Homebrew Quickling Species Details

Live Fast, Die Young. 

Quicklings owe their existence — and their plight — to the Queen of Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once a race of lazy and egotistical fey, the creatures that would become the quicklings were late in answering the queen’s summons one time too many. To hasten their pace and teach them to mind her will, the queen shrank their stature and sped up their internal clocks. The queen’s curse gave quicklings their amazing speed but also accelerated their passage through life — no quickling lives longer than fifteen years.

Too Fast for Words.

 The mortal realm is a ponderous place to a quickling’s eye: a hurricane creeps gradually across the sky, a torrent of rain drifts earthward like lazy snowflakes, lightning crawls in a meandering path from cloud to cloud. The slow and boring world seems to be populated by torpid creatures whose deep, mooing speech lacks meaning.

To other creatures, a quickling seems blindingly fast, vanishing into an indistinct blur as it moves. Its cruel laughter is a burst of rapid staccato sounds, its speech a shrill squeal. Only when a quickling deliberately slows down, which it prefers not to do, can other beings properly see, hear, and comprehend it. Never truly at rest, a “stationary” quickling constantly paces and shifts in place, as though it can’t wait to be off again.

Mischief, Not Murder. 

Quicklings have a capricious nature that goes well with their energy level: they think as fast as they run, and they are always up to something. A quickling spends most of its time perpetrating acts of mischief on slower creatures. One rarely passes up an opportunity to tie a person’s bootlaces together, move the stool a creature is about to sit on, or unbuckle a saddle while no one’s looking.

Tricks of that sort are hardly the limit of their artful malice, however. They don’t commit outright murder, but quicklings can ruin lives in plenty of other ways: stealing an important letter, swiping coins collected for the poor, planting a stolen item in someone’s bag. Quicklings enjoy causing suffering that transcends mere mischief, especially when the blame for their actions falls on other creatures and creates discord.

Quickling Traits

These are the traits for the Quickling

Ability Scores

The Quickling has a +6 to Dexterity, +1 to Constitution, and +1 to Wisdom. The Quickling has -4 to Strength, and -2 to Charisma. 

Skill Proficiency

The Quickling is proficient in 2 of the following skills: Acrobatics, Perception, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth.

Darkvision

The Quickling has darkvision of 60 feet.

Language Proficency

The Quickling can read, write, and speak Common and Sylvan. 

Blurred Movement

Attack rolls against the quickling have disadvantage unless the quickling is incapacitated or restrained.

Evasion

If the quickling is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails.

Tiny Weapons

The Quickling can wield light weapons, or 1 handed weapons as 2 handed weapons.

Quickling Speed

The Quickling gets an extra attack due to its speed.

Age

A quickling matures in the later months of their first year and never live beyond the age of 15.

Alignment

Quicklings have a capricious nature that goes well with their energy level. Similar to most fey, they have a strong tendency towards chaotic natures and due to their direct connection to the Unseelie Fey, they lean towards evil.

Size

A quickling is about a foot tall and weigh a bit more than a creature of their size would be expected to weigh. Your size is Tiny.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 120 feet.