What are the different languages used for in the game, and how do I learn them?
EverQuest includes at least 25 different “in game” languages, ranging from player race tongues (Halfling, Iksar, Troll, etc.) to monster languages (Gnoll, Dragon, etc.) and languages used in ancient writings or other specialty tongues (Dark Speech, Thieves Cant). You can learn to speak (and presumably read) any of these, but doing so has almost no effect within the game, except on the role-playing server, Firiona Vie. It appears there used to be quests that required learning languages, e.g. to translate bits of writing, but those writings can now be read by anyone. Unless you are playing on Firiona Vie, you normally speak Common; a language everyone in the world can speak and understand perfectly. If you want to speak another language, the command is something like “/lang 4”, after which everything you /say, /groupsay, /tell, /guildsay, /ooc, or /shout will all be in that language. If you don’t speak that language very well, it will be garbled so nobody will ever read it perfectly (but
