Split Tongue

By Amy Luther for her revision of the Corax.

Level One Corax Gift

Description

This Gift allows the Corax to speak intelligibly in all forms. By spending a Willpower Point, she can speak and understand any one language for the duration of a scene. This language must be decided upon before the Willpower Point is spent. Switching to another language requires the expenditure of another point of WP. If the Corax is totally unfamiliar with a given language, she must either make a successful Intelligence + Linguistics roll (difficulty varies according to the obscurity of the language) or listen to a conversation in that language for a turn before activating her Gift. For example, if she wants to use the Mokole tongue, but has never been exposed to it, she must succeed on an Int + Linguistics roll (probably a diff of 10) or overhear a couple of were-alligators gossiping in the swamps. The Gift does not grant the user the ability to read or write in the specified language, and any information she gains from the Gift will be remembered and reiterated in her native language.