Homebrew Aerewkserew Species Details

Of all the planetouched, the aerewkserew are some of the rarest, and some of the most obvious examples. Originating from the intermix of human and aberrant blood, their physical and mental form are heavily altered by their distant planar link.

Tainted by the Far Realm

Aerewkserew originated from humans, and in some sense could be said to still resemble them. However, their aberrant taint is visible in all parts of their anatomy. The first distinction most will see are the cephalic limbs: These are a set of 2 to 6 limbs that grow out of the head. They can take forms as diverse as clubbed tentacles, eyestalks, crabby claws, or any combination of the above. These limbs tend to be placed around the forehead to the top of the head. Besides these limbs there are often many spines and ridges growing around on various parts of the face. Their body is entirely hairless, though often the head hair is replaced fleshy feelers, a bundle of tentacles, or even an eely tail growing from the head. The ears, of which they often have multiple pairs, appear in a wide variety of shapes, from long and pointed to round and elephantine. Uniquely amongst humanoids, their mouth is highly variable: While it often keeps the standard humanoid arrangements, a good number diverge from this with split mandibles, jawless sucker-maws, and sometimes wholly horizontal jaws like those of bugs and hagfish. No matter the array of jaws, the mouth is always full of sharp fangs like a shark.

Unlike most other planetouched, the body of an aerewkserew is quite distinct from natural humanoids. Their body is covered in ridges and stingers growing from their bony parts. Generally they are tall and lanky, often inhumanly so. The hands are usually large and bear clawed fingers: Sometimes the hands or the whole forearms are replaced with tentacles, often clubbed or branching. The feet are similarly enlarged, and often have a form much like the hands. In some individuals the lower legs are replaced with two thick tails, and occasionally the entire lower body is no more than a mass of tentacles or insectoid limbs. 

Their skin is typically soft and smooth, and can take on any colour at all. Many have some form of pattern on their skin, and a few can change colour. Their bodily secretions are slimy and often take on a milky or yellowish tone. Most distinctive is their eyes: These orbs can take on almost any colour, often glowing brightly or oscillating between different colours. Their shape is highly variable, from standard humanoid eyes to serpentine slit-pupils to solid orbs of colour. A few individuals even produce sounds from their eyeballs. 

Distant Horror

Aerewkserew are as strange mentally as they are physically. To other beings they seem almost insane: Their motivations and desires are nigh-inscrutable to creatures from the innermost planes. However, there is still a method to their madness. Though their emotions and passions are rather alien, they still have their own ethics and can be just as rational as any other creature. 

They lack a true homeland, and mostly live around the cities of humans and other humanoids. Some of the more aberrant-looking are driven out and forced to live in the wilderness, and to survive alone on their own physical power. Regardless of where they live, they often experience great loneliness (whatever it means to them) due to their rejection and isolation. 

Aerewkserew Names

Aerewkserew have no real culture at all, not even their own names. Most take names from the cultures they live in, though they tend to do it in a strange way. Others fashion their own names from languages they know, and a few invent totally new words with which to name themselves. 

Aerewkserew Traits

Aerewkserew share in certain traits from their distant blood

Ability Score Increase

Your Charisma score increases by 1, and your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age

Aerewkserew mature at the same rate as humans. Their trace of timeless physiology leads to a highly variable lifespan. Some die in their thirties, while others live for thousands of years.

Size

Aerewkserew are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Your aberrant blood gives you 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.

Aberrant Resistance

You have resistance to force and psychic damage.

Distant Legacy

You know the mage hand and eldritch blast cantrip. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Deep Speech.