All Comments on 'Breaking the Rules Pt. 04'

Tastefully done, sir. Some tough issues handled well.

Why didn't he cast translate for the Mermaid?

Great question. Translate is actually an entire tree of skills on top of a spell; the closer to "human" speech an unknown language is, the easier to translate. There are some perks ("Learn by Osmosis") which allow some semi-temporary boosts to the effective level of the translate spell under specific circumstances (i.e. conversing with a person who knows the specific language already), but Nuru did not have a way to use those to pick up the aquatic skills, and it was too different from normal human speech for Sanaa's spell level to handle... yet.