Editing Dwimmermount: If Trouble Was Money (section)

=== Languages ===

The following are available languages:

*Common: A widespread language descended from Low Thulian. In the years following the collapse of the Empire, Common came to be used as a trade and diplomatic language between the various
city-states and nations that arose from the empire’s ashes. Common shows much local variation in orthography and vocabulary, so there is a 1 in 6 chance that a speaker of one dialect may either
misunderstand the speaker of another or fail to convey his own meaning, if the speaker has not familiarized himself with the new dialect beforehand. Nevertheless, knowledge of any dialect of
Common is usually sufficient to get by in all but the most remote or far-flung regions previously governed by the Thulian Empire (and in many regions outside it).
*Low Thulian: A largely unwritten, non-standard form of Thulian spoken by the lower classes and conquered subject peoples of the Thulian Empire. Its grammar is considerably simpler than High Thulian, and its vocabulary includes many foreign words.
*High Thulian: An elegant, highly-inflected language with a rich native vocabulary and literature, High Thulian was the language of the literary class during the Thulian Empire. It is spoken by aristocrats and scholars in the City-States, and preserved in the liturgy of the Great Church.
*Ancient Thulian: The ancestor of High Thulian, Ancient Thulian has a relatively small vocabulary but an exceptionally complex grammar. Spoken by the Thulian barbarians who conquered the Eld, it
is today the preserve of sages and the Great Church, whose earliest holy books are scribed in it.
*Beastial: Spoken by gnolls, orcs, lizardmen, et cetera.
*Elven: the liquid, lilting tongue of the elves.
*Dwarven: A workmanlike language of curt words with a highly regular and efficient grammar. 
*The fast and guttural language of goblins bears no resemblance to any other language on Telluria, including beastial. Goblin's strange, transpositional grammar is difficult for even sages to learn, although the dumbest goblin masters it easily. Goblins insist that theirs is the only native language on Telluria. 
*Sages theorize that there may be a Precursor language underlying the similarities between Ancient Thulian, Dwarven, and Elven, perhaps the tongue spoken by the Great Ancients. If so, no one known to man speaks it. The secrets of this language must lay sealed away deep in the earth.
*Giant, Draconic, Fey (spoken by pixies, nixies, dryads, et cetera), Elemental (spoken by djinn, efreets, elementals, et cetera), Infernal (spoken by demons and devils),  and so forth are also available, but note that a LOT of humanoid languages are subsumed into Beastman dialects.