Biology and Appearance

Abyssin stand around 2 meters tall on average, with much of their body length taken up by long limbs. They also possess a single eye that dominates their greenish-tan foreheads. It is because of this eye that they often times gain the nickname of "monocs", "cyclops", or "one-eye", which the Abyssin themselves generally find to be derogatory, to the point where they will often react violently to being called thusly.

Abyssin possess amazing regenerative abilities, being able to heal quickly as well as actually regenerate any body part lost, which many believe contributes a lot to their especially violent racial culture, as they probably do not off-hand understand that most other species do not share this trait. This fast regeneration is believed to have been an adaptation to prevent fluid loss from bleeding, and because of these abilities, an Abyssin can live up to 300 standard years. Eventually however, an elderly Abyssin will lose this regeneration and either voluntarily exile themselves to die in the desert or be ritually killed by their tribe.

Society and Culture

When two Abyssin tribes meet and both have plentiful water and food supplies, they will typically interact peacefully through trading. Otherwise, they begin a "blooding", a brawl which ends only when one tribe's warriors are all killed, captured, or incapacitated. Any warriors who survive a blooding are usually allowed to join the victorious tribe once they finish their regeneration. However, this tradition has led to some violent incidents when spacers tried to trade with Abyssin tribes with scarce water resources, especially since the Abyssins assumed the alien traders could regenerate as quickly as they did.

While many Abyssin are petty thugs, they are still an uncommon sight in the greater galaxy. Those found off Byss that aren't thugs are often slaves or mercenaries. Two notable locations that Abyssins live in significant numbers are the planets Phaeda and Dubrava.

Names

Abyssin names are generally short and simple, usually consisting of only a single name instead of including a last name or surname.

Male Names. Myo, Shryo, Easym, Polcyc

Female Names. Anami, Sadie, Voma, Kass

Abyssin Traits

As an Abyssin, you have the following special traits.

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

Age. Abyssin reach adulthood in their early 30’s and can live up to 300 years old.

Alignment. Abyssin’s primitive lifestyle causes them to tend toward the chaotic alignments, though there are exceptions.

Size. Abyssin typically stand 6 and a half to 7 feet tall and generally weigh about 230 lbs. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

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.

Regenerative. When you take damage, you can use your reaction and expend a hit die to regain health as long as the damage would not reduce your hit points to 0.

Long-Limbed. When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.

Poor Depth Perception. Because of your singular eye, you have poor depth perception and always have disadvantage on any attack roll against a target more than 30 feet away.

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 Galactic Basic and Abyssin. Abyssin consists of primitive-sounding grunts and growls, and the written language is based on a simple set of hieroglyphs.