Homebrew Ashlati Species Details

Flesh Fit For Fighting

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 Ashlati are considered to be a warrior race, their bodies are strong, though and agile. They look like a mixture of humans and monkeys, they stand on two feet but their big toe and small toe are further appart from the rest of the other toes, giving them wider feets than humans and making them look like a weird mix of a hand and a foot. They have short fur covering a few parts of their bodies, ussually across their back and necks connecting to their prehensile tails. Their faces look like a human's but they are ussually enveloped by hair all around their face exposing only the front part of their faces, this facial hairs are of the same color as their normal hair which are always spiky and tend to unaturally stick to a single style for the rest of their lives.

Duality in life

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 Most Ashlati live in the ash feeled wastelands of Kangal in tribalistic societies, where they keep waging wars with one another for resources, but some of them managed to escape that scenario into the outskirts of the surrounding territories. These people mostly keep to themselves, living in the outskirts trying to get out of trouble, this is hard for them due to their warrior blood, some of them manage to join monasteries to train and study martial arts while at the same time seeking peace through spirituality in an effort to keep those bellic instincts in check, the ones that stay with the tribe are loyal to a single leader which they call king. Strength and toughness are more valued than wits and respect is gained the stronger the warrior is, for them a strong warrior is a honorable person as long as they help bring food to the tribe, and leaders are choosen for they prowess in battle, because of this most leaders die rather early and the eldest are the ones that understand that the world is not just black and white, these types of leaders have a few shamans that they trust that guide them. These shamans are respected due to their connection with the spirits that they worship but if a warrior wanted to become a shaman, this would bring to them gread dishonor and it would be dificult for them to regain that respect.

Beast of War

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 In Ashlati society shamans speak of a great beast called the Urazoo, this entity is worshiped by Ashlati warriors to give them strength and vitality in battle. The Urazoo is connected to the Ashlati in a deep spiritual level, some say that the Ashlati are descendents of the Urazoo and legends speak of the best of warriors transforming into this great beast, channeling a lot of destructive power, enough to wipe out entire armies on its own.

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Ashlati naming culture

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 Ashlati are extremely connected to the land and since food is scarce in the Ashy Wastes of Kangal, they tend to give great importance to it, they worship spirits from the land that they believe will bring them good fortune, health and well being in general, as such, they name their children after foods or types of food with some kind of twist in the word, kind of like a pun, naming their children like this gives them a funny and positive outlook in life in general and they believe that this positivity will please the spirits that bless them and the land. Food is important to Ashlati, and wealth in their culture are measured on how much their tribe eats. Eating a lot is good for Ashlati health, they consume a lot of energy and so have big appetites. Here are some examples of the Ashlati naming style: Maet (Meat), Cereac (Cereal), Beat (Beat root), Elpa (Apple), Cier (Rice).

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Ashlati Traits

Ashlati are tough, powerfull and agile and have an apetite to match, your Ashlati share this traits with others of the same race.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2, your Strenght by 1 and your Dexterity by 1.

Age

Ashlati live the same amount of time as humans but they reach adulthood around 15 years old since they grow up faster than humans and stay in prime phisical shape for longer, up until their 70s but then age rapidly until they die.

Size

Ashlati have a similar variety of heights as humans, ranging from around 5 feet all the way up to around 6 feet. Females tend to be smaller than males. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Warrior's Blood

The blood that courses through your veins lusts for battle and you gain bonuses and become more deadly the harder that fight is.
You gain advantage on a weapon attack roll made against a creature that put you on half of your hit points and if you are healed when unconscious you wake up with the ability to do an extra die of damage of 1 of the die type of the weapon that you are using to attack until you make a short or long rest.

Feed the beast

As an Ashlati, the search for the fuel that runs your body is a constant, some shamans even say that's how it should be because your not only feeding yourself but also the Urazoo itself. When you would consume food and drink, you need double the amount as you would normally need.

Prehensile tail

You have a prehensile tail, a blessing from the Urazoo. This tail let's you grab small objects and helps your balance giving you proficiency with the acrobatics. If you lost your tail it regrows after 1d6 days have passed.

Urazoo Transformation

Urazoo blesses you with it's power, allowing you to transform into it's Giant Monkey form, giving you strength, toughness and the perks of being gigantic at the cost of a chance to go on a rampage.

At 5th level, as an action, once per day you can channel the power of the Urazoo granting you the following features:

• You grow from medium to huge sized. Your items fall to the ground and your clothes and armor are destroyed unless they're magical, if they are, they also grow in size with you allowing you to keep using they're benefits.
• You gain a natural armor of 15 AC.
• When transforming you gain temporary hit points equal to your level.
• Due to your gigantic size your fists deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + strength. Furthermore, 3 times per transformation, you can roll two of the weapon's damage dice one aditional time and creatures around the target must move away from it 5ft regardless if the attack hit or not, this movement doesn't trigger attacks of opportunity.
• At the start of your turn you must do a wisdom saving-throw (DC 15), if you fail you go on a rampage for that turn attacking the nearest creature, if there are more than one creature, you must choose at random.

The transformation lasts 1 minute or you can end it earlier by spending an action. You can only transform if you have your prehensile tail, If your tail is lost your transformation ends.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Ashlati. The Ashlati language works only by combining spoken sounds to different hand gestures, these gestures influence the way the words are interpeted, since without this gestures the language becomes incomprehensible, only shamans and leaders know how to write it and read it. Don't forget to add Ashlati language post sheet creation to the languages and proficiencies section of your character sheet, since Dnd beyond doesn't allow to add costum options to the character creator itself.