Homebrew Falcari Species Details

Winged and partly beast-like, the Falcari (better known as half-harpies) combine the qualities of harpies and humans: having human traits of curiosity, ambition, and inventiveness which is offset by the instincts and avian features that come from their monstrous ancestry. They are an extraordinary new race that for some reason or another came to be, living in rather remote, rocky regions that most tend to steer away from, much less settle within. No one is sure exactly where this race originates from, the only clue is that they speak the Auran dialect of Primordial.

Bestial yet Exotic
While they share ancestry with monsters, half-harpies have a delicate, slender look about them and are exotically beautiful, with feathery plumage running from their shoulders to their wrists, and from the knee down their legs become more avian, with talons very much like raptor birds of prey. Otherwise they seem distinctively human, and Some jaded pallets, hungry for novelty, find them exotic, and the trafficking of these rare folk as slaves has proven profitable to some less scrupulous merchants.

Scavengers and Hunters, Wild and Free
Much of these bird-like humanoids reside in tribal societies. Due to the rocky, mostly barren nature of their usual settling grounds, they are for the most part small, tribal villages of hunter-gatherers. The hunters in harpy society are celebrated, and for good reason. There is a reason that they are not nomadic, and that is their exemplary and some might even say terrifying efficiency. Anecdotal accounts about their best hunters along with several Falcari folk-tales claim that some Falcari have spotted game from a full mile away and tracked them with amazing accuracy. Skills unheard of in even the best human hunters. Falcari aren’t only hunters however. In fact, plenty of the members of the tribe take many of different jobs. Those who don’t hunt maintain the village or become well respected Korah, better known in common as medicine men, shamans, or druids. Some half-harpies also try to integrate with the societies of other races with varying success. Being more common in the mountains, they tend to be friendlier with dwarves than other races.

Falcari Names
While many Falcari tribes have turned to speaking mostly Common, their names still take on the same formation that they do in Auran. At birth Falcari are given a birth name and when they come of age they have a ceremony they take on a second name known as a spirit name which they then are referred by. This ceremony of naming is very spiritual in nature, and the names given are representative of them as an individual by whichever adult member of the tribe acted as their mentor figure in their childhood, while still keeping their birth name it is unique to them, and no other Falcari may have the same name until the bearer's death. These names may be representative of the individual's personality, talents, skillset, or vocation, but they are almost always in some ways descriptive. A particularly good hunter might have a name such as “Clutching Talon” (or one which translates to that) because it represents their ability to catch game that will feed the tribe, while one who was mentored by the tribe’s medicine man might be named “Walks-with-Trees” as to represent their connection with nature. While these spirit names are special to them, they do not usually have grievances of being called by their birth name.

Falcari Traits

Falcari Traits

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Constitution score decreases by 1.

Age

Falcari age at a rate similar to humans, reaching adulthood in their late teens, but living slightly longer on average, many living to be more than a century and a few decades old.

Alignment

Coming from a tribal society and having monstrous ancestry, they tend to lean towards Chaos, but generally Falcari can be of any alignment.

Size

Half-harpies are fairly shorter than humans, with heights ranging between 4 and 5 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Light Frame

Having hollow bones and lighter build, Falcari are significantly lighter than races of similar height. For example, a Falcari 4 feet tall might weigh 48 lbs. at the lowest and still be of a healthy weight.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages

You can read, write, and speak Common, Auran, and one other language of your choice. Auran, being a dialect of Primordial, is extremely rare on the material plane. Falcari have very little in the ways of literature. They do however have a very strong oral tradition.

Gliding Wings

While the capacity of true flight is extremely rare, Falcari are capable of gliding 35 feet for every 5 feet they fall.

Talons

Their eagle-like talons allow for a claw attack dealing 1d4 slashing damage with their claws. Half-harpy monks benefit from their talons as their unarmed attacks deal the next die size up in damage.