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Does Earth (or at least a fantasy version of it) have a crystal sphere and exist in the D&D Cosmology?
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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9307709" data-attributes="member: 11760"><p>The Common tongue is an interesting one. If every setting had its own Common, which is the most logical way to go, then it should probably be called something different in each setting. (I believe Ptolus alternates between calling it "Common" and "Imperial," which is more accurate.)</p><p></p><p>Some settings, like the Concord Worlds of the Radiant Citadel, have a plausible reason for a singular Common tongue, in addition to their national languages, since all 27 civilizations were connected through and presumably traded through the citadel in the ancient past and about half of them have rediscovered each other about 500 years go. So it's a trade language. But their trade language shouldn't necessarily by understandable on Toril or Oerth by default.</p><p></p><p>I've long wished for <em>more </em>languages in D&D, with many of them being the equivalent of Common for their areas. The Planar Cant, for instance, could be the Common for the Great Wheel or maybe even the entire standard D&D multiverse. The Shadowfell should probably have Umbral as its equivalent to the Sylvan of the Feywild, etc.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, if WotC's goal is to make language as frictionless as possible -- certainly a preference that some folks here have expressed in the past -- then Common should probably be made the language of the First World, which is "remembered" in mystical ways throughout the multiverse and it's what all languages drift towards as they evolve over time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9307709, member: 11760"] The Common tongue is an interesting one. If every setting had its own Common, which is the most logical way to go, then it should probably be called something different in each setting. (I believe Ptolus alternates between calling it "Common" and "Imperial," which is more accurate.) Some settings, like the Concord Worlds of the Radiant Citadel, have a plausible reason for a singular Common tongue, in addition to their national languages, since all 27 civilizations were connected through and presumably traded through the citadel in the ancient past and about half of them have rediscovered each other about 500 years go. So it's a trade language. But their trade language shouldn't necessarily by understandable on Toril or Oerth by default. I've long wished for [I]more [/I]languages in D&D, with many of them being the equivalent of Common for their areas. The Planar Cant, for instance, could be the Common for the Great Wheel or maybe even the entire standard D&D multiverse. The Shadowfell should probably have Umbral as its equivalent to the Sylvan of the Feywild, etc. On the other hand, if WotC's goal is to make language as frictionless as possible -- certainly a preference that some folks here have expressed in the past -- then Common should probably be made the language of the First World, which is "remembered" in mystical ways throughout the multiverse and it's what all languages drift towards as they evolve over time. [/QUOTE]
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