Homebrew Bloodborn V2 Species Details

Description: Bloodborns are creatures born from the willpower of others, when over 25 people are slaughtered but had not made their peace with death a blood born can be born. Bloodborns carry with them all the emotions and rage of the creatures that died before them, whilst also holding scattered memories of each creature that died to form them. Bloodborns have all the normal features of a humanoid except without the heart. 

Appearance: Bloodborns are formed of any age with characteristics of many different races that were used to form them. e.g. if a trifling and a human died in a massacre the blood born may appear human with a trifling tail.

Society: Bloodborns, are considered a bad omen, heartless and monstrous. As their whole existence is based around a slaughter of innocents.

Goals: Bloodborns can have many goals, common ones are to either stop other bloodborns from forming by eradicating evil from the world, join the evil of the world and embrace the chaos that created them, follow a memory of one of the creatures that formed them, go on a quest to alleviate themselves of the memories that haunt them and find happiness.

Personality: Bloodborns can never live a fully happy life, they are always haunted by the fear of their body falling apart and turning into a pool of blood when the willpower of their creators burns out. Bloodborns cannot sleep, when they try they instead are greeted by memories of their creators causing dark fears and deep emotions of rage, vengeance, or regret. Bloodborns will thus often be cold, hesitant, with a deep sorrow in their eyes. In addition to this when bloodborns are formed they retain all the fundamental knowledge of how society functions, how to speak certain languages, and awareness of how they came about.

Life: Life for a blood born is often lived as an explorer, a schemer, or a hermit. Many bloodborns prefer places where they are alone as they then only have to deal with the memories of the people that made them rather than other creatures living and talking. 

Bloodborn V2 Traits

Bloodborn traits:

Ability Score Increase

Your ability scores each increase by 1.

Age

Bloodborns reach adulthood as soon as they are created, they live until the will power of their creators burns out, or they are killed, THEY DO NOT AGE

Size

Bloodborns vary widely in height and build, your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Magical blood

As an action you can choose to take 1d4 damage and after 1 minute you gain the ability to know the direction of all creatures with blood that are within (120ft-800ft-1 mile). You do not gain any information of how close to each other creatures are, nor do you gain any specific information besides knowing the direction to creatures with blood. This effect lasts for 10 minutes, or until you take damage again. This feature does not work on creatures behind a water-tight space or creatures outside the range.

One you use this feature you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest.

This feature's range extends to 800ft at 5th level and again to 1 mile at 11th level. 

Languages

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

Knowledge of the dead

As an action you make a history (intelligience) check DC 16, on a success you gain proficiency with one set of either tools or kits of your choice until your next long rest.

Once you use this feature you cannot use it again until you finish a long rest