Homebrew Fey'ri Species Details

Seven thousand years ago, multiple Demon Lords and other powerful demons made a concerted effort to create a powerful infiltration force of elvish/demons simultaneously with a group of sun elf nobles trying to strengthen their families’ bloodlines. The fruits of their labor were born and so the first generation of fey’ri were created. They are a small species, with only twenty fey'ri families that are known and recognized.

All fey’ri possess wings and most have horns, which can take any of a variety of shapes: some have curling horns like a ram, others have straight and tall horns like a gazelle’s, and some spiral upward like an antelopes’ horns. Some fey'ri had barbed tails, fangs, forked tongues, or any combination. Some had multiple sets of arms and one or more sets of wings. They also have a variety of skin tones and eye colors. Usually a pattern of these traits exists within a family.

The different lines of fey’ri are well recorded because most elves don’t trust them and they employ self-protection often, so they must know who and where everyone is.

The different fey’ri families have very different approaches to dealing with their marginalization and heritage. Some are ashamed and turn to a life of service to to Corellon for atonement, others fight for visibility and equal treatment, others still are proud of their demonic heritage or at least their family, some hide in forests, caves, and other places to avoid non-fey’ri people.

The demonic blood in fey’ri breeds true, any fey’ri ancestor makes the descendant a fey’ri, with very few exceptions, so even though they started with only twenty original fey'ri, they have expanded exponentially, while still staying very small in comparison to the general elf population.

Marrying for love is quite common amongst the fey’ri because there is so much stigma attached to marrying into a fey’ri family that to be willing to do it, you have to be in love, despite all fey’ri descending from elven nobility who actively tried to strengthen their bloodline.

Family is incredibly important to fey’ri as they are often the only ones around who will accept and understand what they are going through, since they us

If a female fey’ri marries a regular elf, he will usually take her name or their children will, because they will be fey’ri, and the fey’ri are usually kept to the twenty fey’ri families. The few times a fey’ri child has been given the name of their elven parent, the name was changed back to the fey’ri name after the fact. The fey’ri family names are like brands, as if their wings, horns, odd colorings aren’t enough of one already.

Fey'ri Traits

A combination of demons and elves, Fey'ri are powerful with abilties from both sides of their ancestry.

Ability Score Increase

Charisma increases by 1, Intelligence increases by 2.

Age

Like their elf cousins, they reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, but the elven and fey'ri understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. A fey'ri typically claims adulthood around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old, just like elves.

Alignment

Fey'ri have a natural inclination toward and respect of freedom, for themselves and others. They also tend to take that freedom to a somewhat more chaotic level then their elven brethren. And fey'ri might not have an innate tendency toward evil, but many of them end up there. Whether that's because they are often ostracized or because of some demonic interference, no one knows.

Size

Fey'ri are about the same size and build as elves, though on average slightly taller. They are generally under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet. You also have wings and a base flying speed of 50 feet with no armor or light armor. With medium and heavy armor, your flying speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

A combination of your demonic and elvish heritage grants you superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Hellish Resistance

You have resistance to fire damage.

Liar's Tongue

The demonic blood in the fey'ri's veins, or maybe the persecution and distrust they face, have made them very good at hiding what they feel or think and pretending to be quite different to who they are.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Demonic Magic

At 1st level you can cast the Alter Self spell once per long rest. When you reach 5th level you can cast charm person once per long rest. Charisma is your spell casting ability for these spells. 

Trance

Fey'ri don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Language

You can speak, read, and write Common, Abyssal and Elvish.