Homebrew Feyborn Species Details

Feyborn are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it, much like their Elven cousins. They find their origins in and around the Feywild, and are comfortable among humans while still feeling that they don’t quite belong.

Slender and Graceful

With their unearthly grace and fine features, Feyborn appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races, and are often confused with elves. 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.

Feyborn skin coloration is typically pale, Seelie have golden undertones and Unseelie silvery undertones. Either can have hair of pale colors that may include blues, greens, and pinks, or more vivid purples and reds, and eyes like pools of liquid gold, silver, or various unearthly hues. Feyborn have no facial and little body hair. They favor elegant clothing in bright colors, and they enjoy simple yet lovely jewelry.

A Timeless Mirth

Feyborn can live well over 700 years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They delight in petty happenstance and drama, but can often seem aloof despite their amusement. When pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or art, Feyborn 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, and often interfere in the lives of those they consider lesser beings for their own amusement.

From the Feywilderness

Most Feyborn dwell in small forest villages hidden among the trees of the Feywild. Feyborn hunt game, gather food, and grow vegetables, and their skill and magic allow them to support themselves without the need for clearing and plowing land. They are talented artisans, crafting finely worked clothes and art objects. Their contact with outsiders is usually limited, barring their need to amuse themselves, though a few Feyborn make a good living by trading crafted items for metals (which they have no interest in mining).

Those encountered outside their own lands are commonly traveling adventurers, courtiers held in great esteem, or freelancers using their unique abilities to their own advantage.

Feyborn Names

Feyborn tend to follow the naming conventions of their Elven and Fairy kin.

Factions

Ancient divides among the Feyborn callback to their Fairy ancestors, divided into the Seelie and Unseelie.

Feyborn Traits

Your Feyborn character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of their Fey heritage.

Ability Score Increase

Your Charisma score increases by 2 and your Dexterity score increases by 1.

Age

Although Feyborn reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, they can live to be 750 years old.

Alignment

Feyborn love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly toward chaos. They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own. Most tend to be of neutral alignment, but Seelie also skew toward good, and some Unseelie may be truly evil.

Size

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

Speed

Your base walking speed is 40 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 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.

Fey Ancestry

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

Trance

Feyborn 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, 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.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.

Fey Origin

Born from the Fey, you may cast Misty Step as a bonus action once per short rest, and you gain proficiency in Charisma ability checks due to your unearthly beauty. If you are of Seelie origin you are resistant to radiant damage and may cast Bless as a bonus action once per long rest. If you are of Unseelie origin you are resistant to necrotic damage and may cast Bane as a bonus action once per long rest.