Homebrew Living Doll Species Details

Many years ago in a lakeside keep lived the baron of the Perryworth household, a sad old man who had ben whittled down by the tragedies of life. His wife had left him, leaving him with nothing but his wealth and his daughter. Not too long after his daughter had drowned in the lake that his house overlooked. For the rest of his long and lonely life he had taken a fancy to his daughter's old porcelain doll, braiding its hair and taking it out on his daily walks, never letting it out his sight. After many years he had finally passed away, peacefully in his sleep with the doll held tightly to his chest. Some say that at his funeral as his body was set adrift onto to the lake he spent the rest of his days next to, the one that took his daughter, you could see his doll standing in mourning amongst the crowd. 

—Lunaweave Hawshawk

 

Living Dolls are creatures of terror and horror. They move in stutters and can appear from place to place unnerving those around them. Contradictory to this the spirits that wind up being trapped in these dolls only return to reobtain the love and admiration of those they once knew in life. 

A Hidden Love

In manors and keeps, mansions or castles the existence of dolls are prevalent. The Living Dolls not wanting to scare those they admire they remain motionless, unable to be discerned from the others.  

Living Dolls born in crypts - among items of the dead, to trash heaps or long abandoned bedrooms - the Living Dolls come to life by possessing a doll that they had loved during their time alive. Like something heavy weighing on them day in and day out they feel the unbridled need to seek companionship, as after coming back to possess their doll, loneliness becomes a splitting pain in their non-existence heart.

In creating a Living Doll consider their life before death, the relationships they once had with family or friends, their race and appearance, their status etc.

Just Another Prop

In their true form, Living Dolls are spirits, transparent and resemble themselves in their last moments alive. However to most a Living Doll appears as nothing more then a beautiful, porcelain doll devoid of life. Some use this visage to sneak around, avoided the gaze of those who see the existence of the undead as sacrilege. Around strangers if a Living Doll was to move about and interact with them, their movements tend to stutter and they struggle to move smoothly. Although around those that they had a previous bond with or people they now consider close friends, their movements become smooth and although this doesn't impede them physically this tends to make befriending others difficult.

To those who are magically inclined Living Dolls are easily mistaken for constructs and are completely disregarded as something living. This makes it not uncommon that those Living Dolls who struggle to find old friends or are incapable of making new ones end up in extremely degrading relationships with high mages and sorcerers, their constant need for companionship forces them to stay in these terrible circumstances and makes it extremely difficult for a Living Doll to muster up enough courage to leave and make meaningful relationships.

Living Doll Names

Many Living Dolls tend to take up the name of the doll that they had possessed, the old name that they had given the doll in their early life brings a sense of comfort that is hard to find for them. Although it is also not uncommon for them to take up the name they had in life or to create something entirely new.

Living Doll's porcelain bodies aren't gender locked, if a male had a doll that resembles that of a female it's not impossible that after death they possess that same doll.

Living Doll Names: Dottie, Miss Lizzie, Princess Lia, Bella, Ju Ju, Harry, Scruffy, Boppy, Binty, Dawn, Valerie, Poppy, Victor, Albion, Balthazar

Living Doll Traits

Your Living Doll has the following traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Charisma score increases by 2. In addition, one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age

Living Dolls live for as long as their porcelain form stays intact and are as mature as they were when they died. They also mature at the same rate that they would've in their previous life.

Alignment

Living Dolls seek companionship for most of their lives, their alignments depends on their previous life.

Size

Your size is Tiny as you stand at 15 inches tall (1 foot)

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet and you have the ability to hover for up to 10ft.

Flickered Space

After taking the Hide action, as a bonus action you can teleport up to 60ft. However you can only teleport to behind cover out of everyone's line of sight, if there is nowhere that you can teleport up to that is unwatched you are unable to teleport.

Stammering Form

To anyone you aren't close friends with you have disadvantage with any Charisma Check and advantage with Intimidation checks, and vis versa.

Cursed Container

Any spell that raises you back from the dead can return you back to your origin form you had in your previous life if a material from your old body is provided. If an item from your old body can't be provided your spirit is returned back to a reformed version of your porcelain doll body.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages that you knew in your previous life.