Homebrew Easthaven Librarian Species Details
We don't exactly know where you came from, or even what you are in all honesty, friend. All we know is that one day you asked for shelter, and we gave it to you. We assumed from your complexion that you were not long for this world, and we made you comfortable before Auril's reckoning sent you to the Outer Planes. It was only after a fortnight that it became apparent that whatever happened to you in that blizzard robbed you of your memories and changed you. A blessing from the Frostmaiden? Or something altogether more strange, perhaps?
You asked for a sense of purpose, as your time in recovery had made you restless, and the next thing I know you're poring over tomes and all sorts. The townsfolk were wary at first, but you won them over so easily it was really as though they had never feared you in the first place. All I know is that you've been a good friend, and the best librarian that Easthaven has ever known!
Prodigy
You have discovered - through your studies - that you have an innate natural talent for the arcane and perfect memory. Furthermore, you can manifest low-level as you focus your mind, but you still struggle to understand and wield to your full potential.
Amnesiac
Found shambling through the blizzards of Icewind Dale, you have no recollection of your life beyond the last two years - which coupled with your otherwise perfect memory forms a deeply troubling juxtaposition.
Better off not knowing?
Many come to Icewind Dale to escape what they were before. Many are found nonetheless and are made to address the issues they have fled from. In your two years, nobody has come knocking, but the self-anonymity that your memory loss has granted you could be a blessing or a curse. Which is worse? To discover for yourself and have to live with the weight of your actions? Or to never find out even as the cold steel of an assassin's blade is pressed against your throat, when recompense may have been possible?
Anatomical Anomoly
Your green skin glows softly under even low-light (thought not to any extent that would illuminate darkness), and when you wield your psionic abilities your eyes glow bright white. A single, small opal-like crystal is embedded in your forehead. You lack any body hair, and have been unable to grow any during your time in Easthaven. While your features may be perceived as male-presenting, you lack a gender and genitals. Curiously, this removes the need for you to relieve yourself despite the consumption of food and drink. Finally, when cut you do not bleed red blood as others might - but a silver substance that you have identified - through your studies -to be mercury.
Easthaven Librarian Traits
Word of the Easthaven Librarian has spread through Icewind Dale - in certain circles - and tales of your mental prowess have invoked many to view you with suspicion or outright hostility. The mystery of your identity and your life before Effrick and his kin took you in from the cold smolders in your mind - but the fear of who you might've been before is a rime that keeps the curiosity at bay.Ability Score Increase
Your intelligence, wisdom and charisma ability scores each increase by 1.
Age
Your age is unknown.
Alignment
Your innate likeability and psionic talent tends to make people - even in the howling fjords of Icewind Dale - nice to you. Not full understanding why everybody is quite so pleasant and agreeable, you have mirrored their behaviour. While you tend to be polite and delightful, you are very, very inquisitive.
Size
Your size is broadly the same as humans (5 feet to 6 feet). Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages
You are incapable of speech, but understand Common and Dwarvish from your time in the Thawn family. You communicate using the Awakened Mind feature, but have been advised to move your mouth in time with the your telepathic communication. This is imperfect, and the particularly insightful may notice that something is awry. You can also read these languages after your apprenticeship in the library.
Awakened Mind
Starting at 1st level, your innate psionic talent gives you the ability to touch the minds of other creatures. You can telepathically speak to any creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language.
Keen Mind
You gain access to the Keen Mind feat - however, you lack the ability to innately determine which way North is.
Projected Forcefield
A wall of telekinetic force always persists around you. If you are not wearing armour, your AC is equal to 8 plus your Proficiency Bonus plus your Spellcasting Modifier.