Hyperlinguistics

Related Stat: Intellect
Related Powers: Animal Control

Your character may rapidly learn any language from sufficient exposure through reading, listening, or contact. Once the character masters a language, he or she is fluent in it. This only works on true languages: Earth animals, with the possible exception of whales and dolphins, do not have such languages. The difficulty of new languages appears on the chart below:

SourceReq Intensity
Current human language4
Archaic human language8
Alien humanoid language12
Intelligent animal language16
Nonhuman alien language20

Stunt--Animal Communication: Your character gains Animal Control, but can only communicate with the animals, not control them.
Stunt--Interlanguage: Your character can take a few minutes to create a hybrid language between his or her own and the subject's languages, so that both groups can understand it.
Stunt--Language Transfer: Your character can transfer the ability to understand a language to anyone. This assumes the character has already mastered the language.

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