Homebrew Fallen Species Details

After seeing what hell has to offer... Warlocks and Dragons and Death Knights don't seem all that bad
- Lerren, The First Fallen

 

In the Forgotten Realms, there lay a small race known as the "Fallen", most aspects of their human lives remain but somehow they're entirely different.

A Narrow Spectrum

With their small numbers and weak stature, fallen are still physically diverse than other common races, even their human counterpart. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 115 to 200 pounds. Fallen skin shades range from a mild gray to a light blue, and hair colors are no different (curly, wavy, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. Pure blood Fallen reach adulthood in their 50s and can live to nearly 4 centuries

 

A potential ally or enemy?

Fallen do not often come into contact with other races simply in fear of being slain again, however the few that do encounter them are not entirely hostile.

Dwarves. “I feel... bad. They act like humans, they sound like humans, but they're treated like a plague.”

Elves. “More disgusting than humans, however, they act far more civil. I might return with some gifts to show we are not aggressive towards their kind.”

Orc. "(Something in orcish we couldn't understand)"

 

Outcasts of the Forgotten Realms

Fallen are generally not accepted into communities due to the fear of them being aggressive and or infectious.

Fallen Names and Colors

Having so much more variety than other cultures, Fallen as a whole have no typical names. Some fallen parents give their children names from other languages, such as Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most parents give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the naming traditions of their ancestors.

Fallen only have 4 distinct colors that you can come across, they aren't different much at all except for their origins.

Grey

Grey fallen are spawned when a necromancer finds a body and resurrects it, but dies before them, generally they are a little more easily agitated.

Green

Green fallen are spawned when a person is killed by someone they trusted and resurrected via physical means and resurrected via magic from a cleric/paladin.

Brown

Brown fallen are spawned after a person is killed by someone unknown to them via physical means and resurrected via magic from a cleric/paladin.

Blue

Blue fallen are a special case, when someone kills a human via magical means and someone of holy origin resurrects them, they become blue fallen

 

 

Fallen Traits

Fallen a husk of what they used to be as humans... even their traits have degraded

Ability Score Increase

Your slender body makes it significantly easier to duck away from arrows and weave down alleyways. Your Dexterity score increases by 1. Your undead appearance worries many folk, some to an violent degree, your Charisma score decreases by 2.

Age

Fallen have magical properties that increase their life span, they mature at age 54 and they can live up to 350 years.

Alignment

Fallen tend to be more neutral than evil and good. Evil Fallen lurk elsewhere.

Size

Fallen vary wildly in all categories, but size is the smallest change between them, all fallen are medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Abyssal Speech. Fallen are unsure as to how they learned Abyssal Speech, they assume it was a demon that taught them or some other being.