Homebrew Orlorian (Squidfolk) Species Details

SQUIDLY SOCIETY

Orlorians will sometimes settle disputes by slapping each other in the face or on the shoulders until one gives up and their society has come to be mostly republics. They vote on their leaders who have to be keen of wit, silver-tongued, and able to take many hits on the shoulders and face. In Orlorian society, it is forbidden for politicians to slander each other without absolute proof of wrongdoing.

Orlorians are considered strange by most, and seem to have a rivalry with Wyrana when it comes to building underwater, though Orlorians can survive at lower depths. They are wary of most land dwellers, though you’d never know that at first glance due to how unapologetically silly they are. They’ve eaten Bovides near the coast in the past before realizing they were sapient, and they were never able to recover relations with them. Now they eat manatees instead.

MASTERS OF COMEDY

Orlorians are extremely fond of writing and performing, and make for very fun, very passionate actors who, while extremely hammy, are also incredibly fun to watch. Their written works tend to be rather absurdist in nature or be filled with such ridiculous melodrama that it just becomes laughable. Orlorians are generally not good at creating legitimate works of drama or tragedy, but they can frame a comedy like almost nobody else, and even helped popularize Romantic Comedy as a genre on Nafine.

Their strange talent to make almost any situation into a joke works both for and against them. In the rare occasion where they do try to make something serious, people tend to assume that it is meant to be a joke, and because of this, the Orlorian who does desire to create a more serious work will take on a false name and use that when the work is released.

Orlorian authors have created many famous comedies such as “Higlyum Glukkas Orkee Va” (The Glorious Sunset Jumper), “Twelve Rings,” “Vuuak Tukia Orlao” (Song Within The Waves), and “Orlorani’s View on Nafine.” Which are all famous for their unapologetically absurd stories and totally bizarre characters.

SQUIDS AND THE OCEAN MOTHER

Orlorians are devout followers of Mhelki Lhaska and claim that it was the Orlorians who taught the sea serpents about the ocean mother. The Orlorians also claim that they once had a mortal ascend to demi-godhood during their bronze age and claim that this demigod defeated an oceanic fiend that tried to kill the ocean mother. The Orlorians also believe that this same Demigod used a magical spear to kill several giant turtles which he then made into Nafine’s Nofuku Archipelago.

Orlorians have many cities under the water, such as Tefreni in the Trinnil ocean and their greatest city of Hruloko back on Orlori which they claim to be the pinnacle of fully submerged cities with tubes connecting domed sections of the city. They are domed in order to protect from large predators and invasions. The city also has walls with several murder-holes in them so archers and other defenders can fend off attacks.

Orlorian (Squidfolk) Traits

Amphibiousness, silliness, aquan, and stuff

Ability Score Improvement

Orlorians gain +2 to their intelligence score and +1 to their strength score

Languages

Orlorians speak Common and Aquan

Amphibious

You can breathe air and water.

Suckers and Tentacles

You gain the Grappler feat at first level.