Homebrew Aftik Species Details

The aftik is a bipedal raptor like creature, with most of them being around 5-5’6 feet in height. Aftiks are covered in sturdy feathers including its iconic “crown” on its head. They have a “guiding light” on their chest; this is just an oval that most aftiks are spiritually attached to.

They have a very long and thick tail which they use to balance themself while hopping. While aftiks do walk normally, once they pick up speed they begin to use their extremely powerful legs to hop along the landscape. Aftiks are known for their speed and have been recorded to hop at over 45 mph. Most aftiks are very weak and will run out of steam in a matter of minutes.

Aftiks have some sexual dimorphism.

Male aftiks are brightly colored. They have longer feathers, crowns, and tails. The coloration on the males is so extreme at times that it can be neon. They tend to be slower due to these traits.

Female aftiks have longer claws, and a shorter crown; because of this they tend to be faster. They tend to be shades of brown, green, or dulled out versions of most colors, with only a slight splash of brightness on their crowns, bellies, and tails. Females will lay eggs without a male aftik as long as they have some sort of mate, whether that is another female aftik or even another species. All eggs laid are aftiks.

Most aftiks are named after the color of their “light.” For example, an aftik with a red light might be named Red, Tomato, Crimson, or Maroon. Some aftiks don’t follow this rule or get the color wrong.

Due to the sexual dimorphism of aftiks, females and males are both extremely different in terms of personality. Just like how some aftiks are born the other gender’s “colors”, it’s possible for males to have the personality type of a female and vice versa.

Females are known to be more aggressive. They are commonly hunters and leave the child raising to the males. They are very territorial and create a nest of items in the middle of their territory; this nest is of a single item and is completely random. Some females even dislike their nests but refuse to change a thing.

Males are extremely sociable and love nothing more than to groom anything else with feathers. Males cannot stand the sight of feathers that have not been preened and if personal boundaries are not set a male will preen everyone onboard a ship. The habit likely is formed due to the fact females do not preen their feathers or others making it up to the males to do so. Males greet new people (enemies or not) by fluffing their feathers, wooping and jumping around. To anyone who has not seen this before, it’s absolutely terrifying.

Aftik Traits

Sharp teeth, talons, can run fast and are auto translators, safe for the most exotic languagues.

Talons

An aftiks unarmed strike does +2 hit bleeding damage as opposed to the normal unarmed strike.

Teeth

Aftiks when biting do 1d6-2 bleeding damage with a minimum of 1 damage.

Auto Translation

If someone is speaking a widly spoken languge such as elven or dwarvish, aftiks can understand it if they roll a 3 or higher on a d20. If it is a rarer language, then it is a 10 or above for them to understand. If it is an extremly rare languague, a highly complex language, or an arcane language, it is a 15 or higher. If it is a demonic/elderitch/ any other languauge used by supernatural , demonic, or holy creatures, they cannot understand it. They can not understand spanish, either. For some reason. This trait is at a -1 for written languague, -1 to attempt to speak it, and a -3 to attempt to write it.

Speed

Aftiks walking speed is changed to 50 feet when able to walk for multiple turns.