Homebrew Bejuk Species Details

Bejuk

The sights (and scents) of bejuk caravans are not easily ignored. Horned and antlered humanoids with bestial eyes and ears ride atop fantastic animals, each decorated with trinkets, dyes, and other adornments that celebrate bejuk aesthetics. Once a caravan stops at a city to trade goods and information, young bejuks feed and clean the mounts while the adults handle transactions until they all quietly pack up and move on. They do not own land, nor do they wish to do so: their caravan holds all their needs and treasures.

Bejuk Traits

Silken Roads Migration is a necessity for the bejuk. They seek to collect all beautiful things that the world and its races have to offer. This goes for their beasts of burden as well, which they often treat better than themselves. It is common to see a bejuk's mount eating a more colorful meal than its rider. And while bejuks can't digest meat, they are happy to hunt and provide it for their carnivorous and omnivorous friends. This is made all the more impressive after seeing that bejuk caravans hold some of the largest beasts in the known world. If necessary, bejuks will subsist on bark and grasses in order to feed them.

Baubles

You have proficiency with your choice of jeweler's tools, weaver's tools, or woodcarver's tools. Using these tools, you can spend 1 hour and 2 sp worth of raw materials to craft a Tiny bauble worth 3 sp, such as a string of beads, a clothing patch, or an earring. If a creature willingly accepts one of these baubles from you as a gift, you gain advantage on the first Charisma check you make to influence that creature within the next minute. You can gain this benefit no more than once per day per creature.

Herds resolve

 While you are within 20 feet of a friendly creature that isn't incapacitated, you have advantage on saving throws against being frightened. Additionally, when a creature within 20 feet of you makes a saving throw against being frightened, you can use your reaction to grant it advantage on the roll.

Stotting

When you make a standing long or high jump, you jump as if you had made a running start. Additionally, your jump height is doubled, which often helps with mounting creatures that are much larger than you.

Tamer's Touch

You have proficiency in the Animal Hand-ling skill. Additionally, you can cast animal friendship using this trait. Once you cast it, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for it.

Language's

Languages. You know how to speak, read, and write Common, Bejuk, and two other standard languages of your choice. Most people hear the Bejuk tongue as a gibberish dialect of Common. In reality, it is a sublanguage composed of idioms, metaphors, slang, and other figures of speech that require months of daily exposure to understand fully.

Alignment

Alignment. Most bejuk cultures preach social neutrality as a virtue. The fact that they interact with as many races as they can further reinforces it as a necessity. Even if a bejuk becomes evil, lawful, good, or chaotic, they will usually keep some attributes of their neutral upbringing.

Age

Age. Bejuk mature in their early teens and live a bit over a century, typically between 450 and 890 years.

Size

Size. Bejuk heights vary greatly between 5 and 7 feet tall, and shorter ones are known to have larger horns, on average. Regardless of your specific dimensions, your size is Medium.

Speed

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Ability Score Increase

Ability Score Increase. An Ability score of your choice increases by 1, and a different ability score of your choice increases by 2. A bejuk is always expected to become the apprentice of a crafts-person, hunter, trader, lorekeeper, scout, warrior, or caretaker so that their abilities can be specialized by their early 20s.

Bejuk Names

Bejuk Names

The nomadic bejuks take great care in naming their children. Many variables matter: the locations of celestial bodies at the time of birth, the first animal to approach the newborn, where the umbilical cord was cut, etc. It is exceedingly rare for a bejuk to be named on their parents' whim alone.

Because family structures are loose and monogamy is rare, bejuk surnames match the name of the community they hail from. A two-letter "bridge" connects their given name to this surname and expresses how long an individual has been apart from their community. Therefore, an example of a full bejuk name would be Itala sa Zerutz.

 

Male Names: Aldoi, Behera, Bilo, Dolo, Errepide, Fazati,

Giratoki, Helbura, Hodei, Ibilbaza, Jarle, Kathlo, Kuilu,

Lerro, Mortuko, Rafi, Sasoa, Tamani, Tegiko, Tikoa, Unitoa
Female Names: Abesti, Ahrea, Beltzae, Daia, Erdi, Hegaldi,

Ilargi, Itala, Kapena, Lehoi, Melu, Mendi, Miakatu, Nietu,

Panka, Rensugi, Serriko, Simaurra, Tzaile, Ubide, Xume
Bridges: co (still together), pe (less than a week), ji (less than

a month), bu (less than 4 months), sa (more than 4 months)
Community Names: Arrunt, Basoan, Bildum, Eskutitz,

Gutun, Hankak, Herrdoil, Izotz, Larruj, Lokaz, Migrad,

Munitat, Oinez, Oihanean, Yo-an, Zerutz, Zikinkerit

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