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<blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 1839143" data-attributes="member: 4826">Is Draconic?&nbsp;Here's why I'm confused about this. Divine and arcane casters - anyone - can have the spellcraft skill, which enables them to understand what another caster's casting, by interpreting the somatic, material and verbal components in use. But these spellcraft users don't need to be fluent in Draconic. I can't find it now but I thought there was a reference in the core rules to the effect that Draconic was the language of magic (hence the wizard's choice of Draconic as a bonus language).&nbsp;If it is Draconic, then are the verbal components actually fragments of Draconic that non-Draconic-speaking spellcrafters only understand in terms of their immediate context?&nbsp;Are divine casters speaking the same hypothetical Draconic fragments? Or are they using fragments of Celestial, Abyssal or Infernal?&nbsp;I know that an arcane caster cannot use a divine scroll and vice-versa, but a cleric or a wizard (or anyone with sufficient UMD skill) could decipher the writing of any scroll. That suggests that both types of scroll use the same language elements but that they use them in profoundly different ways.&nbsp;If all scrolls are written in Draconic, do Draconic-illiterate spellcrafters and UMDers only understand the Draconic elements insofar as their pronunciation?&nbsp;I apologise if these questions have come up before and I've missed them. I'd appreciate thoughts and pointers.&nbsp;Thanks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ranes, post: 1839143, member: 4826"] Is Draconic? Here's why I'm confused about this. Divine and arcane casters - anyone - can have the spellcraft skill, which enables them to understand what another caster's casting, by interpreting the somatic, material and verbal components in use. But these spellcraft users don't need to be fluent in Draconic. I can't find it now but I thought there was a reference in the core rules to the effect that Draconic was the language of magic (hence the wizard's choice of Draconic as a bonus language). If it is Draconic, then are the verbal components actually fragments of Draconic that non-Draconic-speaking spellcrafters only understand in terms of their immediate context? Are divine casters speaking the same hypothetical Draconic fragments? Or are they using fragments of Celestial, Abyssal or Infernal? I know that an arcane caster cannot use a divine scroll and vice-versa, but a cleric or a wizard (or anyone with sufficient UMD skill) could decipher the writing of any scroll. That suggests that both types of scroll use the same language elements but that they use them in profoundly different ways. If all scrolls are written in Draconic, do Draconic-illiterate spellcrafters and UMDers only understand the Draconic elements insofar as their pronunciation? I apologise if these questions have come up before and I've missed them. I'd appreciate thoughts and pointers. Thanks. [/QUOTE]

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