Homebrew Enfield Species Details

Physical Description

The modern-day Enfield is a mythological creature with the appearance of a fox and bird mashed together. Their head and body and tail are that of a fox. Their bird ancestry shows in their powerful wings, their sharp talons on their hands, and their additional feathers along their spines, tail, and chest. There are five subspecies of Enfield. The most common of these subspecies is field, whose ancestry is of red foxes and eagles. The other four subspecies are forest, descended from grey foxes and red-tailed hawks; shadow, descended from black foxes and great horned owls; and winter, descended from arctic foxes and snowy owls; and spirit, descended from silver foxes and ravens.

 

Society

Enfields tend to keep to forests preferring the company of nature to that of people. Most lead the lives of druids and bards. They usually have small families consisting of two parents and one to three children. They are very friendly and playful intelligent creatures. They are fond of good music, crackling fires, and travel well with others.

Enfield Names

Enfields tend to take the names of humans, believing that it more identifies them as intelligent creatures.

Male: Liam, Noah, William, James, Oliver, Benjamin, Elijah, Lucas, Mason, Logan

Female: Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella, Sophia, Charlotte, Mia, Amelia, Harper, Evelyn

Subrace

Choose one of the subraces below field, forest, shadow, winter, and spirit.

 

Field Enfield
The most common of these subspecies is field, whose ancestry is of red foxes and eagles.

Forest Enfield 
forest, descended from grey foxes and red-tailed hawks.

Shadow Enfield
shadow, descended from black foxes and great horned owls.

Winter Enfield
 winter, descended from arctic foxes and snowy owls.

Spirit Enfield
spirit, descended from silver foxes and ravens.

Enfield Traits

Your Enfield character has certain characteristics in common with all other Enfields.

Ability Score Increase

You choose one score increases by 2.

Age

Enfields mature by the age of 10 and typically live to be 1200 years old.

Size

Enfields stand about 3 feet tall and average about 30 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to moving around at night, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Labored Flight

Your flight is limited, you can not fly continually. As an action, you can gain your flying speed of 30 feet until the start of your next turn. If you begin your turn in the air, you must use your action to use this trait or begin falling. You cannot use this trait if you are wearing heavy armor. When you hit level 5 your wings become strong enough to keep you aloft you no longer have to take a fly action to fly and have a fly speed equal to your walk speed.

Languages

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

Talons

 You have sharp talons on your hands' digits. Your unarmed strikes deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Dexterity modifier.