Homebrew Aesara Species Details

Aesaras are massive tree-like creature that resemble upright walking trees humanoid. They are considered a legend by most or a mai'ko or elven folk tales of treemen born from the soul of a mortal who died in a forest and there soul wonder into a tree and they Possess it becoming a Aesara.

A Tree Possess

A spirits that was killed are able to entwine their essence with that of a living tree, moulding it to their will. It is not a decision taken lightly, for when a spirit forms a bond with a living tree, they become irrevocably merged and cannot choose to leave — only death can sever the connection. From that moment on, the will of the spirit shapes and drives the tree, using knotted bark and gnarled branches to serve where an insubstantial spirit form cannot. Thus is a treeman born.

Humble Guardians

Aesaras love nothing more than a peaceful day spent among the trees of an old forest. They see forests as sacred places, representing the heart of the world and monuments to the durability of life.

In their role as caretakers, Aesaras live off the land while striving to remain in balance with nature. Their methods reflect common sense and remarkable resourcefulness. During a bountiful summer, they store away excess nuts, fruit, and berries. When winter arrives, they scatter everything they can spare to ensure the animals of the wood survive until springtime.

In a Aesara’s eyes, there is no greater fault than greed. The Aesaras believe that the world remains healthiest when each creature takes only what it needs. Material goods, especially precious gems and gold, have little appeal to them. What use are such things when winter lingers and food runs short?

Cool Rationality

Despite being talkative, Aesaras keep their personal lives private, and they tend to engage more with ideas than with people. They form close friendships based on mutual interests or compelling disagreements, and their interactions dwell on their thoughts about those issues rather than their feelings about them.

To members of other races, Aesaras often seem cold, even emotionless. That assessment isn’t fair—they feel emotion every bit as intensely as other folk do, but they are skilled at not displaying it. Cool rationality guides their actions, they make and follow careful plans, and they are patient enough to do nothing when the ideal outcome relies on such inaction. 

Anger Soul

If a aesara was made forms from the soul of a mortal who met a cruel and undeserving fate. It claws its way back into the world to seek revenge against the one who wronged it. They will do anything it power to find and kill the one for wornged it and its adversary always recognizes the revenant for what it truly is.

Aesara Quirks

You can use the Aesara Quirks table to determine a personality quirk for a Aesara character or to inspire a unique mannerism.

Aesara Quirks

Aesara Traits

Plant

Ability Score Increase

Your Strength score increases by 4, and your Wisdom score increases by 2.

Ageless

You don’t age, and effects that would cause you to age don’t work on you.

Alignment

As people who follow the rhythm of nature and see themselves as its caretakers, Aesara are typically neutral good. There are evil Aesara mainly do to them wanting vengeance on the ones that did them wrong in life.

Size

Aesara are normally 10-16 feet your size is large.

Hidden Appearance

While you remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a normal tree once per short rest.

Speech of Beast and Leaf

You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Sylvan and one other of your choosing.

Aesara's Nature

You are register as both an plant and undead creature and it represented by the following advantages and disadvantages:

• you don't need to eat but you will need water you live.
• You need carbon to breathe but you produce oxygen.
• You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.

Magical Darkvision

You have Darkvision for 60ft and can see through magical darkness.