Homebrew Fangborn Species Details

Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it. But when mixed with the blood of the eternal night princes it intensifies this grace and beauty to godly heights. Most Elves live in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. But fangborn were bred for battle subjected to endless training to become the perfect weapon, whether it be defending their homeland or a targeted assassination, they had the skills to accomplish anything. Fanborn were raised to only love one thing, WAR, thus things like love, nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry, and the good things of the world were lost upon these broken souls.

Slender and Graceful

With their heavenly grace and divine features, fangborn appear unbelievably beautiful to humans and even their own kind. They tend to be taller than their elven kin, ranging from 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are just as slender as their elven kin, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.

Fangborns’ coloration encompasses skin colors in shades of copper, bronze, bluish-white, and deathly pale with hair of white or blood red, and eyes like pools of liquid silver or endless black. Fangborn have no facial or body hair. They favor elegant clothing in dark colors, and anything that's easy to maneuver in times of battle.

A Timeless Perspective

Like elves fangborn mature in their late teens but they cease to aging after maturity and take their adult names. They are more often serious and stoic, and more likely to kill you than to be your friend. They tend to remain loners and unfazed by anything doesn't concern them. When pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill, they are even more focused and relentless than even their elven brethren. They are extremely slow to make friends and enemies....are lucky if they find themselves drawing a breath a week later.

Fangborn are flexible, fierce and deadly accurate in the face of danger. They are pillars of stone in one moment and a flash or murderous intent at a single command. They are the elite of the elite in combat that reveals dangerous martial arts, and exquisite skill with sword and bow with unparalleled strategy and analytical skills that not even their brethren can rival.

Hidden Woodland Realms

Most elves dwell in small forest villages hidden among the trees. But the fangborn are raised in the deepest and dangerous parts of the forest raised to hunt game and fight for survival from infancy to hone their skill and magic. When it comes to the deadly arts none are more skilled, their finesse in battle like a master painters brush stroke raised to a unearthly level. Their contact with outsiders is usually limited, if any contact is allowed, for they are the shadows in the night unseen but always feared.

Fangborn encountered outside their own lands have gained their freedom or runaways but all make a living as a sell sword or an assassin for that's the only life they know.

Exploration and Adventure

With a lust of battle and blood, thanks to their unnatural heritage, a fangborn in the wild hunts for danger looking for every challenge possible to sate this unearthly desire for carnage. Almost all are on edge ready to kill at a moments notice from fear of being hunted down for abandoning their kin and homeland whose insist on purging this uncontrollable monstrosity that is loose upon the world. Even those granted freedom feel this unease from their hunger of the hunt and war.

Fangborn Names

Fangborn are considered adults upon maturity and take their adult names and only those that runaway or gain their freedom make and take a family name.

Male Adult Names: Adran, Aelar, Aramil, Arannis, Aust, Beiro, Berrian, Carric, Enialis, Erdan, Erevan, Galinndan, Hadarai, Heian, Himo, Immeral, Ivellios, Laucian, Mindartis, Paelias, Peren, Quarion, Riardon, Rolen, Soveliss, Thamior, Tharivol, Theren, Varis

Female Adult Names: Adrie, Althaea, Anastrianna, Andraste, Antinua, Bethrynna, Birel, Caelynn, Drusilia, Enna, Felosial, Ielenia, Jelenneth, Keyleth, Leshanna, Lia, Meriele, Mialee, Naivara, Quelenna, Quillathe, Sariel, Shanairra, Shava, Silaqui, Theirastra, Thia, Vadania, Valanthe, Xanaphia

 

 

Fangborn Traits

Your fangborn character has a variety of natural abilities thanks to their unnatural heritage and harsh upbringing.

Regeneration

At level 10 the fangborn regains 5 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point and isn’t in sunlight. If the fangborn takes radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the fangborn's next turn.

Sunlight Sensitivity

You have disadvantage on attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

Fangborn Weapon Training

You have proficiency with shortswords and longbows.

Charm

The fangborn targets one humanoid it can see within 30 feet of it. If the target can see the fangborn, the target must succeed on a DC 17 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or be charmed by the fangborn. The charmed target regards the fangborn as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn’t under the fangborn's control, it takes the fangborn's requests or actions in the most favorable way it can.

If any action goes against the targets basic morals it can attempt another saving throw to break the charm. Any damage done to the target ends the charm, otherwise the charm wears off after an hour.

Bite

You can use your elongated fangs to make an unarmed strike as a bonus action. If you hit with your fangs, you can deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, and the you regain hit points equal to damage done.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age

Although fangborn reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans but stop aging soon after.

Alignment

Fangborn are often serious and stern. Most fanborn tend to be neutral with some leaning towards evil.

Size

Fanborn range from 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Superior Darkvision

Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 120 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.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Fey Ancestry

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Trance

Fangborn don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires.