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Also, since the Pyrausta is a new form of an existing familiar and not a new familiar, you should ignore any reference to its specific languages (so it does not immediately learn Draconic or forget Common). However, since there is no "can't speak" reference next to its language entry, the familiar would gain the ability to speak while in Pyrausta form.

Thanks!

This makes perfect sense logically, too-- he's turning into a really small dragon, but he wasn't born/raised a dragon the way a pyrausta familiar typically would be, so how would he learn Draconic? (I mean, outside of it somehow being instinctive to dragons.)

I'm playing a Magical Child Vigilante. One of my archetype features is a familiar that becomes a variety of advanced familiars as I level. Its base social form is a mouse and its first vigilante form is a Pyrausta.

From my understanding, a familiar gains a language of your choice, unless it knows a language already. As a mouse the familiar understood a language of my choice-- Common-- even though it couldn't speak. As a pyrausta, the familiar can speak and understand the language from its stat block: Draconic. I have no skill points invested in Linguistics.

Does this mean that, when I go into my vigilante identity, my familiar somehow forgets how to understand Common because its only language is now Draconic? Or does it gain Draconic in addition to Common while in that form?