Homebrew Angel Species Details

Angels are spiritual beings created by a lawful good deity to act as servants, messengers and warriors.

Angels are benevolent and dreadful, but not infallible; for they strive with each other, and their deity has to make peace between them. Most of them serve either as intermediaries between the outer plane and the material realm, or as guardian spirits. Some are here to protect, some are here to destroy life to open way for new life. Innocence is their nature to a certain degree. It is rare that they bring themselves to tell a falsehood, as dishonor such an alien concept to them.

Angels are referred to in connection with their spiritual missions; as for instance, the "angel which has redeemed", "an interpreter", "the angel that destroyed", "the messenger of the covenant", "angel of his presence", and "a band of angels of evil".

Exquisite Form

Angels have the shape of humanoids of extraordinary beauty, halos, and light. They stand taller than the average human. Some have fair hair ranging from white to light brown, whilst others are bald. They have blue and gold eyes of many shades from light to dark. They are slim and muscular. Angels have large feathery wings that span equal to their height and can be white, brown, silver or black, the average angel has one pair of wings but rare angels can even sometimes have two or three.

Some ranks of angels take the form of immaculate male or female humans or other humanoid race. Other angels have androgynous bodies of transcendental beauty.

Adventuring Angels

Angels do not interact with mortals unless instructed to do so by their deity, as they are such fragile and innocent souls, but few in the past have chosen to wander the material realm learning how the beings live. However, there are times when the world below requires the presence of an angel to deal with a problem. An adventuring angel is weighed down by the material realm, unable to maintain their full divine power. Over time, they can learn to tap into their true form.

Angel Names

Male: Jacob, Michael, Destian, Castian, Samual, Alexander, Perisis, Calidon, Demetry, Raemond, Gabriel, Raphael, Orion, Tyriel, Auriel, Izual, Helel, Albo

Female: Jane, Elisa, Meryn, Gavrial, Lucy, Aysa, Kyerea, Iris, Teryn, Camisa, Itherael, Jordan, Lucky

Angel Traits

Angels have a variety of traits, many wondrous.

Healing Touch

As an action you can touch a creature. The target magically regains 1d8 hit points, and is freed from any poison, blindness, or deafness. You must finish a long rest before you can use this again.

Immortal

Immortal. Your body and soul are one and the same. When you die, you return to the Outer Plane of your deity, leaving no body behind. You can still be subject to the raise dead, resurrection or wish spells, representing the caster appealing to your deity for your return.

Celestial Immunity

You are immune to Radiant and Necrotic damage.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

Although angels reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the angelic  understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An angel typically claims adulthood around the age of 1000 and can live forever.

Size

Angels range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender, beautiful builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Truesight

Blessed with a holy sight, angels can see in normal and magical darkness, see invisible creatures and objects, automatically detect visual illusions and succeed on saving throws against them, and perceives the original form of a shapeshifter.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Trance

Angels don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Languages

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