Homebrew Cirvan Species Details

 

Cirvans are the product of elven lineage, sporting eccentric personalities and long, tufted tails. Their fixations allow them to take specialized roles in adventuring parties. Cirvans are curious, eccentric people. Their sparse and thinly spread population disallows them from a central culture, but they blend quite nicely with the local populace. Save for their general eccentricity, they are quite normal and well-adjusted to wherever they may reside. 

Tailed and Typical

Cirvans are rather simple from a physiological perspective. Their features are comparable to humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet in height. Their ears remain consistent with their elven heritage and identical in size and shape. Their defining features are the long, tufted tails that are completely hairless, save for the end. These tails are quite telling of their owner's emotions and are highly dexterous and prehensile. They tend to be around 4 feet long, but the longest recorded has been 5.7 feet long.

Cirvan skin tones consist of the tones often seen in humans. Their hair can be almost any color in the visible spectrum but is typically seen in darker colors. It's also been noted that Cirvan hair has a very similar aroma to flowers; the hair on their heads and tails can have two distinct scents. Like their elven precursors, Cirvans possess no facial and little body hair. It should also be mentioned that Cirvans possess star-shaped irises, although very few manage to observe a Cirvan sitting still long enough to notice this.

Short and Flavorful

Cirvans have an almost pitiful lifespan compared to their Elven predecessors. The average Cirvan lifespan is about 40 years old. This is largely due to the fact that most Cirvans fall under the High Strung classification. High Strung Cirvans tend to suffer premature deaths due to their highly dangerous and risky behavior. Cirvans of the other two classifications typically have the same lifespans as most humans.

 

Communal Lifestyle 

Having no centralized culture or homogenous nations of their own, Cirvans typically blend well with their communities. Their typically friendly attitudes and outgoing demeanor make them quite charming to be around. Cirvans with particular skills and obsessions are often sought after by nobility, companies, and even mercenaries. Cirvans are generally well-liked among their communities. In adventuring parties, they tend to rely on their teammates to keep them in check, while their skills are heavily relied upon.

 

Constant Pursuit

Cirvans possess a unique psychological obsession with a specific concept, object, skill, activity, or countless other things. These obsessions can be controlled through support systems, therapeutic counseling, or other means. However, the vast majority of Cirvans allow their fixations to go unchecked. 

OBSESSIVE TO A FAULT

Cirvans can possess a wide variety of obsessions, ranging from concepts, objects, skills, activities, and more. Cirvans typically fall into three categories, but it should not be used as a reference- Cirvans are impossibly complex, and many have dedicated their entire lives to finding the root of their psychological obsessions.

High-Strung: These Cirvans are highly active, excitable, and carefree. Their obsessions revolve around fun, excitement, danger, or risk. While their rash nature may prove to hinder self-preservation or decision making, they’re much more willing to put themselves into danger if it means satisfying themselves. It should be noted that they aren’t completely incapable of self control- rather, they have a higher tendency to engage in more stimulating activities.

Reclused: These Cirvans are obsessed with more material matters. Books, knowledge, art, flora, the list goes on. This fixation on physical objects lead many to recluse inside personal abodes, surrounded by hoards of artwork, vast libraries, greenhouses, gardens, or castles.

Well-Rounded: These Cirvans have controlled, or outright eliminated their obsessive tendencies. They are completely identical to any other person, mentally.

 

 

 

Cirvan Traits

Your Cirvan character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of their unique heritage.

Helping Hand

As a bonus action, you may use your prehensile tail to perform the help action on a creature within 5 feet of you.

Obsessed

Your Cirvan possesses a natural psychological obsession with a specific skill. They will have an expertise in a skill of your choosing.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2 due to your prehensile tail, and your charisma increases by 1, due to your eccentric personality.

Age

Cirvans reach physical maturity at the same age as humans. High-Strung Cirvans typically live to be about 40 years old, while Well-Rounded and Reclused Cirvans live to their natural lifespan, which is similar to humans.

Size

Cirvans range from under 5 up to 6 feet tall and have average builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Trance

Cirvans don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common.