Homebrew Manananggal Species Details
You've lived among the people of the Philippines for your whole life. The community ptaise you as diligent, kind, hard-working and willing to take the nightjobs where no one else would. During the day, you play the part - often taking the appearance of a beautiful woman. At night is another matter. Then, your face distorts in disgust, your hair becomes wild and your eyes widen. You split your torso in half. You hide your lower, more vulnerable and immobile half somewhere accessable to return to later. Then your upper form sprouts giant bat-like wings and you take to the night-black skies, trailing your intestines from your open gut. Alongside, a small bird hovers with you emitting a familiar ticking sound. You grow closer to your intended victim, a pregnant woman sleeping in the top floor of a house, and the bird's chirping becomes more distant to decieve any listeners of your arrival. She smells of ripe jackfruit. No dissuasive salt, crushed garlic, uncooked rice, daggers, vinegar or stingray tails have been left on the roof - it's free for the taking. Climbing through the upper window you use your long hollow black tongue to suck out the woman's organs and unborn child. Most would find it disgusting, you might also say so in the daytime. But here you are a different creature, turned to blacker things by foul ritual. Once, you transformed yourself with oil and a black chick egg, a chick which devoured your insides while keeping you alive to hunt for more prey. It's a self-serving being but your mind is too empty with hunger to bother questioning it. You prefer to choose lovers, pregnant women, all that you could've been but no longer will be. You were left at the altar once, and you never had children. So you take that from others as well. You must return to your separated half before daybreak, or suffer excruciated and fatal pain. Normally, you sleep during the day in trees or your village hut. But something has been eating at you recently, more so even than the black chick inside.
Manananggal Traits
The Manananggal of Filipino myth had many occult abilities...Type
You are part Humanoid, part Monster.
Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma score increases by 2.
Age
You live the same as any human, all the better to blend in with them.
Alignment
You are generally thought to have a Chaotic Evil alignment due to your strange preference for human organs.
Size
Your size and build are similar to a human. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Your base flying speed is 30 feet. While flying you cannot be wearing heavy armour.
Separation
In order to fly you must separate your top and bottom halves of your body, allowing you to sprout 6 foot bat wings. Naturally your upper half hovers 1 foot off the ground. The lower half of your body cannot take actions. Both halves share the same pool of hit points regardless of distance. Damage to the lower half of your body costs twice the amount of damage. While separated, both halves of your body are considered separate Small creatures.
Darkvision
Being sensitive to light, 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 colour in darkness, only shades of grey.
Community Thriller
You have proficiency in Deception from your years deluding your neighbours as to your real designs and luring the unfortunate away.
Fear Factor
Choose a feature from Hollow Tongue, Tik-Tik and Delicate Sleeper. You gain an additional feature at levels 10 and 15.
> Hollow Tongue: Whether you are separated or not, your tongue extends to 10 feet. As an action, you can touch a creature with it to suck its blood. This deals 1d4+2 piercing damage and heals you by a same amount of hit points. If you use this feature for three rounds in a row, the creature becomes incapacitated. Creatures who are incapacitated, prone or otherwise unable to move are caused 1d6+2 piercing damage.
> Tik-tik: While you are separated, you are accompanied by a small black bird companion which emits a special tik-tiking sound. You have extroardinary sense of smell to 10 feet around the bird (equivalent to tremorsense). The bird has 5 hit points. If it dies you cannot use this sense until you can summon a new one in 1d4 days. The tik-tik bird chirps louder when it is further away in order to confuse your prey. Creatures that can hear the sound (at 10 feet) must make a DC 13 Wisdom save or you will have advantage on attack rolls against them.
> Delicate Sleeper: You need a way to ensure your prey is unaware of your presence. You know the Sleep spell regardless and can use it as a bonus action without materials if you are seperated. Your spellcasting ability for this is Charisma. In this case your number of uses is equal to your proficiency bonus, after which you will need to take a long rest.
Sunlight
If your body is separated in the presence of daylight you take 1d6+2 burning damage each round until you fuse again. The strong sunlight blurs your vision. When it is day, you have disadvantage in Perception or Investigation skills requiring vision.
Salt, Ash and Garlic
If salt, ash or garlic is within view, you have disadvantage on bonus actions and cannot take reactions due to the sheer disgust freezing you in place.
Languages
You speak, read and write Common and one language of your choice from your community or Abyssal.
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