Homebrew Shadowtouched Species Details
While Tieflings can trace their ancestry back to a fiend from the lower planes, Aasimar find an ancestor among the Celestials of the higher planes and Genasi are the descendants of genies from the elemental planes, the Shadowtouched are tied to the Shadowfell. One of their ancestors was a shade, shadow dragon or similar creature, and that dark legacy persists in your bloodline. Your ancestry might have lain dormant for several generations until, for unknown reasons, it awakened in you.
Shadowtouched look much like a human (or whatever other race they have been born into), but there is a sinister quality about their features and movement that is difficult to pinpoint. Their movements are too silent, their voices often just a tiny bit to whispy, and their skin might be tinged with just a hint of eery grey. Many Shadowtouched give the impression that they would rather stay in the shadows.
Shadowtouched Traits
All Shadowtouched share the following traits.Ability Score Increase
Your Intelligence score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.
Alignment
Creatures from the Shadowfell tend towards evil or chaotic alignment, but your ties to the Shadowfell are distant enough to have little bearing towards your alignment. Shadowtouched can be of any alignment, even though they tend more towards chaos than order.
Age
Shadowtouched mature at the same rate as their parent race, but usually live longer and age slower after they have reached maturity. A Shadowtouched human might live for 120 years, and a Shadowtouched elf might live for up to 900.
Size
You are of the same general height and weight as your parent race, which are mostly humans. Your size is medium.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Darkvision
Your shadowy ancestry grants you Darkvision in a radius of 60 ft. You can't discern colours in darkness, only shades of grey.
Silencing Shadows
Your shadowy ancestry shows in your movements: People tend not to notice you, and you are rarely seen or heard when moving around. You have profiency in the Stealth skill.
Shadow Ancestry
Your ties to the shadow fell give you a resistance to necrotic damage, and advantage on death saving throws.
Disciple of Darkness
You know the Minor Illusion cantrip. Starting at Level 3, you can cast the Bane spell once with this trait as a 2nd level spell and regain the ability to do so after you finish a long rest. At level 5, you can cast the Invisibility spell once with this trait, and regain the ability to do so after you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting modifier for these spells.