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That was a mouthful, appropriately for a post about that vital tool of civilization, language.

Fantasy or sci-fi, it is important for your characters to communicate, but that is not always physically possible. How do your worlds handle this?

Besides the obvious solution of writing. It has to be speaking, of some kind.

My pixies, who are eusocial sophont fae that live in massive colonies, are often employed as interpreters. They use their illusion magic to replicate sound and visual communication, in a manner similar to holograms or the general pop culture idea of illusion magic. Think Loki or The Owl House type magic.

It's believed pixies invented the Way of Illusion to conceal their hives and escape predators.