Homebrew Moldaren Species Details

Moldaren are gigantic fungoid humanoids standing beyond seven feet tall. Despite their height, they are rather light due to their mostly fleshy fungus bodies and mostly hollow frame. They have no typical mouth and have a set of simple eyes along their head. Moldaren speak through vibrations of their neck projecting sound equally in all directions rather than focused forward. Moldaren come in countless colors, but almost all are very dull in tone with males being of darker tones, and females being of lighter tones and having slightly smoother skin. Moldaren are also referred to as the Archaic due to their immense lifespan. The moldaren are very slow to age, only becoming fully grown after roughly 200 years, easily living up to 3000 years, while rarely dying from natural causes or environmental effects. Moldaren do experience some signs of aging into the ends of their life but they seldom die from “old age”.

Moldaren often have colonies of other fungi that live benignly on them. However the wide array of fungal species that can live on them leads to a large degree of diversity between individuals, additionally, as the moldaren travel they may gain and lose fungal colonies vastly changing their appearance in the process. Though moldaren typically never die they also hardly ever breed. For moldaren to breed successfully they must seed a corpse filled with magical energy, in addition, they must find a moldaren of the opposite gender in close enough proximity to mate before the corpse decays too far or loses it’s magical energy.

Since moldaren don't need clothes they only place magical equipment over their most important part the central orb that lies within their chest, plate, leather, chain, or whatever type of armor they use is often exclusively placed over this spot as it holds nearly all of their vital organs.

Moldaren Traits

Moldaren have theses abilities.

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.

Inexhaustible

You have advantage on Constitution saving throws.

Teathering

You are a fungoid that tethers to the earth to revitalize themselves, and you cannot drown, though you can still suffocate. Rather than sleeping you can tether yourself into the earth or a corpse of at least Medium size, which is consumed, for 6 hours. When you do so you draw nourishment from the soil or corpse as if you had consumed a days worth of food and drink. You are fully aware of your surroundings and your speed is reduced to 0 for the duration of the rest.

Tough to Kill

When you roll a death save, and you roll a 1, you may re-roll the result but must use the new result even if it is a 1.

Ability Score Increase

Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.