Homebrew Elderlings Species Details

A nomadic race of alien creatures wandering the realms beyond the void after their homeworld was destroyed by the Elder Gods. Despite this, they are glass-half-full people and are usually quite jovial. They have no hair on their bodies, skin in tones of green, blue, purple, pink, black, white, or grey, varied speckles, splotches, or patterns, and tendrils on their head. Their eyes are solid coloured and are purple, deep blue, black, green or red.

Elderlings Traits

The Elderlings have traits enabling them to survive interplanar travel.

Ability Score Increase

+2 Intelligence, +1 Constitution

Darkvision

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.

Lungs of the Void

You do not require oxygen. Therefore you can “breathe” on land, underwater, in a void, and so on. You are immune to magical asphyxiation, though inhalable poison still causes harm as does being physically strangled.

Gatekeeper

You are proficient in arcana. When using arcana to identify the nature or properties of portals you have advantage.

Armor of the Beyond

Gain Resistance to Necrotic and Psychic Damage

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Cthonic. Cthonic is the language of the void.