Couatl folk descend from the celestial couatl. You have resistance to radiant damage.

Couatl folk have a heritage in the sky, using their limited feathers to glide through the air, though they cannot truly fly. With a leap, you can take to the air, gaining a flying speed equal to your speed. While flying in this way, you cannot gain altitude and you descend 1 foot for every 10 feet of horizontal movement. With the help of an updraft, however, you can retain your altitude.

Couatl folk also have a heritage on the ground. Beneath your colorful plumage are the hardened scales of a serpent, which grant you additional protection. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use this score to determine your AC if worn armor would leave you with a lower score. You may benefit from a shield as normal.

Perhaps because the couatl ancestry traces back to celestial beings of wind and rain, all couatl folk have an innate sense of the weather. You know when the weather is about to change.

The couatl folk are many and varied, so you may choose to increase three abilities scores by 1. Alternatively, your Intelligence score increases by 2 and your Dexterity by 1.

Couatl folk are both of the divine sky and the mortal earth. As such, your education grants you proficiency in the Intelligence (Religion) and (Nature) skills.

Couatl folk communities revere their scribes and sages, who maintain the traditions and memories of their magical ancestors. Reflecting this, all youth are trained in special techniques from a young age that grants them some basic facility with couatl magic. You can cast the create or destroy water spell once with this trait, requiring no material components. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the detect evil and good spell once with this trait. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the augury spell once with this trait. You regain the ability to cast these spells with this trait when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Couatl folk communities often feature expert artisans who craft objects from couatl folk feathers. These artifacts include feathered objects like fans, but the featherworker can use feathers to adorn other things, such as shields, with the height of their art being the creation of headdresses and clothing. You have proficiency with a set of Artisan’s Tools unique to couatl folk culture: Feathercrafters’ Tools. Not only can you craft nonmagical objects for sale as you can with any artisan’s tool, but you may also use a featherworked object you have created as an arcane focus.

You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial.

Couatl folk mature at the same rate as humans but live upwards to 200 years.

Your base speed is 30 feet.

Couatl folk are about the same size as humans, but usually a slimmer build. Your size is Medium.