Can I learn the languages: 'Positive / Negative Energy Fluctuation' ?


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I'm a summoner interested in summoning the following creatures:

Negative Energy Elemental
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/elemental/eleme ntal-negative-energy-tohc/negative-energy-elemental-small-tohc

Positive Energy Elemental
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/outsiders/elemental/eleme ntal-positive-energy-tohc/positive-energy-elemental-small-tohc

How can I communicate with this creature?


I just realized these elementals are from 3rd party sources which aren't allowed in my campaign, rendering the question completely moot.


In general, I'd suggest that you (generically) need two things to be able to learn a language -- the capacity to produce the language itself, and a source for learning the language.

For example, you can't learn secret languages like Druidic without being taught by someone who knows it, although this could be as easy as summoning Seraphiel, the Angel of Communication, and asking nicely. Similarly, vegepygmies can't speak and hence can't speak Chelish, although they could learn to understand it or to read it.

In the case of positive energy elementals, "[t]hese creatures seem to be able to communicate with others of their kind by changing the intensity of energy in their bodies and altering their shape ever so slightly." So unless you can the intensity of energy in your body, you probably couldn't speak to it, and unless you can perceive those alterations, you probably can't understand it, either.

But this is pure house rule territory; by strict RAW, just put a point into Linguistics skill.

Shadow Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens Subscriber

I would allow this language, but you would only be able to speak and understand it while in the form of a positive or negative energy elemental. A Life Oracle could get it, for example, or if Elemental Body allowed these shapes, it could work that way too.

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