Homebrew Gathlain Species Details

Physical Description: Wings of wood and vines grow out of the bodies of these lithesome fey. Gathlains prefer to wear a mix of clothing, with a base of natural materials like grass skirts or simply woven tunics combined with bits of finery gathered from a variety of sources.

Society: Gathlain society is built around art, discovery, experimentation, and storytelling. These fey constantly seek new ways to look at the world. Gathlain leaders are often popular explorers followed primarily as idols worth emulating and as sources of intriguing gossip. Although gathlains tend to engage in raucous romances born of melodramatic or fanciful encounters, they do not procreate conventionally from such pairings, even when the two happen to be of different physical sexes. Gathlains show little interest in gender, finding it quaint when other races use it as a basis for assigning roles or choosing partners.

Relations: Gathlains associate with a variety of other fey as freely as among their own kind. These mixed communities of fey are called courts and feature elaborate titles for those members deemed most interesting or most worthy of admiration. When a gathlain chooses to join a different community, it is generally a temporary membership, whether it lasts only a season or persists for decades. Adventuring gathlains frequently seek out and attempt to mingle with like-minded gnomes; however, gnomes often find gathlains too flighty, foolish, and undisciplined for their tastes.

Alignment and Religion: Mischievous and capricious, gathlains have discordant temperaments. Most are chaotic, and they tend to be morally neutral. The typical gathlain finds mortal religions strange; like many fey, they trade respect and token offerings to godlike fey in exchange for protection, but they see little difference between that and offerings to lesser kings and queens.

Adventurers: Gathlains strive to entertain themselves and sate their immense curiosity about the world around them, and those who decide to become adventurers often migrate to the Material Plane to explore.

Names: Gathlains lack gender-specific names, but instead attempt to create unique names for each individual. Some examples are Agollia, Armath, Arnonwy, Brazial, Dwynnen, Eirgara, Finnath, Gummow, Inirha, Marcanth, Nirialu, Sollowy, Tiltiu, and Urhiod.

Gathlain Traits

Gathlain are small fey quick and engaging but rather frail

Ability Score Modifiers

They gain a +4 bonus to Dexterity and Charisma but suffer a –2 penalty to Constitution.

Speed

Base walking speed is 20 feet.

Base flying speed is 40 feet.

Base climbing speed is 5 feet

Languages

Gathlain can speak read and write Common, Sylvan and one more language

Size

Gathlains are Small and gain a size bonus to their AC, on attack rolls and a bonus on Fly checks, and a size bonus on Stealth checks.

Fey Sighted

Gathlain gains Low Light Vision, treat lower light level areas as one light level higher. Able to see in dim lit areas at twice the distance than humans.

Gathlain gains Darkvision, see in dark areas with no colours only in shades of grey. See in the dark for up to 30 feet.

Spell Like Abilities

You know the thunderclap cantrip once per long rest. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the thunderwave spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the earthbind spell once per long rest with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.