Cloistered Scholar (Vow of Silence)

Though others must often endure extensive interviews and significant fees to gain access to even the most common archives in your library, you have free and easy access to the majority of the library, though it might also have repositories of lore that are too valuable, magical, or secret to permit anyone immediate access.

You have a working knowledge of your cloister’s personnel and bureaucracy, and you know how to navigate those connections with some ease.

Additionally, you are likely to gain preferential treatment at other libraries across the Realms, as professional courtesy shown to a fellow scholar.

Cloistered Scholar (Vow of Silence)

As a scholar of the Vow of Silence, you have learned to use various hand gestures to speak. You know sign language, which allows you to communicate with other creatures who speak it as though you were speaking any verbal language. This sign language may not be the only sign language spoken in the world, but most share common or similar signs and often use facial expressions to convey emotions such as questions or emphasis. When you speak in sign language, you can choose to speak normally, or in a code which only other scholars of the Vow of Silence can understand.

Additionally, if your class or subclass allows you to cast spells, or you have a racial trait that grants you innate spellcasting abilities, you can treat the verbal components of any spell as if they were somatic components.