Homebrew Mole Species Details
Moles are sensible beasts with a quaint dialect, a penchant for industrial work and are generally illiterate. Egbert the Scholar is to date the sole exception to all these characteristics. The mole leader at Redwall Abbey is typically called Foremole. Moles enjoy eating Turnip and Tater Deeper'n'ever Pie. It is commonly known that moles are afraid of heights and water, and also get emotional over the simplest of things. It seems that the way to greet someone by mole means is to tug their snout. Stout and affable are a mole’s two greatest attributes. Stocky creatures with a knack for tunneling, they tend to have simple outlooks on life, and dislike getting embroiled in anything more complicated than a card game. They aren’t stupid creatures by any means, and many possess a folk wisdom appreciated by woodland creatures of all stripes. They are natural tunnelers, and spend a good portion of their time in tunnels that are natural or of their own make, and gain a near preternatural affinity for the underground. They move slower than the other creatures of the wood, but when in a tunnel the mole seems to move with a strange grace, easily hiding from predators within the shadows.
Mole Traits
It takes quite a lot indeed to get a mole to come out of their house and take up arms. However, should they be pushed that far, the moles are relentless.Feeling in my Claws
A mole's intuition is seldom wrong. You can cast Detect Evil and Good as a 1st-level spell up to three times per day.
Sharp Claws
Your digging claws are fearsome, should you use them. They attack at +STR, dealing 1d4+STR slashing damage.
Burrower and Builder
You have advantage on all checks relating to finding hidden doors,
disarming traps, and accessing concealed spaces.
Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 2.
Size
Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Your speed is not reduced by wearing heavy armor.
Darkvision
Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you 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.
Mole Combat Training
Moles struggle in long range and prefer close combat. You have proficiency with the handaxe, quarterstaff, and a choice of tool.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Molespeak. Moles can be difficult to understand at first due to the accent of their molespeak. I have included examples of of Moles say certain words.
Mole Speech
- Arsken = Asking
- Baint = Are not, Am not, Is not
- Be a = Am
- Be = Is, Are, Am ("You'm be a sloi owd villyun, boi gumm!" = "You are a sly old villain, by gum!")
- Bees = Will, Am
- Behoind = Behind
- Boi = By
- Brekkist = Breakfast
- Bukkit = Bucket
- Bumblybee = Bumble Bee
- Burr aye = Indeed
- Burr no = Certainly not!
- Choild = Child
- Coom = Come
- Corjul = Cordial
- Churr = Chair
- Damsens = Damson plums
- Dawnen = Dawn
- Deloight = Delight
- Dissurven = Deserves (Moles use only present participle with verbs, creating a 'be ... ' dynamic: "You'm be dissurven o' ee prize.")
- 'Ecky = Heck
- Ee = The, You, He, She
- Etted = Ate, Eaten
- Fallen = Fall, Fallen
- Foremoler = Foremole (See 'Moler')
- Foxer / Foxerbeast = Fox or a sly beast
- Foxerwolf = referring to Urgan Nagru the Foxwolf
- Froggers = Frogs
- Fruitycake/Frootycaker = Fruitcake
- Furst = First
- Goo = Go
- Gudd = Good
- Gurtly / Gurt = Greatly / Great
- H’uncle, Nuncle = Uncle
- Koindly = Kind, Kindly
- Larf = Laugh
- Loively = Lively
- Losts = Lots
- Miz = Miss
- Moi = My
- Moler = Mole
- Oo arr = An indication of enthusiastic agreement, although it can also be used in a facetious or sarcastic sense to mean the opposite. Compare with Highlanders' "Aye right", and otters' "Oh aye".
- Oop = Up
- Owd = Old
- Oi = I, Me (moles do not use a word for me- they will always use Oi instead. "Ee made Oi larf!")
- Narsty = Nasty
- Poartee = Poetry
- Porshings = Portions
- Pudden = Pudding
- Rarscal = Rascal
- Rabserries = Raspberries
- Roight = Right
- Rootybag = Rutabaga
- Sayen = Saying
- Sloi = Sly
- Soilent = Silent
- Spake = Speak
- Stoled = Stole
- Sunroise = Sunrise
- Surpintly/Surpinkly = Certainly
- Tater = Potato
- Thankee = Thank you
- Thurr = There, Their, They’re
- They'm = They're
- They = Those
- Traverse (?) = Travel
- Uzn's = Us
- Villyun = Villain
- Vurmint = Vermin
- Waken = Wake
- Watter = Water
- Whoi = Why
- Whurr = Where
- Wudd = Would; alternately, this can mean "wood"
- Wuddland = Forested area
- Wurse = Worse
- Yon = Your
- You’m (widely used in the Redwall world) = You’re
- Yurr = Here
- Zurr = Sir
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