Homebrew Death Fairy Species Details

History

Death fairies (Dark Fey) are creatures as old as the world, some say that the elders of this race have existed since the dawn of creation, but this is hearsay as they do not normally appear for other races. They are the manifestation of death itself in its physical form. Death fairies usually appear in places where death is abundant such as battlefields long forgotten or ancient burial grounds.

Society

Death fairies do not generally form communities, preferring lives of solitude in forested areas, however, some decide to join small villages and will adapt to local customs.

Death fairy Traits

Small dark winged creatures
Ability Score Increase Your Dexterity and Charisma score increase by 2. 
Age. Death fairies spawn fully matured
Algnment. Usually chaotic
Size. between 2 and 4 feet
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet and have 45 feet of flying speed.
Darkvison. Dark vision 60ft
Natural Energy Formation. Your creature type is a mix of humanoid, fey, and elemental.
Trance. Fey creatures do not need to sleep, instead, meditating for 4 hours per day.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Sylvan, and one other language of your choice.

Death fairy

Death touch.  On a successful melee attack, you may add 1d6 necrotic damage, and your target may not regain hit points until the end of your next turn. The damage of this ability increases to; 5th level (2d6),  11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Persistence. Once, when you fail a death saving throw, you can choose to treat it as a success instead. After using this trait, you must finish a long rest before using it again.

Shape shifting. As an action, you may change your appearance, to take the visage of a humanoid of medium or smaller size. You keep all of your stats, but lose your flying speed, while transformed. You may drop this effect as a free action.

Death's Mercy. You know the spare the dying cantrip. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it.
Shackles of death. All creatures not friendly to you up to 30 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw, on a fail they are paralyzed for 1 minute and take necrotic damage equal to the player level, on a success, they take half damage. This feature ignores resistances and immunities. 

 

Death Fairy Traits

Death Fairies are small winged fey creatures.

Death's Mercy.

At first level you know the spare the dying cantrip. This does not count against the amount of cantrips known. 

Shackles of Death

As a bonus action, you cause necrotic energy to spill from your wings, creating a cloud around you. All creatures not friendly to you within, 10 feet must make a Wisdom saving throw; on a failed save, they are paralyzed until the end of your next turn and take 1d8 necrotic damage; on a successful save, they are paralyzed, but take no damage.

Ability Score Improvement

Your small size and quick mind allow you to get out of most situations whether by agility or speech.

Blindsight

You have blindsight out to 60 feet.

Movement

You have a walking speed of 30ft and a flying speed of 45ft

Fey blood

You have advantage on saving throws against being charged and you can not be put to sleep by magical means.

Keen Sight

You have advantage on perception (wis) checks.

Shapeshifting

As an action, you may change your appearance, to take the visage of a humanoid of Medium or smaller size. You keep all of your stats, but lose your flying speed, while transformed. You may drop this effect as a free action. When the fairy shifts anything that is being worn is also shifted to an appropriate size.

Persistence

Once, when you fail a death saving throw, you can choose to treat it as a success instead. After using this trait, you must finish a long rest before using it again.

Death touch

On a successful melee attack, you may add 1d6 necrotic damage, and your target may not regain hit points until the end of your next turn. The damage of this ability increases to; 5th level (2d6),  11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Illusion of Death

When you take enough damage to fall unconscious, you may choose to instead fall to 1 hit point. You may not use this feature again until the next dawn.