Homebrew Cinderise Species Details

“With great bellows of hellfire the grand army of devils march to the cusp of the rickety bridging precipice into the mortal realm. Like a pebble before a rockslide, those of the Cinder Eye held their ground and with their great blood sacrificed they ensure their own eternal corruption, but bought the destruction of mortal enemy.”

— Artoulous, Archmagi of Planer Histories, Candlekeep

 

You are a beacon of mental acuity and willpower, and in your home plane in the midst of the Cinderise City you are met with praise and adoration for you prowess in your mental arts, however on the mortal plane hardly none can see you past your horns and demonic features which often leads to trouble with its denizens.

Demonic Bloodline

Cinderise tieflings are derived from a bloodoath between fire genasi that promised to share their bloodlines with that of a host of shadow demons, and in the broadest possible sense, they still look fire genasi or human. However, their demonic heritage has left a clear imprint on their appearance. Tieflings have large horns that take any of a variety of shapes: some have curling horns like a ram, others have straight and tall horns like a gazelle’s, and some spiral upward like an antelopes’ horns. They have thick tails, four to five feet long, which lash or coil around their legs when they get upset or nervous. Their canine teeth are sharply pointed, and their eyes are solid colors—black, red, white, silver, or gold—with no visible sclera or pupil. Their skin tones cover the full range of human coloration, but also include various shades of red. Their hair, cascading down from behind their horns, is usually dark, from black or brown to dark red, blue, or purple.

Self-Reliant and Sharp

These teiflings live in a culture the praises art, wonders of the mind, ingenuity, and displays that show off the sharpness of the mind, and the fortitude of your willpower. These feats can bring about the highest of honors. This is a cultural show of force to show that despite their demonic side's primal destructive urges it holds no sway and has no merit compared to their sheer intellectual skills and pursuit in wisdom.

  

MET WITH MISTRUST

Ignorant people tend to be suspicious of tieflings, assuming that their infernal heritage has left its mark on their personality and morality, not just their appearance. The reality is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect their personality. They are gifted with magic from other realms but chart their own course in life.

Cinderise Traits

Tieflings have different racial traits as a result of their demonic descent.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Age

Tieflings mature at the same rate as humans but live a few years longer.

Size

Tieflings are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Thanks to your infernal 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.

Hellish Resistance

You have resistance to fire damage.

Cinderise Legacy

At level 1 you gain access to Source Affinity, allowing you store potent forces that you can invoke and wreath yourself to amplify abilities or defense. You can hold 5 charges of Source Charges, you can regain 1d4 charges when spend a hit die during a Short Rest in the presence of a great body of fire (Sunset, Sunny day, Volcano, or other primordial flames). In absence of a primordial source of flame, you can also either regain 1 Source Charge when you spend a Long Rest by a fire, or using an bonus action during combat you can regain 1d6 Source Charges when you at will consume the soul of an enemy you killed.

Invoke Bloodline - As a bonus action, action or reaction you can spend a single source charge to take on potent magical wreath if power that you gain 1d6 *  Proficiency Bonus in temporary hit points. While invoked You also gain additional fire or necrotic damage equal to your Proficiency Bonus based on what was the Source. Effects last till end of combat or up to 10 minutes.

Surge - As a reaction before Saving Throws are made, or damage calculated from you attacks/spells/abilities, you can spend a Source Charge to increase the damage by 5 + your level, and increase you your Save DC by you Wisdom Modifier. 

When you reach 3rd level, as a reaction to taking damage, the demonic and fire elemental linage can explode from you, and you can cast the hellish rebuke spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

When you reach 5th level, you can chose between getting the spells darkness or faerie fire, you can use these once per a short rest, spending 2 Source Charge to use them.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Abbysal.