Homebrew Awakened Species Details

Gift of Nature
 
Once the secret of life was unlocked the knowledge of which
to perform this ritual is not easy to attain for young and
inexperienced druid or ovate. As a druid and bard progress in
their studies and understanding of the natural world they
begin to understand nature in all its forms, including how to
give life. Archdruids and bards can spend weeks or months
searching to seek out the perfect tree for which to impart this
ritual. The ritual is long and complicated and does have a
physical toll for those that perform it. When gifted - the
Awakened tree will transform but is still similar to their
shape before given sentience and intelligence. The Awakened
gain limbs with which they can walk, and move their arms
such as a humanoid. Their numbers are few because the
ritual is long and arduous and finding the correct gemstone
for which to work is time consuming and expensive.
 
Gemstones
 
The gemstone used during the ritual is as crucial to
traits of the Awakened as the genes passed down
to a child by parents of other races. As the druids
and bards experimented with various gemstones,
they found that certain types of gems produced
vastly different Awakened traits and temperaments.
 
Unnatural Existence
 
Awakened are more comfortable in nature and tend to shy
away from civilization if it can be avoided. They prefer to stay
in their groves or sanctuaries and sometimes with their
creator. Those that are brave enough to venture into a town
or city may find that they are unable to be accepted, denied
access, or flat out attacked as many monstrous races do.
 
Commune With Nature
 
After being given the Gift of Nature - Awakened still possess
the ability to commune with nature in a limited fashion. Their
primal instincts allow them to understand and converse in
the rudimentary language that plants have. Also Awakened
possess the ability to still speak with beasts as they had
before.
 
Woodland Home
 
Their existence starts away from civilization and because of
this they would rather tend to their natural groves and homes
protecting plant life and wild life alike. The relatively small
number of Awakened live together for their existence and
survival. Their long life grants them the ability that lesser
races have in understanding their balance and existence in
nature. Their small communal living is in groves of similar
trees where they can blend in away from the eyes of
civilization. They nurture these trees that one day they may
be able to also grant them the Gift of Nature.
 
Memory and Knowledge
 
Their sentience and intelligence are solely because
of druids and bards that found the secret of life
itself. But when given the Gift of Nature does not
mean that they have no memory or knowledge
from before, those memories are locked away in
the inner rings of the tree core. As a tree they were
able to commune with other wild life and plant life
through their roots and limbs.
 
Natural Defenses
Awakened scorn the use of armor that other races use
because they find them unable to fit properly and ungraceful
in their movement and their bark provides them ample
defense in place of armor. Also each Awakened have the
ability to camouflage themselves by blending in with their
surroundings by moving slowly or remaining still while
mimicking a non-sentient tree.
 
Natural Weapons
 
Awakened try and utilize more natural weapons made with
such items as wood, bone, chitin, scale, or stone. Within a
small group of Awakened settlements metal is seen as an
aberration and goes against the natural order of the world.
 
 
Awakened Names
Awakened are typically given names by their creator that are
reflective of the type of tree that was given the Gift of Nature.
Awakened do not typically signify differences in their names
based on their sex. Typical names are conjunction of words
that help describe the tree with either a tree type and suffix,
or prefix and then tree type.
 
Tree Types: Ash, Aspen, Balsa, Birch, Bloodwood,
Blackwood, Bocate, Cedar, Chestnut, Cypress, Elm, Fir,
Hawthorn, Ironwood, Koa, Juniper, Locust, Macassar, Maple,
Oak, Pine, Poplar, Sycamore, Teak, Wenge, Willow, Yew.
Name Prefix: Arm, Bare, Bitter, Black, Bloom, Bone, Burned,
Charred, Cruel, Cunning, Dark, Dense, Fallen, Gray, Long,
Mad, Moss, Scorch, Shadow, Snow, Splint, Thistle, Vine,
Wild.
 
Name Suffix: Arch, Bark, Beard, Blade, Blossom, Bramble,
Claw, Crown, Echo, Eye, Fang, Flesh, Fury, Grove, Growl,
Heart, Howl, Leaf, Lock, Needle, Nettle, Pad, Plague, Root,
Seed, Shell, Shrub, Sprout, Splinter, Spur, Stump, Talon,
Thorn, Trunk, Twig, Wind.
 
Non-Conjunction Names: Balsoam, Deku, Ebon, Feram,
Macassar, Sanguine, Trellen, Ulmus, Yumi.

Awakened Traits

Experiments with Gemstones "I have awoken countless trees instilling them with the Gift of Nature and creating protectors of plant and wild life alike. Some gemstones have dire consequences giving undesirable traits and some Awakened go their separate way and exile themselves from the rest of Awakened conclaves. They hope that one day they can rejoin their conclaves. At times I wonder if these experiments should continue - but we must know more." -Archdruid Tenoch

Fortitude

You have proficiency in the Survival skill

Powerful Build

You count as one size larger when
determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can
push, drag, or lift.

Fire Vulnerability:

Being of nature you are vulnerable to fire
based damage from any melee or spell attacks. Any saving
throws made to resist fire from any source is done at
disadvantage.

One With Nature

Being of nature in your existence before
being awoken and once per day you have the ability to
communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants.
They can understand the meaning of your words and you
have advantage on Charisma checks you make to influence
them

Repose

Awakened do not sleep but instead enter a period of
sedentary rest where they stay in an alert state but must
remain still for 8 hours a day to receive the effects of a long
rest.

Nature's Guise

Awakened are able to mimic trees by standing perfectly still or slowly moving in an attempt to stealth or camouflage themselves. You have advantage on stealth checks while outdoors and in a place where trees would typically be.

Food and Water

Awakened do not need to consume food,
but they do require double the amount of water in a day that
other races need to survive.

Languages:

You can speak, read, and write Common, Sylvan, and Elven. Being bound to nature the fey languages of the forest are engrained into you.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 1,
and your Constitution score increases by 2.

Darkvision

Accustomed to nature and the night sky, you have superior vision in the 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.

Natural Defenses

Having a bark exterior skin, you are unable to fit most armors to your body and must rely on your natural defenses. Beginning at 1st level when not wearing armor or using a shield, your AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.
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