Homebrew Erithizen Species Details
Quills
Erithizen, colloquially referred to as "Quills" by most, including many Erethizen, are a mammalian bipedal species commonly recognized for their gentle demeanor and their many detachable quills covering the backs of their bodies.
These quills offer a significant natural defense, defusing many confrontations before they even start, making Quills natural peace keepers and adjudicators. Internally, their society is based on lengthy discussions and following the natural rhythms of the world. They follow the seasons and the stars, and prefer to leave little impact on nature.
Diet
They are all vegetarians and insectivores by biological necessity, and so are often also very capable brewers of many and varied alcoholic types. Fermenting grains and fruit often attracts insects after all.
Attitudes
Despite their peaceful and gentle natures most of the time, when threatened, Quills can be very ferocious and even terrifying. They prefer not to kill unless necessary, instead leaving attackers with painful, often permanent, reminders of their folly.
Due to their biological construction, they are very careful in their interactions with all life, leading to outsiders tending to mock Quill culture as being nothing but a lot of hot air and no physical contact.
Quills do not tend to be particularly physically adept, other than the basic strength needed for tilling and harvesting.
Erithizen Traits
Your quills have lead to divergent strengths and weaknesses from baseline humanoids.Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom increases by 2 and your Constitution increases by 1.
Age
Erithizen grow to maturity by their fifth year, and tend to die of old age around their thirtieth year.
Erithizen adolescence is in their fourth year, and many if not all Erithizen cloister themselves away from the general public for the duration.
Alignment
Due to their abbreviated lifespans, Erithizen focus on making the world a better place for their existence. They are excellent community builders and peacekeepers, so they tend to be Good alignment, ranging from Neutral to Lawful.
Poor Vision, Compensated
You have disadvantage on all Wisdom(Perception) checks involving vision. You have advantage on all Wisdom(Perception) checks involving smell.
Prickly Defenses
When attacked within melee range by an attacker you can see, you can spend a Reaction to perform the Turncoat action. This turns your coat of quills towards the attacker, imposing disadvantage on the attack, and if still successful they suffer an attack by the Quills.
This is limited by the number of quill attacks you can make, which increases as you level up.
| Level | Uses |
| 1 | 5 + CON modifier |
| 5 | 7 + CON modifier |
| 9 | 9 + CON modifier |
| 13 | 11 + CON modifier |
| 17 | 13 + CON modifier |
At the end of each week, roll a 1d4+CON modifier, and restore that many uses of your quills. If you exhaust all uses of your quills, you'll need to take an extra week + any time remaining on the current week to regrow all of your quills.
The Turncoat action can inflict the Quills attack on the attacker. The attacker must make a DEX saving throw, with a DC of 8 + your CON modifier + Proficiency Bonus. On a save, they take half damage from the wounding effect, but on a fail, they are injured with your quills piercing their flesh. These quills cannot be removed by simple healing magic or poultices, and must be removed by surgery or more specific magic. Making a strength or dexterity attack or save causes the damage listed below, as well as disrupting concentration and forcing concentration checks as necessary. At the start and end of a rest, the victim suffers the damage listed below. If the quills are removed without careful surgery or magic, then the victim suffers the damage listed below.
The damage increases for this attack like so:
| Level | Damage | Speed |
| 1 | 1d4 | Action |
| 5 | 2d4 | - |
| 9 | 3d4 | Bonus Action |
| 13 | 4d4 | - |
| 17 | 5d4 | - |
Size
Eithizen are wider and shorter than the average human, but are still considered Medium size.
Speed
You have a base walking speed of 25.
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