Homebrew Faceless Species Details

The Faceless are a strange folk, resembling humans with stonelike skin and smooth, featureless faces, with no visible eyes, mouth, or nose. They have an odd relationship with reality, as they were created as it's protectors by a deity known as The Silent Sentinel, but seem to bend it's laws inexplicably. The Faceless believe that when they die, their spirits travel to join the Silent Sentinel in his vigil beyond the multiverse. Faceless can live to be over 800 years old.

In the dawn of time, the Silent Sentinel withdrew beyond the known multiverse to guard against some mysterious force of destruction. However, before he did this, however, he created the Faceless to defend the remnants of the First World against extraplanar threats in his absence. Though his true identity is unknown to most Faceless, the Silent Sentinel is remembered by wearing the symbol of the black shield, and by Faceless bearing a name beginning with K. The Faceless were once a numerous and widespread people, going forth as an army to ravage the forces of the lower planes and the far realm, but their might could not last, and their people were scattered and destroyed by their enemies, leaving only a few behind. However, they linger on, serving as defenders of the material plane, working in the shadows and utilizing a multiverse spanning network of intelligence.

Faceless Traits

As a Faceless, you have the following traits.

Creature Type

You are an aberration.

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as though it were bright light and in darkness as though it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Strange Anatomy

You don't need to eat or drink.

Planar Foundations

Your legacy as a guardian of the material plane has granted you the ability to resist efforts to remove you from it. You have advantage on saving throws against spells or other effects that would teleport you or send you to another plane of existence against your will.

Natural Armor

You have tough, mineral-like skin. When you aren't wearing armor, your base AC is 13+ your Dexterity modifier. You can use your natural armor to determine your AC if the armor you wear would leave you with a lower AC. A shield's benefits apply as normal while you use your natural armor.

Supernatural Awareness

You have proficiency in the perception skill, and you can add your proficiency to your initiative rolls.

Finality of Existence

When you die, your body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything you were wearing or carrying, and your soul travels far beyond the known multiverse. You cannot be restored to life or be made undead by anything short of the wish spell.