Homebrew Flayerkin Species Details

Flayerkin are born of a failed birth of a Mind Flayer through Cerrmorphosis, this event could have happened if the host was too strong willed for the tadpole or if the Elder Brain was destroyed during the transformation. These illusive people are hated by both Mind Flayers and most races natural to the world due to their appearance, with the Illithid thinking they are too much of a failure to stay alive and the other races viewing them as freaks due to their appearance.

Intellectual Appetite

The burden of the flayerkin comes from their need to consume the memories and thoughts from brains, unlike their Flayer "parent" the flayerkin only require a brain once every 3 months to remain at peak performance or one a year to survive, other than this they must regularly consume regular Humanoid food.

Alien Visage

The frightful appearance of the flayerkin becomes both a blessing and a curse, they are generally not accepted into bars and inns due to this appearance but this creates a layer of fear that gains them a slight boost to intimidation and gives them the privacy they so desperately require. 

Personality

Flayerkin are usually quite studious so they like to spend a lot of time alone, although there have been exceptions of quite outgoing, these traits are mildly affected by the personality of the individual pre-transformation although the aversion to social interaction is usually dominant.

 

 

Flayerkin Traits

Most of the traits that a Flayerkin possess are taken from their Illithid heritage although each may vary slightly. These traits are:

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2. 

Age

Flayerkin are created at maturity. They usually live for over 100 years with some reaching 300 at the highest.

Alignment

As they are usually outcasts of society the flayerkin tend to more chaotic alignments. Although some of the more studious flayerkin tend to neutral.

Size

The size of a flayerkin is based on their height and weight before transformation, although they are never seen to be smaller than 4ft tall. Your size is medium.

Alien Visage

The appearance of the flayerkin is horrifying to most humanoids, you gain proficiency in Intimidation.

Speed

Flayerkin have a base walking speed of 30ft.

Languages

As a flayerkin you can speak, read and write Common and Deep Speech.

Darkvision

From your Mind Flayer heritage you are accustomed to dark places. 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.