Linguist

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You have studied languages and codes extensively, granting you the following benefits:

• Increase your Intelligence score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
• You learn how to speak, read and write in three languages of your choice.
• You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks to understand the basic meaning of anything vocally communicated by a creature that you can hear or anything physically communicated by a creature you can see, provided that you have spent at least 1 minute observing it.
• You can ably create written ciphers. Others can't decipher a code you create unless you teach them, they succeed on an Intelligence check (DC equal to your Intelligence score + your proficiency bonus), or they use magic to decipher it.
• You have advantage on Intelligence checks to try and decode ciphers. If you can not immediately decode a cipher you can spend a day's work to gain a basic understanding of what is written, allowing you to re-roll your attempt to decode it.