Eruantian's intelligent ring said: "Analysis of the magics of your Ring Of Teleportation yields the following positive conclusion: It is definately capable of teleporting it's wearer, whatever it's wearer is directly touching, and anything contained within those. This is why User Eruantian's clothes and the other items on your person go with him when he uses that ring to teleport, even if they're in his pockets or in his backpack. Hypothesis: There is a high degree of probability that you were to hold onto another person or persons while teleporting, you could take that person or persons with you. On two previous occasions, some small flying insects had become attached to some items of User Eruantian's clothing prior to an instance of his use of the Ring Of Teleportation. Said insects arrived with him at his destination, with no perceivable ill effects to either the insects or to User Eruantian. Conclusion: User Eruantian, while you have not previously teleported while actually holding a living creature in your hand, the available evidence supports the conclusion that doing so should be safe. The limit of this power is as-yet unknown. Further evidence will serve to clarify the question. Suggestion: Find perhaps a small living mammal or rodent and then attempt to teleport while holding it."
Farnham said: "One of these days I gotta get me, you, and your ring to sit down together for a few weeks. We could make a fortune selling it's information to scholars and mages."
<GM's Note: Becasue the printing press hasn't been invented yet, for most people the only practical means of putting word to paper is to hire scribe. Most people are illiterate, but if you're privileged enough to to know how to write then write it out yourself. Due to the nature of Thamutology, one needs to be literate before one can study to become a Mage. This means that all Mages, without exception, know how to read and write. However, Sorcerers can cast spells without being litterate, which is why Sorcerers are not necessarily considered Mages. Clerics are usually literate enough to be able to read their holy texts, but they're not always trained in writing. However, all magic users can use various spells (both Thamutological and Divine) to write on paper without actually holding a pen, but this usually doesn't lend itself easily to the mass-production of written works. The only person known to mass-produce writing is the Gnomish Master Talismonger Findley Gnbunaulger of Lantan. How he does this is a closely guarded trade secret, but it's likely that his created some sort of magic item that does it for him.
Maxwell and Farnham, due to their privileged mercantile upbringing, are literate in the common language to the point that they can both read and write well enough to function as merchants. Their writing is not at the level of what you would see from a professional scribe, though. While they can both read and write in Common, they only know a smattering of Gnomish, Elvish, Dwarven, Lizzardspeak, and Merman: Enough to read some of that, but not enough to write much in them. They also have specialized knowledge of the various distinctive trademarks and guildmarks involved with the gemsmithing, goldsmithing and silversmithing trades.
Micheal, a product of the Royal Thamutological Academy, is more well educated in regards to languages and literacy than anyone else in the group. The quality of his handwriting is like that of an experienced scribe, and he can read and write contemporary Elvish writing as well as Common. As well, he is the only one in the group that can read Thamutological language at all.
Captain Sealem and Prince Drek are both fully literate in Elvish and pssibly so in Common. Becasue Drek spent a lot of time living as a Ranger in lands predominately inhabited by Humans, when he speaks Common his accent is of the Sakare Brae variety with only a hint of his Suldeneselarian heritage. Captain Sealem, though, has spent most of his life living and working in Suldeneselar, and so when he speaks Common he has a pronounced Suldeneselarian accent. He is, however, fully fluent in the language.
Maria died in ancient times, only to have been recently resurrected. Because of this, she can read Ancient Elvish although she has only rudimentary writing skills: She was trained to be a warrior, not a scribe. Her ability to speak and understand Common is a gift from Tyr that he granted her when she was resurrected. Tyr is a god of Law and Justice, and it would not have been very just of him to bring someone back into the world without the means to understand it or to communicate in it.>
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