Homebrew Watcher Species Details

 

”If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then the person who is observing gets to decide what is beautiful.“

To wake up with thousands of eyes staring at you from birth may frighten or intimidate most new born infants, but not these creatures. From the day their born they are sent off into the world as a spy of sorts for their parents to gain information or those with in the mortal plane. Though most younger watchers from the day their born to the day they die work in eternal servitude for their elders, some young watchers may be touched by the mortal world and wish to find out more about it.

Beauty of the Watchers

Although it’s true these things are created to look human to blend in with the common vermin called mortals, these creatures don’t look entirely human. For instance to start with these things have scaly skin which can very in color. With usual colors shared by infernal humanoids, they have some interesting colors based on variants of their own races. For instance a death kiss watch may have many white and red skin much like their original beholder kin. Further more beholders being known for their eyes have many colors that can span all over the rainbow but also may have some unusual shapes for their pupils, along with their own eyes never usually matching the same color. They also have tails much like a beholder’s eyestalks ending with an eye. One final physical trait about these creatures is their pointed ears used for detecting far away targets. To summarize there appearances, they appear human but can share any physical traits with beholders.

One Eye Out

Much like Teiflings, which these creatures are frequently confused for, there aren’t many watchers around and even when they are people won’t treat them to kindly if they figure out they are watchers. Some towns people could go as far as chasing them out of town or putting them up for public execution regulars less of if they are working for a beholder or not.

Watchers don’t usually have any home lands or people to go back to, so they find ways to be independent in society. They could go to great length of trickery or deception to get what they want or they may try to get in others good side to get what they need, but as far as actually trusting others themselves is a matter of them warming up to them ignoring them entirely. Watchers aren’t usually very trusting.

Watchers Names

Watchers are creatures created to spy on the mortal world, so they may not even have names unless they were gifted by their creators or if given in another untraditional sense, but the first name they here themselves called by someone they may grow attached to that name and keep it.

 

A watchers careful eye

Watcher being creature made specifically and usually one purpose, unless pulled away by other means, they’ll try to follow it through. So being creatures of made for one purpose they may be scared of others and very untrusting of anyone around them, be it because of past bad relations or just being simply untrusting in their nature with in reason they are very deceptive and cautious around others.

Watcher Traits

Watchers will usually have physical traits of the beholder kin they are from.

Hover

You have a flying speed of 20 feet. To use this speed, you can’t be wearing medium or heavy armor.

Ability Score Increase

Your Intelligence score increases by 2, and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age

Watchers mature at a faster rate than humans but stop maturing after that and live the same lifespan but a few years longer.

Alignment

Watchers usually don’t lean to any specific alignment, but they may sway more to evil or neutral alignments.

Size

Watchers are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Thanks to your infernal heritage, you have superior vision in 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.

Careful Gaze

At first level you can choose an Eye Ray out of the 8 different rays.

The different rays you can pick from is Charm Ray, Paralyzing Ray, Fear Ray, Slowing Ray, Enervation Ray, Telekinetic Ray, Sleep Ray, Petrification Ray.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Deep speech, and Undercommon.