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LANGUAGES
Every character begins with a Primary Language (indicated by his Heritage) which he can speak without accent and be immediately accepted as a member of its native community. According to his Heritage, he will also be given a Secondary Language which is usually English, so that all PC'S can operate in the Kingdom of Nessex and also speak with each other.
Ancient languages include: Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Avestan, and Aramaic.
Bards who chose the correct archetype feature gain a number of spoken languages according to their CHA.
No one need ever make a check in his Primary Language. In a Secondary Language, the DM may call for a check in an important and complex conversation (Charisma).
Reading an important or complex scholarly text may require an INT check at DM judgement.
A character can learn a new language, with a teacher or by immersion by making 6 successful INT checks, each made after a month of dedicated work.
No one known has yet deciphered the Atlantean writings found in the ruins without magical means.
LANGUAGE LIST:
- Arabic: Semitic language of Arab world and Muslim Scholarship
- Aramaic: Semitic language of Syria, widely used scholarly tongue.
- Avestan: This language is known only from its use as the language of Zoroastrian scripture (the Avesta), from which it derives its name.
- Basque: language of Navarre and the Basque tribes of NE Spain
- Berber: native language of Moors of North Africa.
- Breton; Celtic language of Brittany (partially intelligible with Welsh)
- Catalan: Romance Language of Eastern Spain (mutually intelligible with Occitan, partially with Spanish)
- English: Germanic Language of England and Nessex. Also called Anglo-Saxon.
- French: Romance Language of France (partially intelligible with Occitan)
- Gaelic: Celtic language of Highland Scotland (mostly intelligible with Irish)
- German: Represents variety of dialects of the Holy Roman Empire.
- Greek: language of the Byzantine Empire and the New Testament, widely used scholarly tongue.
- Hungarian: language of the Kingdom of Hungary
- Irish: Celtic language of Ireland (mostly intelligible with Scots Gaelic)
- Italian: Romance language of Italian peninsula (partially intelligible with Occitan, Catalan and Spanish)
- Latin: ancestral tongue of the Romance dialects, used extensively by the Church.
- Norse: common tongue of the Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders, Vinlanders
- Occitan: Romance Dialect of Southern France (mutually intelligible with Catalan, partially with French)
- Sanskrit: An ancient Indo-European language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian (Indic) languages are derived.
- Scots: dialect of Lowland Scotland (mutually intelligble with English, mostly)
- Spanish: Romance dialect of northern/western Spanish (partially intelligible with Catalan)
- Welsh: Celtic language of the Wales Peninsula (partially intelligible with Breton)