Divine Favor: Gift of Tongues and Gift Of Letters

If you search for "foreign languages"
in GIS, you find a bunch of word clouds.

A bit of a continuation for my "messenger and rogues" god worshipping Divine Favor cleric is a translation of two spells from GURPS Magic that let players either speak or write any language. Let's break that down.

Mechanics

First off, I am statting this as Modular Abilities. As this is a divine ability, I think it is fair to use the Divine Inspiration variant found on p.63. For one of these abilities, before anything else is said and done, we have a total cost of 18 points for the 3 point slot for full fluency/literacy. We can apply Languages Only and Divine to that, and we get a nice discount.

Whatever Language I Want To Speak! (-60%): Divine Intervention(3)(Divine, -10%; Languages Only, -50%) [8]

Whatever Language I Want To Read and Write! (-60%): Divine Intervention(3)(Divine, -10%; Languages Only, -50%) [8] 

So now we need the ability to inflict this on someone, so we'll take the same formula as earlier and get these two prayers:

Gift of Letters (+20%): Affliction 1(HT; Advantage, Whatever Language I Want To Read and Write!, +80%; Divine -10%; Melee Attack, Range C, -30%; Takes Extra Time, 2 Ready Maneuvers, -20%) [12] 

Gift of Tongues (+20%): Affliction 1(HT; Advantage, Whatever Language I Want To Speak!, +80%; Divine -10%; Melee Attack, Range C, -30%; Takes Extra Time, 2 Ready Maneuvers, -20%) [12]  

So now we have the two advantages written, we can format them as Divine Favor prayers.

Gift of Letters

Learned Prerequisite: Divine Favor 4

Learned Prayer Cost: 3 points

If it is god's will, the target is blessed with literacy in the language chosen for a time as determined by the margin of success.

Statistics: Affliction 1(HT; Advantage, Whatever Language I Want To Read and Write!, +80%; Divine -10%; Melee Attack, Range C, -30%; Takes Extra Time, 2 Ready Maneuvers, -20%) [12]

Gift of Tongues

Learned Prerequisite: Divine Favor 4

Learned Prayer Cost: 3 points

If it is god's will, the target is blessed with spoken fluency in the language chosen for a time as determined by the margin of success.

Statistics: Affliction 1(HT; Advantage, Whatever Language I Want To Speak!, +80%; Divine -10%; Melee Attack, Range C, -30%; Takes Extra Time, 2 Ready Maneuvers, -20%) [12]  

Other Thoughts and Closing

I am surprised by how cheap these abilities are. For the price of 4 languages, you can have the ability to give anyone fluency in any languages at all. Pyramid 3/54 comes up with a cost for an Omnilingual advantage that is versatile than this version, and isn't exactly subject to god's will, so if you have that Pyramid issue, you can take the multipliers I used here to calculate the cost of this prayer. The specific prayers I have here don't feel especially suited to conversion directly to Sorcery, but if we make a Modular Ability with a 21 point version for one 3-point language only mana sensitive slot (9 points after taking those limitations into account) we get the abilities below. Finally, you get a tiny bit of a savings if you make an ultimate "Gift of Tongues and Letters." As a Divine Favor prayer, it's a mere 16 points, and as a Sorcery, it comes out to 26 points. 

Gift of Letters

There's lots of other
interesting stuff too.

Keywords: Buff

Full Cost: 21

Casting Roll: None, Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards

Duration: 3 Minutes

The subject is given literacy in the specified language.

Statistics: Affliction 1(HT; Advantage, Whatever Language I Want To Read and Write!, +90%; Sorcery -15%; Fixed Duration, +0%; No Signature, +20%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%) [21]

Gift of Tongues

Keywords: Buff

Full Cost: 21

Casting Roll: None, Use Innate Attack (Gaze) to aim.

Range: 100 yards

Duration: 3 Minutes

The subject is given fluency in the specified language.

Statistics: Affliction 1(HT; Advantage, Whatever Language I Want To Speak!, +90%; Sorcery -15%; Fixed Duration, +0%; No Signature, +20%; Increased 1/2D, 10x, +15%) [21]