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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kafkonia" data-source="post: 3452207" data-attributes="member: 40261">[SBLOCK=Beasts of the Land]Humanoids are the dominant species in the known world. While the kobolds claim to have descended from legendary lizards known as dragons, even going so far as to name their own language draconic, no one has seen one of these great beasts in centuries -- they are largely thought to be nothing more than myths.As far as common knowledge goes, there are no intelligent creatures other than those listed as PC races -- no giants, no monstrous humanoids, no outsiders (save the planetouched); most creatures to be found are either animals, vermin, or magical beasts.This doesn't mean such beings do not exist. But if they do, they do a very good job of hiding.[/SBLOCK][SBLOCK=Languages of the Land]OverviewCommonGoblinDraconicTrade PidginMasharCommon ElvenHigh ElvenSnow ElvenPainted Elven"low speech"The common tongue is spoken throughout Lantara, and because of the empire's economic power it is also spoken as a second or third tongue by many citizens of Mashanda and, somewhat grudgingly, the Commonwealth. Many goblin traders also speak common, but it tends to be mixed in with bits of draconic and their own goblin tongue to form a sort of pidgin language. The traders also speak goblin amongst one another.The kobold miners speak draconic. It is a language designed for repitillian speakers, and so most of the other humanoids tend to stumble over the words, to the scaly ones' amusement.The official language of Mashanda is Mashar, although as trade with Lantara increases more and more Mashandans speak Common.The elves have more languages than any other group -- Common Elven is the main tongue of the Commonwealth, but High Elven is used for government and official events. The Painted Elves of the desert and the Snow Elves of the mountains have their own languages, distantly related to the others. Indeed, they bear closer similarities to High Elven than Common Elven, suggesting that they split off from the elves of the Commonwealth when High Elven was the common tongue.Finally, the Neanderthals speak what is commonly referred to as "low speech." Low speech has no written form, and can vary greatly from tribe to tribe. Tribal leaders and those who leave their tribes often pick up the languages of whatever peoples they interact with the most. [/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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