Homebrew Daemikae Species Details

 

"One of a kind they said they've never seen before...
investigate the aberration, resorting in the core."

- Avantasia, Twisted Mind

Celestials and fiends are eternal enemies, incompatible beings, with opposite natures. But sometimes, both celestials and fiends disguise as other races into the material plane, when this occurs, there is the almost impossible chance of both races having a sexual intercourse. The result of this mistake is giving birth to a half-celestial-half-fiend folk. This new race is divided into two, depending on the type of fiend the progenitor was. Creating the diamikaes when the progenitor is a devil, the lawful evil fiends that live in the Nine Hells; and the daemikaes when the progenitor is a demon, the chaotic evil fiends that origin in the Abyss.

Unnatural Aberrations

The celestial and demonic bloodlines cancel each other, making the daemikaes look like normal humans. Even thought, daemikaes have some physical aspects of their progenitors, such as the glorious celestial traits that race like aasimars usually have, but these are less notorious and more humanized than the half-celestial folks; or the often muscular body as result of the demons natural strength. Most races are not able to identify a daemikae, since they look identical to a human. Only celestials, demons, diamikaes and other daemikaes are able to do so. When a daemikae is revealed, most people tend to greet him with stares, whispers, insults, violence and disgust; due to being considered an aberration of nature, with an origin that was purely a mistake. This makes that the few daemikaes that exist live an errant or hermit lives.

Daemikaes are closed about having relations and beginning a family, but when occurs the impossible situation of they accepting to do so, the siblings will always be the race of the other progenitor. Unless is another daemikae, when the race of the sibling will be a daemikae, or a diamikae, in which the race will be determined the mother's race.

Abyssal Ancestry

Even when both are half-celestial-half-fiend races, diamikaes and daemikae have many differences. Both have innately the natural charisma of a celestial being, but then their innate abilities change. Daemikaes are half-demon, having inherited by their bloodline strength and constitution above normal humans, because of the otherworldly physical strength of the fiends from the Abyss. This also reflects in their body type.

Daemikae Names

Due to being natural enemies, both progenitors will never find again in most of the cases. And the mother will discard and leave alone the newborn daemikae in the material plane because it being a representation of the mistake she made, regardless if the nature of the one giving birth is celestial or fiendish. This means that mostly likely the newborn will die or be adopted by another culture, usually humans due to their identical look. The daemikaes receive the traditional names of the race that adopted him.

In the planes where fiends and celestial reside, they refer to them as merely aberrations or mistakes.

BROTHERHOOD

When two or more more half-celestial-half-fiend folksmeet each other, regardless if they are diamikaes or daemikaes, they tend to remain together as a group for their whole life, considering them as their family. This is because of comfort it means to they the fact that they are surrounded by people which most likely came across the same experiences. And even they can be open for a relation and descendence.

 

Daemikae Traits

Daemikaes share certain racial traits as a result of their erroneus descent.

Ability Score Increase

Either your Strength or Constitution score increases by 1, and your Charisma score increases by 2.

Age

Daemikae mature at the same rate as humans but live about the double of an average one.

Alignment

Due to the chaotic evil nature of their demonic heritage, and the lawful good nature of their celestial heritage, daemikaes' heritages counter each other. So the daemikaes tend to the true neutrality alignment.

Size

Daemikae are about the same size and weight as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision

Thanks to your abyssal heritage and radiant soul, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Purgatorial Resistance

You have resistance to fire damage, necrotic damage and radiant damage.

Mistaken Legacy

You know the produce flame cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the guiding bolt spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the revivify spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Celestial and Abyssal.