Homebrew Soulbound Species Details

“A living suit of armour, is kinna' schtwepid innit?” Vaughn said.

“Silence Vaughn.” Fetch said.

“Augh, meat.” Fetch said.

— The Trio of Morons

The Soulbound are built from sets of armour, usually to house a magic user's soul after their mortal body has depleted.The first Soulbound goes by Arito, a warlock who to continue protecting his people sacrificed his body and attached his form to a custom built suit of armour. Souldbound of course requires a soul to be created. Despite being metalic constructs, Soulbound still have the ability to feel pain and other physical senses.

Living Armour

Armored plates form a protective outer shell and reinforced joints make up the interior of a Soulbound. Soulbound often do not wear clothing due to their lack of a need for it, but they do often wear many different accessories or even attach metal ornaments to themselves to express their background, personality and/or ethnicity.

Resting, healing magic, and the Medicine skill all provide the same benefits to Soulbounds that they do to other humanoids as their soul still allows them to count as a living being.

Soulband Personality

The Souldband share the same personality and mind as their original bodies For most of their existence. 

A Soulbound's face shows little emotion, but their body language, posture, actions still show as much personality and emotion as other humanoids.

Souldbound's can come in all different sizes, shapes and functions, some may even have multiple limbs to increase effectiveness.

Quirks

The process of Soul transfer is not an easy or flawless one. In fact most who go through the process of Soulbound acquire new mental quirks after the process.

1d10	Quirk
1	You often find yourself losing track of where you have been.
2	You don’t understand emotions and often misread emotional cues.
3	You are fiercely protective of anyone you consider a friend.
4	You often say the things you are thinking aloud without realizing it.
5	You often fear you may lose touch with the physical realm all of the sudden.
6	You don’t know how to filter your feelings and are prone to dramatic emotional outbursts.
7	You no longer understand clothing beyond its utility and assume that what a creature wears denotes its job and status.
8	You are obsessed with your appearance, and constantly polish and buff yourself, as well as often adding or replacing trinkets and ornaments.
9	You are deeply concerned with losing your sense of touch, sight, smell, or hear.
10	You worry that any slight magical disturbance may send you out of your body.

 Soulbound Names

Soulbound often keep the same name as their past life/body but some change it as they take a new form for personal reasons.

Warforged Names: Anything to be completely honest.

 

Soulbound Traits

Your Soulbound character has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age

Soulbound do not have to worry about metal age but may worry about their physical form degrading over time depending on the metal and elements used in their construction.
Soulbound have existed for quite a long time, with the oldest, Arito reported to live up to 1200 Years and counting.

Alignment

Soulbound have whatever Alignment they had in their previous life. They can have any alignment.

Size

Your size is Medium. Most Soulbound stand between 5 and 6 1/2 feet tall. Weight and build are affected by subrace.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Soulbound Body

You were created to have remarkable fortitude, represented by the following benefits.

• You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.
• You are immune to disease.
• You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.
• You still need to rest your soul as if you were going to "Sleep".

Body of Armour

Your body has built-in defensive layers, which determine your armor class. You gain no benefit from wearing armor, but if you are using a shield, you apply its bonus as normal.

You can alter your body to enter different defensive modes; each time you finish a long rest, choose one mode to adopt from the Integrated Protection table, provided you meet the mode’s prerequisite.

Mode	Prerequisite	Effect
Darkwood Core (unarmored)	None	11 + your Dexterity modifier (add proficiency bonus if proficient with light armor)
Composite Plating (armor)	Medium armor proficiency	13 + your Dexterity modifier (maximum of 2) + your proficiency bonus.
Heavy Plating (armor)	Heavy armor proficiency	16 + your proficiency bonus; disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

Languages

Soulbound know and remember any languages they spoke in their previous body.
Your DM may grant you one or more extra languages.