Homebrew Elementally Awakened Creature Species Details

Those who think of other planes at all consider them remote, distant realms, but planar influence can be felt throughout the world. It sometimes manifests in beings who, through an accident of birth, carry the power of the planes in their blood.

Elementally Awakened Creatures exclusively result from exposure to a surge of elemental power, through phenomena such as an eruption from the Inner Planes or a planar convergence. Elemental energy saturates any creatures in the area and temporarily imbues them with elemental power, very rarely passing the power to offspring in the womb. 

A Creature Malformed

A phenomenon usually affecting only human mortals, Genasi are the general offspring of these happenings. They resemble humans but have unusual skin color, and elemental blood flowing through their veins. Likewise, elemental power flows in Elementally Awakened Creatures, but their form is often an amalgamation of Genasi and their parentages'. This can result in extremely odd looking beings, not unlike the Ahsri. 

Their appearance greatly varies depending on how many traits they take from either side, a creature with more Genasi like characteristics can be mistaken mostly for humans from a distance and in silhouette. Those with more traits taking from their creature parentage are not so lucky, facing large prejudice from the "more human" races. Thankfully most Elementally Awakened Creatures have the ability to suppress their elemental power deeper into their core, thus giving them the appearance of an ordinary creature. 

Just like regular Genasi, Elementally Awakened Creatures have elemental descent, giving those of earth or water descent a heavier body, while those of air or fire tend to be lighter. They also take on appearances associated with each, sometimes even in their repressed form. 

Wild Parentage

Birthed by creatures, most Elementally Awakened are abandoned at an early age to increase the chance of survival of their siblings, as they are unable to repress their elemental power and therefore do not blend in. At this age, they do not possess the control required to reign themselves in. In fact it is dangerous for them to try, as the sudden surge of power after release would be too much for their body. This is part of what makes the Elementally Awakened so rare, as very few survive to maturity.

In lucky cases, the mother will keep the offspring for one reason or another, mostly if they are the only offspring they have produced. Raised among such creatures, they learn their tongue, and try to copy the mother's appearance. If they grow without interference, they naturally learn to suppress, out of the desire to belong and be accepted. 

Social desires

In such cases where the creature is abandoned by it's mother, it is usually another race that takes the baby in, raising it as its own. Raised in a different environment, the Elementally Awakened Creature takes cues from their adopted parent(s), and learning to suppress is often more difficult as it is not possible to suppress their more creature-like appearance, only the Elemental power that causes them to take on Genasi characteristics. 

Due to the much higher intelligence than that of an ordinary creature, the Elementally Awakened have more interest in society as a whole, and are more likely to try and live in either a humanoid society or an awaked one. Those raised by their birth parentage find it harder to integrate into a humanoid society.

 

Subraces

Being born with elemental power, Elementally Awaked Creatures still have the characteristics of the elements,  

Four major subraces of genasi are found among the worlds of D&D: air genasi, earth genasi, fire genasi, and water genasi. Choose one of these subraces.

Elementally Awakened Creature Traits

Your character has certain characteristics in common with other Genasi, Ahsri, and Awakened Creatures

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial. Primordial is a guttural language, filled with harsh syllables and hard consonants.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2.

Age

Genasi mature at about the same rate as humans and reach adulthood in their late teens. They live somewhat longer than humans do, up to 120 years.

Alignment

Independent and self-reliant, genasi tend toward a neutral alignment.

Size

Genasi are as varied as their mortal parents but are generally built like humans, standing anywhere from 5 feet to over 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.