Homebrew Steel Dragon Species Details
The Chains of Lives
A Steel Dragon lives their whole life through many different lives of humanoids, rarely ever going staying in their dragon body for long.
Vaulting
After the life of the Steel Dragon’s guise ends, they will revert to their dragon form and go into a week long’s meditation called Vaulting, where they vault their memories of the life they just lived as so to forget it. This is so they can live a new life fully emerged.
AgeLink
A Steel Dragon forgets everything that has happened while they lived as a humanoid after the Vaulting, along with that the events that happened around the world at that time. It’s like time itself has skipped ahead. So, to help a Steel Dragon decide what their new life should be, they bind themselves to random people scattered around the world of all kind of backgrounds and lives through an AgeLink, where they will then gain information from them about the world through dreams, which happens without the AgeLinks knowing it. For each AgeLink a Steel Dragon has, they have one rune on their dragon body.
The Composition
After each life a Steel Dragon have lived, they have made one piece of art that represent what they have learned and what kind of life they had lived. They then use these to make up it’s hoard. Once a Steel Dragon dies, they will have a Soul Bond that they ask one last favor of, which is to spread out it’s horde into the world, without bias on how or who it comes in the hands of.
The Reflection
At the end of the Steel Dragon’s own lifespan, it will go into hibernation where it will recollect all memories with clarity of all it’s lives. This can take a hundred years, if not more, where upon the end, it finally dies.
Steel Dragon Traits
Steel Dragons has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Wisdom score increases by 2, your Intelligence score increase by 1, and one other ability score by your choice increases by 1.
Age
As all dragons, you become an adult at the age of 100, but compared to the others, you started your Chain of Lives from the age of 10. You can live up to thousands of years
Alignment
All Steel Dragons are of True Neutral alignment, for the are truly unbiased towards anything, but this is only when they are in their true form. When they take the form of a humanoid to live the life of, they can take on any alignment that they decide to live as for that life.
Size
You stand at around 20 feet tall and averaging almost 600 pounds. Your size is Large. This is only for when you are in your dragon form.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a fly speed of 60 feet.
Natural Attacks
While in your dragon form, you have a natural claw attack that deals 1d6 + your strength modifier of slashing damage.
And while in your human form, your unarmed strike deals 1d6 + your strength modifier of bludgeoning damage.
Breath Weapon
You can use your action to exhale a mixture of Acid and Poison in a 15ft cone. Those in the area has to make a Constitution saving throw against your DC. The DC for the saving throw is 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. A creature takes 1d6 Acid and 1d6 Poison damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. The damage die each increases by 1 at 6th level, 11th level, and 16th level.
After you use your breath weapon, you can’t use it again until you complete a short or long rest.
Damage Resistance
You have resistance to Cold damage.
Steel Scale
Your AC when wearing no armor is 13 + your Dexterity modifier. You can wear a shield for this.
Presence
Just like any other dragon having a Frightful Presence to them, as a Steel Dragons you got your own, but it’s more flexible and comes in three forms that you can choose to use upon activation with 1 action. The DC for these is 8 + your Charisma modifier + proficiency bonus.
Manifestation: Each creature of your choice up to 1 + your Charisma modifier within 120 feet of you must make a Wisdom saving throw against your DC or become charmed by you for 10 minutes or until you or your allies do something harmful to them. On a success, they are immune to it for the next week.
Obscurement: You gain advantage on all checks to stay undetected for 10 minutes.
Emotion Control: Spending a moment to do a speech upon using this ability, anyone listening to the speech must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, you either instill an emotion in them or suspend one, whatever your attempt was with the speech. On a success, the targets are immune to the effect for the next week.
Once you have used this feature, you can’t do it against before after a long rest.
Lord Ao's Blessing
Lord Ao blessed the Steel Dragons upon creation with a special Polymorph like no other. The ability to become a humanoid creator in all sense and purpose.
You can use one week to take the form of a humanoid creature of any race of your choice and gain the following benefits and changes of the chosen race as long as you remain in that form:
- You gain the race’s speed, including any special ones if any.
- You become the size of the race
- You gain the language of the race, and if you chose human you can choose one language of your choice
- You gain two of the racial features of the race of your own choice
- You age and live as long as the race
- You lose your fly speed unless the race got one as well, then your fly speed become that of the race
- You lose your dragon racial features
Guise Empowerment
After a month of attuning to your new appearance, you gain back your dragon racial features, and your max carrying capacity will be that of a large size creature rather than that of your current guise.
Soul Bond
When you find a true friend, the truest of all, one that you want to keep, you can make them your Soul Bond. When Soul Bonded with someone, you will never forget that person. This will be the only person that you will ever share your true identity with. The Soul Bond will be someone you always will know and be companions with in all your future lives. Bonding with someone takes 1 hour ritual and cannot be undone by any means. The Soul Bonded person will gain the ability to make minor changes in his or her appearances, as well as the ability to telepathically speak to each other over any distance as long as they are on the same plane of existence.
You can only ever make one Soul Bond that will last forever.
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