Homebrew Faeling Species Details

Faelings are born from the union of a fey and a creature from the prime material plane, having a child or the child of such a being ending up with enough fey blood to become half of one. Generally, Faelings possess features usually found on animals like Deer, Elk, Moose, or reindeer, such as antlers, patches of fur, and a more Deer-like (or other similar aminal's) nose. The antlers of a Faeling follow that of typical antlers, falling off once a year, being slightly warm to the touch, and covered in a somewhat velvety texture before drying up and being shed before the actual antlers fall off to be regrown. Shedding isn't a painful process, and the antlers can be used instead of specific antlers in alchemical and magical ingredients/spells.

The features displayed by a Faeling also indicate where they were born and what subrace they are. Material Plane Faelings Have Red deer antlers, Seelie Court Fealings have Chital antlers, and Unseelie Court Faelings have white-tailed deer antlers. There are two more subraces being, the Seelie and Unseelie Archfaelings, an incredibly rare subrace. Seelie Court Archfaelings have moose antlers, while Unseelie Court Archfaelings have Elk antlers. While each subrace of Faelings generally gets along, there is definite animosity between them, as each has slightly different beliefs of how best to go through life, ranging from the soft more naturalist ways of the Material's pacifistic nomadic lifestyle to the Unseelie Archfaeling's domineering and manipulative scheming rulership.

Faeling's appearances are also slightly exaggerated. However, not the point of being discomforting or off-putting and, in most cases, only being somewhat noticeable. One Faeling might have slightly too big eyes but not weirdly big. Another might be a little too lean but not overly lean. However, all Faeling movements are almost fluid and graceful, not enough to be weird, off-putting, or even noticeable. Unless a person pays close attention to it, they could describe it as almost dance-like.

Faelings have a strong sense of family and companionship, making fast friends with any creature they can speak to. Faeling's are often found wandering large swaths of land in Nomadic family units called Bands. Faeling Bands can range from 6 individuals to as many as 20. Once Faelings reach adulthood, they leave their Bands to either start their own or join smaller ones to avoid getting too large. Faelings that join a new Band must provide an offering of some kind, be it gold, food, or materials of some sort, with these offerings being valued at different amounts per Band. While not unheard of, Faelings joining a new Band can be rejected, but this is mainly due to the Band being too big to host a new individual. Still, the new Faeling may be rejected cause their offering was deemed insignificant enough to consider adding them. Rejected Faelings usually choose to either find a new offering or start their own with a Faeling who is also looking for a new Band. On rare occasions, individuals who decide not to join a new Band or start one will join towns and regular civilization.

Being of Fae descent, names within Faeling culture are of significant importance. As such, they have a "false" and "True," of which they mainly give out the false one. True names are saved for family and incredibly close friends and allies, and it's seen as a great insult and breach of trust to call a Faeling by their true name when in public. In contrast, the False name of a Faeling is usually self-given and usually more jokey in origin. Such names can be things like Gull, Blueberry, Toot, or similar names, or more according to their job or something they might represent. Examples being that of Hunter, Hope, Harvest, Joy, Smiles, and Bubble might be considered common. It's possible to run into two different Faelings with the same False name if they are of separate Bands, but hardly ever if they are of the same Band.

Faelings are far more common within the Feywild, living in bands of far larger sizes than on Toril, reaching numbers in the hundreds. These Bands may even be multiple Bands joined into what's called an Orchestra; these usually have as many as a thousand individuals and are extremely rare, with only 6 Orchestra currently known of within the Feywild and none on Toril.

Faeling Traits

Faelings tend to be tricksters and jokers with a disdain to violence and general preference to non-violent actions, their natural abilities reflect this, being good escape artist if need be and even better tricksters.

Fey Ancestry

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

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill and have advantage on perception check utilizing hearing and smell.

Fey trickery

You know the Prestidigitation cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the silent image spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a short rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast Invisibility once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a short rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Fey skip

May be used in one of two ways during a round -

1. a) as a reaction the faeling can dodge an attack by teleporting 5ft to an open space around the user when used as a reaction to an attack it imposes disadvantage to the attacker and must be called before any attack rolls are made.
2. b) as a bonus action to teleport up to 15ft to an open space around the user. Attack roles proceed as normal without disadvantage.

This ability can be used serval times a day equal to your proficiency modifier for a minimum of once per day.

Darkvision

thanks to your fey heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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.

Size

Faelings, specifically the Material plane Faelings, are generally slightly taller or equal to dwarves being 4ft at the smallest or matching a short human being 5'5" at their tallest. If you are of one of the other subraces your height may be different, with Seelie court as well as the Unseelie court Faelings being between 4'5" and 6' and the Archfaelings being between 6' and 7'5". Regardless of your subrace, your size is Medium. 

ability score increase

Select whether or not to use the racial ASI bonus or Tasha's ASI bonus.

 

Language

you can speak, read, and write in common and sylvan