Necklace of the Polyglot

Necklace of the Polyglot
Magic Item [Rare]
Type: Jewelry (Necklace)
Rank: 3 (Potency 30)
Properties
  • While wearing the necklace, you gain the ability to speak, read, and write a specific language chosen at the point of the necklace's creation (two languages if there are two pearls). Until you remove the necklace, you lose the ability to speak or understand any other language other than those imparted by the necklace (even if they are languages in which you are normally fluent).
Allocation: 1 Resolve
Aura: Moderate Transmutation
"Oh, I see how it is! Since you got that fancy necklace, you’ll talk to the elf, but not to me?! Think owning some pretty jewelry makes you too good to speak dwarf?! I should have known!"
——An argument started by a Necklace of Polyglot

Description

An elegant silver necklace with two open cavities capable of holding pearls resting on the collar bone. When the necklace is found, it will have either one or two pearls inside the sockets

Lore

This necklace was made with the intention of helping two rival tribes of merfolk communicate better, but the Mage responsible was not himself well versed in the languages of ocean folk. The magic infused in this necklace limited the wearer’s ability to speak in common tongues, causing negotiations to break down externally and internally, eventually leading to all-out war between the tribes. The Wizard washed his hand of the whole debacle and returned to the surface, discarding the necklace far away from the ocean. Eventually the item was found and its power replicated, but with different languages.