Quote Originally Posted by true_shinken
Elegance: 2.5 You never spent skill points to overcome Barbarian's illiteracy, so Esha couldn't actually read the Talaric Codex; just multiclassing by itself does not get you literacy - which technically makes the build illegal. (-1)
Um, actually...

Quote Originally Posted by SRD
Illiteracy
Barbarians are the only characters who do not automatically know how to read and write. A barbarian may spend 2 skill points to gain the ability to read and write all languages he is able to speak.

A barbarian who gains a level in any other class automatically gains literacy. Any other character who gains a barbarian level does not lose the literacy he or she already had.