Homebrew
El Mascaras
Physical characteristics
The replicants wear many masks, hiding their true identities behind false faces. As shapeshifters, replicants can appear to be members of any humanoid race, playing a dwarf one day and a draconic the next. This penchant for disguising leads people to distrust replicants, so much of it keeps their true nature hidden.
Although replicants can simulate anyone, most rely on a few established disguises, each with a developed story and a network of friends and acquaintances. These costumes provide the replicant with spare identities should a character become engaged. A replicant who travels frequently can change their identities from town to town, changing genders, appearances, and voices to blend into each new community.
In its true form, a replicant has a striking if vague appearance. The skin of a replicant is uniformly pale with white or light gray tones. His huge eyes are often sunken in black circles, between which is a delicate nose. The replicants are lean, bordering on the fragile. If hair tends to be light in color with shades of blue, green, and even pink; pale silver is the most common hair color, followed by platinum and blonde. Aside from the hair on their heads, replicants possess little or no hair.
Replicants reach maturity around the age of fifteen and live as long as humans.
How to play with a Replicator
Lacking a culture or civilization to call their own, the replicants adopt the societies of other races. They look for communities that have values and interests that are similar to their own. The replicants prefer cities because they are the ideal places to mingle with others or to disappear if necessary. Cities are also home to people too interested in their own affairs to notice the oddities of strangers.
Replicants are inoffensive and peaceful by nature, and they care little about political and social affairs. Their fickle nature creates mistrust and suspicion in other races. People tend to see the worst in replicants; they assume that the race uses its shape-shifting ability for malicious purposes. Some replicants use their talents for evil, but such individuals do not exist in greater numbers than there are in other races.
In a way, replicants are parasitic in their relationships with other races. Instead of constructing great civilizations and majestic buildings dedicated to their people, the replicants are counting on taking the works of other races as their own. Their willingness to identify with a variety of social structures is vital to maintaining their false identities. For many replicants, the arts, customs, and practices they support are more than tools to reinforce their identities. These aspects of society and culture are part of their beliefs and values, just as they are for other members of their adopted communities.
Characteristics: Adaptable, irresistible, cunning, devious, elusive, sneaky, insightful, mysterious, cautious, malicious, subtle.
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