Pure Blood

Diversity Through Conquest

Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the world. With their penchant for migration and conquest, humans are physically diverse; there is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. Some humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.
Humans are relentless and ambitious people. They build mighty empires on the foundation of conquest, cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human’s memory. Humans champion causes and take loyalty and allegiance seriously. Humans often found sacred orders and institutions for the purpose of guarding special locations or powerful secrets.
Humans live fully in the present—making them well suited to the adventuring life—but also plan for the future, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Humans who seek adventure are the most daring and ambitious members of a daring and ambitious race. They seek to earn glory in the eyes of their fellows by amassing power, wealth, and fame. Humans dream of immortality, but (except for those few who seek undeath or divine ascension to escape death’s clutches) they achieve it by ensuring that they will be remembered when they are gone.

Pure Blood Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about pure blood humans, but your human character has these traits.

Feat

You gain one feat of your choice.

Skills

You gain proficiency in one skill or tool of your choice.

Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.

— Prof. Van Helsing, Dracula

Age

Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Alignment

Humans tend toward no particular alignment. The best and the worst are found among them.

Size

Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common.