Languages

"Weapons end lives, the quill ends wars" - Arkus/Culhuth, Red Dragonkin Servant

Languages - Mechanic-wise
Languages in New Exford extremely complex, so they are harder to learn. (Tongues and Comprehend languages dont exist)

"Common" is divided into Northern Common and Southern Common.

 Nobody has  Speak Languages as a class skill.

Therefore, i will put out a new system.

An 8 pip system(Experimental):
 * Extremely basic (costs 1 skill pt)
 * Basic speaking (costs 1 skill pt)
 * Common words (costs 2 skill pts)
 * Fluid (Costs 2 skill pts)
 * Detailed vocabulary (Costs 3 skill pts)

(In total, 15 skill points would be needed to completely adapt a new language to a Detailed level of writing and speaking)
 * Basic writing (Costs 1 skill pts, available when you have/aquire "Basic speaking")
 * Fluid Writing (Costs 2 skill pts, available when you aquire the "Fluid" level in speaking)
 * Detailed Writing (Costs 3 skill pts, available when you aquire the "Detailed Vocabulary" level of speaking)

Your starting languages are considered to be at Common Words, and Basic Writing.

You may also receive ekstra skill pts to increase this. You receive (INT score-10)x2 in ekstra skill points, only to be spendt increasing your language capabilities.

Languages: Story and fluff
The Red Dragon breathed her Intelligence into the Humanoid races, and from which, languages sprung forth.

Each Humanoid race had a preferential use of their linguistics, whereas Elves favored and had an easier time with longer more songlike words.

Orcs and brutes favored shorter words to exhale quickly, and to speak with force.

Dwarves fashioned their language from how they could communicate easier within the mountains. To avoid all the echoes and sound being distorted. To some extent, this works, but Dwarves still have almost 10 different words for the phenomena we know as: Echo.

All races created their own languages, and with time, when the races began to develop social harmonies with other settlements, the Human tongue, referred to today as Northern Common and Southern Common, as two very complex languages. As with all languages in the world of New Exford, the languages are intricately detailed, and require much practice to learn, both to speak and to write.

Linguistics teachers are very common however, of all races and origins.