Homebrew Brine Touched Species Details

People affected by proximity to areas subjected to Graves drilling and digging. Oil rigs, undersea cables, and ruins dredged up for profit. They are born human-looking but slowly develop "features". Desperately wish to be forgotten and are lucky to pass for a standard human. Mutants aren't treated kindly as they are evidence of Graves failed expenditures in the deep. They have powers that originated as whispers below the hulls of ships. Trenches older than gods hide things that rumble in their slumber, influencing those that live above. 

 

Aquatic Appearance

Though they have human ancestry and appear to be human at a glance, Brine Touched have certain uncanny traits upon closer view. Pale skin that when bright light is shone directly on it is translucent. Dark veins that web under their skin. Gills that tear open when submerged. Prone to slender and gangling builds, they have large hands and feet with long fingers well adapted to swimming. 

 

Inconspicuous  By Nature

Brine Touched wish to be forgotten. They stay in small communities and if they do leave will remain on the outskirts of society. A social Brine Touched is one inviting trouble. Those who know of the forces at play with the Brine Touched can either be terrified or fascinated by them. While their magic can be explained away relatively easily, their physical attributes betray their eldritch influences. Those in more dangerous lines of work can grow to overlook and appreciate these traits due to the Brine Folk abilities being quite the boon. 

Brine Touched Traits

As a Brine Touched, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are a Humanoid.

Size

Brine Folk tend to be between 5 - 7 feet tall. You are Medium. 

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Amphibious

You can breathe air and water.

Call of the Deep

The eldritch influence over your body adapts your body to the depths of the world. You have resistance to cold damage.

Darkvision

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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

The Great Dreamer

Your dreams belong to old gods beneath the sea. This influence protects you from magical slumber.