Homebrew Saulmen ( Salamander) Species Details

Saulmen are calm and collected and tied to elemental fire's found deep in the earth.  Originating from where the Plane of fire meets the Plane of Earth, Saulmen are quite at home in high temperatures and near lava flows.   They are self-sufficient individuals with little need of others, though no disdain in its place, rather an apathy.  They live in loosely associated villages, small nomadic caravans, or individually as lone hunters.

Dichotomous Natures

The Saulmen's perplexing  nature is evident in the way the think and act, closely related to the Salamanders they get their name from.  Saulmen feelings tend towards the apathetic unless something stirs them to greater emotions, while their thoughts run rather constantly.  An outsider might consider a Saulmen slow or day dreaming, while in reality they are simply indifferent to their surroundings until something necessitates it.    They are both extremely thoughtful, but you wouldn't know it.  Their natures match their home, fiery meets stable. 

Quick and Placid 

They are at once a tension between quick action and placid inaction.  A Saulmen is content to spend their day doing nothing, but when action is required or called for, they take to it with a burst of speed and urgency that belies their prior stillness.  Reflected in this is their thoughts.  Salmen are quite capable of mulling a problem for days regardless of progress, but when a time of action approaches the same Salmen will make decisions with lightning speed not hesitating in the least.  

Accomplished Hunters

Their comfort with stillness makes the salmen stealthy hunters, comfortable waiting for long stretches for the right situation before striking in a flash.  This behavior, accompanied by their flattened physique and grasping fingerpads, allows them to stalk silently along tight fissures and seemingly impossible heights.  

Blood of Lava

Like their race's origin, their blood runs hotter than the norm, warming the air around them and keeping them comfortable despite wide temperature changes.  Some salmen can concentrate this internal heat into surprisingly vicious fiery attacks, though they lose their temperature regulation in the process.  This unique ability can help them cook their food as as they strike it down. 

Self-assured 

Salmen are perfectly content to go it alone.  Though they have no problem being in a group, they neither seek it out or desire it, rather gathering into groups for practical reasons.  As such many salmen prefer to travel alone or in small nomadic hunting tribes, while some gather in loosely associated communities, whose governance structure is bare bones and lacking the pomp or rigidity found in human communities.  

Saulmen Names 

Salmen often take their names from the draconic languages, learned at the claws of their progenitor, a gargantuan Salamander in their home plane.  ex: Ixen Zhin (fire walker), Waere Ehtah (cave finder),  Ixen Lamot (fire climber) , Wielgen Lava (falling lava) , Ibafarshan Nar (flame strike ), Vutha Tonash (black rock)

Name Allternative: Saulmen take names in other tongues as well, preferring sibilant syllables.  ex:  Ashura, Sussenoo, Shunessen 

Saulmen Quirks

1. You often insert long pauses into your conversations without acknowledging the pause. 
2. You periodically lick your eye during conversations.  
3. Steam raises from your skin while in the rain or in water. 
4. You sleep best while hidden completely underneath something. 
5. You prefer to enter buildings through a window or elevated entry. 
6. You feel the need to bathe often. 
7. You avoid water whenever you can. 
8. You prefer your food raw so it can cook while you eat it.  

Saulmen ( Salamander) Traits

Your Saulmen character has the following racial traits

Ability Score Increase

Your thin undulating frame allows for increased agility, and your molten blood for increased health. Your Dexterity Increases by 2 and your Constitution score by 1. 

Sticky Fingers

Your amphibious nature gives you sticky fingers, giving you a base climbing speed of 30 feet and proficiency in Stealth and Sleight of Hand checks.  

Size

Salmen are flatter and taller than humans.

Age

Salmen reach physical maturity at age 5 and live to be about 50 years old.  

Hot Blooded

Your molten blood allows you comfort regardless of temperature, making you comfortable in extreme heat, and warming the air around you in all but the coldest climates. 

Your very saliva burns to the touch.  Your unarmed strike is 1d4 + your dex modifier and deals fire damage instead of the bludgeoning damage normally granted for unarmed strike.  You are proficient in this attack.  

Once per short rest you may channel your inner fire into 'Produce Flame'.  Until your next short rest, you will no longer be resistant to either cold or heat, and lose the fire damage to your bite.   

Languages

Your extra-planar origin has put your race historically in contact with many primordial fold.  As such you know Ignan, Terran, and Draconic languages in addition to Common.