Homebrew Apiskin Species Details

Apiskin are creatures of the forest, creating and maintaining the natural state of everything around them and embracing nature. Apiskin are rather friendly individuals, making 'Hives' along the outskirts of forests near other civilizations in order to maintain trade and relations with other peoples. Like their cousin race of Vespiking, the Apiskin Hives are ruled by a Queen, a female Apiskin with great druidic powers that is given the position through blood lineage. If there is no appropriate daughter to the current Queen, the next will be chosen through a ritual known as the Honeyed Ascent, a series of tests among Apiskin that challenges their magical abilities.

This insectoid race stands rather short near 4 feet around a maximum, having chitinous skin of yellow and black patterns with a smooth layer of fuzz along it. Their wings are rather short and as such, when combined with their body size, only provide a limited flight speed. Along with their wings, Apiskin have a stinger with a rather potent venom, although the use of it is rather painful to the Apis itself. Unlike the Vespikin, an Apiskin stinger is too short to utilize as a sword, although it could be drained of it's venom to make an extremely deadly poison.

Apiskin Traits

Apiskin find love in nature and the maintenance of the circle of life, including a few of the bloodier bits.

Nature Flourishes

Due to growing and tending to woodlands of their Colonies in order to maintain the Colony in both protection and maintenance, the Vespikin are trained early in the workings of plants and nature, giving advantage on Nature checks.

Hive Intelligence

Thanks to the combining of all knowledge in the Colony, the Vespikin have an additional plus 2 to Intelligence