Read Languages
Spell, Enchantment, level 2
Lets the caster read or write one language.
From the book
The caster can read, or write, any one language for 10 minutes per level of ability. Only a single language is covered by each casting. The spell is Variable as described, so skilled casters can study a text for longer, and no save applies.
At a glance
- Duration
- 10 minutes per level of ability
- Save
- None
- Spell type
- Variable, as stated
A scene
The clay tablet had been dug from a First Age ruin and sent to the Library at Acheron, where no living scholar could make sense of it. Senmut, a magician with a passion for dead tongues, laid it on the reading table, spoke the spell and bent over it. The wedge-shaped marks rearranged themselves in his mind into plain meaning: a ship's manifest, a list of cargo, a harbor master's complaint about a late payment. He read faster and faster. He was halfway through a line about a sealed crate from Attla when the words dissolved back into marks.