Need advice on a character class to use for an unusual NPC

[hunter1828]

I have been rewatching Star Trek TNG lately, and I want to introduce an npc based on a character in the season 2 episode "Loud as a Whisper". The character is deaf and mute but uses a "chorus" of three people he communicates with telepathically to do his speaking.

In my game, I am thinking of making the npc a religious figure, but being deaf and mute precludes being a spellcaster. Any suggestions on what class to use for the NPC?

[AndIMustMask]

sounds like oracle with silent spell, and something with telepathy

[r-Kelleg]

definitively oracle, yes.

[waiph]

deaf oracle gets all spells silent, and the character could communicate to the "Chorus" with Message in a strange language. the character always mumbles and when it has something to say, it lets the Chorus know and they can speak for it.

[r-Kelleg]

you could also put an Aboleth behind him and made him a simple illusion (or an Aboleth's slave)

[Roberta Yang]

Dual-Cursed Oracle: Deaf and Tongues seems to fit perfectly.

[TeShen]

Am I the only one who thought of vitalist which is an update of the society mind or a telepath? Both 'cast' powers without verbal or somatic components. Both have the ability to speak telepathically at level 2 and 1 respectively.

And nothing says cult leader like thrallherd.

[r-Kelleg]

@Teshen. Really ... psionics ... you found a dm whou allow those classes ? I tried once and I came back on my decision as fast as I could. Imho you cannot have both psi and "classical" magic in the same world.

[hunter1828]

Thanks for all the suggestions folks. Oracle it is! I'm not sure why I didn't think of orcale, but obviously I didn't!