Homebrew Aether Emergent Species Details

You were born from the thoughts and dreams of mortal beings. Your consciousness was once a string of thoughts and desires lost within the aether’s vastness. Then, your peaceful existence as thought alone was disturbed when a body crashed into the aether. This body was torn, broken, and dying—or dead already. Your essence surged into this shattered vessel, and you willed the aether to heal its flaws.

Not long after, you emerged from the waves and marveled at your new, physical form. It was a body, one that had limbs, senses, and lifeblood: things you could only dream of as a flickering, aetherial thought. The body you emerged from the astral waves with was once rent asunder but is now healed; the former wounds glowing with the light of stars and nebulae.

Your features resemble those of the creature who died beneath the aetherial waves, but your thoughts and feelings are wholly new, fashioned from the collective consciousness of the cosmos.

Aether Emergent Traits

These are Aether Emergent traits.

Aetheric Adaptation

You are immune to the effects of aether poisoning (see page 20).

Formed of Aether

The Aetherial Expanse wishes to reclaim your body. You take 1d4 force damage when you touch aether for the first time on a turn or start your turn in contact with it. While fully immersed in aether, as an action at the start of each of your turns, you can make a DC 13 Charisma check to fight against the aether and re-verse the process. On a success, you gain 1d8 temporary hit points instead of taking the force damage.