Homebrew Yagalobo Species Details
The Xapa Vuh? You need words to tell you how to live? Did you forget your ears atop your head and the rumble in your belly?
Lonely, cold, distant, feral, all words the peoples of Tainocha use to describe the Yagalobo living in their midst, but few can deny their strength or loyalty. By now most peoples of Tainocha have accepted that the Yagalobo have a place in society, but many poeple admit to being intimidated by them. After all, who wouldn't be afraid of a race who enslaved their own god?
Out of the grasslands
The origin of the Yagalobo is a strange one, even by Tainocha standards. It began in the third age of creation, right after the gods finished making humanity. Proud of their new creation, the sun triplets of Zozotimani, Tlalcuahuiti, and Quixoyan invited all the other gods to come see. While most of the deities heaped the expected level of praise on reverence on humanity, Pampa, god of the grasslands was not impressed.
"So what?" he said. "You just took the hair off a monkey and gave it too much to worry about."
Furious at the slight, the sun triplets demanded an apology, but Pampa just laughed.
"Watch, I'll do it too!" he said and spat across the ocean, where his divine loogie landed in the grasslands of his home. From beneath the spittle a maned wolf emerged, stood up on its back legs, and asked what happened. Pampa pointed at it, laughed, then walked home to have a nap.
So now what?
The Yagalobo's early years were strange. Most other races had one or more patron gods willing to show them how to live civilized lives, but Pampa was a lazy and distant god. While races like the Grung or the Bestafera were building villages and temples, the Yagalobo were still trying to figure out how to make fire. Pampa knew of the Yagalobo's plight, he just didn't care. They were a punchline to a joke to him, not children to be nurtured. And that would have been that, a half-finished race abandoned by a lazy god, had it not been for Sozin.
Sozin was different than most other Yagalobo. He refused to follow like his kin, to be chased out of villages at night like common vermin and feast on scraps, as he marched into the center of the city of Baxan and demanded to be taught how to be civilized. While many laughed at him at first, he astounded the people of Baxan by rapidly learning how to read, write, cook, craft metal, and build structures. A year later Sozin thanked the people of Baxan and returned to the wilderness, leaving the people of Baxan bewildered. Unbeknownst to them, he was teaching all the other Yagalobo out in the grasslands everything he knew, and within decades the Yagalobo were too building villages and cities nearly as great as anything the other races could create.
A final revenge
But that was not the end of Sozin's tale, for he had one more scheme. Armed with the knowledge he had gained, Sozin set off into the grasslands to preach. To who you may ask? Why he preached to the crickets below, the worms under the dirt, the breezes blowing above and the fireflies that flickered at night, teaching them all one thing: To believe not in the power of Pampa, but in the strength of themselves. His words worked quicker than expected, and Pampa found himself waking from his naps weaker and sicklier each time, every new convert of Sozin's draining him of his worship. Finally Sozin arrived before Pampa, now starved from lack of worship, and demanded the god submit. Pampa roared and lashed out as his disobedient child, only for Sozin to hoist aloft his hammer and bring it down upon Pampa's head. Pampa fell to the ground, and as chains were clapped around Pampa's wrists he could only smile, for finally he had been bested.
Today Pampa is a slave-god, fed a steady drip of worship, just enough to keep him alive but not enough to let him break free. The Yagalobo have claimed Pampa's powers for their own now, and have spread across Tainocha with astounding speed.
Yagalobo Traits
Your yagalobo character has the following racial traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.
Age
Yagalobo reach adulthood at age 16 and live up to 80 years.
Alignment
Yagalobo endure a harsh existence that demands each of them to remain self-sufficient, even at the expense of their fellows. They tend to be chaotic neutral.
Size
Yagalobo are between 6 and 8 feet tall and weigh between 250 and 350 pounds. Your size is Medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
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.
Long-Limbed
When you make a melee attack on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
Powerful Build
You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.
Sneaky
You are proficient in the Stealth skill.
Surprise Attack
If you surprise a creature and hit it with an attack on your first turn in combat, the attack deals an extra 2d6 damage to it. You can use this trait only once per combat.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Goblin.
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