Homebrew Aetherborn for custom background Species Details

 

Aetherborn and Gender Aetherborn are a strange living by-product of the process of aether refinement, cast in humanoid form but lacking any of the biological qualities of other races. They don’t eat or sleep, and they don’t reproduce nor do they have any physical sexual characteristics. Language that categorizes people into male or female categories thus breaks down when it comes to aetherborn. Most aetherborn prefer that others use the pronoun “they” to refer to them, since it doesn’t attribute a gender that they don’t possess. Only a relative few prefer “he” or “she,” having chosen to adopt a gender.

Age: Aetherborn come into being as adults and live no more than a few years.

Alignment: As a rule, aetherborn are driven by hedonism and self-interest, making them neutral at best and thoroughly evil at worst. Neutral aetherborn might devote much of their time (and wealth) to parties and social activity, while evil aetherborn are usually involved in the criminal underworld.

Aetherborn Traits

Creature Type: Humanoid
Size: Medium 
Speed: 30 feet

 

Darkvision: Accustomed to the night, you have 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.

Born of Aether: You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Menacing: You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common

As an Aetherborn, you have the following special traits.

ability score increase

increase one score by +2 and one score by +1

Darkvision

You have Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.

Born of Aether

You have resistance to necrotic damage.

Menacing

Menacing: You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill.

Gift of the Aetherborn

Drain Life ability: a natural attack that deals 1d6 necrotic damage and restores the same number of hit points to the aetherborn. However, if the aetherborn goes for 7 days without dealing this damage, their hit point maximum is reduced by 1d6 per week. This reduction can’t be removed until the aetherborn has used their Drain Life ability and completed a long rest.