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So, I thought I had a handle on this, but the last blog post confused my understanding.
Regional Languages
These languages are uncommon outside the region of their genesis. A character hailing from one of the regions listed below automatically has access to that language. In the Inner Sea region, the language referred to as Common elsewhere in the rules is the same as Taldane—a result of Taldor’s legacy of control and influence over the whole region. Nearly every language listed here is spoken on the melting-pot streets of Absalom.
Okay, so depending on where I'm from, I get access to uncommon languages. My PC hails from Varisia: I get access to Shoanti and Varisian. Great.
A character with a high Intelligence score can select bonus languages from the list of modern human languages above or the bonus languages listed in the source for the character’s ancestry..
I read this as opening up ALL of those listed uncommon languages ( Erutaki, Hallit, Kelish, Osiriani, Polyglot, Shoanti, Skald, Tien, Varisian, Varki, Vudrani) to PFS PCs. Given the CRB blurb about Absalom being a melting pot and also the headquarters of the Pathfinder Society, makes a lot of sense to me.
Add the following regional languages to the options listed on page 432. As with other regional languages, a character hailing from the region listed below automatically has access to these languages. Erutaki: Saga Lands, Varki: Saga Lands
And now I'm confused. Was my understanding of the PFS Guide to Play: Player Basics on regional languages incorrect? If it meant that we can only pick from the Regional languages we have access to with our intelligence bonus, well that's already the CRB default.
