Homebrew Aracoi Species Details

The aracoi are fiends with human origins. Their horrid birth started with just one ambitious, foolish human. The human and his townsfolk lived all their lives in misery, due to the tyrannical rulers of his kingdom, far secluded from that of others. Nobody would help them. The human decided he should do something about those damned tyrants and took matters into his own hands when a famine struck and his loved ones were among the dead. The tyrants had done nothing to alleviate the food shortage. One night, he went in search of an artifact rumored to grant a wish to whoever was clever enough to find it. What the human never knew was that it was corrupted wish magic, left by a fiend long forgotten in the material realm. It would grant a wish, but instill a terrible curse as a price. He found the artifact in a nearby dungeon and said these words as he grasped it: "Remove the lords of my land, remove the kings of my kingdom, and make sure they suffer in Hell!" His wish was promised and promptly granted. The tyrants, as though a hole suddenly opened beneath them, suddenly dropped from the face of the world. But no one could even celebrate since the curse acted just as swiftly, blanketing the town the human sought to save in a noxious fog. All of the townsfolk, afflicted by the fog for three days, turned into monstrosities who only knew destruction. The human felt the same change as he grasped the artifact, trembling as he too fell victim to the curse. They all sprouted fiendish horns and scorpion tails and their skins turned to that of beasts. These creatures were the first ever aracoi to exist.

These new fiends set on their predetermined courses to afflict destruction on the material realm. They ran to pillage the outskirts of the neighboring nations until those kingdoms drove them back by force. They eventually regained their original senses about three decades later, having been driven back to their own ruined town in straggling numbers. They were horrified by what they became, but because the human held his tongue, no one ever knew of his deed or even his identity. The awakened fiends may have regained their wits, but they still had a newly innate thirst for blood. Where some sought to live lives as a new group of hermits, others acted upon this desire and embraced their new identity.

Aracoi Traits

Aracoi are twisted humans turned forcefully into fiends as such they have grown beyond the percived shell of humanity making most of these creatures unchained and with much more strength and tails.

Ability Score Increase

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

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.

Tail

Tail. Aracoi have their tail as their main means of defense as a natural weapon, with which they use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. Your tail attack reaches 5 feet more than a normal unarmed strike.

Monstrous form

Monstrous Beings. Your creature type is both humanoid and fiend.

Fiendish Form. You are no longer simply of man, having been warped to have the skin and nails and teeth from the realm of fiends. You are resistant to fire damage.

Language

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Infernal