Homebrew Anu Species Details

 Anu are a mono-sex race that originate from hags’ failed attempts to propagate using human infants. These girls escape the horrible fate of transforming into a hag but are still physically marked by the experience of a failed transformation. This mark can appear as half withered faces, horrid moles and warts, a single hand with skinny fingers that are tipped by claws, slimy scales growing on parts of their body, or one of their eyes turning glassy like a lifeless doll’s.

Monstrous Motherhood

Hags propagate by snatching and devouring humanoid infants. After stealing a baby from its cradle or its mother’s womb, the hag consumes the poor child. A week later, the hag gives birth to a daughter who looks humanoid until her thirteenth birthday, whereupon the child transforms into the spitting image of her hag mother. A hag might also return the child to its grieving parents, only to watch from the shadows as the child grows up to become a horror. Sometimes, however, a hag’s plan fails whether by the intervention of a divine being, the effect of an unexpected mysterious arcane energy, or the sheer willpower of the girl, and the transformation fails to take full effect.

Forlorn Sorority

Most parents, after witnessing the horrors of the failed transformation, end up abandoning their children.These girls, if they are lucky, end up finding themselves in the monasteries or temples of good deities. Others who find their own way in the world are drawn to their own kind. It is not uncommon to see two or more anu living together on the outskirts of a village or town disguised as widows picking up herb lore and using their innate magic to make a living.

Anu Traits

As an anu, you have the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

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.

Size

Depending on the race of your parents,  your size is Medium or Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Darkvision

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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Languages

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

Anu Magic

You know the minor illusion cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the hex spell with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the suggestion spell with this trait. Once you cast hex or suggestion 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).

Invisible Passage

As a bonus action, you can magically turn invisible until the start of your next turn or until you attack, make a damage roll, or force someone to make a saving throw. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.