Leafspeech: Speech of Grass, Leaf, and Beast

A subset of [Ut] Sylvan which allows basic ideas to be imparted to natural animals and plants. Only those with Mastery in Sylvan can communicate in this mode. Most plants and animals have no way to answer except in a basic “yes” or “no”, “peace” or “violence”, “friend” or “enemy”, “warm” or “cold”, “many”/”few”/”one”, “day” or night”, or at best a season though not specific passages of time. These entities do not recognize many features that differentiate others – i.e. a patch of grass could not differentiate between soldiers and townsfolk. Personal connections of those entities which have visited and interacted many times previously will allow individual identification of some form. It has a maximum level of expression of barely Familiar, there is no true conversational fluency in Speech of Grass, Leaf, and Beast. Many times it is only one directional, because the target may understand but has no faculty to return communication – though it will do what it can (a rustling of leaves or blades of grass, a whine, chuff, or stomp. The nature of such communication makes it more difficult. Like any memory, it is transient and forgotten if not noteworthy or recent.

  • Animals: Double the time to communicate (x2).
  • Plants: Tenfold the time to communicate (x10).

Those with Divine or Psychic aptitude may have access to powers which naturally allow them to be able to connect better with targeted entities, or achieve the basics without knowing its parent Sylvan.