Bejuk
The sights (and scents) of bejuk caravans are not easily ignored. Horned and antlered humanoids with bestial eyes and ears ride atop fantastic animals, each decorated with trinkets, dyes, and other adornments that celebrate bejuk aesthetics. Once a caravan stops at a city to trade goods and information, young bejuks feed and clean the mounts while the adults handle transactions until they all quietly pack up and move on. They do not own land, nor do they wish to do so: their caravan holds all their needs and treasures.
Silken Roads
Migration is a necessity for the bejuk. They seek to collect all beautiful things that the world and its races have to offer. This goes for their beasts of burden as well, which they often treat better than themselves. It is common to see a bejuk's mount eating a more colorful meal than its rider. And while bejuks can't digest meat, they are happy to hunt and provide it for their carnivorous and omnivorous friends. This is made all the more impressive after seeing that bejuk caravans hold some of the largest beasts in the known world. If necessary, bejuks will subsist on bark and grasses in order to feed them.
Bejuk Names
The nomadic bejuks take great care in naming their children. Many variables matter: the locations of celestial bodies at the time of birth, the first animal to approach the newborn, where the umbilical cord was cut, etc. It is exceedingly rare for a bejuk to be named on their parents' whim alone.
Because family structures are loose and monogamy is rare, bejuk surnames match the name of the community they hail from. A two-letter "bridge" connects their given name to this surname and expresses how long an individual has been apart from their community. Therefore, an example of a full bejuk name would be Itala sa Zerutz.
Male Names: Aldoi, Behera, Bilo, Dolo, Errepide, Fazati,
Giratoki, Helbura, Hodei, Ibilbaza, Jarle, Kathlo, Kuilu,
Lerro, Mortuko, Rafi, Sasoa, Tamani, Tegiko, Tikoa, Unitoa
Female Names: Abesti, Ahrea, Beltzae, Daia, Erdi, Hegaldi,
Ilargi, Itala, Kapena, Lehoi, Melu, Mendi, Miakatu, Nietu,
Panka, Rensugi, Serriko, Simaurra, Tzaile, Ubide, Xume
Bridges: co (still together), pe (less than a week), ji (less than
a month), bu (less than 4 months), sa (more than 4 months)
Community Names: Arrunt, Basoan, Bildum, Eskutitz,
Gutun, Hankak, Herrdoil, Izotz, Larruj, Lokaz, Migrad,
Munitat, Oinez, Oihanean, Yo-an, Zerutz, Zikinkerit
Bejuk Traits
Any bejuk character you make will have the following traits in common with the other members of their race.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1, and a different ability score of your choice increases by 2. A bejuk is always expected to become the apprentice of a crafts-person, hunter, trader, lorekeeper, scout, warrior, or caretaker so that their abilities can be specialized by their early 20s.
Age. Bejuk mature in their early teens and live a bit over a century, typically between 125 and 135 years.
Alignment. Most bejuk cultures preach social neutrality as a virtue. The fact that they interact with as many races as they can further reinforces it as a necessity. Even if a bejuk becomes evil, lawful, good, or chaotic, they will usually keep some attributes of their neutral upbringing.
Size. Bejuk heights vary greatly between 5 and 7 feet tall, and shorter ones are known to have larger horns, on average. Regardless of your specific dimensions, your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Baubles. You have proficiency with your choice of jeweler's tools, weaver's tools, or woodcarver's tools. Using these tools, you can spend 1 hour and 2 sp worth of raw materials to craft a Tiny bauble worth 3 sp, such as a string of beads, a clothing patch, or an earring. If a creature willingly accepts one of these baubles from you as a gift, you gain advantage on the first Charisma check you make to influence that creature within the next minute. You can gain this benefit no more than once per day per creature.
Herd's Resolve. While you are within 20 feet of a friendly creature that isn't incapacitated, you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened. Additionally, when a creature within 20 feet of you makes a saving throw against being frightened, you can use your reaction to grant it advantage on the roll.
Stotting. When you make a standing long or high jump, you jump as if you had made a running start. Additionally, your jump height is doubled, which often helps with mounting creatures that are much larger than you.
Tamer's Touch. You have proficiency in the Animal Hand-ling skill. Additionally, you can cast animal friendship using this trait. Once you cast it, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for it.
Languages. You know how to speak, read, and write Common, Bejuk, and two other standard languages of your choice. Most people hear the Bejuk tongue as a gibberish dialect of Common. In reality, it is a sublanguage composed of idioms, metaphors, slang, and other figures of speech that require months of daily exposure to understand fully.
Racial Feats
The following feats are meant to expand on the uniqueness of the bejuk race and allow players to further customize their characters. Your DM has the final say in whether any of these feats can be used in a campaign.
Charger+
Prerequisite: Bejuk
When you use your action to Dash, you can use a bonus action to make one melee weapon attack or to shove a creature. If you can make multiple attacks with the Attack action, you can choose to make one melee weapon attack and to shove the attack's target as part of the same bonus action.
If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line immediately before taking this bonus action, you gain a +5 bonus to the attack's damage roll (if you chose to make a melee attack and hit) and/or push the target up to 10 feet away from you (if you chose to shove and you succeed).
Keen Senses
Prerequisite: Bejuk
Even among your bestial peers, you stand out as a gifted scout and seeker. You gain the following benefits:
- You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on hearing, sight, or smell.
- You gain darkvision out to a range of 30 feet. You can see in dim light within this range 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.
- You can discern creatures that you are familiar with by their scent. For example, you could realize that a creature is disguised as long as you are familiar with either the disguised creature or the creature it is disguised as.
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Context: D&D 5th Edition by Wizards of the Coast, LLC.
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