Clerical Spell Specification

[5] Communicate / Song of Understanding / Speak with People / Speak with Animals / Speak with Monsters / Speak with Wolves

BTS: 30% (Hr)

ULT: 6 hours

Materials: a tongue (Good and Neutral Gods allow the Caster's own to be used, Chaotic Gods generally prefer someone else's, Evil Gods require the tongue to be severed)

Actions: touch fingertip to Materials /  Song of Understanding: sing

Effect of Throw: (T-LP)% fluency (see Note 7 below), where LP is the total Language Points required for Know and Fluency in each new Language spoken (less the LPs the Target has already learnt in that Language)

Range: 3d ft -5(4+d(d+1)/2)% If cast on self, there is no Range minus. If cast on others, Range is at least 0 ft, so there will be a Range minus of at least -20%.

Duration: t hrs -5t(t-1)/2%, or upon T reaching 0, due to the above -LP Effect on Throw

Notes:

  1. Communicate allows the Target to speak the Languages of any Beings.  Speak with People / Animals / Monsters / Wolves allow the Target to speak the Languages of Beings only of the types respectively specified.
  2. The Target is not able to communicate any more fluently than another Being of the same type could by sounds only (not by scent, wagging tails, etc.).  Animals in particular have limited verbal communication.
  3. The Spell may be cast on one Target only.
  4. A Target who is dumb or deaf does not overcome such limitations by use of this Spell.
  5. The Target becomes instantaneously able to speak and understand being spoken (subject to the Effect of Throw) up to n Languages for the Duration, upon hearing just one word in each.  He may choose to speak a Language heard to achieve the effect (and may ignore words spoken in other Languages).
  6. The Spell Effect is limited to oral communication.  The Target does not gain the ability to read or write the Languages.
  7. The %age fluency from the Effect of Throw effectively gives that %age of the total Language Points required for Know and Fluency in the Language. See the Languages system for the resulting level of oral translation.
  8. Being able to speak Old Speech as an effect of this Spell does not give any bonuses to Magic Using.
  9. There is no Radius within which communication is effective, other than normal limitations on communication.
  10. Song of Understanding (PAREL) is identical to Communicate but requires a song to be sung by Caster(s) throughout Prayer and Incantation (but not for Duration, though some PAREL Clerics will continue singing regardless).