Homebrew Lucario (Shadow Origin) Species Details
A Lonely Road
Lucario are medium sized blue-black wolf like creatures with red eyes, long pointed ears that stand vertically, a tail, and bony thorns growing out of their fore arms and chest. They have paws and are often unable to use conventional weapons or wear normal armor. They have four aura sensing locks on their head similar to dreadlocks, that are used for sensing and manipulating aura.
Lucario do not have their own society and nations, but they believe their goals are more important that the bureaucracy of government and often think of themselves as autonomous from the laws that are not their own. Many Lucario will wander until they settle and take jobs to help better the society they settled in. From towns guards to politicians to teachers, many Lucario are self-reliant to a fault but they aim to better their communities if they have one.
Lucario don't value friendship as much as other races and people. Alone and without friends, the Lucario spends his days training and enhancing his combat and aura skills. All Lucario are unable to wield weapons or wear armor so hand to hand combat is their specialty, but many Lucario also take on magical arts to become more versatile in combat. This mindset allows the Lucario more time to train.
The Power of Aura
Aura is unique. It allows many people to gauge personality traits, emotional states, alignment, or magical abilities. To any other race, aura is basic divine knowledge, and evidence for the existence of a soul, but to a Lucario, this is an energy that can be manipulated to be used for good or ill. Lucario have master many of the arts of aura and zealously guard their secrets from any who would use this knowledge for ill.
Lucario can instinctively see aura of anyone within a general vicinity and tell if someone is not who they claim to be. For this reason, Lucario are prized by local law enforcement agencies, but also constant targets by assassin guilds. All Lucario are also able to generate a sphere of aura and use it to attack foes with amazing accuracy. There is also a legend that if a Lucario understands the power of aura to its fullest capacity, they transform into a better version of themselves.
Lucario (Shadow Origin) Traits
Your Lucario character has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.
Age
Lucarios can be assumed to age at the same rate as Humans. They begin life as Riolus and typically mature into Lucarios at around 12 or 13 years of age. They can be assumed to live no more than a century.
Alignment
With their innate sense of justice, Lucarios seem to tend to have more lawful attitudes.
Size
Lucarios stand between about 4 and 6 feet tall. Your size is medium. Before you evolve into a Lucario from a Riolu, your size is small and you stand about 2 feet tall.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet when you are a young Riolu. Your speed increases to 35 feet once you've evolved into a Lucario.
Inner Focus
You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.
Steel Warrior
As a Lucario, your body is naturally built for the practice of martial arts. Furthermore, a few bits of your body, namely your spikes, are actually metallic. The following features apply to you:
-You are vulnerable to fire and acid damage.
-You are resistant to necrotic damage.
-You are immune to poison damage.
-Weapons made of stone or metal deal 3 less damage to you.
Aura
Aura is a mystical energy that emanates from all living things. It is very similar to the ki used by monks. Your access to this energy is represented by a number of aura points. You possess a number of aura points equal to half your character level, rounded up.
You can spend these points to fuel various Aura features.
If you cast a cantrip or spell that uses force damage as its damage type, you may spend 1 aura point to change the damage type to radiant. If a spell slot was expended for casting a spell effected my this ability, you may increase the radiant damage dealt by an amount equal to your proficiency bonus. (Note: This bonus is not applied to cantrips or spells casted without spell slots.)
Telepathy
Your attunement to aura grants you the ability to speak using telepathy. In addition, you may spend an aura point to cast the Detect Thoughts spell.
Bone Rush
Your aura can be formed into a semi-physical form that can be used as a weapon. Whenever you take the Attack action, you may spend an aura point to manifest a weapon of aura from your free hand and make the attack with that weapon. You must be proficient with weapon you create and it cannot have the special or heavy property.
Aura Sight
Using aura, you may sense the auras of other living things, even through some objects. As a bonus action, you may spend an aura point to grant yourself blindsight out to 60 feet for 10 minutes. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn’t behind total cover, even if you’re blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you. You see in shades of black and white with blue outlines when you perceive the world this way. The blue outlines are strongest around living creatures.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and you can speak Poké.
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