Homebrew Wispling Species Details

Wisplings are planetouched descended from halflings and devils. With a heritage touched by hell fire and Baator's laws, it's hard to find a chaoticlly alighned Whispling. they embody everything that is small, quick, and deceptive. Wisplings retain a sort of "fun loving" trait, their pranks and jokes range from cruel to murderous. A wispling's light brown skin, bright red hair, and angular features set it apart from other Small humanoids. Although their devilish heritage grants them abilities of stealth beyond those of many other races, wisplings have a taste for bright clothing that marks them in a crowd. Speed and smarts make wisplings far deadlier than their size and slight frame would suggest. 

Small and Practical

The diminutive Wisplings, like their Halfling cousins survive in a world full of larger creatures by avoiding notice or, barring that, take an extreamly leathal offense. Both male and female stand about 3 feet tall, they appear relatively harmless and so have managed to survive for centuries in the shadow of empires and on the edges of wars and political strife mostly unnoticed. They are inclined to be stout, weighing between 40 and 45 pounds.

Whisplings skin is light tan with a ruddy cast, and their hair is usually bright red to a dark crimson and can be anything from Srait to wavy. They have brown or hazel eyes. Wispling men often sport long sideburns, but beards are rare among them and mustaches even more so. They like to wear simple, comfortable, and practical clothes, favoring bright colors.

Wispling practicality extends beyond their clothing. They’re concerned with Their basic needs and lavash pleasures. The wealthiest of wisplings keep their treasures locked in a cellar, or other simular locatiion, rather than on helping others and being seen doing so. They have a knack for finding the most straightforward solution to a problem, and have little patience for dithering.

Cruel and Cautious

Wisplings can be morbidly cheerful people. They cherish the bonds of friend that they have made, not an easy task in the first place. Family and friendship are all good and well as are the comforts of hearth and home, dreams of gold or glory keep them going out for more. The adventurers among them usually venture into the world for reasons of friendship, wanderlust, or curiosity. They love discovering new things, even simple things, such as an exotic food or an unfamiliar style of clothing. Wisplings tend to be stoic and love to see any living thing suffer. They are greedy, to the point of hiding the things they find to themselves rather than sharing what they have even in lean times.

Blend into the Crowd

Wisplings are adept at infiltraiting into a community of humans, dwarves, or elves, setting themselves up as valuable and welcome. The combination of their inherent stealth and their unassuming nature helps wisplings to avoid unwanted attention.

Wisplings work readily with others (when they have to), and they are adamantly loyal to the people that they have given their trust, whether wispling or otherwise. They can display remarkable ferocity when their friends, families, or communities are threatened.

Nomadic By Necessity

Most wisplings live in small, Family groups with many wisplings live among other races, where the their hard work and loyal outlook offer them abundant rewards and creature comforts. Wispling communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home. Due to the prjeduce from the locals. Wispling typically don’t recognize any sort of nobility or royalty, instead looking to family elders to guide them. Families preserve their traditional ways despite the rise and fall of empires.

 

RIGID AND CYNICAL

Wisplings try to get along with everyone else and somethimes make sweeping generalizations, especially negative ones.

Dwarves. “Dwarves make loyal friends, and you can count on them to keep their word. But don't let them know if you have use them for some reason, they tend to not be happy about it.”

Elves. “They’re so beautiful! Their faces, their music, their grace and all. It’s like they stepped out of a dream. But there’s no telling what’s going on behind their smiling faces—surely more than they ever let on. It would be a sad day to see all of that beauty brought low”

Humans. “Humans are a lot like us, really. At least some of them are. Step out of the castles and keeps, go talk to the people that they are "sworn to protect"  and you’ll find they are just a crrupt, and petty folk. Not that there’s anything wrong with the barons and soldiers—you have to admire their conviction.

Adventuring Wisplings

Wisplings usually set out on the adventurer’s path to get away from the prejudice (Real, or imagined) of their communities, support those that they have grown close to, or explore a wide world of possibilities. For them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity or sometimes a necessity.

Wispling Names

Wispling naming conventions are very simular to halflings they ahve a given name, a family name, and possibly a nickname or a personally chosen name, these are chose mainly to acnowlege their heritage as a decendent of Battor. These names in many situations are used in verious orders, this suits their anonymity just fine. Family names are often nicknames that stuck so tenaciously they have been passed down through the generations.

Male Names: Alton, Ander, Cade, Corrin, Eldon, Errich, Finnan, Garret, Lindal, Lyle, Merric, Milo, Osborn, Perrin, Reed, Roscoe, Wellby

Female Names: Andry, Bree, Callie, Cora, Euphemia, Jillian, Kithri, Lavinia, Lidda, Merla, Nedda, Paela, Portia, Seraphina, Shaena, Trym, Vani, Verna

Family Names: Brushgather, Goodbarrel, Greenbottle, High-hill, Hilltopple, Leagallow, Tealeaf, Thorngage, Tosscobble, Underbough

Chosen Infernal Male Names: Akmenos, Amnon, Barakas, Damakos, Ekemon, Iados, Kairon, Leucis, Melech, Mordai, Morthos, Pelaios, Skamos

Chosen Infernal Female Names: Akta, Anakis, Bryseis, Criella, Damaia, Ea, Kallista, Lerissa, Makaria, Nemeia, Orianna, Phelaia, Rieta, Thea 

Chosen Infernal Ambiguus Names: Alurra, Anzu, Cagnazzo, Khoshekh, Kudzu, Lark, Macho, Mal, Puck, Sirene, Trizzoth

Wispling Traits

Your Wispling character has a number of traits in common.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and Charisma by 1.

Darkvision

Being Planetouched grants whisplings Darkvision 60'

Age

A halfling reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of his or her third century.

Alignment

Most Wispling are lawful evil. As a rule, they are cold-hearted and cruel, love to see others in pain, and have no tolerance for ones who shirk order. When they lean more to their Halfling side they normally can't abide being fully good, neutral is much more common.

Size

Male and female wisplings average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Ultimate Disguise

Due to your fiendish blood you have the natral ability to cast the Alter self spell. You gain the ability to use this trait again after a long rest. 

Unshakable

You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

Wisplike Agility

You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours, when you do so you become insubstatial for a brief moment as you pass through the creature. When using this action and this action only in combat you are immune to attacks of oprotunity. this ability cannot be used outside of combat. If you would end your move inside of a solid object you are shunted to the closest unocupied spot and take you character level as damage.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Halfling and Infernal. The Halfling language isn’t secret, but halflings are loath to share it with others. They write very little, so they don’t have a rich body of literature. Their oral tradition, however, is very strong. Almost all halflings speak Common to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling.

Wispling Stealth

Wisplings have been said to be very stealthy. Wispling are proficient in the stealth skill, and when warering light or no armor you add twice the proficiency bonus to the roll.