Languages

There are many languages found in Sitiath. The vast majority of the common races speak common as well as any racially associated language, and most cultures grant knowledge of one or more languages. The following is a list of languages. They, along with the most common users of those languages and the alphabets they use, are listed in the table below. This list is not absolute, other languages can and do exist.

==== The elemental language has distinct dialects corresponding to 3 of the elements that make up the elemental plane. They are Auran (air), Ignan (fire), and Terran (earth). When you choose to know the elemental language, choose the dialect that you know best. While you can communicate with creatures using the other dialects, miscommunication is possible. You can learn a different dialect in the same way that you can learn any other language. After the Great Catastrophe and creation of the aquans, the aquan dialect became much more heavily used than the other dialects and has since morphed into it's own separate language. ====

Learning Languages
Languages take time to learn. In order to learn a language, one must first find someone who knows the language and is willing to teach it. One must then study a language for one full level. The next time they level up, they make a Decipher Script check. If they succeed at an Uninitiated (T#11) check, they are one-third of the way to learning the language; an Initiated (T#17) check gets them two-thirds of the way there; and a Novice (T#23) check lets them learn the language. The results are cumulative, so three successful Uninitated checks (after 3 levels), or a successful Uninitiated and Initiated check (after 2 levels), and they learn the language. Remember that someone of Uninitiated status cannot succeed on Novice checks, regardless of the dice. Someone who is one or two thirds of the way to learning a language knows enough of it to speak at least a broken form of it and read a little of it.