Scarred and Strong

Half-ores' grayish pigmentation, sloping foreheads, jutting jaws, prominent teeth, and towering builds make their orcish heritage plain for all to see. Half-arcs stand between 6 and 7 feet tall and usually weigh between 180 and 250 pounds. Ores regard battle scars as tokens of pride and ornamental scars as things of beauty. Other scars. though, mark an ore or half-orc as a former slave or a disgraced exile. Any half-orc who has lived among or near ores has scars, whether they are marks of humiliation or of pride, recounting their past exploits and injuries. Such a half-ore living among humans might display these scars proudly or hide them in shame.

The Mark of Gruumish

The one-eyed god Gruumsh created the ores, and even those ores who turn away from his worship can't fully escape his influence. The same is true of half-ores, though their human blood moderates the impact of their orcish heritage. Some half-ores hear the whispers of Gruumsh in their dreams, calling them to unleash the rage that simmers within them. Others feel Gruumsh's

exultation when they join in melee combat—and either exult along with him or shiver with fear and loathing. Half-ores are not evil by nature, but evil does lurk within them, whether they embrace it or rebel against it. Beyond the rage of Gruumsh, half-ores feel emotion powerfully. Rage doesn't just quicken their pulse, it makes their bodies burn. An insult stings like acid, and sadness saps their strength. But they laugh loudly and heartily, and simple bodily pleasures—feasting, drinking, wrestling, drumming, and wild dancing—fill their hearts with joy. They tend to be short-tempered and sometimes sullen, more inclined to action than contemplation and to fighting than arguing. The most accomplished half-ores are those with enough selfcontrol to get by in a civilized land.

Tribes and Slums

Half-ores most often live among ores. Of the other races. humans are most likely to accept half-ores, and halfores almost always live in human lands when not living among orc tribes. Whether proving themselves among rough barbarian tribes or scrabbling to survive in the slums of larger Cities, half-ores get by on their physical might, their endurance, and the sheer determination they inherit from their human ancestry.

Half-Orc Names

Half-ores usually have names appropriate to the culture in which they were raised. A half-arc who wants to fit in among humans might trade an orc name fora human name. Some half-ores with human names decide to adopt a guttural ore name because they think it makes them more intimidating.

Male Orc Names: Dench, Feng, Gell, Henk, Hoig, lmsh, Keth, Krusk, Mhurren, Rant, Shump, Thokk

Female Orc Names: Baggi, Emen, Engong, Kansif, Myev, Neega. Ovak, Ownka, Shautha. Sutha, Vola, Volen, Yevelda

Small and Practical

The diminutive halflings survive in a world full of larger creatures by avoiding notice or, barring that, avoiding offense. Standing about 3 feet tall, they appear relatively harmless and so have managed to survive for centuries in the shadow of empires and on the edges of wars and political strife. They are inclined to be stout, weighing between 40 and 45 pounds.

Halflings' skin ranges from tan to pale with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually brown or sandy brown and wavy. They have brown or hazel eyes. Halfling men often sport long sideburns, but beards are rare among them and mustaches even more so. They like to wear simple, comfortable, and practical clothes, favoring bright colors.

Halfling practicality extends beyond their clothing. They're concerned with basic needs and simple pleasures and have little use for ostentation. Even the wealthiest of halflings keep their treasures locked in a cellar rather than on display for all to see. They have a knack for finding the most straightforward solution to a problem, and have little patience for dithering.

Kind and Curious

Halflings are an affable and cheerful people. They cherish the bonds of family and friendship as well as the comforts of hearth and home, harboring few dreams of gold or glory. Even adventurers among them usually venture into the world for reasons of community, friendship, wanderlust, or curiosity. They love discovering new things, even simple things, such as an exotic food or an unfamiliar style of clothing. Halflings are easily moved to pity and hate to see any living thing suffer. They are generous, happily sharing what they have even in lean times.

Blend into the Crowd

Hafflings are adept at fitting into a community of humans, dwarves, or elves, making themselves valuable and welcome. The combination of their inherent stealth and their unassuming nature helps hafflings to avoid unwanted attention.

Halflings work readily with others, and they are loyal to their friends, whether halfling or otherwise. They can display remarkable ferocity when their friends, families, or communities are threatened.

Pastoral Pleasantries

Most halflings live in small, peaceful communities with large farms and well-kept groves. They rarely build kingdoms of their own or even hold much land beyond their quiet shires. They typically don't recognize any sort of baffling nobility or royalty, instead looking to family elders to guide them. Families preserve their traditional ways despite the rise and fall of empires. Many halflings live among other races, where the halflings' hard work and loyal outlook offer them abundant rewards and creature comforts. Some halfling communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.

Exploring Opportunities

Halflings usually set out on the adventurer's path to defend their communities, support their friends, or explore a wide and wonder-filled world. For them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity or sometimes a necessity.

Athasian

Ability Score Increase. Wisdom score increases by 1.

Nature Tender. You know the druidcraft cantrip.

Tribal Knowledge. You choose to be proficient in one of the following skills: History, Nature, Performance, Survival.

Languages. You speak Common and one other language of your choice. Your literacy is determined by a roll made at character creation.

LightFoot

As a lightfoot halfling, you can easily hide from notice, even using other people as cover. You're inclined to be affable and get along well with others. In the Forgotten Realms, lightfoot halflings have spread the farthest and thus are the most common variety.

Lightfoots are more prone to wanderlust than other halflings, and often dwell alongside other races or take up a nomadic life. ln the world of Greyhawk, these halflings are called hairfeet or tallfellows. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by I.

Naturally Stealthy. You can attempt to hide even when you are obscured only by a creature that is at least one size larger than you.

Stout

As a stout halfling, you're hardicr than average and have some resistance to poison. Some say that stouts have dwarven blood. In the Forgotten Realms, these halflings are called stronghearts, and they're most common in the south.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by I.

Stout Resilience. You have advantage on saving throws against poison, and you have resistance against poison damage.

Goblinoids

Hobgoblins belong to a family of creatures called goblinoids. They are often found lording over their cousins, the smaller goblins and the ferocious bugbears.

Martial Might

A hobgoblin measures virtue by physical strength and martial prowess, caring about nothing except the opportunity to demonstrate skill and cunning in battle. Hobgoblins of high military rank attain their positions by force, then hold those positions by imposing their authority through draconian measures.

Hobgoblins train to fight with a variety of weapons, and have great skill at crafting arms, armor, siege engines, and other. military devices. Organized and disciplined, they take exceptional care oftheir weapons, armor, and personal possessions. They favor the bold colors associated with their tribes, and trim their often-elaborate uniforms with blood-red piping and leather dyed black.

Military Legions

Hobgoblins organize themselves into tribal bands known as legions. In their martial society, every hobgoblin has a rank, from the powerful leaders and champions, to the rank-a nd-file foot soldiers, to the goblins that find themselves driven into the front lines at spear point. A legion is headed by a warlord with several captains serving under its command. A hobgoblin warlord is a ruthless tyrant more interested in strategy, victory, glory, reputation, and dominion than leading troops into battle.

As loyal and disciplined as hobgoblins are in their own legion, rival legions compete constantly for reputation and status. Meetings between legions erupt in violence if troops aren't restrained, and only exceptionally powerful leaders can force legions to cooperate on the battlefield.

Strategic Thinkers

Hobgoblins have a strong grasp of tactics and discipline, and can carry out sophisticated battle plans under the direction of a strategically minded leader. However, they hate elves and attack them first in battle over any other opponents, even if doing so would be a tactical error. Legions often supplement their ranks with less reliable and more expendable troops, including goblins, bugbears, orcs, evil humans, ogres, and giants.

Beast Trainers.

Hobgoblins have a long history of training animals to service. Like the more civilized races, they use oxen and horses to transport goods and weaponry over long distances. They communicate with each other using tra ined ravens, and keep vicious wolves to guard prisoners and protect hobgoblin camps. Hobgoblin cavalry use trained worgs as steeds, in the same way that goblins ride wolves. Some tribes even keep carnivorous apes as fighting beasts.

Conquer and Control.

Hobgoblins claim lands with abundant resources, and they can be found in forests and mounta ins, near mines and humanoid settlements, and anywhere else that wood, meta l, and potential s laves can be found. They build and conquers trongholds in strategically advaritageous locations, which they then use as staging areas to expand their territory.

Hobgoblin warlords never tire of combat, but they don't take up arms lightly. Before they attack, hobgoblins conduct thorough reconnaissance to gauge the strengths and weaknesses of their foes. When assaulting a stronghold, they surround it first to cut off escape routes and supply lines, then slowly starve their enemies out.

Hobgoblins fortify their own holdings, bolstering existing defenses with innovations of their own. Whether they lair in cavern complexes, dungeons, ruins, or forests, they protect their s trongholds with ditches, fences, gates, guard towers, pit traps, and crude catapults or ballistas.

Legion of Maglubiyet.

Hobgoblins worship Maglubiyet the Mighty One, the greater god of goblinoids. As terrifying as this figure is, hobgoblins don't fear death, believing that when they die in battle, their spirits join the honored ranks of Maglubiyet's army on the plane of Acheron.

A Broad Spectrum

With their penchant for migration and conquest, humans are more physically diverse than other common races. There is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, ore, or other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.

Variety in All Things

Humans are the most adaptable and ambitious people among the common races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages. and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human's memory. They live fully in the present—making them well suited to the adventuring life—but also plan for the future, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.

Lasting Institutions

Where a single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes. While dwarf clans and halfling elders pass on the ancient traditions to each new generation, human temples, governments, libraries, and codes of law fix their traditions in the bedrock of history. Humans dream of immortality, but (except for those few who seek undeath or divine ascension to escape death's clutches) they achieve it by ensuring that they will be remembered when they are gone.

Although some humans can be xenophobic, in general their societies are inclusive. Human lands welcome large numbers of nonhumans compared to the proportion of humans who live in nonhuman lands.

Exemplars of Ambition

Humans who seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power, wealth, and fame. More than other people, humans champion causes rather than territories or groups.

Arkaiun

Short in stature with tan skin and dark hair, the Arkaiuns dwell primarily in Dambrath as well as Halruaa and the Shar. Many Arkaiuns lived under the yoke of drow slavery centuries ago after a failed military campaign against the dark elves, which led to the eventual destruction of the Arkaiun kingdom in Dambrath.

Arkaiun Names: (Male) Houn, Rhivaun, Umbril, Xaemar, Zeltaebar; (female) Glouris, Maeve, Sevaera, Xaemarra, Zraela; (surnames) Lharaendo, Mristar, Wyndael

Bedine

Dark-skinned and dark-haired, the Bedine were warriors and nomads in southern Anauroch. Once divided into over a hundred tribes, the clannish Bedine mostly kept to their desert lands and interacted little with outsiders, except for trading. Over the generations, more Bedine have become city dwellers, leaving behind their nomadic ways, and reducing the number of tribes that stiff espouse their traditional way of life.

Bedine Names: (Male) Aali, Rashid, Tahnon, Tanzim, Whalide; (female) Aisha, Farah, Nura, Rashida, Zalebyeh; (tribe names) Alaii, Bordjia, Clelarra, Desai, Dakawa, Dursalai, Goldor, Iriphawa, Kellordrai, Lalajar, Qahtan, Yethtai, Zazalaar

Calishite

Shorter and slighter in build than most other humans, Calishites have dusky brown skin, hair, and eyes. They're found primarily in southwest Faerun.

Calishite Names: (Male) Aseir, Bardeid, Haseid, Khemed, Mehmen, Sudeiman, Zasheir; (female) Atala, Ceidil, Hama, Jasmal, Meilil, Seipora, Yasheira, Zasheida; (surnames) Basha, Dumein, jassan, K ha lid, Mostana, Pashar, Rein

Chondathan

Chondathans are slender, tawny-skinned folk with brown hair that ranges from almost blond to almost black. Most are tall and have green or brown eyes, but these traits are hardly universal. Humans of Chondathan descent dominate the central lands of Faerun, around the Inner Sea.

Chondathan Names: (Male) Darvin, Dorn, Evendur, Gorstag, Grim. Helm, Malark, Morn, Randal, Stedd; (female) Arveene, Esvele, Jhessail, Kerri, Lureene, Miri, Rowan, Shandri, Tessele; (surnames) Amblecrown, Buckman, Dundragon, Evenwood, Greycastle, Tallstag

Damaran

Found primarily in the northwest of Faerun, Damarans are of moderate height and build, with skin hues ranging from tawny to fair. Their hair is usually brown or black, and their eye color varies widely, though brown is most common.

Damaran Names: (Male) Bor, Fodel, Glar, Grigor, Igan, Ivor, Kosef, Mival, Orel, Pavel, Sergor; (female) Alethra, Kara, Katernin, Mara, Natali, Olma, Tana, Zora; (surnames) Bersk, Chernin, Dotsk, Kulenov, Marsk, Nemetsk, Shemov, Starag

Ffolk

The Ffolk of the Moonshae Isles are descended from Tethyrian settlers who came to the isles a thousand years ago. The Ffolk have a deep respect for nature, and are primarily farmers, worshiping the goddess they call the Earthmother and keeping to old druidic ways. Ffolk shipwrights are well regarded, having proven their ability to build sturdy ships that are capable of weathering the tumultuous seas around their home.

Ffolk Names: (Male) Artur, Bern, Colin, Manfred, Tristan; (female) Alicia, Gennifer, Meridith, Elaine, Olivia; (surnames) Archer, Gareth, Leed, Kendrick, Morgan, Waters

Gur

Related to the Rashemi, Gu rs are stout, dusky-skinned, and dark-haired. They consider themselves "children of Selune," and most of them revere the moon goddess. Gur communities live a nomadic existence wandering the Western Heartlands, leading others to refer to them as "the people of the highway."

Gur Names: (Male) Boriv, Gardar, Madevik, Vlad; (female) Varra, Ulmarra, Imza, Navarra, Yuldra; (surnames) Chergoba, Drazlad, Tazyara, Vargoba, Stayankina

Halruaan

The people of the mysterious and magical kingdom of Halruaa, the Halruaans are touched by magic, and many of them are talented in the Art. They and their land vanished during the Spellplague, but just as mysteriously returned after the second Sundering. Most Halruaans have blond or dark hair and olive complexions. Black, brown, and green eyes are the most common.

Halruaan Names: (Male) Aldym, Chand, Meleghost, Presmer, Sandrue, Uregaunt; (female) Aithe, Chalan, Oloma, Phaele, Sarade; (surnames) Avhoste, Darante, Maurmeril, Stamaraster

Optional: Human Languagues

Many human ethnicities and nations in Faerun have their own language, in addition to Common. Most human languages are written in Thorass, the alphabet of Old Common, derived from the Chondathan language that traders used as their common tongue. A few human languages use other alphabets, including Draconic, Dethek, and Espruar. The languages of the ethnicities described in the Player's Handbook and this book are as follows:

Arkaiun: Dambrathan (written in Espruar)

Bedine: Midani

Calishite: Alzhedo

Chondathan: Chondathan

Damaran: Damaran (written in Dethek)

Ffolk: Waelan

Gur: Guran (a patois of Roushoum and Rashemi)

Halruaan: Halruaan (written in Draconic)

Illuskan: llluskan

Imaskari: Roushoum

Mulan: Chessentan, Mulhorandi, Untheric, orThayan

Nar: Damaran

Rashemi: Rashemi

Shaaran: Shaaran (written in Dethek)

Shou: Shou

Tethyrian: Chondathan

Tuigan: Tuigan

Turami: Turmic

Ulutiun: Uluik

If your Dungeon Master allows this option, then any human from an ethnic group that has its own language is assumed to know th at language as well as Common. This ethnic language is treated as a free additional language for such individuals.

Variant Human Traits

If your campaign uses the optional feat rules from chapter 5, your Dungeon Master might allow these variant traits, all of which replace the human's Ability Score Increase trait.

Ability Score Increase. Two different ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Skills. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.

Feat. You gain one feat of your choice.

Near-Human (Mutated Human Varient)

Humans are not only a prevalent race in the 'verse, but there is also a wide variety of near-humans, bearing subtly different traits, which can be found on an abundance of worlds. It's not entirely clear why humans, of all races, have scattered so wide and far, but sages keep a number of theories, from the reaching, to the utterly bizarre.

Ability Score Increase. One ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Skills. You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.

Feat. You gain two feats of your choice. These feats must have Near-Human variant as a prerequisite. You cannot put both your ability score improvements in the same ability score.

Word Made Flesh

There is power in the written word. Legend says that long ago Words of Power spoken by the gods forged the world, anchoring the mountains and the sky from the pandemonium that preceded it. These words then created the races, the monsters, the cities, and the wilds.

Illumian legend states that these words did not vanish or lose their power, for Power is eternal; they were merely forgotten. A monk, hailing from a powerful kingdom long since fallen, discovered some of these words and, to channel them, created a ritual to embody them, the Ritual of Word Made Flesh. It is unclear what the ritual entailed, or why it, too, was forgotten, but folklore holds this ritual alone created the first illumians who are a living manifestation of the Words.

Scholars by Nature

Illumians are an extremely focused people, who believe that being merely exceptional isn't good enough; one must have mastery. This strong belief in mastery and the competitive nature that brings illumians pursue it permeates every area of their psychology.

Cabals and the Black Table

The principle social structure within illumian society is the Cabal, a highly rigid hierarchy to which illumians belong at birth. Each cabal consists of one hundred to three hundred illumians and are typically seated in a fortress-like enclave. The structure and rules are precisely stated and typically unique to each cabal, though they all share a few commonalities.

The Elders of each cabal rule from seats at the Black Table, which direct activities of the cabal down the hierarchy. Usually, the oldest member of the enclave acts as the heads of the Black Table, while the youngest member acts as the liaison to the rest of the cabal. The Black Table also appoints special positions in the society, such as the Arbiter, the Lorekeeper, and the Final Seed.

Illumian Names

Being a people of written words, the illumians following a naming scheme based largely upon three characters, each with meaning. The first character, which acts as a given name, is chosen by an illumian at birth by his parents, and may by from any language, including that of the illumians. The second two characters are the individual's power sigil, which are listed below. These combinations being sufficient to label all illumians, they make no distinction between male and female names.

Illumian Given Names: Ash, Eng, Eth, Ethel, Ond, Thorn, Wynn, Yogh

Illumian Power Sigils: Aesh, Hoon, Krau, Naen, Uur, Vaul.

Illumian Traits

Your illumian character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Age. Illumians age at the same rate as humans, reaching adulthood in their late teens and living less than a century.

Alignment. The cabals that form the backbone of illumian society maintain codes of honor they expect members to follow, therefore illumians have a tendency toward lawful alignments.

Size. Illumians vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Illumian, and two extra languages of your choice. Illumians are a scholarly race, and they often learn multiple languages in their leisure time.

Glyphic Resonance. Illumians are the physical embodiment of a magical language, so they interact strangely with symbol-based spells. You are immune to the effects of 1 of the following spells: illusory script, glyph of warding, and symbol, provided you know and can cast it. You can change this selection when you finish a long rest.

Luminous Sigils. An array of luminous sigils of Illumian orbit your head, shedding bright light in a 5-foot radius and dim light in a 10-foot radius. You may use a bonus action to make the sigils vanish or reappear, but you lose your Glyphic Resonance trait when they are suppressed.

Versatile Learner. You are proficient in one skill of your choice. Additionally, when you take a level in a class other than your first, you can reduce one Ability Score Minimum for Multiclassing Prerequisites to 10 for a given ability score, rather than 13.

Power Sigils. In addition to the array of dimly glowing luminous sigils that orbits your head, you have two slightly brighter sigils, known as power sigils, which grant you certain bonuses. Choose two of the options from the table below:

The Edge of Madness

As a true hybrid of human hosts and quori spirits, the kalashtar possess keen intellects but are not ruled by logic. They seek the perfection of their minds and spirits, often to the exclusion of any physical pursuits. They are generally warm and compassionate, but their manners and ways of thinking are alien to the native races of Eberron. They are more interested in psionics than in the magic that pervades Khorvaire, and often lace their discourse with esoteric terms such as “matter,” “kinetics,” and “ectoplasm.”

The kalashtar are outcasts from their home plane and can never return there—not even in dream. The combination of life in exile and a dreamless existence makes the kalashtar slightly inclined toward madness, and some have speculated that the kalashtar devote themselves to psychic and physical discipline in order to keep themselves safely sane.

Other-Worldly Beauty

Kalashtar appear very similar to humans, but they have a grace and elegance that makes them seem almost too beautiful. They are slightly taller than the average human, and their faces have a slight angularity that sets them apart from the human norm, but these deviations only make them seem more attractive.

Kalashtar are born diplomats and relate fairly well to individuals of all races—except the Inspired. They relate best to humans, with whom they share the greatest physical similarity, but some kalashtar find themselves strongly drawn to other races instead.

Displaced Exiles

The kalashtar homeland is a region of Sarlona called Adar, a land of forbidding mountains and hidden fortresses in the southeastern portion of the continent. Even in Adar their numbers are small, and the number of kalashtar found in Khorvaire is much smaller still. However, they can be found in many of the largest human cities. The largest kalashtar population in Khorvaire is in the city of Sharn. They oppose the Inspired in all ways, both within Riedra and beyond its borders, and likewise oppose any group or force that corrupts or degrades mortal souls.

Kalashtar do not follow gods, but they have their own religion, called the Path of Light. The center of this belief system is a universal force of positive energy the kalashtar call il-Yannah, or “the Great Light.” Through meditation and communion with this force, the kalashtar seek to strengthen their bodies and minds for the struggle against the forces of darkness that threaten all life on Eberron. Though il-Yannah is not a deity, its few clerics draw power from the Path of Light.

Kalashtar Names

Kalashtar names have much in common with the names of their people: They are three to five syllables long, with a combination of hard and hissing consonants.

Male names end with one of the masculine name suffixes –harath, –khad, –melk, or –tash.

Female names use the feminine suffixes –kashtai, –shana, –tari, or –vakri.

Male Names: Dalharath, Halkhad, Havrakhad, Kanatash, Lanamelk, Lanharath, Malharath, Minharath, Nevitash, Parmelk, Talkhad, Thakakhad, Thinharath, Zeratash

Female Names: Ganitari, Inatari, Khashana, Lakashtari, Mevakri, Novakri, Panitari, Sorashana, Thakashtai, Thatari, Ulshana

Physical Description

Kender resemble Halflings, but take on more of their ancestral traits, such as their pointed ears, which resemble their ancestral heritage race. Most Kender place their hair in a topknot, which is a source of racial pride

History

The Kender descended from ancient Gnomes and Elves from the power of the Greygem at Gargath's tower. Created by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Wies

Culture

Kender have no concept of ownership, and tend to 'borrow' objects that they need in their day to day life, this concept has caused other races to view them as a race of thieves, something that Kender take great offense towards, because they believe there is nothing morally wrong with handling something that belongs to someone else.

Kender Names

Kender are typically named after objects or events.

Male: Lockpick, Shoehorn, Earwig, Tasslehoff Burrfoot

Female: Dagger, Bearchase, Haversack

Kender Traits

Small and fearless kleptomaniacs

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 2 and Charisma increases by 1.

Age. A Kender reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and live up to 200 years.

Alignment. Due to their cultural view on borrowing, most Kender are chaotic.

Size. Kenders average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Fearless. You cannot be frightened.

Taunting Nature. You know the vicious mockery cantrip. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell. Save vs wisdom.

Darkvision. Accustomed to the darkness of twilight, you have superior vision in the dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Borrowing nature. Due to your culture you are capable of taking items without ever being discovered, even by yourself, as a result you have advantage on all sleight of hand skill checks that have to do with stealing.A roll will be made to see if the Kender has acquired something.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write in Common and Halfling.

An Ancient Curse

The kenku once served a mysterious, powerful entity on another plane of existence. Some believe they were minions of Grazz't, while others say that they were scouts and explorers for the Wind Dukes of Aaqa. Whatever the truth, according to legend, the kenku betrayed their master. Unable to resist the lure of a beautiful sparkling treasure, the kenku plotted to steal the item and escape to the Material Plane. Unfortunately for the kenku, their master discovered their plan before they could enact it. Enraged, the entity imposed three dreadful curses upon them. First, the kenku's beloved wings withered and fell away from their bodies, leaving them bound to the earth. Second, because their ingenuity and skill had turned toward scheming against their patron, the spark of creativity was torn from their souls. Finally, to ensure that the kenku could never divulge any secrets, their master took away their voices. Once the entity was satisfied that they had been sufficiently punished, the kenku were set loose on the Material Plane. Since then, the kenku have wandered the world. They settle in places that accept them, usually bleak cities that have fallen on hard times and are overrun with crime.

Dreams of Flight

Above all else, kenku wish to regain their ability to fly. Every kenku is born with a desire to take to the air, and those who learn spellcasting do so in hope of mastering spells that will allow them to fly.

Rumors of magic items such as flying carpets, brooms capable of flight, and similar objects provoke a great desire for the kenku to acquire the items for themselves. Despite their lack of wings, kenku love dwelling in towers and other tall structures. They seek out ruins that reach to the sky, though they lack the motivation and creativity to make repairs or fortify such places.

Even so, their light weight and size allow them to dwell in rickety structures that would collapse beneath a human or an ore. Some thieves' guilds use kenku as lookouts and messengers. The kenku dwell in the tallest buildings and towers the guild controls, allowing them to lurk in the highest levels and to keep watch on the city below.

Hopelss Plagiarists

As, a result of their lack of creativity, kenku function comfortably as minions of a powerful master. Flock leaders enforce discipline and minimize conflicts, but they fail at effective planning or crafting longterm schemes. Although unable to speak in their own voices, kenku can perfectly mimic any sound they hear, from a halfling's voice to the noise of rocks clattering down a hillside.

However, kenku cannot create new sounds and can communicate only by using sounds they have heard. Most kenku use a combination of overheard phrases and sound effects to convey their ideas and thoughts. By the same token, kenku have no ability to invent new ideas or create new things. Kenku can copy existing items with exceptional skill, allowing them to become excellent artisans and scribes.

They can copy books, make replicas of objects, and otherwise thrive in situations where they can produce large numbers of identical items. Few kenku find this work satisfying, since their quest for the freedom of flight makes them ill-suited to settle into a routine.

Ideal Minions

Kenku gather in groups called flocks. A flock is led by the oldest and most experienced kenku with the widest store of knowledge to draw on, often called Master. Although kenku can't create new things, they have a talent for learning and memorizing details. Thus, ambitious kenku can excel as superb spies and scouts. A kenku who learns of clever schemes and plans devised by other creatures can put them to use. The kenku lack the talent to improvise or alter a plan, but a wise Master sets multiple plans in motion at once, confident that underlings can follow orders to the letter. For this reason, many kenku make an easy living serving as messengers, spies, and lookouts for thieves' guilds, bandits, and other criminal cartels. A network of kenku can relay a bird call or similar noise across the city, alerting their allies to the approach of a guard patrol or signaling a prime opportunity for a robbery. Since kenku can precisely reproduce any sound, the messages they carry rarely suffer degradation or shifts in meaning. Human messengers might switch words or phrases and garble a message inadvertently, but the kenku produce perfect copies of whatever they hear.

Strength and Zeal

Many khenra believe that they are created in the image of Hazoret, and though they venerate all five gods in the manner of all citizens of Naktamun, they have a special affinity for the teachings and philosophy of the god of zeal. These khenra share a deep love of combat, especially hand-to-hand fighting, and they devote themselves to their training with particular intensity.

The familial bond experienced in the Family Temple of Hazoret’s monument is a part of every khenra’s experience as one of a pair of twins. As such, these khenra sometimes think of themselves as Hazoret’s children even before they finish the fourth trial. For her part, Hazoret seems to favor khenra among her viziers, and some say that she shows particular favor to khenra initiates who survive to reach the Trial of Zeal.

Other khenra choose to distance themselves from Hazoret and the reckless battle frenzy she encourages. They devote themselves instead to honing their physical strength, resilience, and adaptability, inspired and guided by the teachings of Rhonas. These khenra have a great fondness for wrestling (or tussling, as they often call it), and they keep careful track of the matches they win and lose against other initiates. They often seek out matches against minotaurs, enjoying the challenge of pitting their sinewy strength against the brute muscle of larger and heavier opponents.

Combat Classes

Khenra, especially those devoted to Hazoret, are particularly drawn to hand-to-hand combat styles. But the other styles each have their own appeal, and khenra initiates might find themselves specializing in any of the three.

Khenra who focus on hand-to-hand combat often wield the khopesh—a large sickle-bladed sword—as their weapon of choice (treat as a longsword). Khenra wield these blades with devastating accuracy and power, landing one crushing blow after another in a hail of furious attacks. They favor lightweight armor that doesn’t impede their movement, often comparing fighting in organized ranks to wearing a leash that limits their ability to charge, lunge, and roll away from danger. Their natural aggression makes them ideal shock troops, scouts, and skirmishers. And that aggression is even more pronounced in khenra who have already lost their twin, and who sometimes lose any sense of self-preservation as a result.

Khenra who focus on long-range combat prefer hurled weapons—spears and javelins—over bows and slings, and they are known and feared for their deadly accuracy. They carry small cases of javelins into combat, and feel ashamed if they reach the end of a battle with any weapons left unthrown. A khenra might ride on a chariot as a spear thrower, sometimes augmenting attacks with minor spells of fire magic.

Many khenra mages specialize in fire spells, creating blades or hails of flame to sear and scorch their foes. Their strategy emphasizes overwhelming initial assaults, in magical emulation of Hazoret’s battle frenzy. Others prefer magic that augments their natural speed and strength, bolsters their endurance, or drains strength from their enemies. They work to hone their spells alongside their bodies, incorporating elements of hand-to-hand combat into their spellcasting.

Khenra Traits

Your khenra character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.

Age. Khenra mature quickly, reaching adulthood in their early teens. Khenra initiates are usually the youngest in a crop, completing the trials by their late teens. Even without a violent death, they rarely live past 60.

Alignment. Most khenra lean toward chaotic alignments. They have no particular inclination toward good or evil.

Size. Khenra have similar builds to humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Khenra Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the khopesh, spear, and javelin.

Khenra Twins. If your twin is alive and you can see your twin, whenever you roll a 1 on an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. If your twin is dead (or if you were born without a twin), you can’t be frightened.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Khenra

Strength in Numbers

Kobolds are egg-laying creatures which breed prodigiously, laying eggs quickly which rapidly mature. While some grow long enough to be "great wyrms" over a century old, most perish before their first decade. Physically weak, they are easy prey for predators. This vulnerability forces them to band together. Their superior numbers can win battles against powerful adversaries, but often with massive casualties on the kobold side.

Dragon Worshippers

Kobolds venerate dragons, to which they believe they are kin. The origin of this connection is unclear, based heavily on folklore and myth, but the relationship is undeniable and shapes every aspect of kobold religion. In addition to the dragons they revere, kobolds worship a lesser god named Kurtulmak. Legends speak of how Kurtulmak served as Tiamat's vassal in the Nine Hells until Garl Glittergold, the god of gnomes, stole a trinket from the Dragon Queen's hoard. Tiamat sent Kurtulmak to retrieve the trinket, but Garl Glittergold played a trick on him, collapsing the earth and trapping the kobold god in an underground maze for eternity. For this reason, kobolds hate gnomes and pranks of any kind.

Tunnelers and Trapmakers

Kobolds make up for their physical ineptitude with a cleverness for trap making and tunneling. Kobolds take great pride in constructing their elaborate warrens and defending them with nefarious traps. Designed with low tunnels, kobolds can move easily through their lairs which hinder larger humanoids. The most insidious kobold traps make use of natural hazards and other creatures, and are thoroughly ruthless against invaders. A trip wire might connect to a spring-loaded trap that hurls clay pots of flesheating green slime or flings crates of venomous giant centipedes at intruders.

Kobold Names

Kobold names are short and guttural, formed from thickly accented syllables from draconic, often repeated in pairs.

Male Names: Draahzin, Ed-Ed, Ipmeerk, Jik-Jik, Kip-Kip, Makroo, Olp, Pun-Pun, Yaar-Yaar.

Female Names: Araak, Kail-Kail, Neeral, Oza-Oza, PorPor, Saassraa, Tarka.

Kobold Traits

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age. Kobolds have a rather long lifespan, becoming adults at 12 years of age. No one really knows how long lived a Kobold can be, with the recorded lifespan of about two centuries.

Alignment. Most Kobolds are Lawful, though they have a slight inclination to either good or evil based on which type of dragon they worship. Chromatic Kobolds are usually evil, while Metallic Kobolds are the opposite.

Size. Kobolds stand 4 feet tall at adulthood, and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed. Kobolds have a base walking speed is 30 feet. They are known to be quick and agile.

Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it was bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of grey.

Trap Affinity. You are proficient with Traps and the Trapmaking Kit. In addition, you have advantage on all saving throws made against traps.

Shifty. If a melee attack misses you, you can immediately move 5 feet in any direction that isn't blocked as a reaction. This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Draconic.

Subraces. Kobolds have three main subraces: Deep Kobolds, Dragon-Wrought, and Winged Kobolds, known as the Urd. Choose one subrace.

Slender and Silent

Kor are tall, slender humanoids with light hair and gray, blue-gray, or ivory skin. All kor have slightly pointed ears, and males have short, fleshy barbels on their chins. They paint softly glowing geometric patterns on their faces and bodies, suggestive of the shapes and design of the hedrons that appear across Zendikar. Their clothing tends to leave their arms and shoulders free to facilitate climbing, and they keep most of their gear in pouches and slings at their waists.

The kor have a nonverbal language of hand signs and gestures that allows communication despite significant distance (particularly when augmented with whirling ropes) or howling winds. They also use this sign language among themselves when they wish to avoid being overheard, giving rise to misguided rumors that they are incapable of speech. When they do speak, they typically use as few words as possible to convey their meaning.

Kor Traits

Kor are athletic climbers, known for their use of rope to swing and climb through the dizzying vertical terrain of Zendikar. Your kor character has these traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Kor mature at the same rate as humans and live about as long.

Alignment. Most kor are lawful good, with a strong dedication to community and the traditions of their ancestors.

Size. Kor average nearly 6 feet tall, but are much lighter and more slender than humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You also have a climbing speed of 30 feet as long as you are not encumbered or wearing heavy armor.

Kor Climbing. You have proficiency in the Athletics and Acrobatics skills.

Lucky. When you roll a 1 on the d20 for an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.

Brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, and communicate in the silent speech of the kor.

Alien Minds

The lizardfolk's reptilian nature comes through not only in their appearance, but also in how they think and act. Lizardfolk experience a more limited emotional life than other humanoids. Like most reptiles, their feelings largely revolve around fear, aggression, and pleasure. Lizardfolk experience most feelings as detached descriptions of creatures and situations. For example, humans confronted by an angry troll experience fear on a basic level. Their limbs shake, their thinking becomes panicked and jumbled, and they react by instinct. The emotion of fear takes hold and controls their actions. In contrast, lizardfolk see emotions as traits assigned to other creatures, objects, and situations. A lizardfolk doesn't think, "I'm scared." Instead, aggressive, stronger creatures register to the lizardfolk as fearsome beings to be avoided if possible. If such creatures attack, lizardfolk flee, fighting only if cornered. Lizardfolk aren't scared of a troll; instead, they understand that a troll is a fearsome, dangerous creature and react accordingly. Lizardfolk never become angry in the way others do, but they act with aggression toward creatures that they could defeat in a fight and that can't be dealt with in some other manner. They are aggressive toward prey they want to eat, creatures that want to harm them, and so on. Pleasurable people and things make life easier for lizardfolk. Pleasurable things should be preserved and protected, sometimes at the cost of the lizardfolk's own safety. The most pleasurable creatures and things are ones that allow lizardfolk to assess more situations as benign rather than fearsome.

Cold and Calculating

Most humanoids describe cold-blooded people as lacking in emotion and empathy. The same label serves as an apt depiction of lizardfolk. Lacking any internal emotional reactions, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don't mourn fallen comrades or rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants. Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties to the past. They assess situations based on their current and future utility and importance. Nowhere does this come through as strongly as when lizardfolk deal with the dead. To a lizardfolk, a comrade who dies becomes a potential source of food. That companion might have once been a warrior or hunter, but now the body is just freshly killed meat. A lizard folk who lives among other humanoids can, over time, learn to respect other creatures' emotions. The lizardfolk doesn't share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful as a meal, but hacking the body into steaks provokes aggression in the other humanoids and makes them less helpful in battle.

Utility and Survival

The lizardfolk mindset might seem unnecessarily cruel, but it helps them survive in a hostile environment. The swamps they inhabit are filled with a staggering variety of threats. Lizardfolk focus on survival above all, without sentiment. Lizardfolk assess everyone and everything in terms of utility. Art and beauty have little meaning for them. A sharp sword serves a useful and good purpose, while a dull sword is a dead weight without a whetstone. Lizardfolk see little need to plan more than a season or so into the future. This approach allows them to maintain their current level of influence in the world, but it limits their growth. Lizardfolk have no interest in developing writing, making long-term plans, or cultivating other methods to progress beyond their simpie existence as hunters and gatherers.

Hapless Soft Ones

At their core, lizardfolk view other humanoids with an indifference verging on pity. Born into the world lacking stout scales and sharp teeth, it's a wonder they have managed to survive for so long. The typical human would barely make it through a day in the swamps. Still, if other creatures prove useful to lizardfolk, those creatures can trigger a prote,ctive response made all the stronger by their apparent weakness. The lizardfolk assess such beings as hatchlings, young ones incapable of protecting themselves but who might prove useful in the future if they receive care.

Lizardfolk Quirks

LIZARDFOLK SPEECH

Lizardfolk can master Common, but their mindset results in a speech pattern distintt from other humanoids. Lizardfolk rarely use metaphors. Their speech is almost alway literal. They might pick up idioms, but only with some difficulty. Names confuse them, unless they are descriptive. They tend to apply their own naming conventions to other creatures using Common words. Lizardfolk use active verbs to describe the world. A lizardfolk in cold weather might say, "This wind brings cold" rather than "I feel cold." Lizardfolk tend to define things In terms of actions, rather than effects.

Lizardfolk Traits

Ability Score Increase. Charisma and Dex scores increases by 1, and your Wisdom score decreases by 2. Age. Lizardfolk mature slightly faster than humans reaching maturity around around age 10, living until they reach the age of 80.

Alignment. Lizardfolk love chaos, and are not commonly drawn to lawful behavior.

Size. Range in height from just over 5 feet to over 9 feet tall. Their size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, your base swimming speed is 30 feet.

Amphibious. Lizardfolk can breath underwater, but if they don’t swim at least once every two weeks, they become exhausted and thereafter every week it increases by 1 level

Prehensile Tail. Lizardfolk are proficient with the use of their tail and can use it to gain a bonus action dealing d4 bludgeoning damage, or using to hold and strike with a simple martial weapon (no Bonus to hit or damage for STR or DEX)

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common

The layman will say that mandrakes are screaming, crying babies grown from the roots of the mandrake plant; however, this could not be further from the truth. Small, crying mandrakes are those which are harvested too early, literally children still in infancy. If allowed to grow for a year and a day before being harvested, they emerge fullyformed, able to mature into great and powerful tree people.

Ever a joy to children, Matryoshka resemble living playthings made of wood, cloth, or porcelain. Though easily mistaken for puppets, Matryoshka are not manipulated by a just-out-of-sight puppeteer; they are animated, sentient, and independent.

Merfolk Settlements.

Merfolk build their settlements in vast undersea caverns, mazes of coral, the ruins of sunken cities, or structures they carve from the rocky seabed. They live in water shallow enough that the passage of time can be marked by the gleam and fade of sunlight through the water. In the reefs and trenches near their settlements, merfolk harvest coral and farm the seabed, shepherding schools of fish as land-based farmers tend sheep. Only rarely do merfolk venture into the darkest depths of the ocean. In such depths and in their undersea caverns, merfolk rely on the light of bioluminescent flora and fauna, such as jellyfish, whose slow pulsing movements lend merfolk settlements an otherworldly aesthetic.

Merfolk defend their communities with spears crafted from whatever materials they can salvage from shipwrecks, beaches, and dead undersea creatures.

Littoral Merfolk

Littoral, or coastal, merfolk live and hunt in the shallow waters near the shores of oceans and seas. Though they rarely stay on dry land for long, these merfolk are the most likely to fraternize with surface-dwellers, bartering for useful tools with rare undersea treasures, like pearls and seashells.

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Shipwreck Scavenger. You are adept at making do with whatever flotsam and jetsam the tides deliver to you. As an action, you can assemble any simple weapon or piece of adventuring gear whose value is no more than 5 gp out of whatever random junk is lying around. The item falls apart after 1 minute.

Merfolk Traits

Your merfolk character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Merfolk mature at the same rate humans do and reach adulthood around the age of 20. They live considerably longer than humans, though, often reaching well over 100 years.

Alignment. Most merfolk are neutral, living in close harmony with nature.

Size. Merfolk are significantly taller than most humans, standing between seven and eight feet tall and averaging about 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You also have a swimming speed of 30 feet.

Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common (if it exists in your campaign), Merfolk and one additional language of your choice.

Ruthless and Reckless

Even those minotaurs who feel personal affinity for the horned God-Pharaoh align themselves most closely with Bontu and Hazoret in practice. Driven by a fierce and powerful desire to prove themselves, to earn glory in life, and to win a glorious death, they view every challenge or obstacle as a chance to demonstrate their prowess. With ruthless abandon, they slash, batter, and pummel their way through anyone or anything that stands in the way of their own advancement. With reckless fervor, they fight without heed for their own safety, shrugging off the blows of their enemies.

Combat Classes

Their size and strength makes minotaurs ideally suited for hand-to-hand combat. They are most effective on the offensive, delivering an endless barrage of attacks that keep their foes off balance, shatter shields and weapons, and inevitably break their opponents. These minotaurs favor large, heavy weapons such as axes, mauls, and two-handed khopeshes (treat as a greatsword), but they are also fond of unarmed combat. Many love to throw their weapons aside in favor of pummeling opponents into submission with their horns and bare hands, believing that such a victory is more glorious—and more humiliating to the loser.

But though minotaurs are known for their physical size and strength, this hardly precludes the presence of keen minds and powerful spellcasters among them. Though they are fewer in number than hand-to-hand specialists, minotaur mages draw on their natural ferocity to instill terror in the hearts of their opponents with a terrible roaring bellow. They manifest their fury as blasts of flame, or imbue their own horns and fists with searing heat to make their physical attacks more deadly.

The relatively few minotaurs who specialize in long-range combat enjoy one aspect of that style in particular the opportunity to draw first blood, marking the moment when a battle has truly begun. Minotaurs use heavy bows and javelins, and take special delight in firing into the middle of enemy formations to sow as much chaos and confusion as possible.

Minotaur Traits

Minotaurs have many traits in common with the half-orcs of other worlds.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age. Minotaurs develop more slowly than humans, reaching full maturity around the age of 20. They typically become acolytes at around 8 or 9 years old, making them among the older members of their crops. Once they reach maturity, though, minotaurs age quickly, rushing headlong through the trials (as they do all aspects of life) to complete them before they pass their peak. A minotaur allowed to die of old age would rarely live beyond 40.

Alignment. Most minotaurs lean toward chaotic alignments, and they have a slight inclination toward evil.

Size. Minotaurs average over 6 feet in height, and they have strong, stocky builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Natural Weapon. You can use your horns as a natural weapon to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with your horns, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier.

Menacing. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Savage Attacks. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can roll one of the weapon’s damage dice one additional time and add it to the extra damage of the critical hit.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Minotaur

Trial by Combat

Minotaur society is built on the principle that might makes right, and that considerations of justice are unnecessary. The minotaurs are led by an emperor served by a council of eight minotaurs called the Supreme Circle. All posts within the government, including the emperor’s, are won by the strongest and cleverest minotaurs, as proved by combat in the Circus.

The Circus is the only means by which a minotaur can rise in society. It is a grand, annual display of single combat in which minotaurs battle each other for supremacy. Minotaur youths must prove themselves in the Circus to earn their passage to adulthood.

Participation in the Circus is yet another reason why minotaurs look down on other folk. To the minotaurs, death and glory in battle are a natural process. Combat is the key to ensuring that the strong survive, and that the weak are set aside before they can undermine their superiors’ grand schemes of conquest.

Honor above All

For all their cruelty, minotaurs are bound by a powerful sense of honor. Each victory brings greater honor to both individual minotaurs and their families. Defeat invokes a stain that only death can fully wash away.

Honor demands that minotaurs keep their word once it is offered, and each minotaur remains faithful to friends and clan above all else. Minotaurs rarely befriend folk of other races, as they all too often encounter them only in battle. If a minotaur does strike up a friendship, it is typically with other creatures that display the minotaurs’ virtues and love of battle. To such friends, a minotaur becomes an ally whose support will never waver.

Sea Reavers

In the world of Krynn, the minotaurs rule a chain of islands dominated by the isles of Mithas and Kothas. Bound by the sea on all sides, the minotaurs focused their tenacity, strength, and cunning to become some of the most skilled and ferocious mariners in the world. They range across the water in their ships, raiding and pillaging as they wish. Minotaurs sometimes engage in trade, but they much prefer to take what they want by force. After all, as the strongest of all folk, they deserve the treasures and goods that lesser creatures have gathered.

Minotaur Names

Minotaur clan names originate with a great hero whose descendants take on that name as their own, doing their best to live up to the ideals of their ancestor. On Krynn, clan names are always preceded by the prefix “es‐” for minotaurs from lands controlled by the island of Mithas, or “de‐” for minotaurs from areas under the sway of Kothas.

Male Names: Beliminorgath, Cinmac, Dastrun, Edder, Galdar, Ganthirogani, Hecariverani, Kyris, Tosher, Zurgas

Female Names: Ayasha, Calina, Fliara, Helati, Keeli, Kyri, Mogara, Sekra, Tariki, Telia

Clan Names: Athak, Bregan, Entragath, Kaziganthi, Lagrangli, Mascun, Orilg, Sumarr, Teskos, Zhakan

Minotaur Traits

Your minotaur character possesses a number of traits that reflect the power and superiority of your kind.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1.

Conqueror’s Virtue. From a young age, you focused on one of the three virtues of strength, cunning, or intellect. Your choice of your Strength, Intelligence, or Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Minotaurs enter adulthood at around the age of 17 and can live up to 150 years.

Alignment. Minotaurs believe in a strict code of honor, and thus tend toward law. They are loyal to the death and make implacable enemies, even as their brutal culture and disdain for weakness push them toward evil.

Size. Minotaurs typically stand well over 6 feet tall and weigh an average of 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Horns. You are never unarmed. You are proficient with your horns, which are a melee weapon that deals 1d10 piercing damage. Your horns grant you advantage on all checks made to shove a creature, but not to avoid being shoved yourself.

Goring Rush. When you use the Dash action during your turn, you can make a melee attack with your horns as a bonus action.

Hammering Horns. When you use the Attack action during your turn to make a melee attack, you can attempt to shove a creature with your horns as a bonus action. You cannot use this shove attempt to knock a creature prone.

Labyrinthine Recall. You can perfectly recall any path you have traveled.

Sea Reaver. You gain proficiency with navigator’s tools and vehicles (water).

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.

Tiny But Brave

Though the tiny, big-eared mousefolk are often overlooked by larger creatures, history is brimming with stories of gallant mouse-knights staring down dragons, crossing blades with warlords, and charging into grand battles. It happens that few histories are written about the valor of mousefolk – and many more should be – yet they make appearances in legend all the same, their bravery cementing their place in history.

Even excluding the long and proud history of mouseknights, few mousefolk are apt to fear either big folk or monsters. Mousefolk are good to their neighbors and rarely pick fights; after all, most folks can be reasoned with. Those who can't should rightly fear mousefolk striking at their knees.

Storytellers and Legend-Keepers

The mousefolk language, Rodentia, has no written form, thus mousefolk preserve their history in story and in song, passed from elders to children through the generations. Their oral tradition is rich, filled with stories of grand heroics, shrewd tricks, and swooning romance. Indeed, many mousefolk live to see themselves preserved in the legends of their people, their deeds remembered in a grand epic for the ages.

Hooded or Disgraced

Though ratlings have long abandoned the old ways, a mouseling is never to be seen without a hood. Following ancient tradition, mouselings wear their hoods, which they have sewn themselves, at all times, except in the direst circumstances. A hood is a symbol of wealth and social standing, and is sometimes replaced with hats or other headwear, when appropriate.

Where this tradition originated, none can say, but mouselings hold to it strongly. If one is seen without a hood, it is surely a sign of disgrace and exile, the most personal punishment a village of mouselings can inflict.

Mousefolk Names

Most mousefolk names are derived from Rodentia, the mousefolk language, and are fairly squeaky when pronounced, as a result.

Names. Alipeep, Cheepicheet, Deek, Leepijeek, Meechi, Peepicheek, Reepi, Seefidee, Skee, Teemeep, Zeep

Mousefolk Traits

Slight and swift, you possess the following traits:

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age. Mousefolk mature in their teens and live around 80 years.

Alignment. Most mousefolk are neutral good. They tend to be kind-hearted and have deeply-rooted values.

Size. Mouselings stand around 3 feet tall, but appear slightly taller with their large ears, and normally weigh no more than 40 pounds. Ratlings, by contrast, stand almost 4 feet tall, but have much smaller ears. Your size is Small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Darkvision. Mosusefolk have superior vision in dim light and darkness. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it was bright light, and darkness as if it was dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Lightfooted. You have proficiency in the Stealth skill.

Scurry. You can move through the space of any hostile creature as if it were difficult terrain.

Squeeze. You suffer no penalty for squeezing into a space that is only large enough for a creature that is one size smaller than you.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common. You can also speak Rodentia, a quiet and squeaky language that has no established written form. Mouselings value the oral tradition highly and only take notes in Common, or using an improvised shorthand that approximates the sounds of Rodentia in Common script.

Subrace. Mousefolk are commonly divided into two subraces: mouselings and ratlings.

Mouseling

Mouselings are smaller than their ratling cousins, but all the more daring. They sport a wide variety of coats, from grey to brown, to very rare whites, but all possess large ears and round, black eyes. Though these features often make them look adorable to big folk, most mouselings want nothing more than to be taken seriously. They fancy themselves knights, merchants, minstrels, explorers, and a wide variety of other occupations; mouselings rival even humans for ambition.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.

Brave. You have advantage on saving throws you make against being frightened.

Nimble Escape. When a creature you can see makes an opportunity attack against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You can't use this trait when wearing medium or heavy armor.

Cultural Outcasts

Muls are caught in between two different worlds, much as half-elves are. They see the value in tradition and clan as their dwarven relatives do, but they see the world through a different lens. Not content to labor beneath the earth in a clan hall or be a simple farmer or tradesman, most muls set out into the world in search of fulfillment and purpose that they could not find in the culture they were born into. Many muls find employment as city watchmen or caravan escorts along frontier towns in order to test their strength and skill against bandits, goblinoids, and worse. The more adventurous sort journey to coastal towns such as Waterdeep and find work as a deckhand on a ship, often for good pay as their physical characteristics make them excellent workers. More nefarious muls seek to join the crew of a pirate vessel or fall in with gangs of thieves or highwaymen, putting their strength and stamina to use for less benevolent means, and often rise quickly through the ranks of such organizations.

Powerful Physique

The average mul stands taller than a human, but as broad and dense as a dwarf. They are often hairless, though occasionally mul are born with hair on their heads which they wear in tight pony tails or top knots. Their ears tend to be slightly pointed and smaller, like those of dwarves, but their complexion is as varied as those of humans. Some muls get tattoos in geometric, symmetrical shapes to honor their dwarven heritage and wear them as proudly as a dwarf might wear a beard.

Mul Names

Muls have names that fit with the culture in which they are raised. Some muls who feel as though they weren’t accepted by one culture or another may abandon their surnames and go by a name of their own creation, shunning whichever part of their heritage rejected them.

Mul Traits

Mul are strong, sturdy folk who share the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.

Size Muls are as broad and stocky as dwarves, but taller than most humans, averaging 6 feet in height. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Mul Vitality. You are proficient in Constitution saving throws. If your class is already proficient in Constitution saving throws, or if you later gain a feat that gives you proficiency, you have advantage on all Constitution saving throws against effects that apply disease, exhaustion, and poison.

Mul Resilience. You can call upon your physical hardiness and dogged determination to withstand any danger or hazard. Using your reaction you can have advantage on a Strength or Constitution saving throw. After you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Powerful Physique. You have proficiency in the Athletics skill.

Tireless. You need to sleep 6 hours in a 72-hour period (instead of a 24-hour period) to gain the benefit of a long rest. In addition, you may either regain all of your spent Hit Dice when you finish a long rest, or remove 2 levels of exhaustion.

Languages. You can speak Common. You cannot read this language unless a background gives you that trait.

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The Will of Dark Gods

An undead mummy is created when the priest of a death god or other dark deity ritually imbues a prepared corpse with necromantic magic. The mummy's linen wrappings are inscribed with necromantic markings before the burial ritual concludes with an invocation to darkness. As a mummy endures in undeath, it animates in response to conditions specified by the ritual. Most commonly, a transgression against its tomb, treasures, lands, or former loved ones will cause a mummy to rise.

The long burial rituals that accompany a mummy's entombment help protect its body from rot. In the embalming process, the newly dead creature's organs are removed and placed in special jars, and its corpse is treated with preserving oils, herbs, and wrappings. After the body has been prepared, the corpse is typically wrapped in linen bandages.

The Punished

Once deceased, an individual has no say in whether or not its body is made into a mummy. Some mummies were powerful individuals who displeased a high priest or pharaoh, or who committed crimes of treason, adultery, or murder. As punishment, they were cursed with eternal undeath, embalmed, mummified, and sealed away. Other times, mummies acting as tomb guardians are created from slaves put to death specifically to serve a greater purpose. Once created, a mummy obeys the conditions and parameters laid down by the rituals that created it, driven only to punish transgressors.

Timeless Undeath

Most mummies have existed far longer than even the oldest elves, though most of them have remained in their tomb for nearly the entire period. Once they awake, they cannot remember their past life or personality, so they remain dry husks even throughout their eons of “life” if you could call it that.

However, some mummies do gain some knowledge of the outside world, and even the most rudimentary knowledge from when they were first created may hold untold secrets to the modern world. As a result, some serve as undead repositories of lost lore, and can be consulted by the descendants of those who created them. Powerful individuals sometimes intentionally sequester mummies away for occasional consultation, and particularly talkative mummies are treasured by historians.

Mummy Names

When they are created, mummies are not often named, and they have no memory of their name in life. Even when they are named, it is usually something extremely simple such as a number. However, once a mummy becomes free of its master, it might choose to give itself a real name, or perhaps let a troop of adventurers choose its name for it. Therefore, mummies can have all types of names based on what names they have encountered. If they have encountered many human adventurers in their time, they may choose a human name, and could do the same for any of the other races.

Mummy Traits

As a mummy, you have certain traits that you share with other mummies. As a mummy you gain access to powerful magic through your rotting curse and dreadful glare, though both of these magics have been weakened through the death of your master and your departure from the tomb.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age. As beings of undeath, mummies do not age or mature, and they may live for thousands of years if undisturbed.

Alignment. As the creations of evil masters, mummies are often evil themselves. Most often mummies tend towards lawfulness in their devotion to their master.

Size. Mummies are between 5 and 6 feet tall and average about 120 pounds. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to the eternal darkness of an ancient tomb, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of grey.

Dreadful Glare. As an action, you can target one creature you can see within 10 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened until the end of your next turn. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your Proficiency bonus. After you use your glare, you can't use it again until you complete a short or long rest.

Fire Vulnerability. You are vulnerable to fire damage.

Rotting Fist. You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d6 necrotic damage on a hit. Whenever a creature takes this necrotic damage, they must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or have their hit point maximum decreased by the amount of damage dealt. The DC for this saving throw equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. The hit point reduction lasts until it is removed by the remove curse spell or similar magic.

Undead. You are considered undead for effects such as turn undead and many healing spells. You are immune to disease and the poisoned condition, and you have resistance to poison damage. You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food or drink if you wish. Instead of sleeping, you enter an inactive state for 4 hours each day. You do not dream in this state; you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and events as normal.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language you knew in life.

Circles and Melds

The largest myconid in a colony is its sovereign, which presides over one or more social groups called circles. A circle consists of twenty or more myconids that work, live, and meld together.

A meld is a form of communal meditation that allows myconids to transcend their dull subterranean existence. The myconids' rapport spores bind the participants into a group consciousness. Hallucination spores then induce a shared dream that provides entertainment and social interaction. Myconids consider melding to be the purpose of their existence. They use it in the pursuit of higher consciousness, collective union, and spiritual apotheosis. Myconids also use their rapport spores to communicate telepathically with other sentient creatures.

Cultural Pacifism

From a very early age, myconids are taught the virtues of empathy and pacifism. Material and worldly possessions are not chiefly important to myconids, so there is very little motivation for violence.

Myconid Reproduction

Like other fungi, myconids reproduce by mundane sporing. They carefully control their spores' release to avoid overpopulation. Unlike most other humanoids, myconids take no pleasure from reproduction and feel very little connection to their offspring. Child rearing is a responsibility shared by the entire circle, and it is rare if young myconids can even identify their parents.

Myconid Names

Due to the fact that myconids have no verbal language, their names are most appropriately translated as physical descriptors of a particular individual.

Myconid Names: Bolete, Brownback, Buttonhead, Greenfoot, Morel, Mossy, Portabelt, Puffball, Redstem, Soft-Step, Stinkhorn, Toad.

Myconid Traits

Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Size. Myconids grow to a wide variety of heights and builds, with the most common being stocky and around 6 feet tall, weighing around 125 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your speed is 30 feet.

Age. Like other fungi, myconids reproduce by mundane sporing. They carefully control their spores' release to avoid overpopulation. Individual myconids can live to well over a century. After this time, the most elder myconids can live even longer, becoming a Soverign of one or more circles and living up to a century longer.

Alignment. Most often, myconids believe strongly in society and law. It is extremely uncommon for a myconid to directly harm any creature that does not mean it, or its circle, harm.

Sun Sickness. You become poisoned if you spend more than 1 minute in direct sunlight. This condition ends when you spend 1 minute in dim or dark conditions.

Nonverbal Magic. Though you have no conventional language, you may still cast spells that require verbal components.

Rapport Spores. All creatures within 15 feet of you with an Intelligence of 2 or higher that aren't undead, constructs, or elementals can communicate telepathically with you and with each other. You can suppress this ability at will.

Pacifying Spores. As an action, you can ejects spores at one creature you can see within 5 feet of you. The target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be stunned for 1 minute. Undead, constructs, and elementals automatically succeed this save. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. After using this trait, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Hallucination Spores. As an action, you can produce spores that effect all creatures within 30 feet of you that aren't undead, constructs, or elementals. These creatures are all affected as per the cantrip minor illusion while you concentrate on the effect. The spell save DC for this effect is 8 + your Intelligence modifier + your proficiency bonus.

Meld. When you take a long rest in the presence of two or more other myconids, you can meld with them. After melding, you regain all expended Hit Dice and gain one of the following benefits:

• You have advantage on the next saving throw you make in the next 24 hours.
• You can end one disease or one condition effecting you from among: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, or poisoned.
• You gain one inspiration point.

Combat Classes

To the benefit of those naga who struggle with the ideal of the Sweetest Harmony, the training of acolytes encourages specialization. Thus, naga who follow in the path of the snake-headed god Rhonas can cultivate their physical strength as they specialize in hand-to-hand combat styles, while other naga favor the teachings of Kefnet and other combat styles.

Naga who specialize in hand-to-hand combat rely on axes, daggers, and shortswords—but also on their own fangs and the constricting strength of their serpentine bodies. They make extensive use of poison, coating their weapons with multiple layers of deadly substances—including, but by no means limited to, their own venom. Quick, well-timed, and well-placed blows, followed by an equally nimble retreat, allow many naga to triumph over opponents who might seem stronger. With acknowledgment of the Sweetest Harmony, these naga cultivate an understanding of strategy and tactics that enhances their physical training.

Speed and accuracy are equally important to naga who specialize in long-range combat. Some prefer to analyze a battle from a distance and pick off the strongest opponents with their ranged weapons, including poisoned spears and arrows. Others ride in chariots driven by trusted drivers (usually other naga) and throw their spears from the midst of battle. In any case, they excel at finding and exploiting strategic advantages.

Some naga mages, drawn to the example of Kefnet, make extensive use of illusion magic to trick and mislead their opponents. Others apply Rhonas’s teachings to their studies, wielding poisonous magic that weakens opponents or kills them outright with clouds or darts of deadly toxins. Still others, in service to the ideal of balance, use the magical power of their minds to enhance their physical strength and speed.

Naga Traits

All naga share the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Age. Like humans, naga reach adulthood in their late teens. They show no signs of aging beyond that point except for growing larger, so in theory, a naga could live well over a century.

Alignment. Most naga are either neutral or neutral evil in alignment.

Size. Naga stand about 5 feet tall when upright, but the total length of their bodies, head to tail, ranges from 10 to as much as 20 feet. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Speed Burst. By lowering your body to the ground and propelling yourself with your arms, you can move more quickly for a time. As a bonus action on your turn, if you have both hands free, you can increase your walking speed by 5 feet until the end of your turn.

Natural Weapons. Your fanged maw and constricting serpentine body are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with your bite, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, and your target must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier). On a failed save, the target takes 1d4 poison damage.

If you hit with your constrict attack, you deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, and the target is grappled (escape DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained, and you can’t constrict another target.

Poison Immunity. You are immune to poison damage and can’t be poisoned.

Poison Affinity. You gain proficiency with the poisoner’s kit.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Naga.

From Distant Seas

None can say for sure where the nautilids originate, and for their part, nautilids seem distant and vague when describing their homeland. They speak of a vast ocean, greater by far than any of the seven seas, and an immense city that rested at the bottom of its tides. But a great disaster visited their ocean and burned it away, leaving nothing but a salt plain from coast to coast. They cannot, or perhaps will not, articulate which ocean they hail from, but seem to mournfully describe that an impenetrable gulf lies between them and their old home, which no sailing ship can bridge. Indeed, if probed about their origins at night, nautilids invariably cast their gaze heavenward, searching for a particular glimmer among the stars that reminds them of home.

The nautilid aqua suits are clearly a marvel unequaled by any nation today. Evidently, these wonders are commonplace to the nautilids; their home was replete with such innovations, and their suits were the least among them. Some speculate their city of ancient treasures was the lost city of Atlantis, or some other legend known to man, but nautilids chortle at such a prospect: their home was named Poseidon, and was the jewel of a thousand oceans; the people of this world have never seen such splendor and can't remotely comprehend it.

Ocean Wanderers

With most regularity, nautilids can be found lingering around shores, for it seems they value being able to choose between the surface or the ocean at their fancy. In fact, whatever nautilid settlements might hide in the ocean depths, they keep none inland, and never venture too far from shore. To them, the surface as a place to trade, barter, and travel, and little else.

It's easy to forget, however, that underneath their lumbering exteriors, nautilids are actually quite thoughtful, with a fondness for poetry and a knack for the arcane. Many nautilids have taken the task of mapping the ocean's surface, as well as its immeasurable depths, categorizing all the oddities found therein. It might seem, even, that they are collectively searching for something lost to the ocean long ago, but such speculation leads nowhere; the nautilids are a mysterious race, whose motivations for traveling the oceans aboard sailing vessels is theirs alone.

Nautilid Names

By ancient tradition, nautilids are named in the old languages of Poseidon, and the second half of a nautilid’s name is composed of a surname, passed down the maternal line. The meaning of most of these names have been lost to history, much like Poseidon itself.

Nautilid Names. Agrias, Charax, Democedes, Gorgias, Helenos, Idomeneus, Isokrates, Lysandros, Monomachus, Panthous, Theomestros, Xenagoras

Gruumsh One-Eye.

Orcs worship Gruumsh, the mightiest of the orc deities and their creator. The orcs believe that in ancient days, the gods gathered to divide the world among their followers. When Gruumsh claimed the mountains, he learned they had been taken by the dwarves. He laid claim to the forests, but those had been settled by the elves. Each place that Gruumsh wanted had already been claimed. The other gods laughed at Gruumsh, but he responded with a furious bellow. Grasping his mighty spear, he laid waste to the mountains, set the forests aflame, and carved great furrows in the fields. Such was the role of the orcs, he proclaimed, to take and destroy all that the other races would deny them. To this day, the orcs wage an endless war on humans, elves, dwarves, and other folk.

Orcs hold a particular hatred for elves. The elven god Corellon Larethian half-blinded Gruumsh with a wellplaced arrow to the orc god's eye. Since then, the orcs have taken particular joy in slaughtering elves. Turning his injury into a baleful gift, Gruumsh grants divine might to any champion who willingly plucks out one of its eyes in his honor.

Tribes like Plagues.

Orcs gather in tribes that exert their dominance and satisfy their bloodlust by plundering villages, devouring or driving off roaming herds, and slaying any humanoids that stand against them. After savaging a settlement, orcs pick it clean of wealth and items usable in their own lands. They set the remains of villages and camps ablaze, then retreat whence they came, their bloodlust satisfied.

Ranging Scavengers.

Their lust for slaughter demands that orcs dwell always within striking distance of new targets. As such, they seldom settle permanently, instead converting ruins, cavern complexes, and defeated foes' villages into fortified camps and strongholds. Orcs build only for defense, making no innovation or improvement to their lairs beyond mounting the severed body parts of their victims on spiked stockade walls or pikes jutting up from moats arid trenches.

When an existing territory is depleted of food, an orc tribe divides into roving bands that scout for choice hunting grounds. When each party returns, it brings back trophies and news of targets ripe for attack, the richest of which is chosen. The tribe then sets out en masse to carve a bloody path to its new territory. On rare occasions, a tribe's leader chooses to hold onto a particularly defensible lair for decades. The orcs of such a tribe must range far across the countryside to sate their appetites.

Leadership and Might.

Orc tribes are mostly patriarchal, flaunting such vivid or grotesque titles as Many-Arrows, Screaming Eye, and Elf Ripper. Occasionally, a powerful war chief unites scattered orc tribes into a single rampaging horde, which runs roughshod over other orc tribes and humanoid settlements from a position of overwhelming strength.

Strength and power are the greatest of orcish virtues, and orcs embrace all manner of mighty creatures in their tribes. Rejecting notions of racial purity, they proudly welcome ogres, trolls, half-orcs, and orogs into their ranks. As well, orcs respect and fear the size and power of evil giants, and often serve them as guards and soldiers.

Orc Crossbreeds.

Luthic, the orc goddess of fertility and wife of Gruumsh, demands that orcs procreate often and indiscriminately so that orc hordes swell generation after generation. The orcs' drive to reproduce runs stronger than any other humanoid race, and they readily crossbreed with other races. When an orc procreates with a non-orc humanoid of similar size and stature (such as a human or a dwarf), the resulting child is either an orc or a half-ore. When an orc produces young with an ogre, the child is a half-ogre of intimidating strength and brutish features called an ogrillon.

Orc Traits

Your orc character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, your Constitution score increases by 1, and your Intelligence score is reduced by 2.

Age. Orcs reach adulthood at age 12 and live up to 50 years.

Alignment. Orcs are vicious raiders, who believe that the world should be theirs. They also respect strength above all else and believe the strong must bully the weak to ensure that weakness does not spread like a disease. They are usually chaotic evil.

Size. Orcs are usually over 6 feet tall and weigh between 230 and 280 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Aggressive. As a bonus action, you can move up to your speed toward an enemy of your choice that you can see or hear. You must end this move closer to the enemy than you started.

Menacings. You are trained in the Intimidation skill.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Orc.

Ork Traits

Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2. Your Constitution increases by 2, and your Charisma and Wisdom decrease by 1.

Age. Natural life span for an ork averages 40 years, though some live 60 years or more

Size. Range in height from 6 feet to 7 feet tall. Their size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Aggressive. As a bonus action, the ore can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.

Gruumsh's Fury. The orc deals an extra die damage when it crits with a weapon attack.

Darkvision. Feral and adapted to outdoor life, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and either Orc or Goblin

Exonerating Circumstances

An ordinary revenant has exactly one year to seek vengeance, and will return to death either when its revenge is complete, or when its time is up. However, you are blessed with an entire decade. Once your revenge is complete, you may then choose to return to the afterlife at any time, or wait for your remaining time to run out. The reason for this may be that you are favored by a divine power, or perhaps you have struck a deal with a great extra-planar being who acts much as a patron would to a warlock.

Rare Second Chance

A standard revenant can withstand extreme punishment, with powerful regenerative abilities and the power to survive the destruction of its host body, being able to find and inhabit a new corpse after twenty-four hours. You are not so resilient, the same magic that allows your presence to remain for so much longer than normal also binds you to your first host body. It can still regenerate, but to a lesser extent than other revenants. If the host body is damaged beyond its limit, you will be cast back into true death forever.

Creating a Revenant

When you create a revenant, consider what forced your rage to return you to the mortal world. How did you die? Who do you seek vengeance against? What was your life like before your undeath? Do you still have your original body, if not, how do you feel about your new one? Work closely with your DM to determine how much your task will factor into the campaign. Perhaps it will form a key focus or perhaps it will even fit into the down time between adventures. Maybe you have even finished your work and are living out the remaining years before you expire once again.

Take time to consider your character’s attitude to the world. A revenant exists for exacting revenge, but could still have favored downtime pursuits and tastes. A revenant could be bitter about its hand in fate but could also be overjoyed at its luck at being returned to exact just desserts; a sad origin doesn’t have to mean a miserable character.

Revenant Traits

Regardless of their lot in life, all revanants share a similar fate in death, and have a number of abilities with which to exact vengeance.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1, one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age. Revenants will maintain their presence in the world for exactly 10 years from the moment they become undead, after that time they permanently lose their grip on the mortal coil, the soul is pulled (willing or not) back to the afterlife, and the inhabited body crumbles into dust.

Alignment. Revenants are almost single-minded in their want for vengeance, as such they will tend toward a Chaotic alignment. Beyond this, their exact methods can lean towards Good, Neutral, or Evil, depending on the philosophies they learned in life.

Size. Revenants may possess the same body they did in life, or they may possess the remains of a being from any other humanoid race. Regardless, a revenant’s size will always be Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Due to the magic which drives you, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Undead Nature. Your type is Undead, though you may still be targeted by effects which target only humanoids, if such an effect does not specifically exclude undead. You cannot be raised from the dead, nor can you be banished from the Material Plane before your time is up.

You do not eat, drink, sleep, or breathe. However, to maintain sanity, you must meditate for 4 continuous hours daily, after which you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep. You can still be placed into a torpor by sleep-inducing magic.

Turn Immunity. You are immune to effects that turn undead.

Vengeful Tracker. You know the distance to and direction of any creature against which you seek revenge, even if the creature and the revenant are on different planes of existence. No magic can shield a hunted creature from this effect; they may run, but they cannot hide. You are instantly aware if the creature you are tracking dies.

Regeneration. Revenants are unaffected by most healing magic, fortunately revenants also possess extraordinary regenerative powers. You cannot regain hit points from spells.

You gain a regeneration point, which can be expended as a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 points + your Constitution modifier, up to your hit point maximum. You gain one additional regeneration point at 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 19th and 20th level. You regain all expended regeneration points when you take a long rest.

Visage of Death. Your appearance is terrifying to behold. You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Languages. You speak Common and one other language you knew in life.

Subraces. Revenants can be classed as two types, Rage-born – whose lust for vengeance is borne solely out of anger against those by whom it has been wronged, and Sorrow-born – those who wish to kill their betrayers purely to spare others from the misery they have caused the deceased.

Relentless Nature

Your DM assigns a goal to you—typically, one related to your character’s death. The goal must be a specific task you can complete, such as slaying an enemy or liberating an area and its people. Until you fulfill that goal, you gain the following benefits:

• If you are below half your hit point maximum at the start of your turn, you regain 1 hit point.

• If you die, you return to life 24 hours after death. If your body is destroyed, you reform within 1 mile of the place of your death at a spot determined by the DM. If your equipment was also destroyed, you do not regain it.

• You know the distance and direction between you and any creature involved in your goal, such as a person you seek vengeance against or someone you pledged to defend. This awareness fails if the creature is on another plane of existence.

When your goal is complete, you finally find rest. You die and cannot be restored to life.

Life of the Party

Given their proclivity for living in the moment, it can be difficult to get satyrs to follow orders or even stay in one place for any length of time - though in an adventuring party they make up for such flakiness with the entertainment they provide, as well as their unsurpassed skill at gossip and rumor-mongering. Satyrs are very much at home in inns and taverns, sometimes venturing into humanoid settlements (usually in disguise) purely to sample the atmosphere of a particularly famous common room, gaze upon an extremely beautiful person, or taste an especially rich food.

Wild at Heart

Although they enjoy the pleasures of humanoid society, a satyr's true home is in the forest, and any visit to civilized lands will ultimately prove fleeting. Enchanted woodlands provide shelter and safety, as well as the companionship of other fey creatures, thus most satyrs make their homes in small, hidden villages. Others are more solitary, retreating to some secluded hermitage to perfect a piece of music or recover after a particularly intense festival.

Caprine Appearance

Satyrs have many goat-like aspects, including thick fur on their arms and legs, curling horns on their heads and hooves instead of feet. This makes them easy to identify, for they generally make no attempt to hide these features. A variety of different shades of fur are found among satyrs, with whites and browns being most common. The grooming habits of satyrs are unpredictable, as fey fashions can change rapidly, but the vast majority put at least some effort into looking good at all times.

All Satyrs are male; female goat-legged fey are 'glaistigs', a completely different type of creature.

Satyr Names

Though satyrs are given a name by their parents, they also take great pride on any nickname they can earn through their revelry and debauchery.

Given Names. Adronus, Avery, Barases, Canteon, Dantes, Gilderos, Grover, Jed, O'Connor, Pan, Phaegan, Puck, Romeus, Silenus, Tarteron, Tum-Tum, Willie

Nicknames. Count Tipsy, Fairy-Dance, The Holy Drinker, Horny Devil, Mister Handsome, Ol' Three Sheets, The Roarin' Lord

Satyr Traits

Satyrs have the following racial traits:

Ability Score Increases. Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age. Satyrs are shorter-lived than most fey, gaining adulthood at two years old and living for around 50 years.

Alignment. Satyrs care little for the consequences of their actions. They are almost always chaotic.

Size. Satyrs are fairly short, usually around five feet tall. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Fey Creature. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You are, however, affected by any ability that would normally affect fey creatures. Your plane of origin is the Material Plane, the Feywild or Ysgard.

In Vino Veritas. Any creature that has been drinking alcohol with you regards you as a trusted friend for as long as it remains drunk, unless you deliberately harm it. Additionally, you can never become sick or poisoned from drinking alcohol.

Satyr Music. You gain proficiency in the Performance skill and one of the following instruments: pan flute, singing, or viol. You have advantage on any ability check made relating to musical contests.

Innate Spellcasting. You know the vicious mockery cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the charm person spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the suggestion spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.

Ashen and Scarred

Shadar-kai are humanlike, but the weight of existence in the Shadowfell has shaped them to be slightly shorter and much thinner than their human counterparts. A shadar-kai has a colorless complexion that varies from alabaster to dark gray. Shadar-kai hair is similarly drab or raven black. Pale hair might have a hint of color within the range of human norms. The eyes are lustrous and black, lacking any white or clear pupil. Shadows near a shadar-kai sometimes seem to reach out or deepen, especially when the shadar-kai is angry.

Although drab in natural appearance, shadar-kai are quite elaborate and idiosyncratic in personal adornment. They like dark and exotic clothing, jewelry, and weapons, often decorated with swatches of bright color. Hair is similarly ornate and often dyed, and many embellish their skin with tattoos, scars, and piercings.

The tattoos, scars, and piercings a shadar-kai wears have more than one purpose. They exist as a testament to the wearer’s ability to withstand pain as well as a means of personal expression and decoration. Each decoration can also be a record of a deed done, an honor gained, or a misdeed declared.

The Raven Queen

Through their pact with the Raven Queen, each shadar-kai is an instrument of death and fate. The Raven Queen doesn’t demand worship from the shadar-kai, although she receives it in abundance. She demands only that they observe the pact by keeping her commandments regardless of other beliefs. So most shadar-kai hold no pity for the dying and try to punish those who defy fate. But shadar-kai also believe that nobody truly knows what fate holds.

The Raven Queen is a fair mother, if not a loving one. When the shadar-kai called upon her in ancient times, she answered. She still does. While she spares little love, she also never demands the love of her children. Almost all shadar-kai revere the Raven Queen, but each shadar-kai is free to choose his or her destiny and way of life, including religion.

Strong Emotions

The Shadowfell saps living creatures of creativity and the will to live. When shadar-kai moved to the Shadowfell ages ago, they were not immune to this depression. Numerous members of their early society gave in to ennui and simply slipped out of existence, driving the shadar-kai to change their lifestyle, embracing strong emotions and peak experiences. These practices, born out of necessity, became traditions over countless generations.

The current culture of the shadar-kai is a study in pushing boundaries. Shadar-kai welcome difficult tasks, as well as physical and emotional extremes, as a way of life. They learn to channel the darkness of the Shadowfell rather than allowing that darkness to consume them. And they accept death as the inevitable end for those who fail to attain the right amount of power or fame.

Shadar-kai embrace living with gusto. The limits of pleasure and pain distract them from the wearying melancholy of the Shadowfell. They also strive for personal greatness, so that if they fail to gain the actual ability to live forever, stories of their great deeds will grant a sort of immortality. In this search for personal glory, most shadar-kai ignore banalities such as comfort, morality, and safety.

Call of the Shadowfell

Although shadar-kai leave the Shadowfell to seek fortune in the world and among the planes, a few needs and wants drive a shadar-kai to return home from time to time. Most shadar-kai feel a basic need to visit the enveloping dimness of the Shadowfell at least intermittently. The plane is unlike even the darkest reaches of other planes. Obtaining new adornments and equipment in the proper style often requires a return to the Shadowfell. Shadar-kai also return to their gloomy settlements to spend time among those who see extreme, weird, or even deviant as normal. And they come home to brag.

Shadar-kai Names

Shadar-kai have similar names to their human counterparts, though they did change slightly due to their isolation in the Shadowfell, with the only real influencing force being the will of the Raven Queen. Their names are often merely the inventions of their parents, though some common names do exist.

Male names: Albrek, Baden, Codren, Emul, Horiam, Hutahn, Ioan, Lucyan, Mahahn, Niku, ovid, Petru, Razvahn, Serbahn, Shathys, Teodahr, Vasylay, Zahar.

Female names: Afyn, Anka, Bahnka, Codruta, Doru, Dyon, Floahr, Ghita, Helayna, Ioana, Jenit, Katryn, Lucya, Markella, Nadya, Roduka, Sahyeh, Tabita, Yalda, Zyna

Fragments of the Gate

Long ago, the Elder Elves forged the Vast Gate, which was a massive crystalline structure linking the Material Plane, the Astral Plane, and the alien Far Realm. Its construction was a terrible mistake. Once complete, the Vast Gate destroyed the civilization of the Elder Elves entirely, and was itself shattered.

The scattered fragments of the Vast Gate formed together and came to life as individual creatures, the shardminds. The nature of their life is as enigmatic as the Vast Gate itself. Every time a Shardmind dies, somewhere in the Great Wheel another piece of the shattered Vast Gate springs to life a new Shardmind. As a result, the number of Shardminds in the multiverse is fixed.

Barrier to the Far Realms

Many shardminds believe that, because they are sentient fragments of the gate, it is their duty to protect the multiverse from what lies beyond. Some dedicate themselves to purging the corruption of the Far Realm from the universe, while others seek the ancient magic of the Elder Elves to rebuild the Vast Gate. What is clear is that no shardmind knows for certain what purpose they serve or how to accomplish their ultimate goals.

Shardmind Names

The Shardmind race does not use surnames, because they have no lineage, like other races do.

Male: Balashi, Hunzu, Kubaba, Seluku

Female: Dipana, Kuri, Zakiti

Shardmind Traits

Shardminds are unique creatures, unlike anything else considered alive. All shardminds share the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Age. Shardminds do not age, and are mature when born.

Alignment. Shardminds are predominantly neutral. Some are innocent, and approach life with profound curiosity, while others remain distant, and tend not to associate themselves with society.

Size. Shardminds stand 6 feet tall on average. You size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Hardened Mind. You have resistance to psychic damage.

Living Construct. You do not need to eat, drink, or breathe. You do not need to sleep, though you must enter a state of inactivity, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Bioluminescence. You glow faintly, producing a dim light within 5 feet. You can suppress this light as a bonus action.

Language. You can speak, read, and write Common and 2 other languages. When Shardminds speak, the shards that make up their body hum, and their voices sound vaguely similar to metallic ringing.

Subrace. Shardminds are divided by differences in physical composition. Choose one of the following subraces.

Physical Characteristics

Shifters resemble humans, their close brethren, but with distinctively bestial features such as sharp teeth, claws, pointed ears, or fur. Compared to humans, shifters are somewhat short, the average height range being between 5'7" and 6', though shifters are lithe and strong and, as a result, are slightly heavier for their size, weighing between 130 and 180 lbs most commonly. In many other ways, however, shifters look like humans.

However, to a human's eye, the resemblance is less obvious than the differences. Unlike humans, shifters have flat, animal like noses, larger than usual eyes which allow them to see better in low light, heavy eyebrows, pointed ears, skin that is often of a brownish shade, and much more hair, also commonly brown, than is typical for the common human Because of this shifters, to a human, more closely resemble their lycanthrope ancestors that is sometimes confusing and shifters are sometimes mistaken for true lycanthropes, but a shifter can avoid this by shifting minor parts of their body to look like a normal human. Like their more feral brethren, shifters are capable of minor shapeshifting and can manifest animal-like traits when under stress, such as a tail, fangs, claws, wings, gills, and more, they basically adapt to what ever environment that they're in.

Shifters live to about as long humans do on average

Psychology

Shifters are commonly self-reliant and free-spirited. However, shifters are restrained in their actions by a fear that they might become lost in the savagery that dwells in their blood. This fear of losing control makes many shifters confrontational and reclusive. Some shifters overcome this self-doubt, however, becoming true friends to those they fight beside. However, this feral predator nature can be to the shifter's advantage, and they make excellent rangers or druids.

Culture

Shifters are often feared wherever they go, much like their lycanthrope ancestors. This is due to a common misconception that all lycanthropes are invariably and irreversibly evil, including shifters. Though false, this conception shapes the lives of shifters, who rarely achieve a prominent status in civilized society. Instead, shifters prefer either a nomadic lifestyle or living close to the edges of society, supporting it as fishers, trackers, hunters, guides, or scouts. Others take up the call of an adventurer's life while yet others give in to the expectations of society, letting their primal bloodlust fuel them in a life of crime.

Religion

Shifters favor gods of nature, such as Silvanus, or the moon, such as Selûne as well as primal spirits.

Homelands

Just like lycanthropes, shifters can be found scattered throughout all of Faerûn, but a few gather in larger communities. The Werewoods near Baldur's Gate and the Glimmerwood in Luruar are two such locations where lycanthropes are found in larger numbers and hence, as a result, so are shifters. However, most shifters, even in these regions, stave away from the dark influence of their ancestors. Other large shifter communities are found in the Great Dale and the Forest of Lethyr, as well as Dambrath where the local culture is xenophobic and has a hatred for drow.

Shifter Traits

Shifters are descended from humans and lycanthropes. Although they cannot fully change to animal form, they can take on animalistic features by a process they call shifting.

As a shifter, you have the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Size. Shifters are about the same size as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Your lycanthropic heritage grants you the ability to see in dark conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Shifting. On your turn, you can shift as a bonus action. Shifting lasts for 1 minute or until you end it on your turn as a bonus action. While shifting, you gain temporary hit points equal to your level + your Constitution bonus (minimum of 1).

You also gain a feature that depends on your shifter subrace, described below. You must finish a short or long rest before you can shift again.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.

Subrace. Several subraces of shifter exist, each with its own animalistic features. Choose one of the options below.

Siren Traits

Your siren character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2.

Alignment. Most sirens lean toward chaotic alignment, cherishing the freedom and independence that comes from joining a pirate crew.

Size. Sirens stand about 5 to 6 feet tall, but their bodies are slender and their bones partially hollow to facilitate their flight. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Flight. You have a flying speed of 30 feet. You can’t use your flying speed while you wear medium or heavy armor. (If your campaign uses the variant rule for encumbrance, you can’t use your flying speed if you are encumbered.)

Siren’s Song. You know the friends cantrip and can cast it without material components.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common (if it exists in your campaign) and Siren.

Beach Party

To a sirine, nothing is more important than living in the moment. They act as they please, seeking joy and pleasure wherever it may be found - especially if that happens to be by the seaside! Sirines love the fresh breeze and the feel of warm sand between their toes as much as anyone else; staking out the best spots on beaches to make sure their frolics attract just the right amount of attention.

As with most fey folk, their emotions are strong and shift rapidly, such that they may want to kiss someone one minute, and kill them the next. And a sirine's commitment to spontaneity is deep: they do not hesitate to act on these impulses. This can make them seem wild, but to a sirine, it is the natural state of things.

Underwater Homes

Sirines may gather on the shore to dance and sing, but they always return to their sunken villages when night falls. There, they hunt pearls, catch fish and grow crops much like humanoids, if humanoids could breathe underwater. Some sirines even share their homes with other aquatic creatures such as undines and merfolk, leading to great confusion among humanoid sailors.

Unearthly Beauty

Any humanoid that sees a sirine is liable to be struck by their incredible beauty. With perfectly clear skin that ranges in tone from pinks through golds to greens and blues, delicate flowing hair (in equally vibrant color) and lithe, elegant bodies, there is no such thing as an ugly sirine. Furthermore, all are born with a fabulous singing voice, though some may be too shy to use it.

Sirine Names Sirines have short, beautiful names that flow off the tongue like water.

Male Names. Adro, Boroda, Cas, Miza, Nook, Sharo, Zebus

Female Names. Banu, Esta, Jalli, Kohi, Noella, Roxin, Shora, Simi

Sirine Traits

Sirines have the following racial traits:

Ability Score Increases. Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age. Sirines grow quickly, reaching adult-size by age 10. Their personalities remain childlike, however, until they are much older. A sirine can live up to 600 years.

Alignment. Sirines are generally fickle and impulsive, and favor chaotic alignments.

Size. Sirines are slightly taller than humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet and your base swimming speed is 30 feet.

Amphibious. You can breathe normally in either air or water.

Fey Creature. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You are, however, affected by any ability that would normally affect fey creatures. Your plane of origin is the Material Plane.

Song and Dance. You have proficiency in the Performance skill.

Innate Spellcasting. You can cast the charm person spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Once you reach 5th level, you can cast the suggestion spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so after you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells and you require no material components to cast them.

Languages. You can speak, read and write Sylvan and one other language of your choice.

Spectral Sons and Daughters

The Ethereal Plane is generally thought to be lifeless, exclusively the domain of restless, incorporeal undead, and other transient souls. While it is true that there are no creatures native to that plane, the Border Ethereal has its fair share of adopted inhabitants, such as the blink dog, phase spider, and spirithost. The latter is the only humanoid to hail from this desolate plane, and might be considered its only true descendant.

Though most spirithosts reside on the Material Plane, they can step sideways into the Ethereal naturally, allowing them to bypass physical obstacles, and can see into the Ethereal effortlessly, allowing them to navigate both planes at once. They can even communicate with the dead directly, a feat few mediums take lightly.

Branded Undead

Though their bodies resemble those of ghosts, slightly translucent, glowing from inside with a pale, white light, spirithosts are not undead. Far from it: they are born, grow old, and die, and can even raise children.

In spite of this, most spirithosts are wrongfully branded as undead, their eerie, spectral forms too similar to ghosts for the layman to differentiate. Many a well-meaning, but ignorant cleric has tried to turn or banish a spirithost, to no avail. To avoid such conflict, spirithosts often avoid large, unfamiliar towns, or disguise their ethereality from others.

Spirithost Names

Spirithost names are gentle and sibilant, sounding as if they are whispered. They sound strange in most tongues, for they originate in an old, now forgotten, dialect of Common, practiced by the spirithost in days long past.

Male Names. Astras, Boreas, Cin'nilas, Cusnon, Fesim, Mesaron, Senvas, Servalas, Sesirops, Yalsin

Female Names. Amias, Belias, Heathimis, Lethreas, Nix'silia, Priscilla, Sayu, Shavaras, Sunda, Wishnas

Spirithost Traits

Your borderline ethereal body grants you the following traits:

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age. Spirithost do not experience time in the same way as most mortal creatures. As a result, even though they mature in their teens, their lives can stretch on for hundreds of years.

Alignment. Though some spirithosts are evil, most are simply chaotic, harboring a deep distrust for institutions that so readily brand them as undead.

Size. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Spirithosts float gracefully, as if only loosely affiliated with gravity. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Ethereal Nature. You can go twice as long without eating, drinking, or breathing, without penalty.

Incorporeal Movement. You can move through other creatures as if they were difficult terrain. You can also move through solid objects, but your partially-material form cannot pass through more than one foot of stone, one inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.

If you end your movement occupying the same spot as a solid object or creature, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you are moved.

Ethereal Vision. Your supernatural nature grants you superior vision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. In addition, while you are on the Material Plane, you can see 60 feet into the Ethereal Plane.

Spirit Speech. You can cast the spell speak with dead, without using spell slots or material components. You can only ask one question of a corpse when you cast this spell in this way.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Stonemen Traits

Ability Score Increase. Constitution and Strength scores increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1. Your Dexterity is reduced by 3 and your Charisma is reduced by 3.

Age. Natural life span has yet to be determined, but at least 500 years

Alignment. They are always Lawful

Size. Range in height from just over 7’3” feet to over 8 feet, and weigh about 900 lbs. Their size is Medium. They cannot ride conventional craft and have disadvantage on any Dex checks.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 20 feet, but your speed is never modified by encumbrance or armor

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Unarmored Defense. Your skin is like rock, while not wearing armor (AC is 10 + Constitution modifier + your Dexterity Modifier), when you are wearing armor you gain a bonus of +1 AC. At 3rd Level you gain resistance to non magical slashing. At 7th Resistance to non magical Piercing.

Ponderous Metabolism. You require very little food or breath (1 day’s rations for a Human sustain you for 5). You gain advantage on saves related to such checks. However you only get ½ the value of any healing.

Mountain Fist. Stonemen are proficient with their fists, which are essentially rocks, and may use them to strike for d4 damage (d6 if starting as a Monk) and are given advantage in any grapple or push contests.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Giant, Common, and Primordial.

Wandering Outcasts

Most tabaxi remain in their distant homeland, content to dwell in small, tight clans. These tabaxi hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep to themselves. However, not all tabaxi are satisfied with such a life. The Cat Lord, the divine figure responsible for the creation of the tabaxi, gifts each of his children with one specific feline trait. Those tabaxi gifted with curiosity are compelled to wander far and wide. They seek out stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant of the world beyond their home.

Barterers of Lore

Tabaxi treasure knowledge rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it's not intrinsically interesting.

The Cat Lord

The deity of the tabaxi is a fickle e.ntity. as befits the patron of cats. The tabaxi believe that the Cat Lord wanders the world, watching over them and intervening in their affairs as needed. Clerics of the Cat Lord are rare and typically access the Trickery domain.

In the tabaxi's eyes, gathering wealth is like packing rations for a long trip. It's important to survive in the world, but not worth fussing over. Instead, tabaxi value knowledge and new experiences. Their ears perk up in a busy tavern, and they tease out stories with offers of food, drink, and coin. Tabaxi might walk away with empty purses, but they mull over the stories and rumors they collected like a miser counting coins. Although material wealth holds little attraction for the tabaxi, they have an insatiable desire to find and inspect ancient relics, magical items, and other rare objects. Aside from the power such items might confer, a tabaxi takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use.

Fleeting Fancies

Wandering tabaxi are mercurial creatures, trading one obsession or passion for the next as the whim strikes. A tabaxi's desire burns bright, but once met it disappears to be replaced with a new obsession. Objects remain intriguing only as long as they still hold secrets. A tabaxi rogue could happily spend months plotting to steal a strange gem from a noble, only to trade it for passage on a ship or a week's lodging after stealing it. The tabaxi might take extensive notes or memorize every facet of the gem before passing it on, but the gem holds no more allure once its secrets and nature have been laid bare.

Tinkers and Minstrels

Curiosity drives most of the tabaxi found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. Tabaxi who seek a safer path to satisfy their obsessions become wandering tinkers and minstrels. These tabaxi work in small troupes, usually consisting of an elder, more experienced tabaxi who guides up to four young ones learning their way in the world. They travel in small, colorful wagons, moving from settlement to settlement. When they arrive, they set up a small stage in a public square where they sing, play instruments, tell stories, and offer exotic goods in trade for items that spark their interest. Tabaxi reluctantly accept gold, but they much prefer interesting objects or pieces of lore as payment. These wanderers keep to civilized realms, preferring to bargain instead of pursuing more dangerous methods of sating their curiosity. However, they aren't above a little discreet theft to get their claws on a particularly interesting item when an owner refuses to sell or trade it.

Tabaxi Names

Each tabaxi has a single name, determined by clan and based on a complex formula that involves astrology, prophecy, clan history, and other esoteric factors. Tabaxi names can apply to both males and females, and most use nicknames derived from or inspired by their full names. Clan names are usually based on a geographical feature located in or near the clan's territory. The following list of sample tabaxi names includes nicknames in parenthesis.

Tabaxi Names: Cloud on the Mountaintop (Cloud), Five Timber (Timber), Jade Shoe Qade), Left-Handed Hummingbird (Bird), Seven Thundercloud (Thunder), Skirt of Snakes (Snake), Smoking Mirror (Smoke)

Tabaxi Clans: Bright Cliffs, Distant Rain, Mountain Tree, Rumbling River, Snoring Mountain

Tabaxi Personality

A tabaxi might have motivations and quirks much different from a dwarf or an elf with a similar background. You can use the following tables to customize your character in addition to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background. The Tabaxi Obsession table can help hone your character's goals. For extra fun, roll a new result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity.

Mantis Warriors

A thri-kreen resembles a bipedal praying mantis. Its body’s exoskeleton is sandy yellow in color. Of the body’s six limbs, the lower two are used for walking, and the upper four end in four-fingered, clawlike hands. Thri-kreen have large, dangerous mandibles and compound eyes. Two small antennae sprout from the tops of their heads. They wear little clothing beyond simple harnesses for carrying weapons and equipment.

Tight-Knit Groups

Each thri-kreen forms deep attachments with a handful of other individuals, regarding them as clutch-mates, companions to be defended with one’s own life if need be. All others outside this small group of companions are strangers and enemies, although thri-kreen are intelligent enough to recognize that one traveling alone in the lands of other folk would be wise to keep such observations to oneself.

Thri-Kreen Communication

Thri-kreen employ a language without words. To show emotion and reaction, a thri-kreen clacks its mandibles and waves its antennae, giving other thri-kreen a sense of what it is thinking and feeling. Other creatures find this manner of communication difficult to interpret and impossible to duplicate. When forced to interact with creatures of other intelligent species, thri-kreen employ alternative methods of communication, such as drawing pictures in sand or making pictures out of twigs or blades of grass. More civilized thri-kreen take to learning Common, but cannot speak it, due to their mandible structure.

Limited Emotions

Thri-kreen experience the full range of emotions but aren't as prone to emotional outbursts as humans. Thri-kreen with psionic ability often demonstrate a wider range of emotions, particularly if they live near or interact with humans or other highly emotional creatures.

Hunter-Gatherers

Thri-kreen view themselves as noble hunters and judge other folk on the simple relationship of predator to prey. They respect barbarians, rangers, and others who live off the land and treat the land with care. On the other hand, savage and evil races such as gnolls and orcs despoil the lands that should be hunted with respect, and thus earn the thri-kreen’s enmity. The mantis warriors generally regard city folk and farmers of other races as not-hunters, and therefore not worth their attention (but also unworthy of their enmity).

Thri-Kreen Names

Thri-kreen make no distinction between male and female names, and they do not use a surname.

Thri-Kreen Names: Chak-tha, Drik-chkit, Kacht-ta, Kat’chka, Pak’cha, Pik-ik-cha, Ptekwe, Tak-tha, Tik-tik.

Thri-Kreen Traits

Your thri-kreen character has a number of abilities unique to the thri-kreen race.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age. Thri-kreen have relatively short lifespans, reaching maturity after only 2 years. On average, thri-kreen live about 30 to 35 years, though there are Thri-kreen legends about one of their number who lived almost 4 times as long as normal.

Alignment. Thri-kreen have virtually no social structure other than the clutches they form with their closest allies. The notion of sophisticated rules for social behavior is foreign to them. They are almost always chaotic in alignment, and often neutral with respect to good and evil.

Size. Thri-kreen tend to hunch when walking around, appearing to be as tall as a human. When fully upright, a thri-kreen stands between 6 and 7 feet tall. They weigh about 150 pounds on average. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Natural Jumper. Thri-Kreen have powerful legs, allowing for jumps that many other humanoids consider impossible. You have advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks made when jumping. You do not need a running start to perform a long jump or high jump.

Four Arms. You have four arms with which to hold things. Two of them are smaller minor arms, and cannot hold shields or attack with weapons. The minor arms may manipulate objects and perform the somatic components of spells. These extra arms do not grant extra attacks beyond those which you are normally granted. Finally, you may interact with an additional object (like drawing or stowing something) each turn.

Sleepless. You don't require sleep to function. As such, magic can't put you to sleep. You still must take long rests and can perform nothing more than a light task during said rest.

Curious Souls

Tibbits, as befits their heritage, are moody, curious, and sometimes arrogant. Many tibbits prefer the comforts of a fine meal, stiff drink, and a soft couch. Even the most decadent tibbit, however, eventually succumbs to the steady pull of its curiosity. A tibbit might spend years living off the treasures it won in adventure, only to suddenly strike out into the unknown once again.

Flighty but Firm

When dealing with others, tibbits show a similar capability to change their attitudes and posture depending on their moods. A tibbit might act relaxed and languid one moment, alert and inquisitive the next. They tend to have a slightly distant, arrogant attitude toward others, as if tibbits, as a race, share a colossal, secret joke over other intelligent creatures. Still, once a tibbit marks someone as a friend, few other creatures match their devotion. A tibbit might complain about a friend's needs or tend toward laziness, but when trouble arises they are dauntless allies.

Feline Forms

In humanoid form, tibbits are small, stealthy, dark-skinned people with pointed ears and catlike eyes. Their hair tends to grow thick and long, and males tend to grow sideburns. Their skin tones range from a tawny brown to black, but occasionally a tibbit has pure white skin. Their hair color matches the wide range of colors found in house cats, from pure white to striped silver to deep black. In their cat form, tibbits look like fat but energetic house cats. They appear identical to—and indistinguishable from—any common, domesticated breed.

Curious and Amused

Tibbits view everything through their guise as house cats. As such, they see how other races act when they think no one else is around. To a tibbit, every intelligent creature is a bundle of secrets waiting to unfurl.

Tibbit Names

Tibbits tend to adopt names based on their physical traits and deeds. A tibbit kitten is given a nickname by her parents that reflects her temperament and appearance. When a tibbit comes of age, she adopts a name of her choice. Tibbits tend to pick names from other folk, usually based solely on the sound.

Strangers and business partners use the name a tibbit picks for herself, while the tibbit's close friends and family use the original nickname chosen by her parents. A tibbit allows only her closest friends to learn and use her nickname. A nontibbit given such a privilege has received one of the highest honors a tibbit can grant to an outsider.

As a tibbit travels the world, she adopts a surname that reflects her experiences and important deeds. A tibbit usually changes her surname after such an event, but her true name uses all of her adopted surnames from childhood onward, and not just her latest one. When two tibbits meet, they share these long-form names to express their pasts with one another.

Parent-Bestowed Names: Blackpaw, Glittereye, Longear, Patchfur, Quickfang, Tumblepaw

Chosen Names: Anisa, Leo, Mischa, Nikko, Shalimar, Soey, Tipp

Surnames: Barrelrider, Cavelooker, Dogjumper, Shadeslayer, Wirewalker

Tibbit Traits

You share the following feline characteristics with other tibbits.

Ability Score Increase. +2 Dexterity.

Age. Tibbits reach adulthood around the age of 20, and can live to be 400 years old.

Alignment. Tibbits are curious and impulsive. Their mercurial nature leads them towards chaotic alignments, while their innate indifference leads them towards neutrality.

Size. Tibbits stand about 3 feet tall. Your size is Small

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Darkvision. Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Keen Senses. You have proficiency with the Perception skill.

Feline Speech. You have the ability to speak to and understand cats. Of course, cats can choose to simply ignore you, as they are wont to do.

Nine Lives. Whenever you make a death saving throw, you can add your proficiency bonus to the roll.

Feline Form. You can use your action to transform into a cat. You can revert to your normal form earlier by using a bonus action on your turn. You automatically revert if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, or die. While you are transformed, the following rules apply:

Infernal Bloodline

Tieflings are derived from human bloodlines, and in the broadest possible sense, they still look human. However, their infernal heritage has left a clear imprint on their appearance. Tieflings have large horns that take any of a variety of shapes: some have curling horns like a ram, others have straight and tall horns like a gazelle's, and some spiral upward like an antelopes' horns. They have thick tails, four to five feet long, which lash or coil around their legs when they get upset or nervous. Their canine teeth are sharply pointed, and their eyes are solid colors—black, red, white, silver, or gold—with no visible sclera or pupil. Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red, blue, or purple.

Self- Reliant and Suspicious

Tieflings subsist in small minorities found mostly in human cities or towns, often in the roughest quarters of those places, where they grow up to be swindlers, thieves, or crime lords. Sometimes they live among other minority populations in enclaves where they are treated with more respect.

Lacking a homeland, tieflings know that they have to make their own way in the world and that they have to be strong to survive. They are not quick to trust anyone who claims to be a friend, but when a tiefling's companions demonstrate that they trust him or her, the tiefling learns to extend the same trust to them. And once a tiefling gives someone loyalty, the tiefling is a firm friend or ally for life.

Tiefling Names

Tiefling names fall into three broad categories. Tieflings born into another culture typically have names reflective of that culture. Some have names derived from the Infernal language, passed down through generations. that reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some, the chosen name is a noble quest. For others, it's a grim destiny.

A great many tiefling parents follow the naming conventions of the culture in which their offspring are born, such as using human names if they live in a human settlement (the better to seem like "normal" citizens). Others take names derived from the Infernal language that have been passed down since ancient times.

In addition, some Faerunian tieflings have names drawn from the language of cultures where they are relatively common and generally accepted, such as Calishite and Mulhorandi, which are foreign-sounding to folk in the North and along the Sword Coast.

Al-Khem and Beni-Asmodai are two common Calishite tiefling surnames that proclaim the race's heritage, along with first names such as Haroun, Ishaq, and Nizam (male) or Hania, Rashaa, and Zaar (female).

Mulhorandi surnames that begin with "Sia" or "Zia" followed by a god's name indicate a bearer of that god's bloodline, such as Zianhur and Siasobek. First names commonly seen among Mulhorandi tieflings include Aybtep ("horned"), Bahati ("wise soul"), Het ("smoke"), Kamen ("dark"), Katsu ("star born"), and Kohl ("dark eyed").

Male Infernal Names: Akmenos, Amnon, Barakas, Damakos, Ekemon, lados, Kairon, Leucis, Melech, Mordai, Morthos, Felaios, Skamos, Therai

Female Infernal Names: Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Criella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaria, Nemeia, Orianna, Phclaia, Ricta

"Virtue" Names: Art, Carrion, Chant, Creed, Despair, Excellence, Fear, Glory, Hope, Ideal, Music, Nowhere, Open, Poetry, Quest, Random, Reverence, Sorrow, Temerity, Torment, Weary

Mutual Mistrust

People tend to be suspicious of tieflings, assuming that their infernal heritage has left its mark on their personality and morality, not just their appearance. Shopkeepers keep a close eye on their goods when tieflings enter their stores, the town watch might follow a tiefling around for a while, and demagogues blame tieflings for strange happenings. The reality, though, is that a tiefling's bloodline doesn't affect his or her personality to any great degree. Years of dealing with mistrust does leave its mark on most tieflings, and they respond to it in different ways. Some choose to live up to the wicked stereotype, but others are virtuous. Most are simply very aware of how people respond to them. After dealing with this mistrust throughout youth, a tiefling often develops the ability to overcome prejudice through charm or intimidation.

Infernal Tiefling

An infernal tiefling draws upon the power of the Nine Hells and its diabolic masters. These tieflings have the following additional features.

Ability Score Increase. +1 Intelligence.

Hellish Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.

Infernal Legacy. You know the thaumaturgy cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the hellish rebuke spell once per day as a 2nd-level spell. Once you reach 5th level, you can also cast the darkness spell once per day. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells. .

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Infernal.

Tiefling Variants

Since not all tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from the normal Tiefling. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your tiefling character, although Devil's Tongue, Hellfire, and Winged are mutually exclusive.

Appearance. Your tiefling might not look like other tieflings. Rather than having the previously mentioned physical characteristics, choose from the following features: small horns; fangs or sharp teeth; a forked tongue; catlike eyes; six fingers on each hand; goatlike legs; cloven hoofs; a forked tail; leathery or scaly skin; red or dark blue skin; cast no shadow or reflection; exude a smell of brimstone.

Feral. Your Intelligence score increases by 1 , and your Dexterity score increases by 2. This trait replaces the Ability Score Increase trait.

Devil's Tongue. You know the vicious mockery cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the charm person spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait. When you reach 5th level , you can cast the enthrall spell once with this trait .

You must finish a long rest to cast these spells once again with this trait. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for them.

This trait replaces the Infernal Legacy trait, Abyssal Arcana trait, or your alternate racial spell casting trait.

Hellfire. Once you reach 3rd level , you can cast the burning hands spell once per day as a 2nd-level spell.

This trait replaces the Infernal Legacy trait, Abyssal Arcana trait, or your alternate racial spell casting trait.

Winged. You have bat-like wings sprouting from your shoulder blades. You have a flying speed of 30 feet.

This trait replaces the Infernal Legacy trait, Abyssal Arcana trait, or your alternate racial spell casting trait.

Life of a Tortle

A tortle haches from a thick-shelled egg and spends the first few weeks of its life crawling on all fours. Its parents, old and near death, spend what little time they have left telling stories to their offspring. Within a year, the young tortle becomes an orphan, though not before it learns to speak and to survive on its own.

A young tortle and its siblings inherit whatever tools, weapons, and gifts their parents left behind. Each young tortle is expected to fend for itself. It leaves the place of its birth and finds its own corner of the wilderness in which to hunt, catch fish, and get by. With each passing year, a tortle hones its survival skills. It forms friendships with its neighbors while also respecting their privacy. At some point, a tortle feels an almost overwhelming urge to venture away from home and see more of the world. It gathers up its possessions and heads into the wilderness, returning months or years later with stories of its exploits and new skills.

Whhen a tortle nears the end of its natural lifespan, it seeks out a mate and procreates. tortles lay their eggs(numbering a few as one to as many as a dozen) in a fortified compound enclosed by stone walls that are easily defensible. If no such compounds exists, they build one. The parents spend the remainder of their lives guarding the compound, defending their offspring, and sharing a lifetime of knowledge before they die. When the children are old enough to leave the compound, they pick up whatever weapons and tools their parents left behind and set out on their own.

Beliefs

Tortles don't have their own pantheon of gods, but they often worship the gods of other races. It's not unusual for a tortle to hear stories or legends related to a god and choose to worhsip that deity. In the Forgotten Realms, tortles are especially fond of Eldath, Gond, Lathander, Savras, Selune, and Tymora. In the Greyhawk setting they gravitate towards Celestian, Fharlarnghn, Pelor, Pholtus, and St. Cuthbert. Tortles are often drawn to the Gods of Good in Dragonlance and the Sovereign Host in Eberron. Among the nonhuman dieties, moradin and Yondalla relate to tortles most of all.

Tortles believe that night and day watch over them and other creatures. The moon is the eye of night that watches over them in darkness, and the sun is the equally viglant eye of day. Tortles feel most at peace when one or both of these "eyes" are looking down on them. They become more nervous and uneasy when neither orb is visable in the sky. Tortles tend to be more uncomfortable underground, where neither the sun nor the moon is visible to them.

Blessed are the days when both the sun and moon are visible in the sky at the same time. Tortles often those such days to leave their homes and begin a wilderness expedition, or perform some other task they know to be dangerous.

Adventurers at Heart

Tortles have a saying: "We wear our homes on our backs." The shells they carry around provide all the shelter they require. Consequently, tortles don't feel the need to root themselves in one place for too long. A tortle settlement is primarily used as a kind of moot, where tortles can socialize with one another, share useful information, and trade with strangers in the safety of greater numbers. Tortles don't regard these settlements as places worth defending with their lives, and they will abandon a settlement when it no longer serves their needs.

Most tortles like to see how other creatures live and discover new customs and a new way of doing things. The urge to procreate doesn't kick in until the end of a tortle's life, and a tortle can spend decades away from its native land without feeling homesick.

Tortles embrace a simple view of the world. It is a place of wonder, and tortles see beauty in the ordinary. They live for the chance to hear a soft wind blowing through palm trees, to watch a frog croaking on a lily pad, or to stand in a crowded human marketplace.

Tortles like to learn new skills. They craft their own tools and weapons, and they are good at building structures and fortifications. They marvel at the work of other civilized creatures, humans in particular, and can lose themselves for years in a city studing its architechtural wonders and learning skills they can put to use when building forts to contain their offspring.

Although they spend a considerable portion of their lives in isolation, tortles are social creatures that like to form meaningful friendships. They have no inbred animus towards people of other races. In fact, a tortle will often seek out friendships with non-tortle races to learn new costums and new points of view.

Tortle names

tortles prefer simple, non-gender-specific names that are usually no more than two syllables. If a tortles doesn't like its name for whatever reason, it can change it. A tortle might change its name a dozen times in a lifetime. Tortles don't have surnames or family names.

Male and Female Names: Baka, Damu, Gar, Gura, Ini, Jappa, Kinlep, Krull, Lim, Lop, Nortle, Nulka, Olo, Ploqwat, Quee, Queg, Quott, Sunny, Tibor, Ubo, Uhok, Wabu, Xelbuk, Xopa, Yog

Persistent Nomads

Tortugans are a nomadic race, known for moving slowly, but constantly, marching for days at a time without ceasing. To eat, they grow some food on the run, using long-held magic to sprout vegetables like onions, turnips, or cabbage on their staves (onions being a particular favorite), and hunt through persistence, pursuing prey on long chases until it simply dies of exhaustion. In this way, no matter how large a marching band of turtle sentinels, it is always selfsustaining, never needing to stop to farm or raid villages for supplies.

Tortugans have stepped foot on almost every continent, have crossed every landbridge and seen every shore. Their endless march takes them far and wide in pursuit of prey, bringing them into conflict with great armies and small outlaw bands alike; all equally have been repelled.

Enduring Traditions

Tortugan elders will often boast that they keep one thousand and one secrets never told to outsiders. Doubtless, such secrets include much of the complex Tortugan language, the means by which they grow vegetables on their staves, and the principles of turtle sentinel combat, but many more are proverbs and maxims that express the tortugan view on the world. When in need, a tortugan always has a nugget of wisdom on hand to lift their spirits and those of their allies.

Tortugan Names

Tortugan names are rooted in the Tortugan language, and are bestowed by a tortugan elder within a week of birth. Speakers of Common sometimes have trouble approximating tortugan names, which might call for complicated pronunciations.

Male Names. Aito, Ghido, Hideo, Iori, Kame, Kato, Okuma, Onaga, Ryoko, Tatsuya

Female Names. Chihomi, Haruko, Kazuko, Mizuko, Nayoko, Omori, Rio, Sadako, Shioko, Tao

Aquatic Crusaders

Centuries ago, tritons entered the world in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Tritons waged many wars against their enemies on the Plane of Water, driving them into the Darkened Depths where they escaped into the crushing pressure and utter darkness. In time, the tritons noticed that their ancient elemental foes had grown quiet. Expeditions to the depths revealed that krakens, sahuagin, and far worse foes had fled the Plane of Water for the Material Plane. The tritons, driven by a sense of duty and responsibility, would not allow their foes to escape so easily. A great conclave of tritons chose volunteers skilled in weapons and magic as part of an expeditionary force to enter the Material Plane and seek out their enemies. Those tritons spread across the world's oceans and established protectorates to watch over deep sea trenches, portals, undersea caves, and other locations where their enemies might lurk. They defeated their foes when they found them and drove the rest into hiding.

With their foes banished to the deepest reaches of the sea, tritons settled in to watch for any sign of their return. Over time, the tritons extended their stewardship over the sea floor from their initial settlements and built outposts to create trade with other races. Despite this expansion, few folk know of them. Their settlements are so remote even merfolk and sea elves rarely encounter them.

Haughty Nobles

As a result of their isolation and limited understanding of the Material Plane, tritons can come across as haughty and arrogant. They see themselves as caretakers of the sea, and they expect other creatures to pay them deep respect, if not complete deference. This attitude might grate on others, but it arises from a seed of truth. Few know of the tritons' great victories over dreadful undersea threats. The tritons make little allowance for such ignorance and are delighted to expound upon the great debt others owe them. Tritons also have a tendency to emerge from their isolation under the assumption that other folk will welcome them as respected allies and mentors. Again, distance drives much of this attitude. The tritons' limited view of the world leaves them ignorant of the kingdoms, wars, and other struggles of the surface world.

Tritons readily see such concerns as minor events, a sideshow to the tritons' role as the world's true protectors.

Staunch Champions

Despite their off-putting manners, tritons are benevolent creatures at heart, convinced that other civilized races deserve their protection. Their attitude might grate, but when pirate fleets prowl the waves or a kraken awakens from its slumber, they are among the first to take up arms to protect others. Tritons readily sacrifice themselves for the common good. They will fight and die for humans, merfolk, and other creatures without question. Their self-absorbed nature makes them overlook the history of other creatures, but they also endure a sense of guilt over allowing the evils of the Plane of Water to enter the Material Plane and threaten its inhabitants. The tritons believe they owe a debt of honor to the world, and they will fight and die to pay it. At times their fervor and ignorance of the world can lead them astray. Tritons encountering other creatures for the first time can underestimate them, leaving the tritons vulnerable to deception. With their strong martial tradition, tritons can sometimes be too eager to leap into a fight.

Strangers to the Surface

Given their isolation, most tritons have never been to the surface world. They struggle with the idea that they can't easily move up and down out of water, and the changing of the seasons mystifies them.

Tritons also find the variety of social institutions, kingdoms, and other customs bewildering. For all their proud culture, they remain innocent of the surface world. The typical triton protectorate is tightly regimented, organized, and unified around a common cause. A triton on the surface becomes easily confused by the bewildering array of alliances, rivalries, and petty grievances that prevent the surface folk from truly unifying. At its worst, a triton's arrogance compounds the tendency for the triton. not to understand the ways of the surface world. It's easy for a triton to blame baffling social practices on what the triton perceives as the barbarism, weakness, or cowardice of surface folk.

Triton Personality

Far from flawless, these champions of good mean well, but they are easily frustrated by others. You can select, roll, or adapt a triton-specific quirk from the Triton Quirks table. Use the quirk to inform how you portray your character.

Trollkin Traits

Ability Score Increase. Strength increases by 2 and Constitution increases by 4, but your Intelligence, Dexterity and Charisma are reduced by 2.

Age. Trollkin reach physical maturity in their early teens. The average natural lifespan is 50 years, though some trollkin have lived into their seventies.

Alignment. can be of any alignment, though they tend towards brutish dispositions.

Size. Range in height from just over 7 ½ feet to over nearly 10 feet. Their size is Large.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Trollish Talents. You gain a proficiency in Intimidate, and either Metalworking or Gemcutting.

Troll Regeneration. Gain double Con bonus on healing surges and daily healing, but are susceptible to Fire and Acid damage.

Superior Infravision. You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light,. When in complete darkness as you can't discern colour, only sources of heat up to 60 feet away.

Magic dead. Trollkin cannot use spellcasting class features.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Orc and speak Common

Vampire Traits

Your vampire character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.

Age. Vampires don’t mature and age in the same way that other races do.

Alignment. Vampires might not have an innate tendency toward evil, but many of them end up there. Evil or not, their strict hierarchies incline them toward a lawful alignment.

Size. Vampires are the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Thanks to your heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Vampiric Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common (if it exists in your campaign) and Vampire.

Bloodthirst. You can drain blood and life energy from a willing creature, or one that is grappled by you, incapacitated, or restrained. Make a melee attack against the target. If you hit, you deal 1 piercing damage and 1d6 necrotic damage. The target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken, and you regain hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.

Feast of Blood. When you drain blood with your Bloodthirst ability, you experience a surge of vitality. Your speed increases by 10 feet, and you gain advantage on Strength and Dexterity checks and saving throws for 1 minute.

Between the Living and the Dead

The vampires of Zendikar are not undead. Rather, their unique nature comes from an eldritch disease that turns their flesh cold, makes their gray or purple skin feel
dead to the touch, and enables them to drain
concentrated magical energy from the blood of
other living creatures. They are tall and slender,
with long, elegant necks and broad shoulders.
Bony horns protrude from their shoulders and
elbows, often augmented by the layered plates
of their armor and clothing.

Their canine teeth are slightly elongated, but
not enough to protrude between their closed
lips. Vampires dress in leather and the chitin
carapaces of the gigantic insects that dwell
in the swamps and jungles of their native
Guul Draz, augmented with fine silk
and gauzy fabric. They decorate their
skin in elaborate, symmetrical patterns
of red paint made from blood and
mineral pigments. Their clothing
is an odd mixture of complex
layers and elaborate patterns
combined with plenty of
exposed skin, since their
cold bodies are unaffected
by the temperature
around them.

Vampire Traits

Your vampire character has the following traits as a result of the unique origins of your kind.

Ability Score Increase. Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age. Vampires don’t mature and age in the same way that other races do. Every living vampire is either a bloodchief, infected by Ulamog’s influence in the distant reaches of history, or was spawned by a bloodchief from a living human. Most vampires are thus very old, but few have any memory of their earliest years.

Alignment. Vampires have no innate tendency toward evil, but consuming the life energy of other creatures often pushes them to that end. Regardless of their moral bent, the strict hierarchies of their bloodchiefs inclines them toward a lawful alignment.

Size. Vampires are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. Thanks to your heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Vampiric Resistance. You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Blood Thirst. You can drain blood and life energy from a willing creature, or one that is grappled by you, incapacitated, or restrained. Make a melee attack against the target. If you hit, you deal 1 piercing damage and 1d6 necrotic damage. The target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount

equal to the necrotic damage taken, and you regain hit points equal to that amount. The reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A humanoid killed in this way becomes a null (see “A Zendikar Bestiary”).

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Vampire.

Evolved Golems

The vect were preceded by unthinking golems of various designs but, though they are still constructed rather than born, they are now fully living beings. Underneath their armored exteriors lies an organically-influenced anatomy, with a circulatory system crafted from leather piping and a network of magic nerves. At the core of each vect unit is an everlasting construct core, tinged with the influence of the Spark that awoke them.

Vect bodies are humanoid in shape, but unmistakably mechanical, with large air intakes, protective shoulderplates, toothless jaws, and glowing mechanical eyes. Though each of the Foundries produces its vect in slightly unique proportions, the general shape is always the same, and vect can normally scavenge spare parts from the deceased if they are ever grievously injured. In fact, many vect choose to install specially-designed embedded components to improve their bodies, up to and including replacing limbs with appropriate tools. If a vect unit is preparing for a dangerous journey, their preparation will likely include purchasing embedded components as replacement parts.

Vect can work tirelessly and never need to sleep, instead entering a dreamless period of inactivation each day. Most vect create endless lists of goals and chores, taking comfort in the sequence and monotony of tasks to break up the endless march of days, weeks, and months. It is not uncommon to see a vect standing watch over his party, sharpening tools and repairing armor while the others sleep.

Mechanical Minds

Although vect units experience the same fear, anger, pain, loss, and other emotions that humanoids do, their expression of them is muted. Neither do their mechanical faces and harsh, metallic voices endear themselves, driving a wedge between vect and most other living things. Many vect, therefore, seek refuge in logical thinking. Some become emotionally distant and lack introspection, whereas others plumb the philosophies of existence and consider what it means to be alive. These become the two extremes, between vect who seek to embrace their status as living things, and those who wish to banish all within themselves that is not construct. The vast majority of vect exist between these extremes.

Vect are most comfortable existing within a small group of some kind, as long as it is dedicated to a purpose. Temples, adventuring parties, and voyages of exploration are deeply attractive to the vect.

Search for Meaning

All vect are keenly aware that they were once nonliving material which suddenly came to be fully-formed as a living thing. And while there is no doubt that vect are alive, the destination of their souls upon death is another matter entirely. The philosophical implications of this are not lost on them, and the questions of existence echo loudly inside some vect.

Though the Foundries are intelligent beyond measure, they are wordless in their duties, and ascribe no grand meaning to their creations.

Some vect find comfort in faith, normally worshipping gods of arcana, smiths, and constructs. Others seek permanent distraction in quests and chores. Others still look to the 'verse for answers, and seek meaning through understanding.

Vect Names

The original vect were divided into working groups and given numbers by their dwarven keepers; nothing more was necessary. Now, however, all vect choose their own names, usually designations reflecting some function or purpose, though some vect choose to be identified by their serial number, or a nickname given to them by others.

Vect Names. 176, Armory, Bolts, Clunk, Crusher, Glitch, Hammerer, Keeper, Lifter, Null, Phong, Scarce, Three-Four-Three, Titan, Unit Seventeen, Watcher

Vedalken have an unusual view of progress. They believe that nothing is perfect, nor can it ever be perfect— and they rejoice in this. Every imperfection is a chance for improvement, and progress is an endless march toward a state of perfection that can never actually be reached. Thus, pointing out imperfection is hardly an insult—which leads vedalken to note flaws and problems with an enthusiasm that members of other races sometimes find exasperating.

This enthusiasm extends to every aspect of vedalken work, both practical and theoretical. They are curious and excitable, and often become deeply engrossed in their labors. It’s not uncommon for a vedalken to spend hours on end caught up in the details of an abstract question or a minute engineering problem. Vedalken can be utterly oblivious to their surroundings while meditating on thorny issues, and they are prone to launching into lengthy explanations of their current research, since most find that talking about a problem often leads to a solution.

As a rule, vedalken are gregarious in conversation. However, they are quite circumspect concerning their personal lives, and they engage more with ideas than with people. They form close friendships based around mutual interests or compelling disagreements, and their interactions focus on their thoughts about those issues rather than their feelings about them. Emotional dynamics don’t particularly interest vedalken, either as a conversational topic or a field of study. When they talk about their feelings, it is primarily to provide information that might be helpful to others. For example, a vedalken might tell her colleagues, “I’m feeling irritated right now, so I might not be reacting appropriately. Perhaps we should continue this later.” But any questions about the cause of the irritation are likely to be brushed off as being irrelevant to the situation

Living Constructs

Warforged appear as massive humanoids molded from a composite of materials—obsidian, iron, stone, darkwood, silver, and organic material—though they move with a surprising grace and fl exibility. Flexible plates connected by fibrous bundles make up the body of a warforged, topped by a mostly featureless head.

The warforged face loosely resembles their human creator’s, though they have a toothless jaw, heavy brow line and are lacking noses. Each warforged has a “ghulra” engraved upon their foreheads. Each of these runes are unique to each warforged, giving them a sense of individuality.

Warforged have no physical distinction of gender; all of them have a basically muscular, sexless body shape. In personality, some warforged seem more masculine or feminine, but different people might judge the same warforged in different ways. The warforged themselves seem unconcerned with matters of gender. They do not age naturally, though their bodies do decay slowly even as their minds improve through learning and experience.

Unique among constructs, warforged have learned to modify their bodies through magic and training. Many warforged are adorned with heavier metal plates than those their creator originally endowed them with. This customized armor, built-in weaponry, and other enhancements to their physical form help to differentiate one warforged from another.

Artificial Life

Warforged can have unique personality traits, though, as they are constructs, those are restricted in some ways. They experience anger, pain, fear, and hatred like their human creators. All warforged naturally seem reserved, stoic, and pensive, hiding an array of emotions behind their inexpressive metallic faces. Their faces were not designed to display facial expressions, so it can seem like they are distant to the conversation. Despite their lack of physical facial expressions, they’re not completely without them, as their eyes tend to brighten when experiencing strong or specific emotions. Some warforged have their faces modified to be more expressive for their companion’s comfort, but these expressions are learned rather than natural and often appear stilted and awkward.

Some warforged can be incredibly naive and lack a sense of introspection. However, many others are the opposite and question their existence, they wonder if, as constructs, they have souls, and ask what becomes of them in the after life. The more intelligent warforged create complex philosophies about what they perceive and learn. Though warforged can show loyalty to religions and organizations, typically they become loyal to a small group of comrades.

Warforged often have little life experience as they have spent most of their time working towards one specific duty, usually soldiering. If there is one interest all warforged share it is their love of working and the satisfaction of a job well done. Many create endless lists of goals and chores to feed that feeling. They take pride in their work and can work incredibly hard, both traits that make them dislike idleness and failure.

Warforged can excel at most tasks, having a single-minded efficiency, especially in combat related roles. But this same single-mindedness can often translate to a lack of creativity and they can be easily surprised or “outflanked.”

Free Outcasts

As the warforged strive to find a place in society for themselves after the Last War, they simultaneously struggle to fi nd ways to relate to the races that created them. In general, the humanoid races of Khorvaire regard the warforged as an unpleasant reminder of the brutality of the Last War and avoid dealing with them when possible.

In Thrane and Karrnath, the warforged are still seen as the property of the military forces that paid to have them built, and many warforged in those nations serve as slave labor, often used to repair buildings and roads damaged or destroyed in the war. Throughout the rest of Khorvaire, they have freedom but sometimes find themselves the victims of discrimination, hard-pressed to fi nd work or any kind of acceptance. Most warforged, not being particularly emotional creatures, accept their struggles and servitude with equanimity, but others seethe with resentment against all other races as well as those warforged whose only desire is to please their “masters.”

Warforged Names

Warforged dislike being called “it” and usually accept the gendered pronoun that they most closely resemble. Some Warforged adopt names from the culture they were created in, though most of their names were assigned at construction and are straightforward and related to their job, abilities or rank. Many Warforged simply accept the nicknames given to them by their comrades while others seek more meaningful names that best describe them.

Some warforged adopt a “personal name,” these are decided by the warforged themselves and are usually determined after long periods of soul-searching. This is usually a special designation a warforged has for its friends and carries a special meaning to them emotionally.

Warforged Scout

A Warforged Scout is a more nimble iteration of the Warforged. You were built for speed and mobility over raw power. A Warforged of this model possess the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. +1 Dexterity.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet

Size. Medium. You will be on the lighter size of warforged weights and heights, weighing around 100-180lb and standing 4'8 to 5'5.

Darkvision. Built for scouting missions you have been created with darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Light Warforged Armor Training. You have proficiency with light armor.

Warforged Soldier

A Warforged Soldier is what many first envision when imagining Warforged in general. They possess the following traits

Ability Score Increase. +1 Strength.

Natural Weapon. You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage using your Strength modifier.

Medium Warforged Armor Training. You have proficiency with light, medium armor, and shields.

Warforged Juggernaut

Ability Score Increase. +1 Constitution.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Heavy Warforged Armor Training. You have proficiency with light, medium, and heavy armor and shields.

Life Eaters

Neither dead nor alive, a wight exists in a transitional state between one world and the next. The bright spark it possessed in life is gone, and in its place is a yearning to consume that spark in all living things. When a wight attacks, this life essence glows like white-hot embers to its dark eyes, and the wight's cold touch can drain the spark through flesh, clothing, and armor.

Shadow of the Grave

Wights flee from the world by day, away from the light of the sun, which they hate. They retreat to barrow mounds, crypts, and tombs where they dwell. Their lairs are silent, desolate places, surrounded by dead plants, noticeably blackened, and avoided by bird and beast.

Humanoids slain by a wight can rise as zombies under its control. Motivated by hunger for living souls and driven by the same desire for power that awakened them in undeath, some wights serve as shock troops for evil leaders, including wraiths. As soldiers, they are able to plan but seldom do so, relying on their hunger for destruction to overwhelm any creature that stands before them.

Wight Names

When they are created, a wight keeps all of the memories of its former life, and therefore keeps its name as well. Therefore, wights can have all types of names based on whatever race they were in life.

Wight Traits

Your wight character has certain traits derived from its undead nature.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. As beings of undeath, Wights do not age or mature, and they may live for thousands of years if they are not killed in battle.

Alignment. Wights are transformed by dark entities to serve their needs, and therefore are most often evil themselves. Although they retain their memories and personalities, Wights are only created from evil and vain humans, so they will remain evil unless they change their alignment after reaching undeath.

Size. Wights are between 5 and 6 feet tall and average about 180 pounds. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. As a being forced to live in darkness, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of grey.

Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Undead. You are considered undead for effects such as turn undead and many healing spells. You are immune to disease and the poisoned condition, and you have resistance to poison damage. You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food or drink if you wish. Instead of sleeping, you enter an inactive state for 4 hours each day. You do not dream in this state; you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and events as normal.

Life Drain. When you kill a humanoid, it rises 24 hours later as a zombie under your control, unless it is restored to life or its body is destroyed. Only one zombie may be created through this ability at any one time; if another is created then the first becomes inanimate. The zombie has the statistics of the Zombie (Monster Manual pg. 316), except its hp value is instead equal to three times your level.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language you knew in life.

Wind's Children Traits

Ability Score Increase. Dexterity score increases by 3 (20 max on creation), your Charisma is increased by 1, and your Strength score is decreased by 2 and you Constitution by 2

Age. Wind’s Children mature physically over 30 years, reaching a natural lifespan of 170 years. Their appearance does not age during this time.

Alignment. Wind Children are often capricious (Chaotic), but despite their childish demeanor they can be cruel or kind. Good or Evil in equality probably, but not Neutral.

Size. Ranging in height from 12-18 inches. Their size is Tiny.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 10 feet, but fly at 50.

Fey Blood. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Faerie Sight. if you spend a full round action and concentrate you can sense magic within 60ft as if “detect magic”, and you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet o f you as if it were bright light, and 120 in darkness as if it were dim light. You can even discern color in darkness.

Faeriely Small. You are so small you gain a +1 AC bonus against combatants for each step larger their size, (+2 AC against Medium, +3 AC against large), and characters have disadvantage on all perception checks against them. (You however must use Undersized weapons)

Languages. You can speak, read, and write common, elvish and fey.

Forsaken Humanity.

The yuan-ti were once humans who thrived in the earliest days of civilization and worshiped serpents as totem animals. They lauded the serpent's sinuous flexibility, its calculated poise, and its deadly strike. Their advanced philosophy taught the virtue of detachment from emotion and of clear, focused thought.

Yuan-ti culture was among the richest in the mortal world. Their warriors were legendary, their empires always expanding. Yuan-ti temples stood at the centers of ancient metropolises, reaching ever higher in prayer to the gods they longed to emulate. In time, the serpent gods heard those prayers, their sibilant voices responding from the darkness as they told the yuan-ti what they must do. The yuan-ti religion grew more fanatical in its devotion. Cults bound themselves to the worship of the serpent gods and imitated their ways, indulging in cannibalism and humanoid sacrifice. Through foul sorcery, the yuan-ti bred with snakes, utterly sacrificing their humanity to become like the serpent gods in form, as well as in thought and emotion.

Serpent Kings of Fallen Empires.

The yuan-ti view their physical transformation as a transcendent moment for their race, allowing them to shed their frail humanity like dead skin. Those that did not transform eventually became slaves or food for the blessed of the serpent gods. The yuan-ti empires withered or were defeated by those who fought against their cannibalism and slavery, and the serpent folk were left in the ruins of their great capitals, far removed from other races.

Cold of Heart.

Humanoid emotions are foreign to most yuan-ti, which understand sentiment only as an exploitable weakness. A yuan-ti views the world and the events of its own life with such extreme pragmatism that it is nearly impossible to manipulate, influence, or control by nonmagical means, even as it seeks to control other creatures through terror, pleasure, and awe.

Yuan-ti know that the world they hope to rule can't be bound for long by brute force, and that many creatures will refuse to serve. As a result, yuan-ti first influence other creatures with the promise of wealth and power. Time and again, humanoid cultures make the fatal mistake of trusting the yuan-ti. They forget that a yuan-ti that acts honorably or lends aid in a time of trouble does so only as part of a grander design.

Yuan-ti leaders are cunning and ruthless tacticians who readily sacrifice lesser yuan-ti if potential victory justifies such losses. They have no sense of honorable combat and strike first in decisive ambush if they can.

False Worship.

Yuan-ti life revolves around their temples, yet yuan-ti don't love the gods they worship. Instead, they see worship as a means to attain power. A yuan-ti believes an individual who attains enough power can devour and replace one of the yuan-ti gods. The yuan-ti strive for ascension and are willing to commit the darkest atrocities to achieve it.

Serpent Gods

The yuan-ti revere a number of powerful entities as gods, including the following.

Yuan-Ti Pureblood

Purebloods form the lowest caste of yuan-ti society. They closely resemble humans, yet a pureblood can't pass for human under close scrutiny because there's always some hint of its true nature, such as scaly patches of skin, serpentine eyes, pointed teeth, or a forked tongue. Wearing cloaks and cowls, they masquerade as humans and infiltrate civilized lands to gather information, kidnap prisoners for interrogation and sacrifice, and trade with anyone who has something that can further their myriad plots.