Homebrew Alk Species Details

Alks, while powerful and a force to be feared, especially in numbers, are weak to emotion and thus are easily charmed, but try to persuade them with guilt or morals and you will merely be another corps on their warpath. 

                                                                                                                    -arcile, only surviver of multiple encounter with an Alk

 

Alks are descended from those they call they the altered, otherwise referred to as Class-E personal accompanying by a generation number afterward. The higher their generation number the stronger they were, and thus the stronger their descendants are. Since the Empire of the Alks was so technologically advanced, all Alks learn new technology with ease. While a single Alk can take out a 10 team on a head-on fight, a trained group of 5 or more can easily wipe an army 20 times their numbers.

As Alk were trained for warfare were their side would have better technology, magic, weapons, soldiers, and number, Alk tend to be very specialized in a single magic branch, Meaning that to take on any number of Alks aside from a single one a team consisting of at specialists of at least one more type of magic then there are Alk is highly recommended.

Appearance

Alks look fairly similar to elves and are often confused, but there are a few differences. Alken ears are flat almost to the point of being flush with the head, slightly pointed but only barely longer than human ears. the eyes see for around 300 feet with ease and without sacrificing clarity or detail have a multicolored sheen to them in bright light, the pupils change color when angry, or in large fights that require extensive amounts of magic. The lips are thin and flush, paired with a small nose, capable of hunting down small rabbits from 400 away. They have a fair and pale complexion, though some cases have been known where they perfectly match trees, sand, grass, stone, and other common materials in their environment. They are not tall nor short and have compacted muscles that get them confused for helpless people even though they rival orcs in raw strength and are unmatched in magic.

Alk Traits

Your Alk race is built for war and specializes in specific magics.

Grand Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity and Wisdom score increases by 2. Your constitution score increases by 1

Age

Although Alks reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the Alken understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass magical experience. An lk typically claims adulthood around the age of 80 and can live to be 2550 years old.

Size

Alks range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35 feet, climbing at 20 feet, and swimming at 30 feet.

Darkvision

Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 80 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.

Keen Senses

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Altered Ancestry

You have a disadvantage on saving throws against being charmed, and but magic can’t put you to sleep.

Trance

Alks don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 3 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Alken defense(acid)

resistance to physical attacks, immunity to acid damage.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Alken. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires. Alken is spoken and written with indiscernible magic woven in, unstoppable by magic inhibitors and only readable by other Alks and dragons