Layo Languages

[ShiffDrgnhrt]

How do characters gain new languages?

Like lets say there is a human cleric to Katia, who was raised in the woods and learned to communicate with animals to some level, but he isnt really a druid or ranger so wouldnt start with Ear for Animal Language like they would.  How would a character get the ear?

Or if a Aasimar is smart enough to know Celestial, but doesnt state that during Char development, how would they get the Ear?

I'm just curious because I'm interested in having a PC of mine learn or start with a language they maybe wouldnt normally have....

[Lord of the Forest]

Like lets say there is a human cleric to Katia, who was raised in the woods and learned to communicate with animals to some level, but he isnt really a druid or ranger so wouldnt start with Ear for Animal Language like they would. How would a character get the ear?

Clerics of katia usually have the animal domain which gives them the ear of animal language automatically.

[ShiffDrgnhrt]

Lord of the Forest - 2/5/2007  5:50 PM

Like lets say there is a human cleric to Katia, who was raised in the woods and learned to communicate with animals to some level, but he isnt really a druid or ranger so wouldnt start with Ear for Animal Language like they would. How would a character get the ear?

Clerics of katia usually have the animal domain which gives them the ear of animal language automatically.

Ok, bad example...  What about a monk who spent much of his life as a hermit and did not communicate with people, but can empathize with animals and communcate with them?  Like he he never even speaks to people but is calm and peaceful enough that birds and squirrels such gather by him as he meditates?  

I'm basically askin how a PC would get an Ear he/she wouldnt normally have due to some aspect of their past such as prior training or adoption or somethin...

And yes, I wanna know fer a character I might make...

[Lord of the Forest]

This might help you..

http://www.layonaraonline.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=24772&posts=11&start=1

Well can't say it any better than IceDragonDuvessa, so here's her statement on the thread..

For each character this would be a unique situation. The would need to find a teacher (not an NPC) of the language and rp studying it with them over the course of a good amount of time or perhaps pouring himself into books on the matter which will effectively take much longer. Be creative rp through it and keep a good development journal. Eventually you could ask for a cdq to finalize learnign some of the more complex languages. Best advice I can offer is be creative, keep a good development thread and be sure to actually rp things through when you are in game.

On a side note, NPC's are not allowed to be taken as teachers as this has been badly abused in the past.

[ShiffDrgnhrt]

That did help a lot.  Now I'm just curious...  Could the fact your PC knows little/no common be a good enough reason for another language instead of common?  Like he has no idea how to speak common but can speak Dwarvish like Dorands right hand but never learned common?

[Lord of the Forest]

What I know is that I've seen some characters who were not able to speak common on creation. I know of at least one elf. This char learned common for a very long time.
His mother tongue was elvish, yeah he was an elf.

I'm not quite sure if this counts if you have a human for example who grew up at elves as well.

[Stephen_Zuckerman]

I would imagine that if a character did not know Common, another common language could be substituted, with enough reasoning in the bio.

[Dorganath]

Write your bio and put sufficient justification into it as to why said character would/should know a particular language, and it will be considered by the Character Approvers.
  Note I said "considered"....it's by no means a guarantee.