Homebrew Ǎnkéi Species Details
The Ǎnkéi
The Ǎnkéi were the guardians of the Ǎnkéi Forest. The Ǎnkéi Forest is heavily influenced by spiritual energy, it is common to spot common and animal spirits, it is said to be closely tied with the Etheral Plane. The tribe was formed by a small group of people, loners who lived in the forest then, when they agreed to protect the forest in exchange for immortality. By doing that they merged themselves with those spirits, becoming immortal, although they need to travel to the Etheral Plane ever so often to avoid fading away.
Alignment
As protectors of the Forest, they lean towards Neutral Good. But it is possible to corrupt them.
Size and Appearance
The Ǎnkéi lost their real physical bodies when merging with the spirits. They usually manifest as the spirit that they merged with, their original form or a mix between those two. Although they have been seen using other races features or even shaped as another race. They cannot be shaped like something that is bigger than them (Medium). They maintain the same stats they had before taking another shape, i.e. an Ǎnkéi takes the shape of a Tabaxi, it'll not get Tabaxi racial features.
Age
Ǎnkéi don't age, they instead need to often visit the Etheral Plane either by maditating or by going there to avoid fading away.
Languages
You speak, read, and write Common, Celestial, and Ǎnkéi. Ǎnkéi is a tonal, loosely-ordered language that combines syllabic root words to create its elaborate and highly symbolic dictionary.
Ǎnkéi Traits
Proficient in Insight checks, Celestial Nature, Arcane Sight, Etheral Walk.Arcane Sight
You have Darkvision out to 60 feet.
In addition, you can cast Detect Magic once per long rest at no component or spell cost.
Celestial Nature
As an Ǎnkéi, you require no food or drink (though you must replenish your stores of magical energy through meditation) and need not sleep (though you must still get 8 hours of uninterrupted rest to complete a Long Rest).
Your creature type is Celestial rather than Humanoid. You are affected by effects that function on humanoids and affected by effects that function on celestials.
Etheral Walk
You step into the border regions of the Ethereal Plane, in the area where it overlaps with your current plane as an action. You remain in the Border Ethereal for 10 minutes or until you use your action to dismiss the spell. During this time, you can move in any direction. If you move up or down, every foot of movement costs an extra foot. You can see and hear the plane you originated from, but everything there looks gray, and you can’t see anything more than 60 feet away.
While on the Ethereal Plane, you can only affect and be affected by other creatures on that plane. Creatures that aren’t on the Ethereal Plane can’t perceive you and can’t interact with you, unless a special ability or magic has given them the ability to do so. You ignore all objects and effects that aren’t on the Ethereal Plane, allowing you to move through objects you perceive on the plane you originated from.
When the spell ends, you immediately return to the plane you originated from in the spot you currently occupy. If you occupy the same spot as a solid object or creature when this happens, you are immediately shunted to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you are moved. This spell has no effect if you cast it while you are on the Ethereal Plane or a plane that doesn’t border it, such as one of the Outer Planes.
Proficient in Insight
Having a spirit merged with your body grants you not one, but two minds to think with. You are proficient in Insight checks.
Speed
Having no real physical body, the Ǎnkéi are really lightweight. Their speed is 40 feet.
Comments