Homebrew Foxfolk Species Details

Foxfolk are an uncommon race of people that is scattered across the multiverse. Much like the Giff, the lore behind their race’s circumstances are largely unknown. However, they are of fey ancestry much like the elves, and share a similar lifespan as well. The sparse information of their history suggests that their ancestry derives from the fey spirits and deities of weather, change, tricks, and treasure. Every few decades, Foxfolk grow a new tail, up to a total of nine. Once they gain their fifth tail is when they are considered to have reached maturity. In their culture, each tail is meant to represent a phase of weather, and how they change and grow as a person as they mature. These nine phases include sun, rain, snow, thunder, lightning, cloud, hail, wind, and mirage. Foxfolk, just like all other races, possess the capability of dedicating themselves to any craft/class. But even so, they make excellent monks, rogues, sorcerers, and druids, due to their natural affinity for ki aura, nature, and trickery, as well as their connection to their ancestral fey deities. While similar to elves, the foxfolk are also a lot like humans in the sense that they are more willing to take risks and have more inner ambition than elves would.

 

Slender and Graceful

With their unearthly grace and fine features, foxfolk appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.

Foxfolk’s coloration encompasses the normal human range and also includes skin in shades of copper, bronze, and almost bluish-white, and eyes like pools of liquid gold, silver or honey. They have no facial and little body hair.

 

Foxfolk Traits

Your foxfolk character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of faerie ancestry.

Foxfire Spellcasting

Innate spiritual power from your ancestry grants you the ability to cast Produce Flame at will. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this cantrip.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity or Charisma score increases by 2.

Age

Although foxfolk reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the foxfolk's understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. A foxfolk typically claims adulthood around the time of growing it's 5th tail. 

Size

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

Nimble Feet

Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, 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.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Languages

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