uncommon	A dead language supposedly spoken by the first mortals of Aether Spira
Astral	Uncommon	Astrals and space travelers.
Boggart	Common	Amphibians native to the southwestern swamplands.
Brail	Uncommon	Written-only language using bumps or engravings
Celestial	Rare	Angels
Common	Common	The most commonly spoken language on Aether Spira.
Deep Speech	Rare	Aberrations, deep ones, occult spellcasters.
Diabolic	Rare	Demons, hags, witches.
Digital	Uncommon	Androids, automatons, robots
Draconic	Uncommon	Dragons, draconians, lizardfolk
Druidic	Rare	A secretive language spoken by primal casters, plantfolk such as dryads, huldra, leshy, and treants.
Dwarven	Common	Dwarves. Dwarven runes are the most common kind on magic items.
Elven	Common	Elves, the first mortal descendants of the fey.
Empyreal	Rare	Archons
Enochian	Rare	Devas
Gaios	Uncommon	earth elementals
Gnomish	Common	Gnomes and gnolls (gnome-sized dog-like creatures)
Goblin	Common	Goblins, gremlins, and other goblinoids
High-speech	Rare	A secretive language spoken by arcane spellcasters, arcane outsiders
Hive-speech	Uncommon	Girtablilu, melissalaiki, myrmidons, and other bug-like beings
Hobbish	Common	Hobs
Hydros	Uncommon	Water elementals
Infernal	Rare	Devils
Jotun	Common	Giants
Kappan	Common	Kappas
Kashan	Common	Kashas
Kobold	Common	Kobolds
Lumin	Uncommon	photoluminous creatures
Lunaric	Uncommon	aka "moon speech", werecreatures
Nagan	Common	Naga, serpentfolk
Orcish	Common	goblins, ogres, oni, orcs, trolls
Protean	Rare	proteans, titans, beings of chaos
Pyros	Uncommon	Fire elementals
Ursine	Common	Arktos, bjorn, onikuma, riksa, werebears
Sign	Common	Language of hand signals used to communicate visually only
Solaric	Uncommon	aka "sun speech", solars
Sylvan	Uncommon	Bakemono, forest cryptids, greenfolk
Tauric	Common	centaurs, fauns, and minotaurs
Tengu	Common	harpies, tengu
Thief Cant	Uncommon	criminals, smugglers, thieves, tricksters, undercover law enforcement
Thumps	Uncommon	Language of taps and pauses used to communicate through solid surfaces
Undercommon	Common	Denizens of Agartha (Hollow Earth)
Vanara	Common	Vanara, yeti
Wulveric	Common	Wulver

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Common Languages

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Common languages are spoken by the mortal races native to Aether Spira. Most characters can learn common languages with a high Intelligence modifier but not uncommon or rare languages.

Western Languages: Bjorn, Boggart, Elven, Gnoll, Wulveric
Northern Languages: Dwarven, Giant, Goblin, Orcish
Midland Languages: Gnomish, Hobbish, Jambavani, Rougarou
Eastern Languages: Kappan, Kashan, Kitsune, Tengu, Vanarese
Southern Languages: Draconic, Kashan, Kobold

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Uncommon Languages

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Uncommon languages are rarer than common languages but are still considered common enough to be learned or heard of at large. In order to learn an uncommon language, a character must start with it at 1st level from their race or invest 1 rank in the Linguistics skill.

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Rare Languages

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Rare languages are dead languages, languages from alien or extraplanar sources, secretive languages, or simply so obscure they're nearly impossible to find. Not only can characters only learn rare languages by investing 1 rank in the Linguistics skill, they must encounter the language in-game and learn it from a teacher or special book designed to teach the language.

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