Homebrew Death Painting Species Details

At the beginning of the Meiji Era, a woman with a special genetic composition bore a half-human and half-curse child. It was a mysterious pregnancy that caused her to be ostracized by her family. With her child in hand, she fled to a temple where jujutsu sorcerers operated. However, Noritoshi Kamo, the most evil sorcerer in history, forced the woman and her child to become prisoners of his intellectual curiosity. The woman had nine pregnancies and nine abortions, but all records surrounding this and the woman would be destroyed in time.

At some point, Tokyo Jujutsu High was able to secure all nine of the Death Painting Wombs. They used constraints to seal the cursed objects and stored them inside Jujutsu High's cursed warehouse, hidden behind Tengen's concealing barrier.

While still existing as cursed objects, the Death Painting Wombs appear as small human-like fetuses that cannot act independently. When ingested by any human, a Death Painting Womb can incarnate into a full half-human half-cursed spirit capable of using jujutsu. The vessel can be anyone, even a human with zero innate talent or the potential to become a sorcerer.

Fully incarnated Death Painting Wombs are considered on the level of a special-grade cursed spirit. Due to their flesh and blood bodies, these beings can be seen by normal humans, and even sorcerers can have trouble telling whether they are cursed spirits or curse users. Unlike cursed spirits, their bodies do not disappear after death.

 

Death Painting Traits

Due to their nature as a half-human half-cursed spirit, some of their abilities are above that of ordinary humans.

Ability Score Increase

Two chosen ability scores are increased by 2.

Darkvision

Due to a Death Painting being half curse, they can see in the dark with full color up to 120 feet.

Blindsight

Due to the nature of a Death Painting, they can sense the energies of a creature's body and soul, allowing limited blindsight up to 30 feet.

Heightened Senses

Due to a Death Paintings heightened senses, they can perceive much more than most humans, giving them proficiency with perception and advantage on perception checks.

Languages

As a Death Painting is half-human half-cursed spirit, they speak common, and one other chosen language.