Dungeons and dragons beholder language1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() So they tend to know a language or two.Īll beholders are capable of communicating with other beholders in Beholder. Plus they sometimes like to build armies of brainwashed minions who need to be given orders. Still, your typical beholder is a charismatic genius (Int and Cha both 17), and those traits aren’t that helpful without being able to communicate. Most beholders aren’t really much for talking. Reported Languages: Deep Speech, UndercommonĪlso used (though infrequently) by Beholders and Death Tyrants: Beholder (You can also theoretically put on a display of strength, but this is probably not going to work if you are a human with a Strength of 20 or less.) Other techniques as an indication you are weak and unworthy. The only proper skill to use when responding is Intimidation. When a behir greets you in East Behir, the proper response is bluster. And another quarter just don’t appear East Behir has fewer sounds than Giant. Another quarter have been changed to represent the reptilian hisses and other phonemes the behir use frequently but don’t really occur in the giant tongues. ![]() All the characters are based on storm giant runes, and about half of them are pronounced the same way. ![]() But their alphabet has an interesting history. Sometimes though, you will find a cave once inhabited by a notable behir with their boastful biography carved into the wall. There aren’t many samples of their written language the East Behir are not a group which puts much stock in literacy. I don’t know how these guides keep selling.Įast Behir is clearly based on Giant, with a fair number of words that derived from Draconic thrown in (much the way English has so many words derived from Latin, even though it’s Germanic.). The most common East Behir greetings literally means “Impress me,” or “Justify your presence here.” Bad travel guides will sometimes translate those as if they were “how are you?.” Really bad travel guides will then give the East Behir phrase for “I am in good health,” which is just telling the behir you are good to eat. The typical Common greetings express a hope for fortune (“Good day”), health (“Salutations” comes from the same root as “salve”) or something similar. Remember that nicer is a comparative and does not mean nice. The East Behir behirs are considered the nicer than the groups who speak Central Behir. Some behir patrol the mountain, ensuring the giants are not disturbed, and also using the temple courtyard as a place to rest when they digest their what was attempting to disturb the giants. Still, there is a temple of these giants atop one particular mountain where these giants engage in deep meditation. They have a grudging respect for storm giants, but don’t actually like them, the same way that an athlete might feel about a great player on another team. The tiny humanoids who compiled the Monster Manual assumed that the big humanoids made the behir.Ĭulturally, these behir are big into valuing strength and the idea that might - and only might - makes right. Their creation mythology says that both behir and storm giants were both created by the same god - possibly Kord - who valued might and lightning. These behir feel this is a gross distortion. The region associated with these behir is the source of the idea that storm giants created them. While the majority of behir speak speak Central Behir, the language discussed yesterday, another reasonably common behir language is East Behir. Now, one variant on Behir before we move on to everyone's favorite floating eyes: Click to expand.That would have made sense, and I recommend putting boulder hurling giants in charge of your siege weaponry in this case. ![]()
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