Homebrew Echidna Species Details

a race of half human, half snakes that often act as the priests of the religion. This race is almost exclusively women with a male Echidna being brought in every 2000 years and the birth of a male often leads to a golden age for the Echidna as a whole. The males also gain the role of king by birthright. The Echidna possess an affinity to doctor others but also possess abilities that bring unimaginable pain and suffering to the victim, most Echidna become barbarians, warlocks, or clerics

These creatures are the monsters that hide in the jungles. Their huge bodies transcend the classification of humanoid, yet they are. Towering at the average length of 30 feet these creatures are a force to be reckoned with, having both the abilities and bodies that surpass even those of the strong dragonborns in regards to pure strength and threat.

Culture of the Echidna

The echidna are a secretive race that live in the jungle and most compare them to a civilization similar to that of the vikings with their buildings, way of performing battle, and the constant raiding that they perform is similar to the vikings. At birth the echidna is taught how to hunt, cook for themselves out in the wild, how to survive on their own, and how to best present themselves this is up until 46 actual years old or 4 years old in human years. Once they reach that age the Echidna is considered an adult but they still are not recognized by the village, to do that they need to go to school which is either the school for being a priest or a warlock (its called sorcerer but its only a sorcerer in name) or they join a war party and learn the path of the barbarian which they call Gothialac. They will learn under that until they reach 6 human years or 69 actual years and then take a test which is decided by the village elders, if they pass that test they are considered an adult and gain the title of sorcerer, barbarian, or priest. If they fail the test then they are considered a slave of the village and have a large branding mark burned into their face to mark them as a slave. Once a decade the village will celebrate something known as the 10 day dance of the Goddess which is on the day of the winter solstice. On the first day they gather a war band consisting of 90% of the able body in the village leaving 10% for defense of the village, then that war band will raid nearby farms until they have enough food for a 5 day feast. Once they have sufficiently raided they will feast for 5 days straight while telling tales of battle to the children and the history of the cult. On the 6th day they will dance for the entire day to entertain Ragnora, on the 7th day they pray and attend church for the entire day, on the 8th day they raid villages for people and items to sacrifice to Ragnora, the people who are not suitable as living sacrifices are killed , on the 9th day they will prepare the people being sacrificed by dressing them in the bones, and organs of those killed in the raids, then they will prepare the ritual circles and the mountains of loot for the Goddess. On the 10th day the half of the priests in the village will pray and the other half will perform ritualistic dances for the first half of the day and in the second half of the day the village convenes around the ritual site and perform the ritual to sacrifice the rewards of their raids to Ragnora in exchange for bountiful harvests, good luck in future raids, and good health for the village.

In the home of the Echidnas, the entire family will live in one house and the cooking for the family is all done by the oldest person of the house which is a coveted position to be in that commands great respect, the oldest person also makes decisions for the family (where to spend money, if they should participate in future raids ect.). The family is structured in a matriarchal way, however the man taking lead in family tasks is not uncommon. Each family tends to their own crops, gathers their own food, and will often battle other families in power checks to see if they are still fit to have a favorable position in the village. With the way the family is structured the different families separate into clans and position themselves in an order of weakest to strongest with the strongest commanding the entire village.

Behemoth Snake

As a Echidna you are a large creature that threatens and puzzles most to look at. Your scary presence and body give you the upper hand to most interactions with creatures. You gain advantage in intimidation, Insight and Persuasion checks against smaller or equal sized creatures. You also gain Expertise in Intimidation and Athletics.

Slurred Savvy

You gain the edge learning any language or dialect. Your natural augmented state of voice allows you to understand slurred or gibberish words from mindful creatures, read lips and have the capabilities to learn a language in a short timeframe. When learning an art, spell or language you can take 2 days to learn it completely. Humanoids tend to not understand your speech the first time you say something.

Racial Vision

As a mostly reptile creature you are able to see and sense things that aren't normal. This also makes you a bit near sided while in light settings like day or a brightly lit room. However, you make up for those in dark vision where you have a natural talent for seeing in the dark. While blinded or during the night you can close your eyes and see the auras of things around you helping you see who and what is immediately near you. This Aura Sight cannot see good and evil.

Visions:

Light Sight: 30ft

Darkvision: 60ft

Aura Sight: 20ft

Echidna Traits

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Bohemoth Snake

Slurred Savy

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