Homebrew Dragon's Blood-kin Species Details
"Her gemmed brow twitched and wrinkled in contemplation as Marwyndos' thoughts dwelled on the young man. Yendor, a Goliath man, a failure to his tribe but noble and of good intent. She could see why his frame would be appealing to females but it was his tenacious attitude and kind nature that sparked something within her fires.
That night she dreamed of a future where the world around her burned. How a man she felt a familial love for stood against a standing mass of lava and darkness, herself imprisoned behind a wall of magic wards as a fairy and small boy attempted to free her. With his grand sword thrown aside, the man gave a final glance to the others with tears in his eyes and poison smog heaving from his lungs before launching himself into the dark firey muck.
As the body was swallowed by the lava, the boy screamed with the ferocity of a dragons roar, eyes glowing a brilliant light. His musculature cracked and crunched around his left arm as his tunic ripped to pieces. The skin of his left arm shredding itself from the frame and exposing cobalt colored scales. His nails grew violently outwards and expanded backwards encasing the second knuckle of each digit, each becoming a razor sharp blade. His screams grew louder as clouds of steam poured down from his mouth.
The child flopped forward over his hips and fell silent for a moment that felt like forever. More steam falling from around his body as, all at once, his head rose with those glowing eyes and the entire cavern became engulfed in ice. His rage amplified his dragon aspects and Marwyndos felt love, sadness, and fear like she has never known. Waking up sharply in a heavy sweat Yendor comforted her by holding tightly with his grand arms and she drifted off back to the dreaming world, having forgot the details of her premonition."
Born of the union between a dragon and as humanoid as their name proclaims, a Dragon's Blood-kin walks through a world that greets them with incomprehension, shame, and fear. Shaped by the form of their humanoid parent, their dragon heritage often only becomes apparent in their teenage years. They are incredibly few and far between, not typically having any form of societal tribe or culture exclusive to their race, and often attempt to secret away their scales or Dragon features to "keep appearances". Some have a life of solitude forced upon them and take hermitage in mountain caves or dangerous forests, and others have found themselves trying to find more fulfilling life's in following dragon gods.
Dragon Kin Outcasts
Dragon Blood-kin look very much like their humanoid parent standing erect in humanoid form, though once they reach puberty, their dragon attributes begin to show. Their sturdy, hardened scales aren't always the same color as their parent and breeding with half-bred humanoids, or certain dragon Variants (IE. Chromatic, Gem, Lung etc.), have yielded further discoloration and elemental aberrations. They are strongly built, often having the peak height and optimum weight of their humanoid lineage. Aside just from the scales, and even horned protrusions from their flesh's, their physical dragon features can be an arm, tail, or even sprouting wings from their shoulder blades.
Though True Dragons generally have a "loner" mentality, many of the dragon Blood-kin continue to reach out for some form of companionship after being shunned by society or even both sides of the parentage.
Self-Sufficiency
To dragon blood-kin expulsion and exile are just a fact of life. Only the most kind hearted, or passive, or even advantageous of individuals typically give them any favor.
A continual drive for self-improvement and desire to impress reflects the race as a whole. They often idolize true value, skill, and excellence in all aspects of life and can become angry or incomprehensibly anxious when they fail. For this reason they typically hold themselves to exceed extreme standards, and will often attempt to learn multiple skills at once, but inevitably over tax themselves. They often have deep recesses under their eyes from extensive exhaustion, causing them to sleep for days on end.
They set unrealistic goals for themselves, operate in a semi-logical but counter intuitive manner, and hold others to their ridiculous standards that very few could ever hope to satisfy. Though they can recognize that help is needed in difficult situations, their hubris from having a dragon within them forces them to try everything on their own until the last possible second.
Dragon Blood-kin Names
Dragon Blood-kin that are abandoned typical chose a nonsensical name for themselves but change it later to better fit society. Those not abandon usually have names akin to their humanoid parents. Check the corresponding race page for name suggestions.
I was there, I saw as the skin slowly flayed from his muscles, his body writhing in agony like I could never imagine as the veins and tendons in his neck throbbed and strained. As his screams reached a fever pitch they became more guttural and feral like a roar of some ancient beast.
When it was over my friend stood their staring at me as though I might run away. I almost did until I saw his eye begin to runs with tears of fear and loneliness. I ran over, embraced my friend and remarked at how strong they must be now, touching and handling the scales gently to reassure him I was not afraid.
Dragon's Blood-kin Traits
Your Dragon lineage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other Dragon Blood-kinSkill Proficiency
As a Dragon's Blood-kin you have done a great many things to get along in life. Select two skills to be proficient in.
Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 2.
Age and Appearance
Age:
Young Dragon Blood-kin grow at the same rate as their humanoid parentage at first however once hitting puberty (age 10-14), their scales and other dragon physicalities emerge and their lifespan alters as well.
Chromatic: Those born with chromatic scales will typically grow at an advanced rate, reaching Adulthood in just a few years (14-16 years old) and then stop aging at 26 years old appearing as a middle aged humanoid.
Metallic: Those born with Metallic scales will often experience multiple growth spurts until they are fifty or sixty years old before they look like an adult. While they certainly age and mature mentally, they can still appear to be an adolescent child or teenager at the age of 30.
Both begin saving again once the reach 500 years old and their bodies degrade incredibly slowly. Most won't see grey hair until they are 650 years old.
They live as long as 750-800 years naturally, but most find reasons or lifestyle's that make it exponentially shorter.
Appearance:
In considering Skin tone, Hair color, Height, Average weight, etc. Refer to pages regarding the races of your character's humanoid side.
Alignment
Dragon Blood-kin tend to be Chaotic, but the orientation (Good, Neutral, Evil) can vary depending on where and how they were raised. They typically act as desired and have little forethought despite however intelligent they are until they are much older. This often brings them trouble with Lawful alignment characters. In the opposite side of the scale they will also fight tooth and nail to protect those they have created a bond with.
Size
Your size is Medium.
Dragon Lineage
You have dragon blood pumping in your veins. Choose one type of dragon from the Draconic Ancestry table. Your breath weapon, elemental aspect, and damage resistance are determined by the Dragon's type. See table below:
| Black/Copper ACID Green/Mercury Poison Red/Bronze/Gold Fire Blue/Bronze Lightning White/Silver Cold |
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Languages
Dragon's Blood-kin, like any child, are raised to speak, read, and write the primary language of whomever raised them. If they are raised on their own in the wild, they can often speak "broken common" keeping only to 1-2 syllable words. If they are raised in a town or urban area, it's common for them to pick up several languages.
(Talk with your DM about which parent, if not both or neither, raised you and select that language.)
Dragon's Features
Their Dragon lineage has given them scaley patches all over their body and keen senses. Whatever pain was suffered as their skin sluffed off their body to reveal the hardened draconic flesh beneath paled in comparison to when their most prominent Dragon feature emerged. Some have a dragon's Arm, Tail, or even Wings. The day this feature erupted from their bodies was violent and filled them with terrifying Agony.
Your AC increases by 1 and you have blind sight up to 60ft.
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