Race: Lucithian

Lucithians are a vampiric race of dark skinned humanoids, typically hailing from a cool and shadowed land known as Shadehallow. They are a noble, orderly people who have become respected throughout Lyr’andor for their intelligence, wisdom, and loyalty. They prize family, honour, and law above all else. They live in homes that stretch wide and tall, displaying the size and prosperity of each family. They are known to make excellent night’s watchmen, huntresses, and scouts.

Wings in the Night Sky

The people of Shadehallow tend to be dark-skinned, a natural adaptation to allow them to slip unseen through the darkest of places. Their flesh adheres to dark purples, blues, greys and blacks. They have short, human-like ears with pointed tips, and tend to be slightly taller than humans in height, with the average male standing around six feet, three inches. Their hair often comes in blondes, purples, blues, greens, blacks, and whites, with length and care being a point of pride for their people. Older, more powerful Lucithians will sprout dark, bat-like wings, that allow them to glide through the night with ease. Winged or without, Lucithians can navigate through darkness with great ease – inborn magical darkvision in their red, purple, blue or white eyes granting them the vision they need to operate under the moon’s loving gaze. While Lucithians prefer to walk the streets when night falls, they harbour little sensitivity to the sun itself, unlike the Vampiric creatures they are often mistaken for. The sun hurts their eyes, causing them to often walk the day in shade.

Vampiric Hunger

Lucithians, like the darker true Vampires, feed on blood to sustain themselves, even from birth. Unlike Vampires, Lucithians do not hunt down mortal victims to prey upon in the night. In fact, the denizens of Shadehallow abhor this behavior, and instead turn to hunting down wild animals, and feasting on their raw meat. This can sustain a Lucithian indefinitely, but it is not the ideal situation. They do crave humanoid blood, though they do not suffer from bloodlust. Instead, families will take willing wards to feed on, mainly from other races, into their homes and families. Wards are protected, treated incredibly well, and respected as if they were truly family. The wards are allowed to leave at any time if they no longer feel comfortable with the relationship they carry with the family they are bonded to.

Lucithians that violate these commonalities of their society are regarded as criminals, fallen individuals who have given in to their base desires. They are shunned by the rest of their race, and often executed should they be caught feeding on an unwilling victim. Lucithians prefer to distance themselves from the image of Vampires as much as they can, and will punish any among them who dare to tarnish that vision.

Family, Bloodlines, and Wards

Family and bloodlines matter greatly to the Lucithians. Loyalty to one’s family is an expectation – and it is not uncommon for larger families to contain multiple units in a single house or neighborhood. Family decisions are often finalized by the Patriarch or Matriarch of the family, despite how large and sprawling the family has become. The typical family structure of large noble human families is observed here, with one exception: The Wards of the family. There are specific rules governing who may take Wards and who may not. Every adult Lucithian is allowed one official Ward, which joins their family, taking the family name as their own and donning their colours. They are to be given room and board. Even a lone Lucithian, travelling in the world is expected to adhere to these guidelines, though travellers sometimes meet the room and board requirement by paying for their ward’s room at inns, and ensuring the procurement of all of their meals. Bonded families, where two Lucithians perform a marriage-like ceremony, where one Lucithian takes the name of the other, and extends the other’s family further, are allowed to have an additional ward per person. If the bonded family then has children, they are allowed one additional ward per child.

Lucithians will end any venture, return from any point in the land, when summoned to aid their family. Large families, and many wards are widely prized, and the largest and oldest of families tend to accumulate the most respect and finance. This, however, does not extend to hybrid families in most Lucithian traditions. While it is acceptable for a bonded couple to use their wards as lovers, it is widely shunned by traditional Lucithians if a Lucithian attempts to perform bonding rituals with a member of another race. Often, those who do are shunned from society, and cut off from their family, a price that not many take lightly.

Logic and Perspective

Lucithians that feed on humanoids extend their lifespans greatly. With their additional time, most Lucithians tend to focus on improving their minds, and setting out to accumulate experiences that grant them greater perspective. Lucithian homes, especially ones of large families, tend to house great libraries. The Lucithians are avid readers, and love a good book or written story. Study is driven into Lucithian younglings from an early age. Lucithian schools are the greatest and most developed of any of the Lyr’andoric races.

This great deal of extra knowledge and wisdom affords the Lucithians a broader perspective than most other races. Lucithians do not mind sitting back, and approaching a given conflict or situation with a strong plan and several backups in mind. They are prized for their advice and problem solving skills, and make excellent teachers and advisors.

Lucithian Traits

Skin Colours: Lucithians often have subdued, darker colours for skin. Dark greys, greens, blues and purples are common. Some families have paler skin colours, in whites and lavenders, but they are more rare.

Hair Colours: Lucithians have a wide variance of hair colours. Nightwind Lucithians lean towards darker colours, such as blacks, deep blues, browns, and purples. Hallowcourt Lucithians tend to have lighter coloured hairs, such as blondes, light browns, soft blues and greens. Evenguard Lucithians have a wide variance, including the hair colours from both other subraces.

Eye Colours: Lucithians have shades of red or purple for eyes colour.

Racial Appearance Features: Lucithians have sharp fangs in their mouths, akin to vampires. Their ears are human-like, with pointed tips. Lucithians tend to have long, well cared for hair. Ancient or powerful Lucithians will have leathery wings that sprout from their back.

Naming Suggestions: Lucithians have human sounding names, but tend toward a more gothic sound.

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Age: Lucithians are an ancient race and live for great deals of time. They grow up like humans, with children reaching adulthood around age 18. However, they then remain in their prime for the majority of their life, which can span up to a thousand years. In the last 2-3 years of their life, they will suddenly begin to decline, grey, and age, before passing away.

Height: Lucithians are a tall race, with men averaging around 6’8 and women around 6’5.

Weight: Lucithians way similarly to humans. They have a tendency towards lean forms based on their feeding habits and abilities.

Alignment: Most Lucithians tend to be Lawfully aligned, and are a mix between good, evil, and neutral.

Size: Medium.

Speed: 30ft.

Racial Special Traits:

Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity Score increases by 2.
Skill Proficiency: You gain proficiency in the “Diplomacy” skill.
Darkvision: You can see up to 60ft in darkness, and an additional 60ft as if it were low-light.
Language: All Lucithians speak Common and Eventongue.
Blood Drinker: All Lucithians are required to consume blood at least once per twenty four hours to sustain themselves. This blood can be from any animal, but it is best taken from another humanoid. Failure to do so incurs one point of Exhaustion per day. Drinking animal blood does not remove exhaustion, but drinking from a humanoid cures one point of exhaustion per day.
Nocturnal: Lucithians prefer to sleep during the day, and be awake in the evening. They’ve adapted to require less sleep, needing only four hours of true sleep to complete a rest. Their bodies are able to go into a deep sleep immediately, at will, and awaken refreshed after four hours.
Supernatural Flight: At level 11, you gain large bat wings that sprout from your back. You can extend these wings, allowing you to glide from any height, slowing your descent. At level 16, you gain the ability to use your wings to fly, and gain a flight speed of 60ft per turn.

Nightwind Lucithian

The Nightwind Lucithians are nocturnal prowlers and adept night-time scouts. Their ability to see in the dark allows them to track prey and identify threats where other races would be left unable to see. They are swift, keen-minded humanoids with a specialty of working in low-light conditions, and are often employed as night watchmen, scouts, and guides and hunters.

Skill Proficiency: You become proficient in Perception and Stealth.
Ability Score Increase: Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Night Tracker: You have advantage to any Survival or Nature skill checks under darkness.
Swift Movement: Your training has taught you how to swiftly move over terrain. You gain advantage to any Acrobatics checks to jump between ledges, swing between trees, or other similar acts while moving.

Hallowcourt Lucithian

Hallowcourt Lucithians are the true noble core of Lucithian culture. They prefer to remain in their homeland, and often only leave as dignitaries or diplomats. From a young age, they’re versed in knowledge, history and culture, and taught to be prime negotiators from any position. They are often the most heavily law-bound of the Lucithians, and expect rigid adherence to their cultural norms.

Skill Proficiency: You become proficient in Intimidation, History and Performance.
Ability Score Increase: Your Charisma score increases by 2.
Arbitrator: You have advantage to any Charisma based Skill Checks to end or diffuse a conflict or argument.

Evenguard Lucithian

The Evenguard are the stalwart among the Lucithians. They are the night’s watchmen who stand resolute. They are the soldiers who march fearlessly into oblivion. They are the generals who rout enemies who have them at a great disadvantage. They are excellent tacticians and strategists, and champions on the battlefield. They have a tendency to fall into protector roles, taking any assault on those they watch over as an attack on themselves. They are also cunning logicians and excel at finding the truth in any mystery.

Skill Proficiency: You become proficient in Investigation and Insight.
Ability Score Increase: Your Intelligence and Strength scores increase by 1.
Master Strategist: You are trained in leadership, tactics, and strategy. When commanding a large group in large-scale warfare, you gain advantage on any skill checks to command or inspire soldiers. You are also well versed in small groups tactics, and can grant your allies greater insight into their enemies and their weaknesses. While flanking an enemy, you can use a bonus action to grant any allies who gain the benefit of flanking additional critical chance, by lowering the critical strike threshold by half your intelligence modifier, rounded up.