A player of mine just upgraded for kenku 2.0 and found out he couldn't select Auran as a language. This is quite curious, as it seems it's still a valid language (many monsters ot MotM have it). Does anyone know what gives?
You could never select the individual elemental languages for PCs. Primordial is the version for PCs, and it lets you speak with any creature that uses an elemental language.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Certain races (Triton, maybe others) automatically get one of the specific elemental languages instead of Primordial. But I think 6thLyranGuard is right, it wasn't an option to choose before, and still isn't.
Certain races (Triton, maybe others) automatically get one of the specific elemental languages instead of Primordial. But I think 6thLyranGuard is right, it wasn't an option to choose before, and still isn't.
They do/did, but having one let you use all four, so they were much closer to accents or dialects than actual separate languages.
Yeah, I would liken it to the features that are like "speak with animals, but only small beasts," or "summon elementals, but only water elementals." It's trying to enforce a theme through limitation.
Just curious (and meaning no offense) this thing about primordial including the four languages, is it defined anywhere? Didn't find it on PHB but I might've missed it...
Just curious (and meaning no offense) this thing about primordial including the four languages, is it defined anywhere? Didn't find it on PHB but I might've missed it...
Yeah, it's buried in Chapter 4 of the PHB (randomly under the Dwarvish alphabet chart)
Some of these languages are actually families of languages with many dialects. For example, the Primordial language includes the Auran, Aquan, Ignan, and Terran dialects, one for each of the four elemental planes. Creatures that speak different dialects of the same language can communicate with one another.
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
A player of mine just upgraded for kenku 2.0 and found out he couldn't select Auran as a language. This is quite curious, as it seems it's still a valid language (many monsters ot MotM have it). Does anyone know what gives?
You could never select the individual elemental languages for PCs. Primordial is the version for PCs, and it lets you speak with any creature that uses an elemental language.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Certain races (Triton, maybe others) automatically get one of the specific elemental languages instead of Primordial. But I think 6thLyranGuard is right, it wasn't an option to choose before, and still isn't.
Yeah, I would liken it to the features that are like "speak with animals, but only small beasts," or "summon elementals, but only water elementals." It's trying to enforce a theme through limitation.
I see, so he got Auran just because it was a Kenku default, but since there's no longer such a thing, he can't get it. Thank you for answering
Just curious (and meaning no offense) this thing about primordial including the four languages, is it defined anywhere? Didn't find it on PHB but I might've missed it...
Yeah, it's buried in Chapter 4 of the PHB (randomly under the Dwarvish alphabet chart)
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Thanks a lot! I missed it entirely