Homebrew Dark Kalashtar Species Details

Native to Eberron, the Kalashtar are a people formed by the bond between their ancestors and the renegade quori spirits that fled the dream realm of Dal Quor and the evil spirits that sought to dominate and overpower them. Empowered and guided by their ancestor spirit, Kalashtar possess unique psychic abilities that allow them to communicate telepathically and protect them from psychic damage. Though the Kalashtar sleep just like everyone else, they are disconnected from the plane of dreams, and therefore cannot dream -- even if an outside force attempts to use magic to make them dream

Kalashtar tend to lean toward good alignments, seeking to better existence and the world around them through meditative acts and devotions known as the Path of Light. They may not be able to communicate with the spirits that coincide within, but they understand the necessity of challenging to dark spirits of Dal Quor in hopes of shifting the balance from darkness and evil to goodness and light. Those dark spirits continue to oppose and attempt to exterminate Kalashtar using a force called the Dreaming Dark, however there are Kalashtar who seek out these denizens of darkness in hopes of thwarting their efforts but with Dark Kalashtar they don't lead good alignments since they were made to hunt and kill the kalashtar, and quori that escape the Darkness control. Because of the Kalashtar connection to the quori, they have powerful mental abilities, including a +2 boost to Wisdom and +1 Charisma. In addition to that WIS boost, they also possess a trait known as Dual Mind, which gives them advantage on WIS saving throws. Their affinity with WIS paves the way to creating disciplined Monks, Druids, Rangers, and Clerics, who all rely on WIS as their core stat. Additionally, the CHA boost would work well for Warlocks, who gain their power from an otherworldly patron and rely on CHA to work their magic.

Kalashtar are also resistant to psychic damage, the effort of their spirits to protect them from the Dreaming Dark. Because they are severed from the plane of dreams, they are immune to magical effects and spells that require dreaming.

One of the Kalashtar's most exciting abilities is their Mind Link trait. Mind Link allows them to connect their mind to any creature they can see, so long as the creature is within a range equal to ten times their level and can understand at least one language. It is not required for the Kalashtar and their target to share a language in order for them to communicate. They can maintain this form of communication for up to one hour, or until they drop the effect, and they can only share this telepathic bond with one individual at a time.

Dark Kalashtar Traits

increases to Wisdom and Charisma, Advantage on Wisdom saves, resistance to psychic damage, and limited telepathy. Dark Mind Link

Ability Score Increase

Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1

Age

Kalashtar mature and age at the same rate as humans.

Dark Mind Link

You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see, provided the creature is within a number of feet of you equal to 10 times your level. You don’t need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language. When you’re using this trait to speak telepathically to a creature, you can use your action to give that creature the ability to speak telepathically with you for 1 hour or until you end this effect as an action. To use this ability, the creature must be able to see you and must be within this trait’s range.

You can give this ability to only one creature at a time; giving it to a creature takes it away from another creature who has it. Bonus: The creature has to make a saving throw to see if they have their mind slowly go mad with madness. they have to make a WIS saving throw of 17 or higher. And every time it's the creature turn; they have to make a saving throw to start their turn or lose their turn.

Alignment

Dark Kalashtar was made to hunt and kill the other Kalashtar, so normally the two souls in harmony but with the dark spirit being nothing but darkness and evil they usually have full control like a parasite and the host is just there for a ride. Few of the dark Kalashtar, human soul has a stronger will that they can push the evil and darkness from the spirit down, so they don't turn into killers.

Dual Mind

You have advantage on all Wisdom saving throws.

Mental Discipline

You have resistance to psychic damage.

Severed from Dreams

Kalashtar sleep, but they don’t connect to the plane of dreams as other creatures do. Instead, their minds draw from the memories of their otherworldly spirit while they sleep. As such, you are immune to spells and other magical effects.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Quori, and one other language of your choice.

Darkvision

Allows creatures to see in dim light as if it were bright light and darkness as if it were dim night. This means that in dim light, where a normal creature would be at disadvantage, creatures with Darkvision take no penalty to vision.