Homebrew Moon Fey Species Details

Often mistaken for lycanthropes, moon fey are icy shapeshifters of the Feywild.

Moon fey are a thoughtful and sometimes brooding race. They think through every move and are never hasty. They never see combat as the first or only option. Still, they are fiercely loyal and will protect anyone who took the trouble to protect them. But, they are a cold and cynical race and no amount of loyalty can make them over-look facts and logic. Although they don't look down at other(non-fey) races, they pity their barbaric ways. This quality probably led to all the prejudices against the moon fey even though they had the best of intentions in mind.

Physical Description

Moon Fey have a pale complexion and their skin is cold to the touch, their hair varies from silver, white and light grey. Their eyes have slitted pupils and the colors can vary from white to light blue and sometimes yellow. They have long pointed ears, like elves, but these are a bit higher, so they resemble more cat ears.

Because of their shapeshifting abilities, their emotions sometimes show as a change in their appearance, like an angry Moon Fey may snarl with a wolf snout, or a really happy one might wag his tail.

History

Moon fey used to live in the Feywild, but when they saw the turmoil in the Material Plane they could not sit and watch as many of their cousins. They adapted to the bitter cold of northern regions with their natural shapeshifting powers to not disturb the other inhabitants and so they would not be disturbed in return. They devised cunning, subtle plans to affect the world from afar, but nothing is subtle or cunning enough to stay unnoticed forever. As rash and impulsive as humans are, they attack the moon fey with the absurd notion that they where werewolves.

The moon fey eventually fought and won the war after they were certain there was no other way. They still mourn the loss of both races. This war did nothing to help the humans favor of the moon fey. Rumors and folk stories spread until the moon fey had to retreat to the more secluded North and couldn't carry out any more of their plans. But, proud as they are, the moon fey would not go back to the safety of the Feywild. They still try to carve their life out in the snow-buried North. With such small population(only about 1000) it's hard to gather food, but, it wouldn't be very much easier anywhere else.

Society

There isn't much of a society, with so little in numbers, they simply tend to take care of each other, and keep their race alive. They tend to live in tribes, where they are divided by the function they are most suitable to do, from hunters to shamans. The shamans are usually the spiritual leader of the tribe, sometimes even more important than the chieftain.

Sometimes some of them might leave the tribes, to look for a different life, or they may have to leave on an important journey for the tribe.

Moon Fey Names

Their names tend to resemble elven names a lot. But they sometimes also can have simple names that come from the moon, snow, and ice.

Male: Lunar, Frost-Bite, Blizzard, other Elven names.

Female: Luna, Flake, Crystal, Storm, other Elven names.

Moon Fey Traits

Moon Fey have a pale complexion and their skin is cold to the touch, their hair varies from silver, white and light grey. Their eyes have slitted pupils and the colors can vary from white to light blue and sometimes yellow. They have long pointed ears, like elves, but these are a bit higher, so they resemble more cat ears.

Ability Score Increase

Your Wisdom score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2

Dark Vision

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.

Lunar Cold

Thanks to the years of living in cold, harsh mountains, you have resistance to cold damage and don't suffer from difficult terrain caused by tundra or mountainous environments.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage against being charmed and magic can't put you to sleep.

Trance

Fey don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is "trance.") While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Shape Shift

 Moon Fey are shapechangers, and as an action, you can change your form into that of a wolf, back into human form, or into a hybrid form. While in animal form, you cannot use any of your class abilities, and your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores change, but your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores stay the same. In hybrid form, you resemble a werewolf if anything in humanoid form can use all class abilities, but cannot use any of your wolf abilities. You regain use of this trait once you complete a long rest.