Homebrew Concubi Species Details

“You know there's only one way, right?"

All she could remember at first was... those black eyes, hot as a her first summer flings. They stared right into her heart, pulling out her fire, as the queer softness in his voice jolted her.

“To pick the perfect strawberry, I mean," he chuckled. 

“Are you talking to me?" she asked, caught short by this seductive apparition at the fruit stand. 

When she glared at him perplexed, he looked around and then smiled to her:

“Of course, darling. If you want. In fact, most people think it's just about the outside. The shape and the colour, see?" as he brought a strawberry to her face. "But they're just like us, sneaky little devils, hiding tasty secrets inside."

"It's never the one is you expect," she breathed out of air suddenly.

"But there's no way of finding out what deliciousness is underneath without giving it a little taste."

Her long and soft fingers grabbed onto the strawberry as he handed her the scarlet fruit. She looked at it, then back at the man who winked in encouragement. Her throat was dry and the temperature kept rising.

The strawberry squirted in her mouth as the lady magically quenched her thirst in a single bite. She stepped back and glanced from man to fruit before jumping back in, moaning with each bites as she devoured the pulpy queen of berries. 

"It’s not as if I’m plumbing the depths of your mind, dear girl. That is the burden of every tiefling, but I am no tiefling. So, tell me, how did it feel?"

She was left there panting forcefully as if she'd just run a mile. She stared at him, her thick lips trembling and she thirsted for more.

"I didn't feel this good..  replenished in months, especially since the drought."

"Mm. Want more?"

She bit her lip and gazed at him amorously:

"How about you taste my berry now?" she asked, drunk in lust.

— Mervin E. Mann, Lover Devils

 

To be greeted with stares and whispers, to suffer from harassment and catcalling on the street, to see lust and love in every eye; one, two or all, shall take thy bed tonight: this is the lot of the roaming Concubi. And to twist the knife, humans almost never know this because the Convubi—fiends of the Nine Hells—reflect the hidden desires of the soul, and thus hide in plain sight as the mortals crave for their devilish gifts. Their appearance and their nature will always fit to awake at least some embers of passion.

Succubi and incubi inhabit all of the Lower Planes, and the lascivious dark-winged fiends can be found in service to devils, demons, night hags, rakshasas, and yugoloths. Asmodeus, ruler of the Nine Hells, uses these fiends to tempt mortals to perform evil acts. The demon lord Graz’zt keeps succubi and incubi as advisers and consorts.

Though legend speaks of them separately, any succubus can become an incubus, and vice versa. Most of these fiends do have a preference for one form or the other. Mortals only rarely see a succubus or incubus in its true form, however, for the fiend typically begins its corruption in veiled, insidious ways.

 

Beautiful Corrupters

A succubus or incubus first appears in ethereal form, passing through walls like a ghost to lurk next to a mortal’s bedside and whisper forbidden pleasures. Sleeping victims are tempted to give in to their darkest desires, indulge in taboos, and feed forbidden appetites. As the fiend fills the victim’s dreams with debauched images, the victim becomes more susceptible to temptation in everyday life.

Inevitably, the fiend enters the mortal realm in tempting form to directly influence a creature’s actions. Appearing in the guise of a humanoid who has previously appeared only in the victim’s dreams, the succubus or incubus seduces or befriends its victim, indulging all its desires so that it performs evil acts of its own free will.

A mortal bequeaths its soul to the fiend not by formal pledge or contract. Instead, when a succubus or incubus has corrupted a creature completely — some say by causing the victim to commit the three betrayals of thought, word, and deed — the victim’s soul belongs to the fiend. The more virtuous the fiend’s prey, the longer the corruption takes, but the more rewarding the downfall. After successfully corrupting a victim, the succubus or incubus kills it, and the tainted soul descends into the Lower Planes.

The succubus or incubus resorts to charming a victim magically only when necessary, usually as a form of self-defense. A charmed creature isn’t responsible for its actions, so forcing it to behave against its will won’t bring the fiend closer to the ultimate prize: the victim’s soul.

 

Deadly Kiss

The kiss of a succubus or incubus is an echo of the emptiness that is the fiend’s longing for a corrupted soul. Likewise, the recipient of the fiend’s kiss gains no satisfaction from it, experiencing only pain and the profound emptiness that the fiend imparts. The kiss is nothing short of an attack, usually delivered as a final farewell before the fiend escapes.

 

Fiendish Offspring

Succubi and incubi can reproduce with one another to spawn more of their kind. Less commonly, a succubus or incubus reproduces with a humanoid. From this unholy union, a cambion child is conceived. Invariably, the fiendish offspring is as wicked as its fiendish parent.

 

Concubi Traits

Concubi share certain racial traits as a result of their fiendish descent.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age

Concubi are ageless demons, typically reaching adulthood between the ages of 15 and 19 and will not die of old age.

Size

Concubi are shapeshifters; however, in general, they are similar in size to most other humanoid races. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet, your flying 60 feet.

Darkvision

Thanks to your infernal heritage, 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.

Shapechanger

Concubi can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid, or back into its true form. Without wings, the fiend loses its flying speed. Other than its size and speed, its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

Infernal Legacy

You know the thaumaturgy cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the hellish rebuke spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the darkness spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Charm

One humanoid the fiend can see within 30 feet of it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be magically charmed for 1 day. The charmed target obeys the fiend's verbal or telepathic commands. If the target suffers any harm or receives a suicidal command, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success. If the target successfully saves against the effect, or if the effect on it ends, the target is immune to this fiend's Charm for the next 24 hours.

The fiend can have only one target charmed at a time. If it charms another, the effect on the previous target ends.

Draining Kiss

The fiend kisses a creature charmed by it or a willing creature. The target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw against this magic, taking 32 (5d10 + 5) psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.

Etherealness

The fiend magically enters the Ethereal Plane from the Material Plane, or vice versa.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Abyssal, Common, Infernal, Telepathy 60 ft.