Homebrew Aabza Argaon (by Baskerevil) Species Details

Dwellers within the Voidlands

There is a place within the cosmos balancing on the edge between existence and the oblivion. A dark, lonely place nicknamed as the Voidlands. This lost realm look like a city surrounded by a jungle. Yet, there is an unseen part of this real - deep down beneath the jungle there are endless systems of caves and tunnels spanning for thousands of miles. These tunnels are beaming with various forms of life and dangers, however, the most prominent and dominant life form are Argaons.

 

Underground Empire

Argaons are a race of adaptation and domination. They perfectly adapted to live below the surface, hunt in the dark, travel fast within the tunnels. The origin of their race is not know, but it doesn't matter much to them. They built several settlements and has few dozens of thousands of members their race living within those settlements. Doing everything from hunting to crafting, Argaons have built their culture around practical need: most of them are accomplished hunters as they are training their young to hunt since early age, they are daring explorers, and any issues they deal with is deal based on what makes the most logical sense.
Argaon empire is strong, at least at their home plane, and making deals with them is quite hard, because they do not care about politics and appearances - Argaons value what is obvious, practical and direct. They value strength and they wouldn't ever accept any deal with a weaker force. Showing any weakness at the presence of an Argaon often ends up with deadly consequences.

 

Royals and Workers

Argaon race split into two parts: Aabza and Hutra.
Aabza - something like workers ants in ant colony. They are hunters, gatherers, artisans and adventurers. They are responsible for protection, exploration and most things in the empire, except for decision making. Almost all members of this race belong to this part of their society.
Hutra - royal members of Argaon empire. They are especially blessed with various gifts, long life, and are responsible for the control of the empire. However, unlike most other humanoid races, being a member of Hutra is not a mere privilege. One of the blessing they have in an ability to assimilate the dead. Whenever an Aabra class individual dies, they are typically consumed by one or several Hutra Argaons. Memories, skills and magical powers are then transferred from the dead individual to the royals who partake on the consumption. However, eventually even Hutra die, and their bodies are then taken to be devoured by the Absolute Queen of their race. The queen of Argaons is an immortal creature who holds incredible power. She is the center of Argaon empire, the key religious figure and the earlies common ancestor of their entire race.

 

Aabza Argaon (by Baskerevil) Traits

As an Argaon you have these special traits.

Ability Score Increases

When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and a different one by 1, or increase three scores by 1. None of these increases can raise a score above 20.

 

Age

Members of your race reach full maturity within 100 days of being born and can live to be up to 200 years old. That applies only to the worker class individuals, though, because royal members of this race seems to live for a least several thousands of years without any issues.

 

Creature type

Your creature type is an aberration. Moreover, you are also considered as a humanoid for any prerequisite or effect requiring you to be a humanoid creature.

 

Languages

You can read, write, and understand common. Also, you also know one additional language of your choice.

 

Flexible Wings

You have flexible wings you can retract into your body or to deploy out of your body. You can use your wings for flight at a speed of 30 feet, but you cannot use this flying speed if you're wearing medium or heavy armor.

 

Eyeless Perception

You have tremorsense of 60 feet. You can detect and pinpoint the origin of vibrations within a 60 feet of you, provided that you and the source of the vibrations are in contact with the same ground or substance. Tremorsense can't be used to detect flying or incorporeal creatures.

Moreover, you can also release special constant noise by grinding your maw. This noise bounce from all surfaces nearby allowing you to perceive everything within 60 feet of you, even flying creatures, hidden creatures, and even creatures trying to pretend to be inanimate objects, however, doing so will also alert other creatures to your presence.

 

Predator's Maw

Your special maw is specialized in inflicting damage on others creatures. You can use your maw to make unarmed strike with. Your bites deal (1d6 + your Strength modifier) slashing damage on hit.

In addition, you can also perform your bite attack using your bonus action. You can do so a number of times equal to twice your proficiency bonus. You regain all expended uses on a long rest.