Homebrew Amazon, Delphini Species Details

 

"Long and long ago, our ancestors were inspired to not only aspire to perfection, but to engineer it within themselves. The studies of the code of life had long been deciphered and now they sought to cast aside their old society with all its ills and ancient traditions. Our ancestors managed a single generation settling into the new lands before a faction rose up to seek power over those who had held it.

It was in this battle that our ancestors lost knowledge of much of the past and their plans were derailed."

— Captain Elin Brightblade, Amazon battleship "Righteous Fury"

 

The House is greater than the individual.

The House determines not only the racial phenotype of the Amazon, but her cultural upbringing and the way she will interact with others. House Rising Sun and Southern Cross are the most accepting of other races and cultures, though Greenfield and Ironhill get along well with elves and dwarves respectively. 

Houses 

Houses were originally set up on clan/ethnic lines following the First Delphi War, the civil war that destroyed most of their surviving technological base before native materials were fully integrated into the process. The discovery of a working holo-player and library of recordings some two centuries after that war ended up with a cultural identity being woven by the various clans as existing historical records at this point were mostly missing. That the recordings were from a recovered private collection and were fictional stories were irrelevant for groups who at this point missing a history.

House Crescent Moon: 1001 Tales, Sand & Scimitar fiction, various Indian sources.

House Greenfield: Mainly period pieces dealing with the Middle Ages and Camelot.

House Ironheart: steampunk, dieselpunk, and gearpunk style. especially in their clothing.

House Ironhill: mainly Arabic style, but with more of a Hindi/Indian influence than Crescent Moon.

House Northstar: mainly Viking influences, but with a portion of Conan-style films/holo-novels mixed in.

House Rising Sun: mainly taken from samurai, ninja, and wuxia films. 

House Southern Cross: mainly periods dealing with the French Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Especially clothing.

Amazon Names

Names are likely to run the gamut. It is not unheard of for an Amazon to have an Elvish, Dwarven, or Draconic name. Likewise names can be pulled from various historical documents or other sources. They are, however, most likely going to go with a name that at least sounds like something from their originating culture. 

 

 

Amazon, Delphini Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about a race this close to humans, but your Amazon character has these traits.

Ability Score Increase

 Females gain +1 to Strength and +2 to Dexterity. Initial genetic engineering was to produce tall and powerful warrior-women.

Males gain +1 to Wisdom and +2 to Constitution. Initial genetic engineering was to produce shorter males with minimal other changes. Over the centuries, some minor psi abilities began manifesting.

Age

Amazons reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment

 Amazons tend toward a Lawful alignment. They value custom and law, but are more individual when it comes to good/evil/neutral in aspect.

Size

Amazons vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Amazons typically learn the languages of other peoples they deal with, including obscure dialects. They are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues: Orc curses, Elvish musical expressions, Dwarvish military phrases, and so on.