Homebrew Garlean Species Details

Physical Description

The Garleans are a people with strong bodies which were backed by great mental prowess to match. Their most striking feature though is the pearl like third eye which sits in the center of their forehead. This special third eye provides Garleans with improved spatial recognition. These two great assets were met only with a damning disadvantage, the inability to manipulate magic.

 

Garlean Traits

Your Garlean character has a variety of natural abilities.

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

Age

Garleans live as long as the other races of Eorzea, reaching maturity around 18 years old and living on average to the age of 80.

Alignment

Garleans tend toward a lawful alignment as their roots trace back to a highly ordered Empire where title and rank were held in high regard.

Size

Garlean males on average tend to stand anywhere from 6 to 7 feet tall while their female counterparts tend to reach anywhere from 5 and a half to 6 feet tall. Your size is medium.

Imperial Education

You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice and one set of artisan's tools of your choice.

Magically Inert

You are unable to cast magic of your own power and require the aid of technology to do so.

Note from the Creator

As Garleans are unable to cast magic from a lore perspective, playing a casting class as a Garlean should have their casting focus flavoured to account for this. For example a Garlean Wizard could have a staff which recharges magic energy over time and uses that charged staff to cast spells. Their spell slots recovering when the staff recharges at the end of a long rest.

Spatial Insight

You gain proficiency in the Investigation skill.

Third Eye

You gain proficiency in the Perception skill. Additionally, ranged weapon attacks you make have an increased normal range of 10ft.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Languages

You can speak, read and write Common, Garlean and one extra language of your choice.

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