Verbal components don't need to be heard, but do no need to be spoken: a Deafened caster can still use them, but one in Silence cannot.
Message is a spell with a Verbal component, so cannot be cast by a character that cannot speak, unless they are able to cast it without components (such as by using Subtle Spell metamagic or something like that). However, even then, the spell description of a spell is also rule text above and beyond the components. Not only is there a verbal component involved in casting Message, once it is cast, the caster then must "whisper a message." If you are unable to whisper, you may have found a way to succesfully cast Message, but you'll have no whispered message to deliver.
Special rules or features might provide exceptions to this, or if you generally can speak with telepathy, maybe your DM would take pity on you and allow you to psychically whisper instead of whispering out loud. But generally, absent some pretty specific stuff changing the rules, no.
Yeah, the lore behind it is that the sounds of the vocal component resonate with the weave to make magic happen (somatic and material components work similarly).
If the correct sound is not produced, no verbal component can be performed, and no magic happens.
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This and by extension can a mute character even cast spells with vocal components?
Verbal components don't need to be heard, but do no need to be spoken: a Deafened caster can still use them, but one in Silence cannot.
Message is a spell with a Verbal component, so cannot be cast by a character that cannot speak, unless they are able to cast it without components (such as by using Subtle Spell metamagic or something like that). However, even then, the spell description of a spell is also rule text above and beyond the components. Not only is there a verbal component involved in casting Message, once it is cast, the caster then must "whisper a message." If you are unable to whisper, you may have found a way to succesfully cast Message, but you'll have no whispered message to deliver.
Special rules or features might provide exceptions to this, or if you generally can speak with telepathy, maybe your DM would take pity on you and allow you to psychically whisper instead of whispering out loud. But generally, absent some pretty specific stuff changing the rules, no.
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Yeah, the lore behind it is that the sounds of the vocal component resonate with the weave to make magic happen (somatic and material components work similarly).
If the correct sound is not produced, no verbal component can be performed, and no magic happens.