Homebrew Blemmyes Species Details

Age: Blemmyes mature at 10 years old and live to be about 80 years old

Alignment: Blemmyes are of neutral alignment

Languages: You can speak common, and read, write, and speak Blemmish

Names: Blemmyes names are based on ancient eastern African names as this is where they were said to live.

Examples: Lencho, Ifa, Meklit, Hiwot, Gadisa

Ability Score Modifier: Your constitution is increased by 1, and you may add 1 to any other score, alongside another 1 to any other ability score as well.

A race of tall headless humanoids, their faces set in their chest, long lanky arms that grow almost to their knees, with long manes of dirty tangled hair growing between their shoulder blades. The skin colors of this race vary just as much as humans. With wildly varying hair colors. Where some of their kind have their eyes where their nipples would by, others have them in their shoulders. While their noses and mouths are always set in their chests. The nose being in the middle by the collar bone, and the mouth at the bottom of the ribcage.

Being nomadic has spread this headless race across many lands. Though they do prefer forested areas or plains. Herding their animals and hunting the local game. Prioritizing the largest game. Though some do reside in towns and cities. Selling their services as mercenaries, bodyguards, or physical laborers. Most become great fighters, and hunters, using large bows, and spears to take down their prey, or defend themselves from raiders or robbers. But there are some who will become druids, being seen as the tribe's wise ones and medics, giving them a large amount of political power. 

The race came about from a few human tribes that had desecrated a favored forest of an ancient now dead god. Who cursed them to become ugly monsters, their heads disappearing as their faces grew in their chests. Their shoulders sprouting long messy strands of hair. And their bodies growing and stretching to their tall heights. This curse, while making their appearance monstrous, has given them basic magical powers. Only coming out in their carving of sigils for war, hunting, and protection.

 

Blemmyes Traits

Blemmyes are share all their traits no matter where they live.

Blemmyae War Sigils:

 As a bonus action you can activate the war sigils on your weapon, and this turn you cannot miss the target on your next attack. You can activate this equal to your strength modifier per long rest, and only on one weapon. If you change the weapon this effect was on, it's sigils disappear, and it is treated as it is normally.

 

Blemmyes Protection Sigils

 If you are wearing light or no armor, you can add your Constitution Modifier to your AC alongside your Dexterity Modifier.

Blemmyes Hunting Sigils:

 If you are hunting for rations, you have a +2 to all rolls pertaining to that.

Primal Intuition:

You have proficiency in two of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, and Survival.

Cunning Artisan:

As part of a short rest, you can harvest bone and hide from a slain beast, construct, dragon, monstrosity, or plant creature of size small or larger to create one of the following items: a shield, a club, a javelin, or 1d4 darts or blowgun