Homebrew Eldritch Shapechanger Species Details

Physical Description

A cunning and devious shapechanger whose true form is a humanoid with sharp teeth like sharks, random red glowing eyes on its body, and tentacles. Able to morph into different humanoids. As a shapeshifter it can create new eyes, tentacles, and mouths filled with razor-sharp teeth on its body at will. As it progresses, it gains the ability to turn parts of its body into metal, and as it grows it will be able to transform into monsters and animals equal to its size as well as mix and match different parts.

Unlike Doppelgangers, Eldritch Shapechangers cannot read minds but have high deception, perception, and charisma to blend in with people. They can blend in well with any society using their shapechanging, they love to be outgoing and helpful with their friends and family while using them as cover, while they decide and destroy the lives of others especially, saving those who love and trust them the most for last once they are no longer useful or just so that they can watch them suffer the most usually right before eating them alive.

Look in Homebrew's "monster amonst us" background of this race's general background, and Devour for this race's feats.

Eating Habits

 Due to its nature, it hungers for fresh meat and loves the taste of humans, elves, and dwarves, and must eat its body weight in meat once a week, which it can do in several bites, on top of eating normal meals.

If the Eldritch Shapechanger is unable to eat the fresh brain and heart of a sentient creature within 1 hour after its death. After one week, it will go into an  Exhaustion and the level will increase by one every three days.

 

Weaknesses

Due to its malleable flesh and bone, If a part of its body is severed or removed, it will turn into putty-like flesh and blood and will take an extra 3 points of damage. This includes its head, limbs, and tentacles. The Shapechanger can use a bonus action to regrow its lost limbs. If the severed part of its body comes back into contact with its source within 1 hour, it will regain the lost 3 points of hp.

The eldritch shapechanger heart is a fist-sized beating stone that is the source of its life and is unable to transform it, it can use a reaction to move its heart between its chest, stomach, and head. The Shapechanger will usually keep its heart in its chest or stomach and keep it well guarded with metal plates. If it is cut in half, it will lose half of its flesh and size.

If the heart is struck by a weapon or magic, the attack becomes an automatic critical hit, and will stunned it for one turn. If it continues to be hit in its heart, it will revert to its true form.

 

 

Traits

Ability Score Increases Your constitution, dexterity, intelligence, and charisma score increase by 1

Age. Matures after several months and lives up to 600 years

Alignment. Evil in nature due to its feeding habits and deception. Many of them can live normal lives amongst others and even have deep connections with their mortal families and friends. At least on the surface as they take pleasure in scheming to take what they want and kill anybody who gets in their way, not to mention luring their prey.

size. can change their height from three feet at their smallest to ten feet at their max, and can weigh between 100 to 500 pounds. your creature size is Medium.

speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, as it grows you gain the ability to swim, climb, and fly.

Truesight. As a shapeshifter, you don't need eyes to see and can sense everything in your surroundings at all times. using your [sense]truesight[/sense] you can see through illusions and falsehoods, as well as other shapeshifters.

Lore

Eldritch Shaper changers are tomenters and deceivers by nature. They love to play the part of a person, real or not, and deeply integrate themselves in society, as they eat their way through the community, they will gladly help people rise and fall, just to watch the torment and pain they can bring.

Eldrage shape changers are usually loners and tend to keep others of their own kind at a great distance, especially from their parents. Even if they pass by another in their travels, they will do their best to ignore the other and stay in character, unless their public personas need to meet, at which point it is usually done as quickly and cleanly as possible.

Females of the species will, on occasion, find a person they like; these people are usually others who are as cunning and devious as themselves, and as such, a fully mature female will eat this person and hold their soul in her body. At this point, when they come across a male, the male will be compelled to impregnate the female, to which that soul will be transferred into the unborn shapechanger, and birthed as an egg. which the mother will keep hidden inside her body, or stashed away, for the next few months it takes for the soul to fuse with its new host body. When the egg hatches, the newborn will inherit some memories and traits of the soul. The newborn will spend the next few months taking the form of a baby, being fed hearts from its mother's hunts until it has grown old enough to survive on its own. Any residual resentment or rage it feels toward its mother for killing its previous self will slowly fade along with fond and happy memories it had, and be replaced with devotion and submission to its new parents. at which point it will find a chance to sneak off and get as far away from its mother and hope it will never meet its father, lest it be under their command.

At this point, the newborn, if possible, will try and reacquaint itself with people from its former life and take great pleasure in making them suffer before moving on.

Eldritch Shapechanger Traits

Shapechanger of dark and evil nature.

Creeper

As a shapechanger, you can freely transform your body, now you can hook to walls of stone, trees and cliff faces and run across them with ease. Allows you to climb any surface

ShapeChanger

can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.

Ability scores

Ability Score Increases Your constitution, dexterity, intelligence, and charisma score increase by 1

Amphibious

can shapchange gills and other features of aquatic creatures to allow you to breathe underwater, as well as shape change into aquatic creatures.

Metal-morph

can transform parts of your body into metal using a bonus action. metal can be used to make blades or blunt instruments.

can use an action to make plate armor increasing your Ac by 2

When using your metal-covered tentacles or limbs to attack deal an additional 10 slashing or bludgeoning damage.

Aeronautics

as a more experienced shapeshifter, you are able to transform and create wings, be it a demon dragon bird or bug to fly, as well as transform into different animals that can fly, you must have 5 feet of space around you to open wings and take off and land. must not be overweight or wearing heavy armor. shapeshifter will retain the size of medium no matter what if shapechanging into an animal.

Advance ShapeChanger

Eating the fresh body of a creature or person lets you transform into a perfect copy of or its race inside and out. giving you claws or teeth like the race or creature you ship changed to. if larger or smaller than the shapechanger the shape changer will compensate to a point. able to freely transform into other races or creatures, and can mix and match parts as needed.