Homebrew Fadewalker Species Details

Pale and Tall

 

To live among the ashes you must become the ashes. You are as tall or slightly taller than a human, about 5"5 to 6"7 along with this you have a pale ash like skin which helps you to blend in to your natural environment and your eyes always tend to be an eerie red to orange as if it were burning embers. You normally weigh around 96 to 120 pounds as you're quite skinnier than most races as you have not the time nor resources to glutton yourself. Most of you have little to no hair but some are born with abundant hair, even growing beards, this is usually akin to your close relation to humans. Your voice can tend to be raspy(A result of your close interaction with ash) but other than that you sound fairly normal.

 

Benevolence in ruin

 

Although you seem like you would be fiendish or of a less than upbeat attitude, fadewalkers are fairly docile and happy with their lives. They also find great joy in meeting visitors as they rarely get to spend time around other races. These signs of lost civilizations ironically find a philosophical joy in making use of what was destroyed and see themselves as a sign for new beginnings. But even though most are fairly neutral to other races some fanatical believe the fadewalkers must be the dominant race and in turn they band up or adventure alone in search of the power to turn all else into ash.

 

Scavenging Wanderers

 

Your kind almost always keeps on the move going from one ruin to the next and fadewalkers often live off of food scavenged from the ruins and surrounding forests, because of this they have become quite adept at defending themselves using weapons that were scavenged or built crudely, some are even said to hold a special ash magic only available to those raised among the ashes. But among the wandering fadewalkers, some build civilizations at the edge of volcanoes some amounting up to reputable cities. Even though fadewalkers have visited many places and have made cities that have some fame to them they are still fairly unknown by the general public some even thinking their existence to be camp side stories to keep people away from dangerous ruins.

 

Sights beyond the ash

 

Although fadewalkers do enjoy their homes some seek to go beyond the ash and see what the world is really like. Of course these people are rare but it is said any major city has at least one among them as fadewalkers are a very social species who sometimes can't stand only knowing one species their whole life. Of course they do experience a large amount of homesickness, although they do find great comfort when among ashes, and some even keep a container of ashes to remind them of home. And even this great homesickness is overtaken by their uncontrollable excitement to see new things, civilizations that are not yet at ruin and even ruins that don't contain ash!

 

Common names

 

Fadewalkers have a first name and a family title that is based from where the family originated as a remembrance of where they walk and what it was.

 

Male names: Alaton, Airtic, Arnolin, Beltac, Binront, Bakthar, Cyntin, Crontiv, Cub'lat, Dirta'lon, Dor'zyn, Dek'lor, Entyn, Esrive, Emson, Gurtyn, Guilont, Gryntoc, Hurtic, Hynrot, Hilwit, Incet'ric, Invulto

 

Female names: Airinway, Ayinn, Atiler, Byrin, Brin'let, Bo'lin, Cylir, Cril'an, Cryla, Dyler, Dul'et, Drilta, Firwen, Fylin, Filty, Fon'ri, Fye, Ilyn, Inet, Idria 

 

Surnames: Of the Fallen Tree, Of the Buried Stone, Of the Final Rest, Of the Decrepit Village, Of the Great Fallen, Of the Burnt Remain, Of the Charred Surface, Of the Ruined Forest, Of the Sulfur Sea, Of the Dark Embers

Fadewalker Traits

Your life in the ashes has given you the following advantages.

Ability score increase

Your constitution score increases by 2

Age

Fadewalkers live for around 120 to 230 years old and have seen many civilisation big and small at ruin.

Alignment

Most fadewalkers are nuetral as they only wish for the well being of their people some feel a need to give to the world and be completely selfless while other want fadewalker to become the dominant race and search for power so they can reduce all else to ashes.

Size

Fadewalkers are generally as tall or taller than humans averaging around 5"5 to 6"8 feet tall.

Speed

Fadewalkers average about 30 feet per turn but it is said they are quicker when walking through ash.

Languages

Although around other races fadewalkers speak common they prefer to speak among their own race in primordial, the elemental language.

One with the ash

Your natural camoflauge in the ash makes it harder for enemies to hit you causing disadvantage and for you to have advantage on stealth rolls when your in areas covered in ash.

Ash covered feet

The ash is your home therefore you can traverse it better than anyone giving you a 10+ speed boost in the ash and you can even burrow into it and suprise attack enemies or hide and regain yourself.

A touch of home

Before you left home you were taught a spell that could turn wood into a storm of ash giving you the cantrip ash storm.

Return to dust

A terrifying ability all fadewalkers possess is to turn any non living organic based object to ash and this goes for sizes as large as a dinner table but it can be done progressively over time on objects as large as a house.