Sauroid Family of Languages
Saurian languages are usually based on hand signs, due the physical limitations of the lizard throat and mouth. It would be a mistake, however, to assume low intelligence or a limitation on the sophistication of a sauroid tongue. Draconic is the most powerful of all FaerieMUD languages.
The Sauroid family of languages includes:
- Snake? -- used by lizards without the ability to make hand signs.
- developmental level -- 6
- Salamander? -- hands, but not much in the way of brains
- developmental level -- 17
- Low Wyrm? -- a trade-tongue or pidgin used by most of the social lizards to speak with races who are limited to vocalized speech.
- Kobold? -- used by the lowest form of social lizard which can use hand signals and rudimentary spelling.
- developmental level -- 48
- Draken? -- used by lizardmen and Wyverns and other lizards who have retractile claws, but no flight (or insufficient intelligence to use the sophisticated inflections of the great dragons).
- developmental level -- 76
- roughly equivalent to English or Japanese
- High Draconic? -- used by Dragons and other lizards (but only those who have both retractile claws and flight, combined with a very high intelligence).
- developmental level -- 104
- races which have languages of lower developmental level run a high risk learning draconic (they can be talked into almost anything by a dragon with full mastery of the tongue)
See also Languages, Matter and Language Template?.
— Scotus - 24 Jul 2001
