Homebrew Augt Maeman Species Details

A race long thought to be gone from the realms, related to long passed and grand kingdom and language none of them seem to remember.

Tall and spindly but strong and determined fur-less humanoids, resembling slightly bulkier Elves or slimmer Orcs(whichever you can imagine best). Their skin is pale or green in color and they grow their hair out long, seemingly by nature, whether tied up in large bee hives or left hanging in thick ropes. They have short but defined snouts, like that of a mix between wolf and monkey. theirs eyes are completely black except for their pupils, with golden pupils seen in males and purple pupils in females. though rare some have evidence that their kin once had lizard like tails. Even rarer, some still have short and minimally opposable tails that don't serve much use or purpose other than getting in the way of clothes or armor. They grow and mature very quickly, reaching genetic maturity around 19 years where they're muscles and height are almost perfectly toned where they need to be. after around 60 years old they start to weaken, backs hunching slowly and their minds opening. If given proper care and condition in their "senile" years, they can live up to 90.

The minds opening part is literal. As Maemen reach this point, they seem to become more easily attuned with magic, and you rarely find one starting research into magic or showing magical abilities until about 50 years old. Something about learning or having magic boosts their life expectancy, some examples I've seen living up to 120! Though they find magic in old age, they have MUCH sharper senses - particularly eye sight and depth perception/distance estimation - when they are young. Perhaps this has something to do with their ancestors? The old texts I've found describe them as a large, conquering empire... maybe they used greater range to their advantage.

No matter what age though... they HATE water! Swimming, wading, or just working with it, they often have trouble or disdain. 

Species Traits

A war and lineage long forgotten but still remaining, though hidden.

-Ability Score Increase

Uses the standard "+1 to two stats" for level ups and what not.

-Choose between (+1 dex ) or (+1 cha/wis/int) as a starting racial bonus

-Conqueror Sight

Over centuries of training , fighting, and evolving, your kin have managed exceptional mastery of distance and ranged warfare

-You gain +2 damage on thrown weapon and ranged weapon attacks and lose the disadvantage of making ranged attacks at close range when ages 1-59

-Shaman Blood

Once there were great chambers of shamans and enchanters that were the back line and spiritual guides to your kin

-At ages 60+, you lose the affect of Conqueror sight and gain the affects of Shaman blood. You gain (a twice per day reroll on rolls involving int or wis) or (learn a cantrip from any spell casting class; CAN ONLY BE USED IF YOU HAVE A SPELL CASTER CLASS)

-Hydrophobic

Ew, yucky... I hate walking through this stuff too.

-when swimming or in water or any other liquid deeper than (one ft less than character height), you shiver, shake, and sometimes even flail wildly, giving advantage on attacks against you. you also have disadvantage of dex and str rolls only while wading through water, or any other liquidy substance.

-They Will Fall...

your ancestors hubris and daring to take fate into their hands destined them to be unstable...

-You have a natural -2 to your con score.

A war and lineage long forgotten but still remaining, though hidden.