Heira’s
You are Heiri, a racial blend between more avian humanoid species and humans, dwarves, and elves. Your people live mainly in the High Cities of Alith, where your species really began to take shape, only rarely existing in Old Ethrell before the Ascension and the Sundering. Your people are highly regarded as masters of tech, medicine, and science, your legacy tied to the success of the High Cities.
Your people share avian traits and humanoid traits, and your culture is particularly fond of intelligence and wisdom above strength, endurance, or brawn. Many of your people enlist themselves as part of the Alisolii, the Alithean Police, Guard, and Military Force that protects the high cities, and your people’s connection to the dragons in the Atmos make you often able to speak Draconic at first level.
Your people are small to medium sized, and often have a pair of white and black streaked wings, with some color variations like dark blue and green feathers or solid black with silver flecks. Your faces and bodies remain mostly humanoid, but your forearms, legs, necks, and backs are covered in a light layer of shadowy grey, blue, or white feathers that are almost entirely translucent, making your skin soft and water repellant.
As children of both Avian Parents and non-avian parent, you get pieces of both worlds, including wings, strange sharp incisors, a temporary fly speed, and the quick reflexes and eyesight of birds of prey. Your people’s eyes are often avian in nature and appearance, though appearing with unusual eye colors, like dark blue, light green, dark grey, and dark brown.
Your body is often slender and not meant for brawling, as brawling is not the most honorable fighting style in the High Cities.
Heiri Race Template
Ability Score Improvements
5e - You gain a +2 bonus to Intelligence and a +1 bonus to Dexterity
3.5e - You gain a +2 bonus to Intelligence, a +1 bonus to Dexterity, a +1 bonus to Wisdom, and a -2 debuff to your Strength
Species - Humanoid
Size - Small or Medium
Movement Speed - 30ft walking, temporary fly speed of 40ft for 1 minute at a time, 3/long rest.
Avian Eyesight - Your eyes are stronger and can see farther than most other humanoid races that are not entirely avian. You can see twice as far as normal humans, orcs, and even elves. You can make perception checks(5e)/Spot checks(3.5e) from twice the regular distance and see things clearly. You have a +2 bonus to your Spot Checks(3.5e).
Temporary Avian Flight - Your wings are powerful, but not entirely perfect, a flaw in all the Heiri except for the rare few who grew perfect wings. You can fly for 1 minute with a flight speed equal to your normal movement speed by activating your wings. You can do this 1/Day.
Mind for Knowledge - Your species has ingrained in itself a constant desire to know more, and your memory is better than most other humanoids. You can recall information you learned within the last week without having to make a check or roll a die.
Proficiency Choices - You are raised among other Heiri, and your people are always thirsting for more worldly knowledge to add to their colossal libraries. You are highly skilled with one of the following options; Choose one of the options to gain proficiency in.
Medicine(5e)/Heal(3.5e)
History(5e)/Knowledge(History)(3.5e)
Arcana(5e)/Spellcraft(3.5e)
Crossbow Masters - Your people are quite familiar with bows and crossbows, having been trained to wield them since you were a newborn, the main weapon of the Alisolii and the Empire of Alith. You are proficient with the Hand Crossbow, Hand, Heavy Crossbow, Light Crossbow, and repeating crossbow.
