Little King Theatre [P | T]
Mar 14, 2015 0:01:22 GMT -7
Post by The Creator on Mar 14, 2015 0:01:22 GMT -7
Abyssal
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A language spoken by Demons and other Chaotic Evil Outsiders.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The language of demons, Abyssal is often spoken by evil spirits. Some believe that Abyssal was the first language developed by the inhabitants of the Great Beyond. Given the incredible rate of change within the tongue, this is very difficult to prove. Although it is the native language of the demons of the Abyss, it is also spoken by many devils, daemons, or others who have frequent dealings with races of the lower realms. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: A language spoken by Demons and other Chaotic Evil Outsiders.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The language of demons, Abyssal is often spoken by evil spirits. Some believe that Abyssal was the first language developed by the inhabitants of the Great Beyond. Given the incredible rate of change within the tongue, this is very difficult to prove. Although it is the native language of the demons of the Abyss, it is also spoken by many devils, daemons, or others who have frequent dealings with races of the lower realms. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---
00 / 05
Able Learner
Advanced [55]
I felt like I was beginning to comprehend the language. There's a point when learning a language when you feel accomplished, in a sense. When you go from struggling to adapt to the learning of a new language to where you go on the offensive. I was at that point now. With a firm grasp I now knew what I was missing and how I was going to get it. Motivation to learn surged through me, as it often does sometimes when I touch the nerve of some deep knowledge that is buried deep below the surface of learning. I was at that point.
The first thing I wanted to master were the idioms. In the common language there were thousands, too many for one person to actually know. "How do you do?" To one who is familiar with the language, that is an obvious question and is easy to answer. For someone who tries to read the language literally it literally means "how do you do what you do?" which is a completely absurd thing to ask someone in the context it is often asked in.
So it was obvious for me that the idioms were to be the first thing I wanted to set my sights on. I delved into the dictionary, hoping that it would have a section on idioms. Below each word it would have several definitions, as dictionaries often did. Luckily the author of this dictionary was kind enough to include idiom definitions. For certain words that might seem out of context otherwise, there were included definitions that were not so literal, that could be stretched in the translation so to fit that specific idiom. I got to reading several right off the back.