Banshee and Other Races

Banshee and Other Races By RunaVixen Sample file Banshee Race Traits Your banshee character has a variety of natural abilities: Although most races know of the secretive and mysterious Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by banshee by the legends, myths, and stories told about them, 2. the truth is a well kept secret of the elves. Age. Like elves, they tend to claim adulthood around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old. Changeling Spirits Alignment. Like their fey brethren, banshee can have any Several centuries ago a few of the prominent and royal elven mix of alignments although tend to lean towards chaos. families made a deal with the fey. In exchange for the family Size. Trapped in elven bodies they range from under 5 to taking a fey spirit the fey would bind the spirit to their over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is medium. bloodline allowing the spirit to feel when a member of the Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 ft. bloodline is about to pass over and warn them so they can get Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, their affairs in order. Elvish, and Sylvan. Every generation these families volunteer a child to host Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim one of these fey spirits. Because the spirits strengthen the conditions allowing you to see in dim light within 60 feet of child they usually choose a child who is weak or frail and has you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were little chance of inheriting. doing light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws Eloquent and Lithe against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep. Bound to the bodies of elves banshee are often tall and thin. Iron Frailty. You have a natural vulnerability to iron. After a spirit is bound to a child the child's hair often turns Harbinger of Death. Although you only truly wail death white, silver, or bright red which they often keep long with warnings for the family to which you are bound you can as a minimal styling. Exclusively female they are often dressed in bonus action wail a blood curdling scream. Anyone within white or silver dresses to show their status among the family, earshot must roll a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be while half-banshee often wear black as if in constant frightened until their next turn. Anyone that knows your true mourning. Many banshee accessorize themselves with identity only has to succeed a DC 12. Additionally, the DM shrouds or veils. can tell you at any time to wail for a member of the family you are bound to but only that member can hear your wail. Two Worlds, But Not of Either Subrace. Description. Having been born to elvin families before they were bound to a fey spirit, banshees can often pass as elves to outsiders and Changeling even some of the lower families. However, among the ‘Born’ to one of the prominent elven families you are bound prominent families they are often held with the same to the family and are often sent with important members contempt as half-elves. while they travel to warn them of impending death. On the Those that manage to return to the feywild often find that rare occasion that a member of the family isn't nearby for you they are too elvin to properly fit in there either. Most find to wail for, your bond requires you to find the soon to be themselves torn between two worlds. For some, it is a matter deceased and wail, and if need be accompany the body back of whether they choose to accept the fey or the elf inside to the family. them, while for others it is the literal pull of the elven Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by settlement they were born in or the feywild meadow their 1. soul yearns for. Half-banshees have a mysterious and almost Claws of the Banshee You have sharp fingernails said to macabre obsession with life and often find themselves be able to shred the flesh of those who have scorned you. You walking a fine line between this world and the spirit world. can use these natural weapons to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Wisdom modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage Exploration and Adventure normal for an unarmed strike. This damage counts as Unlike other elves, the banshee that take to adventuring are magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and usually doing it as an escape. Tired of constantly being immunity to non-magical attacks and damage. watched and studied to see if they'll wail these banshee find a quiet comfort in leaving their homes. Their elven families Half-Banshee rarely stop them from exploring the world and often Born to a banshee mother and an elven father, half-banshees encourage it knowing that the banshee will be drawn back are not bound to the blood in their veins. Not bound to a should someone be close to death. For this reason a banshee particular family these banshee wail for anyone near them returning home is often a very hushed and solemn affair. whose death is imminent. Due to this they tend to avoid large Banshee often get along well with other races although they gatherings and larger towns whenever possible. Although will rarely trust someone with their secret. most half-banshees have the long hair of their mothers they often have the normal elven skin tone of their fathers. Often Samplegiven the same treatment as half-fileelves they usually end up Race Names See Elf in the Player's Handbook for more information. traveling from place to place. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. PART 1: Races | Banshee 2.

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