Homebrew Aetherial Half Breed Species Details

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age

Aetherials mature at 25 and can live up to 200 years.

Alignment

Aetherials often favor lawful alignments or personal codes grounded in order, discipline, and progress. They value balance—between structure and freedom, logic and instinct.

Size

You are Medium. Aetherials possess slender, elven-like builds.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

🔧 Racial Traits

Technomystic Insight

You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, or Investigation.

Integrated Tool

You have a built-in tool of your choice, chosen from:

• Thieves’ Tools
• Tinker’s Tools
• Artisan’s Tools
• Navigator’s Tools
• Cartographer’s Tools

You have proficiency with the selected tool, and it cannot be removed from you.

Aetherial Sight

As a bonus action, you can shift your perception to view into the Ethereal Plane for 1 minute.
You can use this trait once per short or long rest.

Veil Shift

As an action, you partially phase into the Ethereal Plane until the start of your next turn.

While shifted:

• You can move through creatures as if they were difficult terrain.
• You cannot move through solid objects.
• Attacks of opportunity against you have disadvantage.
• You have resistance to all damage except force until the effect ends.

Aftereffect:
You cannot take reactions until the start of your next turn.

You regain the ability to use this feature after a long rest.

Aetherial Mind

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or magically put to sleep.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Aetherial, a flowing language blending arcane sigils, harmonic tones, and ethereal cadence.

Appearance

Aetherials resemble elegant humanoids with:

Aetherial Half Breed Traits

Slender, luminous beings whose bodies hum with arcane circuitry and astral resonance. They stand as bridges between two worlds—technology and dreamstuff—living proof that invention and infinity can coexist.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age

Aetherials mature at 25 and can live up to 200 years.

Technomystic Insight

You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, or Investigation.

Integrated Tool

Integrated Tool
You have a built-in tool of your choice, chosen from:
• Thieves’ Tools
• Tinker’s Tools
• Artisan’s Tools
• Navigator’s Tools
• Cartographer’s Tools
You have proficiency with the selected tool, and it cannot be removed from you.

Aetherial Sight

As a bonus action, you can shift your perception to view into the Ethereal Plane for 1 minute. You can use this trait once a long rest.

Veil Shift

Veil Shift
As an action, you partially phase into the Ethereal Plane until the start of your next turn.
While shifted:
• You can move through creatures as if they were difficult terrain.
• You cannot move through solid objects.
• Attacks of opportunity against you have disadvantage.
• You have resistance to all damage except force until the effect ends.
Aftereffect: You cannot take reactions until the start of your next turn.
You regain the ability to use this feature after a long rest.

Aetherial Mind

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or magically put to sleep.