Homebrew Astral emergent Species Details

You were born from the thoughts and dreams of mortal beings. Your consciousness was once a string of thoughts and desires lost within the aether’s vastness. Then, your peaceful existence as thought alone was disturbed when a body crashed into the aether. This body was torn, broken, and dying, or dead already. Your essence surged into this shattered vessel, and you willed the aether to heal its flaws.

Not long after, you emerged from the waves and marveled at your new, physical form. It was a body, one which walked on two legs and had senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and sound that you could only dream of as a flickering, aetherial thought. The body you emerged from the astral waves with was once rent asunder, but is now healed; the former wounds glowing with the light of stars and nebulae.

Your features resemble those of the creature who died beneath the aetherial waves, but your thoughts and feelings are wholly new, fashioned fashioned from the collective
unconscious of the cosmos.

Astral emergent Traits

As an astral emergen you will gain the following traits:

Ability score increase

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase your Constitution score by 1, and two other ability scores of your choice also increase by 1.

Aetheric Adaptation

You are immune to the effects of aether poisoning

Formed of eather

The Aetherial Expanse wishes to reclaim your body. You take 1d4 force damage when you touch aether for the first time on a turn or start your turn in contact with it. While fully immersed in aether, as an action, you can make a DC 13 Charisma check to fight against the aether and reverse the process, drawing its power into your body instead. On a success, you gain 1d8 temporary hit points.

One with the Sea

When you die, you can’t be resurrected except by a wish spell or special ritual. Your form melts away as your body and mind return to the Aetherial Expanse. A creature that casts speak with dead while touching the aether must make a successful DC 21 Charisma (Investigation) check to discern your mind from among the flickering egos within the sea.

Unusual nature

You don’t require air, food, or drink. When you sleep or fall unconscious, your form flickers and wavers, becoming translucent and revealing the constellation of lights that make up your bones.