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|summary=A truenaming prestige class who employs their [[Dark Insight (3.5e Variant Rule)|dark insight]] to warp the universe farther than they really should.
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==Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue==

{{quote
|Iuh!  Iuh!  Kuh'lurr'lurr fuh-taan rrurr-yurr!
|orig=Brillillyulaepitusaell, Deep One Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue
|src=Book of Dark Insight
}}

The art of truespeech is a task far more dangerous than what one imagines.  Truespeech dabbles with the very underlining code of the universe, and altering it can allow strange impossible things which should not be to exist.  Fortunately the code is so complex, that even the most expert speaker intentionally attempting to do something dreadful is far more likely to tie their own tongue in a knot long before the world allows something dire within it.  That is... as long as they haven't already seen the truth behind the illusion that is the universe.

For those whose minds work differently from others, who understand [[Dark Insight (3.5e Variant Rule)|dark insight]] and risk madness and death from merely understanding what they are, and what they could be and once were, they are able to meld their truespeaking abilities with the knowledge of what should not be.

===Becoming a Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue===

{| class="d20 dragon monstats"
|+ style="font-size: larger; white-space: nowrap;" | Entry Requirements
|-
! Skills:
| Decipher Script 4 ranks, Truespeech 8 ranks.
|-
! Feats:
| [[SRD:Iron Will|Iron Will]]
|-
! Spellcasting:
| Must know at least one 2nd level utterance.
|-
! Special:
| Must have a dark insight score of 5 or more when first entering the class.
|}

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ <div>{{Anchor|Table: The Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue}}</div>
<p>Hit Die: d8</p>
|-
! rowspan="2" | Level
! rowspan="2" | [[BAB|Base<br/>Attack Bonus]]
! colspan="3" | [[SRD:Saving Throw|Saving Throw]]s
! rowspan="2" | Special
! rowspan="2" | [[#Utterances|Utterances]]
|-
! [[SRD:Saving Throw#Fortitude|Fort]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Reflex|Ref]] || [[SRD:Saving Throw#Will|Will]]
|- 
| 1st || +0 || +0 || +0 || +2
| class="left" | Elder Tongue, Resist Mindbreak, Spell-Like Abilities (1st), Word of Eldritch Horror
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 2nd || +1 || +0 || +0 || +3
| class="left" | Dark Muttering, Spell-Like Abilities (2nd)
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 3rd || +2 || +1 || +1 || +3
| class="left" | True Insight, Spell-Like Abilities (3rd)
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 4th || +3 || +1 || +1 || +4
| class="left" | Dark Muttering, Spell-Like Abilities (4th)
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 5th || +3 || +1 || +1 || +4
| class="left" | Spell-Like Abilities (5th), Word of Warping
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 6th || +4 || +2 || +2 || +5
| class="left" | Dark Muttering, Spell-Like Abilities (6th)
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 7th || +5 || +2 || +2 || +5
| class="left" | Call of Cthulhu, Spell-Like Abilities (7th)
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 8th || +6 || +2 || +2 || +6
| class="left" | Dark Muttering, Spell-Like Abilities (8th)
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- 
| 9th || +6 || +3 || +3 || +6
| class="left" | Mad Utterance, Spell-Like Abilities (9th)
| class="left" | +1 effective truespeaking class
|- class="noalt"
| colspan="42" class="skill" |
'''Class Skills ([[Skill Points::4]] + [[SRD:Intelligence|Int]] modifier per level.)'''<br/>
{{3.5e Skills|
Autohypnosis, 
Concentration, 
Craft, 
Decipher Script, 
Gather Information, 
Intimidate, 
Knowledge (all knowledges taken separately), 
Listen, 
Profession, 
Search, 
Sense Motive, 
Speak Language, 
Spellcraft, 
Spot, 
Truespeak, 
Use Magic Device}}
|}

====Class Features====

All of the following are class features of the Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue.

'''{{Anchor|Utterances}}:''' At each level, you gain new utterances known per day, maximum utterance known, and an increase in caster level as if you had also gained a level in a truespeaking class to which you belonged before adding the prestige class level. You do not, however, gain any other benefit a character of that class would have gained. If you had more than one truespeaking class before becoming a Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue, you must decide to which class to add each level for the purpose of determining utterances known, caster level, and maximum utterance known.

'''{{Anchor|Elder Tongue}} {{Ex}}:''' The speaker of the forbidden tongue learns how to communicate with the terrors beyond time and space.  They are treated as having ''[[SRD:Tongues|tongues]]'' for any creature of the aberration type, outsider with the augmented aberration subtype, creatures with the abomination subtype, outsider native to the far realm, obyrith and elder evils.

'''{{Anchor|Resist Mindbreak}} {{Ex}}:''' Constant exposure to dark and forbidden knowledge has granted a certain resistance to the dire madness inherent with the knowledge.  They increase their resistance to [[Mindbreak (3.5e Variant Rule)|mindbreak]] by 1 + 1/2 their class level.

'''''{{Anchor|Spell-Like Abilities}}'' {{Sp}}:''' The Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue gains several spell-like abilities they can use 1/day, gaining a new spell-like ability at each level as shown below.  Unlike most spell-like abilities, you must still pay any expensive material components or XP cost.  The saving throw is based on your highest mental ability score.

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ SLAs
! Class Level || class="left" | Spell
|- 
| 1st || class="left" | ''[[Paranoia Haunt (3.5e Spell)|paranoia haunt]]''
|- 
| 2nd || class="left" | ''[[Sense No Evil (3.5e Spell)|sense no evil]]''
|- 
| 3rd || class="left" | ''[[Alien Limb (3.5e Spell)|alien limb]]''
|- 
| 4th || class="left" | ''[[Mask of Forbidden Horror (3.5e Spell)|mask of forbidden horror]]''
|- 
| 5th || class="left" | ''[[Host to Madness (3.5e Spell)|host to madness]]''
|- 
| 6th || class="left" | ''[[Passage of the Warp (3.5e Spell)|passage of the warp]]''
|- 
| 7th || class="left" | ''[[Came Back Wrong (3.5e Spell)|came back wrong]]''
|- 
| 8th || class="left" | ''[[Forbidden Call (3.5e Spell)|forbidden call]]''
|- 
| 9th || class="left" | ''[[That Which Hungers (3.5e Spell)|that which hungers]]''
|}

'''{{Anchor|Word of Eldritch Horror}}:''' The speaker of the forbidden tongue adds a unique utterance to his utterances known, the ''word of eldrich horror'', even if he unable to learn 3rd level utterances yet.

{{:Word of Eldritch Horror (3.5e Utterance)}}

'''{{Anchor|Dark Muttering}}:''' At 2nd level and every even level beyond, the speaker of the forbidden tongue obtains a "dark muttering", a constant truenaming effect which causes whispers around them and provides an effect.  It is not unlike an initiator's stance, and lasts as long as your capable of speaking, and does not interrupt your actual speaking or utterance abilities.  Dark mutterings last until you change them, and may be entered or changed to another dark muttering as a swift action.  Any saving throws are 10 + 1/2 HD + your highest mental ability modifier.  Choose from below.

''{{Anchor|Chorus of Whispers}} {{Su}}:'' You gain many mouths in many places, not all which are seen.  This allows you to speak in many voices at once, allowing you to speak languages you lack the body parts for (even for non-verbal communications such as speaking through light pulses).  You halve the DC increase from using the [[Truespeak Fix (3.5e Variant Rule)|Law of Chorus]].

''{{Anchor|Distortion of Truth}} {{Su}}:'' Creatures within 10 ft of you have their voices corrupted by your muttering, and can only babble and be unable to use vocal components unless they succeed on a [[Will]] save for partial.  A successful save renders them with only a 10% failure chance on any effect which requires verbal components, which lasts until they leave the area.

''{{Anchor|Elder Mantra}} {{Su}}:'' Your constant muttering duplicate the effects of ''[[Scribe Elder Sign (3.5e Spell)|scribe elder sign (3rd level)]]'', with your own body acting as the elder sign and only extending out to 10 ft.

''{{Anchor|Insane Denial}} {{Ex}}:'' Whenever you are subject to a compulsion effect, you can choose to babble (as ''[[SRD:Confusion|confusion]]'') instead of taking the normal effect.

''{{Anchor|Serene Whispers}} {{Ex}}:'' If you are subject to [[Mindbreak (3.5e Variant Rule)|mindbreak]], you are not dazed.  In addition you cure madness at a rate of 1/round.

''{{Anchor|The Gibbering}} {{Su}}:'' You gain the gibbering ability of a [[SRD:Gibbering Mouther|gibbering mouther]].  Allies are not immune to the effect, though you can choose not to employ it while in this dark muttering.  In addition, you are immune to gibbering mouther's gibbering ability, ''[[SRD:Confusion|confusion]]'', and can actually communicate with gibbering mouthers.

''{{Anchor|True Insight}} {{Ex}}:'' You gain your dark insight score as a bonus to Truespeak checks, up to 1 + class level.

''{{Anchor|Word of Destruction}} {{Su}}:'' While in this dark muttering, you can fire a bolt of destructive truespeech at a target in 60 ft as a free action once a round.  It is a ranged touch attack which deals 1 point of damage per character level.  It is considered a "Power Word" for the purpose of interacting with spells and effects.

'''{{Anchor|True Insight}} {{Ex}}:''' At 3rd level the speaker of the forbidden tongue is able to use truespeak checks in place of dark insight checks (and vice versa).

'''''{{Anchor|Word of Warping}}'' {{Sp}}:''' At 5th level the speaker of the forbidden tongue can force other creatures into the [[Dark Insight (3.5e Variant Rule)|warped plane]] by force, exposing them to the dangers of that world (and giving them dark insight if this is their first time entering it).  Those who fail a [[Will]] save (DC 15 + highest mental ability modifier) are sent into the warped plane, with how deep determined by your dark insight check.  This is considered at 5th level spell.

'''''{{Anchor|Call of Cthulhu}}'' {{Sp}}:''' At 7th level the speaker of the forbidden tongue can chant the name of an eldritch horror and summon them, a foolish prospect since control is not part of the deal.  You can summon any creature of the aberration type, outsider with the augmented aberration subtype, creatures with the abomination subtype, outsider native to the far realm, and obyriths whose CR are no higher than your own CR +4. You must make a dark insight check equal to the creature's CR + 15 over the course of 1 round.  If you fail the check by 10 or more points you receive backlash damage equal to twice your HD.  If you succeed, the creature appears within 30 ft as if called by ''[[SRD:Gate|gate]]'', uncontrolled.  You may make an immediate opposed [[Charisma]] check (not a dark insight check) to appease it and make it indifferent to you and you alone when it arrives, otherwise it will behave as it normally would.  Unique creatures gain a [[Will]] save (DC 17 + highest mental ability score) to resist being summoned.  This is considered a 7th level spell.

'''{{Anchor|Mad Utterance}}:''' At 9th level, the speaker of the forbidden tongue can use primal abilities on their utterances, but they must burn dark insight, and risk madness and mindbreak.  The dark insight cost of any utterance is half its utterance level, and you gain madness equal to 1d4 + half its utterance level when you complete the utterance. 

===Campaign Information===

====Playing a Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue====

'''Combat:''' The speaker of the forbidden tongue has not started anything new, this is merely a natural aspect of what he already has been doing.  Rather it employs one's ability to delve into darkness to further augment one's powers.

'''Advancement:''' The speaker of the forbidden tongue may look into other classes which deal with dark insight.

'''Resources:'''  Those who delve in the dark arts seldom work together, and for good reason, for the knowledge they work with can only end in sorrow and suffering.

====Speakers of the Forbidden Tongue in the World====

{{quote|The words.  You speak the words, and them them rightly.|orig=Khor-Ah, Undefined Eldritch Horror Summoned}}

'''NPC Reactions:''' Madness, they are all afflicted with madness and tongues, possessed by the devil!

====Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue Lore====

Characters with ranks in Knowledge Arcana or [[Knowledge Xeno (3.5e Skill)|Knowledge Xeno]] can research Speakers of the Forbidden Tongue to learn more about them.  When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.

{| class="zebra d20"
|+ Knowledge Arcana or Xeno
! DC || class="left" | Result
|-
| 10 || class="left" | Speakers are truenamers who have delved too deep, and have gained dark insight... and perhaps madness.
|-
| 15 || class="left" | Speakers are able to retain constant truenaming abilities at all time, as if they were chanting from an unseen mouth.
|-
| 20 || class="left" | Speakers are able to send people into madness, summon eldritch horrors, and empower their utterances with the dark arts.
|- 
| 30 || class="left" | Those that reach this level of success can research specific Speakers of the Forbidden Tongue, their motives, location, trivia, and other details.
|}


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Article Balance	Very High +
Author	Eiji-kun +
Base Attack Bonus Progression	Moderate +
Class Ability	Other +
Class Ability Progression	Full +
Fortitude Save Progression	Poor +
Identifier	3.5e Prestige Class +
Length	9 +
Level	Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue 3 +
Minimum Level	5 +
Range	Other +
Rating	Undiscussed +
Reflex Save Progression	Poor +
School	Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue +
Skill	Autohypnosis +, Concentration +, Craft +, Decipher Script +, Gather Information +, Intimidate +, Knowledge +, Listen +, Profession +, Search +, Sense Motive +, Speak Language +, Spellcraft +, Spot +, Truespeak + and Use Magic Device +
Skill Points	4 +
Summary	A truenaming prestige class who employs their dark insight to warp the universe farther than they really should. + and Expose targets to destructive madness by calling it forth, or repel beings of madness. +
Title	Speaker of the Forbidden Tongue +
Will Save Progression	Good +