Homebrew Bethlezen Puppet Species Details
The Bethlezen Puppets, often called the Hollow Folk, are one of the greatest mysteries in Embral. Created during the final years of the Dramoi Wars by the artificers of the Ivory Workshop in the kingdom of Bethlezen, they were originally intended to be soulless constructs that could replace fallen soldiers. Instead, something impossible occurred: the completed puppets awakened with independent minds, emotions, and personalities, while every creator in the Workshop vanished without a trace. Stranger still, new Puppets continue to awaken centuries later from abandoned dolls, marionettes, mannequins, and unfinished constructs, despite no one knowing how or why.
Bethlezen Puppet Traits
You have the following traits as a Bethlezen PuppetCreature Type
You are both Construct and Humanoid.
Speed
You have a movement speed of 30 feet.
Size
You are Medium sized, at anywhere from 5-9 feet tall.
Languages
You speak Common, and one other Language of your choice.
Ability Score Increase
Choose any ability score to increase by +2, and one by +1 or choose three to increase by +1 each.
Constructed Resilience
You have advantage on saving throws against disease.
You have resistance to poison damage.
You don't need to eat, drink, or breathe.
Unnatural Rest
You don't sleep.
You enter an inactive state for 4 hours to gain the benefits of a Long Rest.
While resting, you remain aware of your surroundings.
Living Doll
Choose one body when created:
• Porcelain - You have advantage on saving throws against being Frightened or Charmed.
• Wooden Lacquer - you gain temporary HP equal to your proficiency bonus after every Long Rest.
• Metal - Your AC equals 12 + your Dex modifier while not wearing armor.
Hollow Memory
You gain proficiency in one skill or one set of artisan's tools of your choice.
You do not remember where you learned it.
You simply know it.
Hollow Soul
Spells that restore life, detect souls, or commune with spirits interact strangely with Bethlezen Puppets, at the DM's discretion. Some clerics insist they possess ordinary souls. Others claim there is something older - and far stranger - looking back through their eyes. No consensus has ever been reached. Among the Bethlezen Puppets, there is an unsettling saying passed quietly from one awakened construct to another:
"We were not built to become alive. We became alive because something else stopped being alone."
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