Homebrew Deron Species Details

Derons are hyper advanced plant people of otherworldly origins, stranded here unable to leave. They live in a purposeful life, in the midst of war with two other factions attempting to gain control of Zev Gazar, where machines of war cause havoc around a long since abandoned ancient city. Derons love nature and science, art and artistry, music and poetry, and the good things of the world.

Slender and Beautiful

With their unearthly grace and fine features, Deron appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.

Derons coloration encompasses the full range of plant life common around the multiverse, tending more towards an autumn orange/red, but it's not unheard of for vibrant greens blues and purples. Deron have no facial or head hair, along with no body hair, their heads are elongated with the occasional thorn growth. Derons have black eyes with piecing white pupils and an off white iris leaning toward their pigment.

An Ancient Culture

Deron can live well over 2000 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They are more often amused than excited, and more likely to be curious than greedy. They tend to remain aloof and unfazed by petty happenstance. When pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or art, Deron can be focused and relentless. They are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. They reply to petty insults with disdain and to serious insults with vengeance.

Like the branches of a young tree, Deron are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. However, when things do escalate to violence they are unforgiving and brutal, not ones to end the fight short if their enemies have decided they all of a sudden don't want to fight.

Homesick Anonymous Protectors

The Deron are not of this world, not other planar beings, but a race who hail from beyond the stars. They were stranded on Vuota after a defence satellite from a culture long buried shot down their ship. Not ones to interfere with the development of a planet they reside of a small island far from the rest of the native life, attempting to gain access to the last standing ruins of that ancient civilization to allow their safe leaving of the moon. In the millennia they've been on this moon others have since joined them on the island of Zev Gazar and have further complicated their goals.

The Githyanki, who were already known to this species also took interest in this moon, now their efforts are split between the want and need to go home, while desperately trying to protect Vuota from a full scale invasion from the Githyanki.

Deron Names

Masculine Names: Adran, Aelar, Aramil, Arannis, Aust, Beiro, Berrian, Carric, Enialis, Erdan, Erevan, Galinndan, Hadarai, Heian, Himo, Immeral, Ivellios, Laucian, Mindartis, Paelias, Peren, Quarion, Riardon, Rolen, Soveliss, Thamior, Tharivol, Theren, Varis

Feminine Names: Adrie, Althaea, Anastrianna, Andraste, Antinua, Bethrynna, Birel, Caelynn, Drusilia, Enna, Felosial, Ielenia, Jelenneth, Keyleth, Leshanna, Lia, Meriele, Mialee, Naivara, Quelenna, Quillathe, Sariel, Shanairra, Shava, Silaqui, Theirastra, Thia, Vadania, Valanthe, Xanaphia

Deron Traits

Your Deron character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of a culture older than even the elves.

Ability Score Increase

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

Age

The Deron are slow growing and while reaching emotional maturity at around 17 years, they wont be fully physically mature until around 40 years. They are far from short lived and can live to be 2000 years old. As such they do not reproduce nearly as often as other races.

Alignment

Deron are impartial, stubborn, and care for what is objectively correct, so they lean strongly toward Neutral alignments. They value and protect the natural order, and they are more often good than not.

Size

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

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Tremorsense

Descendants of life with roots that spread for miles, you have become insanely tuned to vibrations in the ground. You can sense all ground movement within 60 feet of you so long as you're also touching the ground.

Kindred Spirits

You have proficiency in the Nature skill.

Plant Ancestry

You breathe carbon dioxide rather than oxygen, requiring a filter to prevent a build up of oxygen in your blood, benefit being you only require sustenance and water once every 3 days. Magic can’t put you to sleep.

Photosynthesis

Deron don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, they must have some form of UV radiation in proximity, be it artificial lights or the sun. Most commonly is a pad stuck to their chest which seeps radiation into them at the ideal rate for exactly 4 hours.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Ardyn (Common) and Derish. Derish is flowing, conveying complex meaning more through inflection than the language itself. Deron literature is rich and beautiful, their songs especially can melt even the most hardhearted.