Editing Typhonian Reach (section)

== Languages ==


Humanity being only a few centuries old, all humans still speak a variant of the old anak slave-tongue. By now, dispersal has made some accents and dialects nigh unintelligible, but the Tower of Babel has not quite yet fallen. If a human tongue is really far removed from the main source, I might call for an Intelligence check.
 
Most of the prehumans had their own languages, which some sorcerers and scholars have unearthed. Also, the spirits, elementals, and other Powers of the world sometimes have their own secret languages. Finally, the burgeoning cults and secret societies in the cities sometimes develop their own cipher-tongues for use among themselves. (Fact to be able to decipher 2 + Intelligence bonus unusual tongues if you’ve run across them, or automatic if it’s appropriate from another Fact: e.g., Illuminos is going to know what he needs to know to function as a sorcerer.)
                                                                                                                                                
Those with Command, like Ama, can of course speak to and understand all sapient beings.