Place your hand over the holy book. Arch your fingers.
Speak from the back of your throat. Straighten your spine.
Feel the pain below each digit, and raise them - golden spires follow upwards.
When you speak, smoke escapes your lips - these golden strings thrum along with your voice - they thrum with the sins of the Kings of Babylon.
'These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.'
t. The Kings of Babylon
Exert your Mind (unless you win a coin flip) and spend an Action to activate. You must actively and obviously use a 1611 KJV Bible to activate this Effect.
You may understand and communicate to humans and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next hour.
While active, you may choose to use glib tongue. When you do, anything you say (even gibberish) will be exactly what the target wants to hear. You gain no understanding of what that might be.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Nicotine Addiction.
The Komodo Dragon speaks with other people, unlike other animals that cannot speak.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to humans as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
Possession of this Power grants the following Battle Scar: One Eye.
Selia spends time creating a domain of communion. Within the zone no signs of life are visible as the color becomes muted and sound becomes dim. Reciting an old Italian ritual and presenting the Fetter Selia then hones in to the emotions of the spirit and uses it to create a verbal link between realms, letting the deceased talk to her.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute to activate. Select a Dead target of which you have A Fetter belonging to the target. (An object or person that the spirit is emotionally charged towards).
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.
Charlie invokes the secret language of the beast, and uses a combination of audible sounds, sub-sonic communication and body language to communicate unto a creature how it would with another of its species.
Due to spiraling mutations and the recent information that had come to light about the actions of Genwyld, Charlie had stopped taking her pills that were supplied after every contract. And yet, when this almost drove her to retirement, someone happened that nobody expected. Voices from the trees, the birdsong itself was made language to her, as vulgar as they were. The animal sounds made while fully transformed? Those were understandable as well. Every noise by every beast were now a language she could hear if she took the time to listen.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animals as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
As the essence of a being that has been around longer than communication itself, there's a instinctual understanding of language bound up in the energy of the collar.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures, humans, and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.
Activating this requires Liv to do a small ritual, where she channels the demon from an artifact, and draws on it's knowledge of all the languages of the world. The looks like Liv chanting a bit, and then a bit of dark energy flowing into Liv's mouth.
Liv can speak in any language, and understand all languages exposed she is exposed to. She can allow the demon to speak for her, and it will say what the person she is talking to wants to hear, soothing them.
The power relies on Liv conceptually borrowing the speech ability of demons.
Exert your Mind and spend one minute. You must actively and obviously use An object with a demon in it (Crafted bound servant or demon themed upgrade) to activate this Effect.
You may understand and communicate to Creatures, humans, and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next hour.
While active and speaking to a single individual, you may choose to use glib tongue. When you do, anything you say to them (even gibberish) will be exactly what they want to hear. You gain no understanding of what that might be.
The beastmaster can speak to and understand any animal.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You may understand and communicate to terrestrial animal as if you are fluent in a relevant language.
The Necromancer spits into the mouth of a recently deceased corpse. For the few minutes, the corpse's head comes back to life and speaks to the Necromancer.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action. Select a Dead target within 50 feet. Dead targets must have died within the past week, and you must have their remains in your possession.
The target can communicate in your language for the next hour.