Homebrew Yuggya Species Details
Ah, yes, he travelled with us for some time, asking countless questions about the most normal of things. A bit annoying really, and not just once I swear I saw a tentacle slide across his pale face, or between his fingers out of the corner of my eyes. Normal he was not, despite him insisting on being so.
Yuggya is the name given to the progeny of a mating between a being called Yugg and a Deep One of the Far Realms. The Yuggya has the outward appearance of a pale human, however is not remotely human but has characteristics more of squids and insects.
Aberrant Mind
Although its mind is alien to normal human thoughts and emotions, a yuggya is nonetheless empathic and can use this ability to exploit the emotional weaknesses of its adversaries.
Rarely seen outside the Far Realms, some Yuggya are still sent to Material Plane to gather knowledge, scout or defend some interest there for their Masters.
Scouting Sages
As a result of their alien nature and limited understanding of the Material Plane, yuggya can come across as weird and outlandish. They're curious and inquisitive, often seeking general knowledge and/or information about a very specific field, event or object. Their intent with finding these things are almost never revealed, often being incomprehensible to other species and races. Evil or not, their Masters will seldom send yuggya for obviously sinister reasons, if their reasons are at all understandable for anyone but themselves.
Their behaviour might grate on others, but is seldom cause for more than occasional annoyance as the yuggya's innate empathy is very sensitive to negativity and attitudes that can make their mission harder.
Wielders of Weirdness
The Yuggya is most often a formidable magic wielder with an innate connection to the Great Old Gods, much akin to a warlocks pact. Variety exists though, and depending on which Old God they serve and what mission they're on, this connection may express itself differently from yuggya to yuggya.
Strangers to the Material Plane
Given their origins and relation to the Far Realms, most yuggya have never been to the Material Plane. Almost everything is turned upside down and inside out for them, and a newly travelled yuggya is often very disoriented, confused and emotional when found. After some time they will suddenly stabilize and almost eerily become relatively normal in speech and composure.
Yuggya find almost everything in the Material Plane, like nature, people, societal structure and customs bewildering, but supress these notions to blend in. Sometimes their curiosity will get the better of them and they will exclaim their confusion, enthusiasm or surprise, only to quickly supress it again.
Yuggya Personality
Despite that they're often not very knowledgeable about the plane of existence they're visiting, the yuggya are patient and more often amused than frustrated by their own ignorance. You can select, roll, or adapt a yuggya-specific quirk from the Yuggya Quirks table. Use the quirk to inform how you portray your character.
Yuggya Quirks
| d6 | Quirk |
|---|---|
| 1 | You pronounce words and phrase sentences weirdly. |
| 2 | You're always eager to use your newly acquired knowledge about the place you're visiting. |
| 3 | You insist that you are a totally normal human, despite gaps of knowledge and other quirks that at the very least betrays your outlandishness. |
| 4 | You assume that people are telling you the truth about local customs and expectations. |
| 5 | The Material Plane is a strange place, and you catalog all its details in a journal. |
| 6 | You're deadly curious, and will go out of your way to find out more about seemingly random and mundane things. |
Yuggya Names
Yuggya names were not created to be uttered outside conditions very different to the material plane, and sound alien and are hard to pronounce by other humanoid tongues. If taking on a male form their names typically end with what seems like a consonant, and if female, names end with what seems to be an open vowel. The names spelled out in written common (and other languages) often differ vastly to how the yuggya themselves pronounce it.
Female Yuggya Names: Bhaiombra, Grobb'ithu, Mheltha, Vh'agda, Cthugru, Iactiorvolbhu. Utybrera, Acxumbry, Aiud'ybra, Azelka
Male Yuggya Names: Xectan't, Dildxr, Kug'gnosh, Dirix, Kthoklitg, Iucnyld'r, Edadhratl, Ov'yvhur, Aitexost, Athiorriph
Yuggya Traits
Your yuggya character has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
One ability score of your choice is increased by 2.
Age
Nothing is known about the age span of the yuggya, but they will most often appear to be humans in whatever age is optimal to accomplish their goals.
Alignment
Yuggya tend toward being atleast seemingly neutral. Depending on their Master this might fluctuate somewhat, but as their Masters will and intention often is incomprehensible, the variety in aligment is often skewed towards the general consensus of their surroundings.
Size
Yuggya appear in the same varieties as humans, averaging about 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 30 feet.
Amphibious
You can breathe air and water.
Innate Aberrant Magic
You can cast eldritch blast as a cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast detect thoughts with this trait, and starting at 5th level, you can also cast black tentacles with it. Once you cast a spell with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
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.
Emissary of the Far Realms
Other aberrant beings will mostly treat you as their equal unless this being is working for or is a rival or adversary of the Old God you serve. If unprovoked they will most often act as an ally or outright ignore you.
Acclimated Madness
Adapted to the madness of the Far Realms, you have resistance to psychic damage.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Deep Speech.
Skilled Scout
You can pick a feat of your choice.
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