Deathborne

You were not born. You were emerged.

Something ancient cracked open the veil, and through that fracture, you stepped — not screaming, not weeping, but aware. You were not granted life by chance or flesh; you were touched, or perhaps claimed, by Death itself. Whether you are a weapon, a mistake, a vessel, or an answer is a matter of prophecy. Or madness.

You are Deathborne — flesh-formed in the shadow between realms, unanchored from the natural rhythm of mortal life. Those around you feel it: a quiet stillness, a whisper in their spine, the flicker of candlelight that moves against the wind when you pass.

Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom

Feat: Death's Fortitude

Feat:

Feat: Death's Fortitude

Your soul has brushed the threshold and returned. What remains is no longer merely mortal.

The touch of Death has imprinted itself upon your flesh, bone, and spirit. Whether by divine design or cosmic accident, you are now something more — a vessel half-living, half-beyond. Your body has adapted to bear the weight of the grave and the resilience of stillness.

• Your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to twice your level when you gain this feat.

• Whenever you gain a level thereafter, your hit point maximum increases by an additional 2 hit points.

In addition, creatures that attempt to discern your living nature — through magic such as detect life, scrying, or divine sense — always sense a strange duality. You register as alive and dead simultaneously, or as something caught in-between.

You do not feel cold as others do.
You do not sleep as others do.
You do not bleed as others do — only when you will it.

“Death marked me and left me walking. Now, I carry its silence in my marrow.”

Skill Proficiencies: Religion and Insight

Languages: Celestial and Primordial