Speak with Animals
- Level
- 1
- School
- Divination
- Keywords
- –
- Range
- Self
- Duration
- 1 hour
You attune your senses and voice to the natural world, allowing you to comprehend and produce the sounds, gestures, and emotional signals that animals use to communicate. For the duration:
- You can understand the intent, emotional state, and basic information conveyed by any Beast you can see or hear.
- Beasts can understand you in return, though their comprehension is limited to concepts within their natural experience—they understand danger, territory, hunger, and loyalty, but not abstract ideas such as politics, magic theory, or written language.
- You gain Advantage on all Survival skill checks involving animal handling, calming, or directing Beasts for the duration.
This spell does not compel animals to cooperate, obey, or act against their instincts. A hostile or frightened animal may still attack even if it understands you. Communication is possible, but trust must be earned through roleplay or a successful Influence or Survival roll at the GM's discretion.
Note: Creatures with the Demon, Vampire, or Undead trait are not Beasts and are not affected by this spell, even if they resemble animals in form.