You choose one ability score that increases by 2, and one ability score of your choice increases by 1.

A ghostling retains the age and appearance that it had when it died. The maximum ghostling lifespan remains a mystery. You are immune to magical aging effects.

Your size is Medium or Small depending on the size of your former race. 

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

In your half-life state you gain some benefits of undeath, increasing your resilience and removing some shackles of mortality:

- You have resistance to psychic and necrotic damage.
- You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
- You are immune to disease.
- You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

When you take a long rest, you must spend at least four hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you can see and hear as normal.

As an action you can send out an imperceptible psychic wave in a 30 foot sphere centered on you. You are able to detect the current emotions and intentions of everyone within the wave. You can do this a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier, it lasts 1 round.
Once per short or long rest as a bonus action, you are able to make yourself levitate a maximum of 10 feet above the ground, you are able to move freely through while doing this. It lasts for 1 minute.

You inherit one trait or ability score bonus from the race your were before you became a ghostling.

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.