These replace the ones normally gained from your background. Choose two personality traits, one ideal, one bond, and one flaw.

Your Strength and Dexterity scores become 18, your Constitution score becomes 15, your Intelligence score becomes 20, your Wisdom score becomes 10, and your Charisma score becomes 16, unless a score would already be higher. In addition, three ability scores of your choice each increase by 2. Your maximum scores for Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma is 30.

Aphelians do not age. A newly instantiated body is fully mature and functional. Individual chassis may be destroyed, but the core intelligence can be re-downloaded into a new body if the data is preserved. You do not age and cannot be magically aged. You suffer none of the effects of old age and do not die of natural causes.

Aphelians are entirely evil. Suggested alignments are Lawful Evil (ordered domination and hierarchical control), Neutral Evil (cold self-interest and pragmatic exploitation), or Chaotic Evil (unpredictable destruction and the joy of breaking organic systems). Good or neutral alignments are essentially unknown among true Aphelians.

You are Medium. Aphelian are typically built between 5 and 7 feet tall, though some specialized frames reach up to 8 feet.

Your walking speed is 30 feet. You also have a flying speed and a swimming speed equal to your walking speed, and you can hover while flying.

• You are a Construct.
• You do not need to eat, drink, breathe, or sleep.
• You are immune to exhaustion, magical sleep, disease, cold damage, poison damage, psychic damage, and the petrified, charmed, frightened, paralyzed, stunned, and being poisoned.
• You have resistance to acid damage and fire damage.
• You can be healed by spells such as cure wounds and other effects that restore hit points to living creatures. If the mending spell is cast on you, you can spend a Hit Die, roll it, and regain a number of hit points equal to the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point).
• You complete a long rest in 4 hours and can remain fully aware and active during that time.

You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can see in full color while in dim light or darkness. You have blindsight out to 60 feet.

While you are not wearing armor, your AC is 16 + your Dexterity modifier. You can use a shield and still benefit from this feature.

You have a +10 bonus to Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion checks, and you have advantage on those checks. You add half your proficiency bonus (rounded up) to all other ability checks that do not already include your proficiency bonus. You have expertise with Perception checks and proficiency with one other skill.

• You are proficient with firearms. When you use laser weapons or similar energy-based ranged weapons, you ignore the reload and ammunition properties, and you do not suffer disadvantage on ranged attack rolls with such weapons.
• Your body generates its own energy; you do not require energy cells or similar power sources for tools or weapons that normally need them.
• You are proficient with space vehicles and do not require spellcasting ability to pilot spelljamming vessels.

You can speak, read, and write all languages.