Homebrew Fuisian Species Details

The father, an Aasimar trapped within the dungeons of Mesmari.

The mother, an elemental seeking companionship and freedom. 

Their child... A hellish abomination radiating energy akin to hell itself.

The original Fuisian was born.

- Origin of the Fuisian

The original Fuisian is a by-product of the love between a good natured fire elemental and an Aasimar. The two lovers met by chance when the dungeons' make-up became unstable and a small border between the two worlds collapsed, breaching the world beyond. They locked eyes between worlds and were smitten, and their secret love would flourish through the coming years. Until the elemental bore their first child. The First Fuisian. Its body radiated a bright pink glow and was hotter than any fire either had seen and both parents were terrified. In fear, and in disgust, the two sealed the rift that had formed between the worlds and locked their child within the labyrinth of Mesmari.

Burned to Life.

The infant Fuisian found itself able to walk and speak the language of the creature throughout the dungeon within days. Sadly it learned that being a living radiant elemental was dangerous for most anyone to interact with. With one notable exception... one fateful day it found a creature laying on the ground, it looked like an adventurer that had gone astray. On the adventurer, the little Fuisian found a set of full metal armour. Slowly but surely, he pulled each piece off and began to outfit himself with it. In the end, it was kinda small but for the first time it could walk around without being deadly. Looking back, he saw the adventurer’s body had been burned and smoldered by his meddling. The fuisian felt bad for taking from the body and leaving it there to burn and smolder forever; guilt ridden, it decided to bury the smoldering remains and give a proper burial, but with a single touch the remains began to glow. The charred body pulled together into a humanoid shape before melding into a glowing elemental body with a deep orange color and a rich pink core. The adventurer had just become a Fuisian.

Beginning Anew.

As time passed, the newly born Fuisian adventurer’s mind and memories began to return. With more time, he taught himself how to speak again, even teaching the little Fuisuian how to speak common. As the two ventured through the Dungeon, they came across a large door, that the adventure swore was the way out to the Common world beyond the dungeon, which the Fuisian had never known about. He pointed out that if they did leave and find more people, they would be hurt by their radiant bodies. It was this moment that would shape this new race and give them the ability to interact with organic beings issue-free. The secret was combination of steel, adimantium, and a special stone they dubbed 'Vengestone'. It wasn't an easy job to mine a smeltable amount of these materials, leading to a project that would span nearly a century, but when your body doesn't physically age and you live within a timeless dungeon, how could you ever know. The time spent in the creation was immense, but in the end was more than worth it. They'd managed to craft two full set of seeled armor that shielded the world from their bodies' effects.

Suited For Life.

These original suites were bulky and cumbersome, but still allowed for movement and sported five four-inch slits in the heads of the helmet to see and breath through. It was tightly seeled and only unlocked at the neck joint with a key that the other carried, vowing only to open it if it was an emergency. With their protection readied as it would be they opened the door to the Common world and lept from the dungeon into the town of Mesmari. At first the townsfolk were curious and scared, but the great sorcerer Cecil stood by them and allowed them to call this place hom. With time they proved to be excellent blacksmiths and great last-minute healers... sometimes. 

As they came to find out, their radiant energy could possess the ability to heal, but could also go so far as to burn out the body of a weak person, turning them into a Fuisian themselves. Conviniently the practice of blacksmithing helped them bolster their craft of armouring and the locating and mining of vengestone become easier with another centuries worth of time. This led to the creation of complex and intricacate armours that could come closr to letting the wearer look near normal, barring the metal skin/scales. I think with another couple hundred years and a bit of magical aid, even that could be remedied. 

Fuisian Names

All Fuisian, beyond the first born, tend to carry over part of their name from their previous life and have the take the rest of their name from the Fuisian that created then. So an elf once known as Kurell who was reborn at the hands of a Fuisian named Dar'nal, would be named Kur'dar.

Fuisian Traits

These traits will help you in your new life as a Fuisian.

Ability Score Increase

You increase your Constitution by 1 and another score of your choice by 1 based on your original race.

Age

You are born from your own corpse, being touched by another Fuisian. You can live far out into the fifth or sixth century without any problems, and mature within days.

Alignment

Your life was restored because of two reasons: a failed attempt to revive you literally to what you were or this was the only option to save your mind and soul. Whichever it is, your natural alignment is kept but can become ascue towards the alignment of the Fuisian who saved you.

Size

Fuisian are medium in size, standing 6'7'' in their armour and can weigh in average 500lbs or more due to the armour.

Speed

You naturally have a walking speed of 20.

Past Life

Your prior body is consumed by the Fuisian body, but your soul and mind can remain. You remember a prior proficiency you once had. Otherwise you can choice one option from one skill, simple weapon, or a tool proficiency.

Radiance

You emit pale white light from your body, including cracks or slots in your armour, that shed bright light 20ft and 5ft of dim light beyond that.

Protective Armor

In the hopes of keeping you, your allies, and even some foes safe from your radiant body, your kind has fashioned a special armor that can contain your extreme heat while still allowing you mobility, be it unstealthy. It is given to you at rebirth and can’t be removed naturally without a key heald by your armourer. Whilst in your armor you have a natural AC of 18. Wearing other armor will not provide bonus AC but wielding shields can still provide a bonus as long as they’re not wooden.

Hot Suit

As a byproduct, your suit tends to grow warm from your intense radiant body. Anything you hold for longer than 10 minutes runs the chance of combusting on a failed DC 13 Con Save.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common as well as another language of your choice, typically one from your prior life.