Homebrew Equilim Species Details

 

Feeling the weight of the Balance on their shoulders, it is the curse of the Equilim to give in to this calling or to oppose it and find their own way. If they have a relationship with the Rilmani who influenced their birth, this weight may be ever heavier and impose a whole new texture to what personal balance is beyond the Balance in its full and proper self.

Rilmani Bloodline

Equilim descend primarily through human bloodlines that have mingled genetically or magically with Rilmani, most often in their polymorphed forms. This influence leads to some core distinguishing features as the prime material, inconsistent humanity mingles with and breaks Rilmani rigidity. Equilim have distinctly inhuman eyes, often pupilless and swirling slowly like clouds in a soft wind. The hair of an Equilim may tend to either grow too much in dense whisps akin to a sheep except mirrored or to hardly grow at all. Their teeth may tend to be slightly uncanny, all too carnivorous, all too herbivorous, all molars, usually erring on the side of even symmetry. Their skin tones cover ranges of very pale or very grey variants of cool or metallic colors, sometimes pale enough to be mistaken with communities of human or vampire. Their faces tend to embody a little too much symmetry as with their teeth, often to an almost uncomfortable extent.

Rare and Removed

Equilim tend to be so uncommon as to even call them an established minority rings somewhat false, but when they are found, they are found mostly in human cities or towns, adherents of the Balance often ending up in positions of advisory and those striking against, landing as they fall. Sometimes they live among other minority populations in enclaves where they are treated with more normality.

As such a rarity, it can be hard to fully ingratiate oneself as an individual in a body, often being treated either as some portent of a need for balance to come or greater threat of instability by those who know of the Rilmani or an unexplained oddity by others. The best way to earn the trust of an Equilim is usually to treat them as a genuine individual and not an omen.

Equilim Names

Equilim names fall largely into two categories. Equilim born into another culture typically have names derived from that culture. Most others take some form of virtue name or name of a material or substance.

“Virtue” and Material Names: Equilibrium, Fold, Ponderance, Velvet, Syzygy, Pleat, Poise, Lace, Medium, Tweed, Harmony, Concinnity, Form, Parchment

MET WITH IGNORANCE

Unlike with Aasimar and Tieflings descended similarly, most anti-Equilim prejudice is based on lack of knowledge of whence they come or how, rather than their progenitors' alignment.

Equilim Traits

By way of Rilmani influence, Equilim share general traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 1, and your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Age

Equilim mature the odd year or two faster than humans and tend to live to about 100

Size

Equilim are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Thanks to your Rilmani heritage, 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.

Balanced Mind

You gain advantage against effects that would give you the charmed condition.

Neutral Sense

When you spend longer than a minute engaged in combat or conversation with a creature you learn whether its alignment is Neutral on either axis and on which axis, but, if not, you do not learn whether it is Lawful, Chaotic, Good, nor Evil. When you make a Persuasion or Animal Handling check on a creature you know to have a Neutral alignment, you may make this roll as though you have expertise in that skill.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Undercommon.