Homebrew Cervus Species Details

“I have never imagined such beauty could be created by such evil,” 

— Dane Roughus, court scholar of Chardonlay.

 

They live in forests and collect "artifacts" from monsters and animals. If you were to give a Cervus community the hand of a demon for example they would give you their finest warrior, a bed to sleep in, etc.

Community 

Cervus live in tight knit community of 20-30 however multiple communities live within a hundred feat of eachother just incase one community runs into trouble

Each community of curvus has a ruler named the Setofawn. He is a leader who takes count of what needs to be done and makes sure the community is surviving. The Setofawn is almost always male and chosen from a group of strong men by the Unirin who's job is to manage the people themselves, she is almost always female.

Matrimony and Lifes

They live in forests and collect "artifacts" from monsters and animals. If you were to give a Cervus community the hand of a demon for example they would give you their finest warrior, a bed to sleep in, etc.

Cervus live in tight knit community of 20-30 however multiple communities live within a hundred feat of eachother just incase one community runs into trouble

Like lions female cervus do the fighting and hunting carrying their children on their backs so they pick up early the way of the arrow and blade.

The males care for the children the rest of the time. They also deal with trade, fishing, harvesting, and Smithing.

When a male fawn grows to a juvenile he is sent to a neighboring community to find love. This does mean interbreeding with cervus is not uncommon as orcs, human, kobolds, goblins, gnolls, and at one point elves all lived around cervus communities.

No two weapons are the same in cervus communities, when a male and female cervus become married their ceremony involves them making a bow and arrow together putting each of their unique designs into it. After marriage the male will make 4 swords each unique. 1 for himself, 1 for his wife, 1 for his first born, and 1 for his second born. Then on the third day of ceremony they travel to a river alone together.

They make up for their physical ineptitude with cleverness, magical prowess, and weapon skill.

Relationship with Wyverns 

They love wyverns and have even been know to make wyverns a home, daily meals, and protect them from bigger threats like dragons. This mainly has to do with their god mordyrs attraction to wyverns, this has caused unique deer like wyvern hybrids called odemef to be born into the world by him.

 Wyverns know of this bond and it's not uncommon to see wyverns protecting clans or helping in a hunt.

As animalistic as wyverns are, when interacting with cervus, they display more intelligent features such as, tilting their head, basic understanding of information, displays of emotion, and even complex decision making.

 

Cervus Traits

A cervus has a variety of natural abilities, most of which have been honed through thousands of generations.

Ability Score Increase

Your dexterity score increases by 2, and your wisdom score increases by 1.

Age

Cervus mature and age at about half the rate as humans. Usually living for 170-200 years old

Alignment

Cervus love the freedom living in the wild, Cervus are inclined toward neutrality. Lawful is also common.

Size

Cervus stand between 5 and 7 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35 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.

Ways of the forest

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Impale

If you move at least 25 feet straight toward a target and successfully attack then you can knock the target prone dealing 1d6 peircing damage

Wild

You ar granted the commune with nature spell. You also have Advantage on Survival. 

Languages

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