Homebrew Dohwar Species Details

Dohwars are short, pudgy, flightless avians that look and move like penguins. Dohwars migrate from the Feywild to Wildspace, where they are typically encountered. They are inveterate merchants, always looking for an opportunity to turn a profit. Dohwars conduct their dealings in secrecy, preferring to do business in dark alleys and out-of-the-way places even when the items being bought or sold aren’t illegal or dangerous. They tend to dress in a garish mishmash of clothing, but many of them also shroud themselves in hooded cloaks. A group of dohwars is called a cartel.

The average dohwar stands 3 feet tall and has bright plumage matching a particular color in the rainbow spectrum. This color can change at unpredictable times in the dohwar's life, often in response to the dohwar experiencing an overwhelming emotion. Instead of wings, it has arms and tiny hands.

Dohwars prefer to communicate through a form of telepathy they call merging, in which two dohwars stay in mental contact while both are telepathically linked with a third creature.

Dohwars have their own pantheon of deities, made up entirely of gods of commerce and wealth. These deities include Waukeen, Abbathor, and Zilchus. By focusing on the worship of such deities, the dohwars hope to become the best merchants in the multiverse without alienating or offending any god in particular.

Dohwar Traits

All dohwar share some traits.

Fey

You are a fey.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Dohwar. In addition, you have telepathy within 30 ft.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 20 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Detect Thoughts

You can cast the detect thoughts spell, requiring no components and using Charisma as your spellcasting ability.

You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Driving a Hard Bargain

You are proficient in the Deception, Insight, and Persuasion skills.

Merging

Two dohwar communicating telepathically can extend their telepathic communication to a third willing creature. This ability only works while all three creatures are within 30 feet of eachother.