Greater Summoning (cross post)

["rthorm" <rthorm@cornellbox.com>]

(This is cross posted from the dqn-list, since there hasn't been much
activity over here either.  Appologies to those of you who get this in
your inbox twice.)

So we actually met for another session of my campaign this past
weekend. It's been a very intermittent schedule we've been keeping (I
think the previous session was in June), but I'm hopeful that we will
be playing more regularly in the coming year.

One of my players has a Greater Summoner, and he wanted to know how I
would interpret the following about Camio, one of the demonic presidents:

"Camio is a great linguist and will willingly teach his summoner the
languages of birds and mammals and also teach him to understand what
has passed in a place by reading the speech of running waters."

My on-the-spot interpretation is that there is one bird language, and
one language for each of the subcategories of mammals (felines, great
land mammals, riding animals, etc.) These languages only go to a
maximum of Rank 4 however.

Have any of the rest of you dealt with this? How have you interpreted
this?

Let's have some discussion in this group again,

Rodger