Tainted

Tainted Ancestral Traits

Your Tainted heritage manifests in a variety of traits that you share with other kinds of your race.
Ability Score Modifier. You can spend 2 additional points on your physical and 1 additional point on your mental ability scores.
Age. The Tainted reach the adulthood around their mid 20s to 30s and can live up to 300 years.
Height. On average the Tainted are between 5ft. 4in. and 6ft. 4in. tall. Your size is medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Languages. You can read and speak Elderspeech and Elven.
One with the Void. Reaction. Your exposure to the Azuremist and Void allows you to convert some of your life force into unstable mana. For each 5 hit points exchanged you regain 1 mana, which has to be spent on a spell cast during the same turn. Hit points used this way cannot be regenerated until you finish a long rest.

Tainted Cultural Traits

Being a guardian of the Voidwake and the dangers it houses taught you some things.
Chrono Breach. 1/day as an action you can glimpse into the past for up to 1 minute. While touching an object you can see the last interaction someone had with it. When touching a corpse you can relieve the last moments of the deceased. Once you hit level 5 you can also hear your surrounding during the breach. With level 10 you gain access to all your senses.
Spell Tattoo Apprentice. You start with 5 points in the skill Craft: Spell Tattoo.

by Vivian Rentsch

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Elderin

Lifespan

200-250 years

Average Height

5ft. 4in. to 6ft. 4in.

Geographic Distribution

• Voidwake

Skin
Desaturated purple and blue, mostly mid to darker tones, lighter to near white is possible but extremly rare. The skin always bears lighter markings similar to Vitiligo just thinner more like lines and covering more surface.

Hair
Mostly darker tones with streaks of purples and blues, rare silver.
Eyes
The eyes have no iris and range from golden, orange and silver as common to blue, purple and black as rare colors
Horns
All Tained are born with horns ranging from those looking like stag or deer to others looking more like chaotically twisted and deformed trees following no pattern.
Hands
The fingers and hands are more or less claw like, the males show this trait stronger than the females.