Homebrew Deathforged Species Details

Appearance

They are large constructs, made from undead creatures of Such as Dragonborn, Dwarves, Humans and Tieflings. That had served honourably in the Order of Technomancer's. They are clad in heavy plated armour, with mechanical hands and feet, thier heads are encased with a an armoured skull piece with cables and flexes leading from the back and torso dock and port in the skull base back and sides: that can be unlocked to be connected into machines or into a non operational Deathforged to see its last memory or use it eyes if their own are critically damaged. Their faces are either armoured plates with eye slits or brass plated death masks for the most notable and exceptional warriors. Their eyes glow mana blue, the few patches of visible skin are dead but undecayed, coated in a film of preserving substances. Their voices created from somatic runes emanates an echoing, grating artificial voice.

Purpose Of Creation

They are designed for heavy, melee combat (but are capable of ranged or magic combat if the old warrior that was capable of innate magic or if the magic is knowledge based can learn how to use magic) to maintain the order of Tecnomancys ranks. However since then many of them have malfunctioned to a degree, been designed to at least partially remember or an archaic Deathforged brain causing them to remember their old self but instead created something else shaped or haunted by those memories, or some other quirk: (acts affectionately towards children of their race (or hates them), will not harm others but will restian or block them for others to attack them instead, became insane, periodically goes berserk or randomly shutdowns for a random period of time.

Unit Designation.

Each season the Death forged are made a different naming scheme is used ( here are a few examples: Birds of prey, Deities, Constellations) or simply their actual name is used. However the deathforged may change their name or at least partially by saying their not them, and are a different person. (example: Anna Fange > Stalker Fang). Alternativley less notable warriors but ones still worthy of resurrection have basic unit designation such as A-3-21.

Technology at work.

They are resurrected using arcanomechanicle machinery. Such as a Mana Wayline Power Core, Deathfroge Cerebral Reanimator, Potion Pump and more. These machines replace or augment pre existing organs, combined they Reanimate the corpse and give it a controlling artificial mind, that makes them, either a mindless automata, sentient machine or somewhere inbetween. All of this is powered by a arcane power core, drawing energy from the plane of lightning.

Deathforged Traits

These traits are granted from the arcane machinery

Ability score modifier

+2 to Constitution and Strength, +1 to Intelligence or Wisdom.

Undead

Has the following sub traits: 

• Undead fortitude: damage reduces the Deathforged to 0 hit points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the Deathforged drops to 1 hit point instead.
• Deathly slumber: While Unoperational ("Dead") or Unconscious ("Fully Sleeping" or "Knocked out"), is effected by undead affecting spells (Animate dead).
• Corpse: Has traits of original race (Dragonborn: Breath attack. But not the Ability score modifier.

 

Construct

has the following sub traits:

• Armoured Plating: Has the innate effect of wearing Plate Armour. Ignore the weight of the armour and cannot wear armour over this.
• Metallic Armour: Affected by repel metal and heat metal.
• Retracting Finger Glaives: add 1d8 slashing damage to unarmed attacks. Able to be hidden with a bonus action.
• Arcane Senses: Advantage on perception checks, 20ft of truesight. Can cast detect magic at first level, 3 times a day.

General Traits

Has the following subtraits.

• Age: Can live upto 10,000 years, unless killed and is not repaired or destroyed to the point of non recoverability.
• Alignment: Tends towards Lawful Neutral or Good, can be a different alignment if malfunctioned.
• Language: Can: Speak, Read and Write Common, and the language of their base race if malfunctioned or designed too.
• Weight: 300 pounds.
• Size: Large, 8ft tall.

Blood Stained Legacy

Those that remember and were survivors, witnesses or victims of the blood stained legacy and wars of the Deathforged, are automatically frightened by them on failing a DC 18 wisdom saving throw. Advantage on intimidation checks and being frightened.

Ancient Origin

Potentially has one of the following quirks, depending on the type or degree of malfunction: 

Quirk Examples:

• I would rather let myself be destroyed, then let my companions come to harm
• I sometimes will enter a Murderous Rage with no memories of it happening as I spontaneously calm down.
• I am incapable of directly murdering others, and are haunted by memories of my murders when attempting to kill.
• I will do anything required to reach my newly found goal or desire.
• I will sometimes be lost by visions of past events that they remember as a Deathforged.
• I am haunted by memories of my old life.
• I occasionally act and remember memory of my old life, like a second personality, with no memories of it happening when it ends.
• I am Irrational
• I love (Animal) because my old self remembers
• I was abandoned after a battle in the forest for so long I am loyal to it.