Elixir of Fluent Tongues

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A small corked vial containing a swirling, prism-colored liquid that shifts hue as if to reflect every language in the world. The stopper is etched with tiny glyphs of speech and listening, and the glass catches the light like a shattered rainbow.

Lingual Mastery When you drink this potion, for 10 minutes you understand every language you hear and you can speak, read, and write in any language you choose. You can converse with any creature that shares a language with you, and your spoken words are perfectly intelligible to speakers of that language.

Flavor and Limitation The effect ends after 10 minutes or if you fall unconscious or die. The magic does not grant you knowledge of any languages you have never heard; you gain no proficiency in deciphering magical scripts that you haven't encountered.

Lore

Crafted by a caravan of polyglot bards who traded secrets for stories, this elixir was once used to broker peace between rival trading guilds by letting ambassadors understand each other's words completely, even for a moment's breath.

History

Several vials were sealed in a reliquary after a miscommunication nearly sparked a war. The remaining stock is said to resurface in times of great linguistic disputes, always distributed to those who seek to bridge divided tongues.

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