Homebrew Leyborn Species Details
The gods of the heavens created the stars and the planets, yet left behind a secret. The void is a hungering entity that feeds on the very light of many worlds to combat this entity, the Goddess of Magic created the leylines, conduits of her power that stretch across the planes. These conduits allow the gods to exist and spread their powers into the realms and planes, keeping the void from consuming them as an innate defense layer. Leyborns are fragments of the leylines, beings of magical power and knowledge. Given life by the keeper of the leylines, They appear throughout the planes, sometimes as independent creatures, other times as agents of the leyline and the gods, trying to propagate their will and protect their plane of origin.
They resemble various forms, most notably they are humanoids at least the notable ones are as picking up the differences between the Leybornes and mortals is difficult for the less perceptive. Mainly borne from the energy of the conduits, they too fill the necessary shapes of what is desired. Normal Leybornes do peak taller than the mortals, normally outclassing them by a foot or so, a feature that gives the construct pride in.
Leyborne Features
| D6 | Leybornbe FEATURE |
|---|---|
| 1 | A spread of opalescent spots across their face and body |
| 2 | Luminous eyes that crackle with magic |
| 3 | Fingertips are a pearlescent white |
| 4 | An opalescent hue tinting their shadow |
| 5 | Their hair carries fragments opaline dust, twinkling in the faintest light, fading off their hair |
| 6 | Glowing lines of light etched onto their skin |
Creating Your Character
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of languages to choose from. The DM is free to modify that list for a campaign.
Creature Type
Every creature in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race tells you what your character’s creature type is.
Here’s a list of the game’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical lifespan of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure. Members of some races, such as dwarves and elves, can live for centuries. If typical members of a race can live longer than a century, that fact is mentioned in the race’s description.
Height and Weight
Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
Leyborn Traits
Instead of choosing one of the game’s races for your character at 1st level, you can use the following traits to represent your character’s lineage, giving you full control over how your character’s origin shaped them:Sentry's Rest
You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trance-like meditation, during which you retain consciousness.
Whenever you finish this trance, you can gain two proficiencies that you don’t have, each one with a weapon or a tool of your choice. You mystically acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from the leylines, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest.
Poison Resilience
You have advantage on saving throws against the poisoned, status and you have resistance against poison damage. You also have immunity to disease.
Ley Endurance
There is no afterlife for your kind and you fight twice as hard when oblivion calls. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this trait again until you finish a long rest.
Creature Type
You are a Construct. You determine your appearance and whether you resemble any of your kin.
Size
You are Small or Medium (your choice).
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Ability Score Increase
One Ability Score of your choice increases by 2.
Feat
You gain one feat of your choice for which you qualify.
Truesight
You gain the ability of truesight with a range of 60 feet
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Celestial
Celestial Leyborn
A Leyborn infused with the energy from the God of the Sun, they typically are politicians or clergymen for the gods deeming themselves as their strongest and purest worshippers. Though there haven't been any rulers of Celestial Leyborn for eons since the fall of the Braewen Collective. A kingdom of legend that existed as cities uplifted by the leylines, serving as guardians of the leylines but the greed of other kingdoms and empires had wanted the ley for themselves, so the gods commanded the Collective to release their control. With that command they disappeared, some say there are keys to finding the way to the cities of the Collective.
One with the Sun
You know the sacred flame cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the bless spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the prayer of healing spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Once you cast feather fall or levitate with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).
Radiant Connection
You can communicate mentally with another creature that you can see that knows at least one language within a 30-foot radius. This creature doesn't need to share a language with you but unless they have telepathy themselves they can only receive and respond but can't initiate or terminate a telepathic conversation. You must be conscious to use this trait and cannot telepathically communicate with multiple creatures at once.
Radiant Protection
You gain resistance to Radiant Damage.
Celestial Reality
As a bonus action, you can make your form glow with brilliant light, manifesting an aura of divine energy that heals for your INT/WIS/CHA modifier plus your proficiency bonus with uses equal to your proficiency bonus. Once you use this trait, you can not regain uses again until you finish a long rest.
Enchanting Leyborn
A Leyborn mainly formed by the Goddess of Magic's energy, running purely on the leylines has granted them greater control of magic. Usually working as scholars and teachers of magic and the leylines to regulate those drawing from their power. Originally they were a part of the Braewen Collective as they were a quick resource to understand their duty, today they exist throughout the realms they are in as teachers that adjust the leyline and study them alongside other races.
Ley Resistance
You have advantage on saving throws against magic effects and spells.
Ley Magic
You know the guidance cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the detect magic spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the enthrall spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Once you cast detect magic or enthrall with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.
Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).
Enchanting Vision
As a bonus action, you may look at a creature within 20 feet of you and place an enchantment upon them. If the creature is unaware that you are placing this enchantment on them, or if the creature doesn't want the enchantment to be placed on them, they may make a saving throw to not be affected. The DC for this saving throw is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your INT/WIS/CHA modifier. Any willing creature or any creature that fails this save gains an enchantment for 10 minutes that allows to you see through the creature's vision. You can use this trait equal to your modifier and proficiency Once you use this trait, you can not use it again until you finish a long rest.
Soldier Leyborn
A Leyborn that has been imbued with the aspect of war from the leylines from the lingering energy of the God of War. The Leyborns of the Soldier lineage are known to be the brightest stars of any military they are in. Being infused with war magic, they can harness the power of war itself. Soldier Leyborns find gaining muscle and improving their build rather quick endeavor. For eons, they have been the deciding factors in many wars with the greatest of the Soldier Leyborn being Grandmaster of Leyon Tower, whose true name is lost to the sands of time but their legacy sparks a Leyborn's passion.
War Spark
You know the [spelltrue strike[/spell] cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the hunter's mark spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the enhance ability spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Once you cast hunter's mark or enhance ability with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.
Intelligence, Constitution, or Strength is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).
War's Blessing
The blessing granted by war allows the leyborn to feel more protected against the dangers of war and greater knowledge of weaponry.
Warminded
Your blessing allows you to know exactly what to say to get your soldiers in the right mind.
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