Comprehend Languages

1st-level divination (ritual)

Your tongue trips over the tricky words of this spell, nearly fouling it, and you recall how difficult it was to learn, and how foreign it feels when you bring it to mind. The spell resists comprehension, as if creating some cosmic balance for the command over languages that it grants you.

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Self

Components: V, S, M (a pinch of soot and salt) 

Duration: 1 hour

Mul Effect: None

For the duration, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that you hear. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text.

This spell doesn’t decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn’t part of a written language.