Language

Language is any specific complex system of communication.

In the Pact Worlds

The standard shared language of most races in the Pact Worlds system is Common. Most races and planets also have their own languages:

• Akitonian (Akiton)
• Aklo (Aucturn)
• Brethedan (Bretheda, Liavara, and their moons)
• Castrovelian, also called Lashunta (Castrovel, lashuntas)
• Eoxian (Eox)
• Kasatha
• Shirren
• Triaxian (Triaxus)
• Vercite (Verces)
• Vesk
• Ysoki

Other languages are also spoken in the Pact Worlds, though not as widely:

• Arkanen (Arkanen, Osoro)
• Draconic (dragons, reptilian humanoids, Triaxian dragonkin)
• Drow (drow, Apostae)
• Elven (elves, drow, half-elves)
• Gnome (gnomes)
• Goblin (goblins, bugbears, hobgoblins, and other goblinoids)
• Halfling (halflings)
• Kalo (kalo, Kalo-Mahoi)
• Nchaki (Nchak)
• Orc (orcs, half-orcs)
• Sarcesian (sarcesians)
• Shobhad (shobhads)

In distant systems

Cultures, civilizations, and empires far from the Pact Worlds system have their own languages as well:

• Azlanti (Azlanti Star Empire)
• Vesk (Veskarium)

In the Great Beyond

Inhabitants of planes outside of the Material Plane also have unique languages:

• Abyssal (demons and other outsider inhabitants of the Abyss)
• Aklo (Dominion of the Black)
• Aquan (Plane of Water)
• Auran (Plane of Air)
• Celestial (angels, outsiders of good alignments, inhabitants of good-aligned planes)
• Infernal (devils, outsiders of lawful evil alignment, Hell)
• Ignan (Plane of Fire)
• Terran (Plane of Earth)

Telepathy

Some creatures, including shirrens and lashunta, can also communicate through psychic or supernatural telepathy. Some forms of telepathy require language, while others do not.