LANGUAGES - SPOKEN

[kalbaern]

THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGES ARE BEING SET INTO THE CHAT COMMANDS: Please review and let me know if I've missed any.

"Sign Languages" will be just that. The various "Cants" are meant for one or two word phrases at most and should never be used when speaking whole sentences.

"Spoken only languages" are just that. They are not to be used in correspondence and will also have a random cypher when spoken. (IE, they'll not be consitant from word to word when displayed onscreen since no written forms exist)

"Dead Languages" will exist. Using more than one or two words at a time will not be allowed. The Dead Languages will be for cyphering old texts for clues here.


Elven (ready)
Gnomish (ready)
Halfling (ready)
Dwarven (ready)
Orc (ready)
Chondathan (ready)
Draconic (ready)
Animal (ready) (spoken language only)
Druid Speak (ready) (spoken language only)
Thieves' Cant (ready) (sign language)
Assassins' Cant (ready) (sign language)
Harpers' Cant (ready) (sign language)
Celestial (ready) (spoken language only)
Infernal (ready) (spoken language only)
Abyssal (ready) (spoken language only)
Undercommon (ready)
Sylvan (ready) (spoken language only)
Rashemi (ready)
Mulhorandi (ready)
Aglarondan (ready)
Mindani (ready) (spoken language only)
Chessentian (ready)
Shaaran (ready)
Damaran (ready)
Halruaan (ready)
Tuigan (ready) (spoken language only)
Illuskan (ready)
Lantanese (ready)
Tashalan (ready)
Untheric
Turmic
Netherise (dead language)
High Elven (dead language)
Alzhedo (ready)


Let me know if I missed any. No timeline yet on when they'll be finished so bear with me.

Each language that can be "written" needs a unique cypher or alphabet written into our scripts here. (EX: Any time you type "a/A" in elven it appears as "il/ Il" ... etc...) So when you see languages above listed as needing "cyphers" it means I've not yet tackled the mind numbing task of creating their new alphabet yet.

[kalbaern]

Alright .. knocked out a crapload of the languages today. (see the above list)

Last chance for any I missed as I'll likely finish these up this week.

Thorass will be considered an outdated form of Common.

Drow is considered a "dialect" of Elven here.

Let me know if there's any others not on the list yet.

[minion]

it seems that new PC's have the option of choosing languages, can i safely assume that PC's created before this should just get a hold of a DM in-game and ask about widgets? or is there another procedure you would prefer?

[kalbaern]

What will occure once all of our "New PC" scripts are ready is that you'll get ported to rooms whether you're an old or new PC and be marched through the starting system. This will only occure once and we'll pretest it a few times prior to just dropping it in here. Any language widgets will get stripped from a players inventory along with some other old or obsolete items then. As you progress through the steps you'll be reissued some items.

Our two emote widgets are getting combined into one wand. (Thanks to those players that pointed out the overlaps in them to me) The Voice Command Book will be replaced with a Player's Guide instead. The new player's guide will have a brief description and credits along with a "unique power" that when activated will open up a conversation. The conversation will actually cover most of our posted rules here. This way I can add to it or edit errors constantly without having to reissue the books constantly. We'll have chapters on all the various rules and players will have a quick access to them IG rather than having to refer to the forums constantly. I'll also have chapters for looking up specific spell changes here that will check a PCs actual Classes and just display those that apply to the character looking them up. ( I considered using the "journal" like some places do, but the conversation format seems soooo much cleaner and easier to sort through due to it's formatting.) In time we'll add options that will allow a PC to also review info on their "regions" and chosen deity VIA the book too. The Book also will hold and combine some other features in the end. I may combine the emote widgets and a dye kit into it as well so that the book displaces an equal amount space wise of other widgets here.

Once the new scripts are all inplace and ready to go the following will happen here the first time a PC logs in after they are switched on:

1) You'll recieve a message alerting you to the process and then be ported off to our Deity Selector.

2) The Deity Selector will allow you to peruse the Deities available to you by Race, Alignment and Domains if a Cleric.

3) After selecting a Deity you'll get ported to our Region Selector to pick your character's starting region. The region you select will affect starting equipment if a new PC and what possible additional languages you know for old and new PCs.

4) After choosing your Region you'll get ported to the Starting Equipment Selector. You'll see one to three choices of starting equipment each time based on your Region and starting Class here. If your's is an old PC here, you'll not be given new equipment and when you talk to the Equipment NPC you'll simply move on to our Language Selector.

5) After porting to our Language Selector, PCs will be able to choose languages based on their Region and Intelligence bonuses if any. If you've no bonus or don't wish languages at this time, there will be a "finished" option to send you back to our normal start area again.

Unless you've no clue as to which deity you'll select or which region your PC hails from, the whole process should only take a few minutes.

Racial languages are given out already based on your race so your own racial language will not need to be selected. "Animal" is given to Druids and Rangers at specific levels IG automatically as well. All others will be chosen based off of your Region as per the FRCS. You need not select all or any available to start with. Others can be learned through RP IG as you go on.

In the meantime, If anyone wishes they can contact a DM IG and language widgets can be handed out to players needing them right now.

[Wids]

Are there any plans to introduce the elemental languages (Aquan, Auran, Ignan and Terran) to this server? Some people do have fluencies in these languages, including:

1) Elementals, para-elementals and genasi, of course.
2) Sentient races who are closely connected to one of the elements (ie. merfolk, xorn and smoke drakes).
3) Wizards and other arcanists who truck in elementalism.
4) Sorcerers of elemental descent (occasionally).
5) Clerics who serve either the Primordials (Akadi, Grumbar, Istishia and Kossuth) or other gods who govern the elements (ie. Silvanus, Auril, Gond and Umberlee). These languages are often featured in the rites, ceremonies and religious texts of these churches and religions.

Alternately, there is the Primordial language, of which the four elemental languages are mere dialects (so that people who speak the Terran dialect can be understood by people who speak the Auran dialect, and so on).  This mechanic wasn't introduced until D&D 5th Edition, however.