Comprehend Languages in Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Comprehend Languages

1-level Divination

Casting Time 1 action

Range Self

Duration 1 hour

Components V, S, M

Materials A pinch of soot and salt

For the duration, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that you hear, no matter if common, ancient or elemental. You also understand any written common language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text.

You can't comprehend any written ancient or elemental languages using this spell and it doesn’t decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn’t part of a written language.

Class(es): Eldrani, Fluxxer, Vujinn'ka

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