Homebrew Cthulhuian Species Details

Ceremorphosis was a bodily change that occurred when an Cthulhuian tadpole reached maturity and was inserted into the brain of another humanoid being, usually a human. The tadpole ate away the victim’s brain matter and essentially replaced the brain, erasing all of the subject’s personality and memory, but leaving the physical body alive and under the tadpole’s control. After this, “morphological transformations” occurred and after a week a new Cthulhuian was created, these changes include one or more parts of the body being replaced by tentacles, to be in his image. 

It was common for the newly formed Cthulhuian to retain a few memories of its former host. Those memories were merely vestigial and rarely affected the new individual’s personality.

Cthulhuian aren't really accepted in any but the most open settlements. For unlike Mind Flayers Half Mind flayers don't have to eat the brains of other humanoids, they eat normal food, though they might prefer their meat on the rarer side. 

 

Cthulhuian Traits

Cthulhuian's normally live in secrecy, an elusive race of peoples.

Ability Score Increase

You have a +2 to Charisma, and a +1 to Intelligence.

Age

A Cthulhuian tadpole is inserted into the hosts body, when the host is of age. Cthulhuian's then tend to live as long as the host body can.

Size

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

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 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.

Tentacles

You can use your Tentacles as a natural weapon for 1D4 damage, with a 10ft reach. 

Cosmic Ancestry

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

Languages

You know Deep Speech, common, undercommon, and telepathy of 60 ft with a language barrier.