A curious race of craftborne, their nature coming from the arcane powers that fuel them thanks to their magitech soul core, their uncanny bodies and masked a failed and misunderstood attempt to make them appear friendlier to their creators' and masters' neighbours that has become iconic to this particular group of constructs.
Physical Description: A magitborne's most notable feature is their porcelain mask, pure white and normally made in the image of a humanoid face meant to make them appear relateable and allow them to emote in ways similar to humanoids, however, the face is not known for complex movements and is rather slow in doing so, working against the intent, despite this, it is still a representation of the magitborne's emotional state and sense of self, and should not be lost or broken. A magitborne's metal body is rather lanky, with joints consisting entirely of ball joints and sockets, and poorly proportioned compared to a real humanoid, their waist and stomach appearing very thin, only about double the spine's width, possess a long neck, and bearing oddly ball jointed hips give the magitborne an odd silhouette that defeats their purpose to blend in. Their blue and silver metal frames only serving to give them an odder appearance in oddly lit areas, such as moonlit wildernesses. All these features surprisingly, make it less noticeable that they only bear four fingers. Though past this they can vary in appearance due to their creator's visual intentions.
| Adulthood |
Intuitive |
Self-Taught |
Trained |
| 0 years |
+1d2 years
(1 – 2 years) |
+1d3 years
(1 – 3 years) |
+2d6 years
(2 – 12 years) |
| Gender |
Base Height |
Height Modifier |
Base Weight |
Weight Modifier |
| Visually Male-Presenting |
6 ft. 1 in. |
+2d12 in.
(6 ft. 3 in. – 8 ft. 1 in.) |
160 lbs. |
+(2d12×7 lbs.)
(174 – 328 lbs.) |
| Visually Female-Presenting |
5 ft. 9 in. |
+2d12 in.
(5 ft. 11 in. – 7 ft. 9 in.) |
140 lbs. |
+(2d12x7 lbs.)
(154 – 308 lbs.) |
Society: Magitborne lack any centralized society as a race naturally dependent on others to increase in numbers and created primarily within a preexisting society, and due to their position commonly start at the bottom of hierarchy due to being of no lineage. However, their innate intellect provides them great success in research roles in society alongside an experimental disposition, and due to their natural inclination for their creators to be mages, they commonly reside within very well off neighborhoods or kingdoms, such as Arcania. Magitborne have a distinctive fear of maskless magitborne, knowing that the mask no longer being on their face but elsewhere is a sign of intense instability and danger.
Relations: Magitborne, as a construct, normally have a child-like curiousity of the world, but also a sinister innocence that makes them disliked by more cautious races such as valif or ratfolk. Their appearance can be seen as very overtly threatening due to their more abstract appearance, they porcelain mask particularly being the greatest problem in relations for other races. Due to their natural healing ability, they've been show to garner some intense independence from their creator.
Alignment and Religion: As a race of constructs crafted with no prior relation or formed opinions, magitborne lack any form of alignment predisposition or preferred organized religion, instead taking after those around them and their creators primarily instead.
Adventurers: Despite their lanky frames, magitborne bear reasonable strength, which with their intellect provides them easily to roles such as magus or other melee inclined arcane casters, though a magitborne's role in a party is odd, due to being able to cause more problems then they solved for any adventuring group, despite this however, magitborne are just as frequently likely to wish to be in one as they would be in arcane research labs.
Standard Racial Traits
- Ability Score Racial Traits: Magitborne have augmented strength due to their artificial body and heightened intellect and sense of self, but lack common sense. They gain +2 Strength, +2 Intelligence, +2 Charisma, and -4 Wisdom.
- Type: Magitborne are constructs with the craftborne subtype.
- Size: Magitborne are Medium creatures and thus have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
- Base Speed: Magitborne have a base speed of 30 feet.
- Languages: Magitborne begin play speaking Common. Magitborne with high Intelligence scores can choose any languages they want (except secret languages, such as Druidic). See the Linguistics skill page for more information about these languages.
Feat and Skill Racial Traits
- Porcelain Mask: A magitborne's face is a porcelain mask, its unnerving appearance making it hard to fully understand their emotions and leave other creatures uneased, giving them a +2 racial bonus on bluff and intimidate checks with other races.
Offense Racial Traits
- Natural Attack: Magitborne gain two slam attacks as primary natural attacks that deal 1d3 points of damage.
Defense Racial Traits
- Metal Plating: Magitborne have hardened metal bodies, granting them a +1 natural armor bonus.
- Regenerative Binding: Magitborne's metal bodies are capable of naturally repairing, granting them fast healing 1.
Senses Racial Traits
- Low-light Vision: Magitborne can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.
- Darkvision: Magitborne have darkvision and so can see perfectly in the dark up to 60 feet.
Other Racial Traits
- Artificial Soul: Bearing the inspirational advancement of an artificially crafted soul, magitborne differ from normal constructs in a few ways. They have a Constitution score and an Intelligence score and can be targeted by spells and effects that target living creatures or constructs, as well as all mind-affecting effects and spells, powers and effects that affect objects made from metal. They cannot be physically healed by positive energy, and cannot be physically harmed by negative energy. They are not immune to ability damage and ability drain to mental scores, and energy drain. They are not permanently destroyed when reduced to 0 hit points, and instead are shut offline due to too much external damage and are considered unconscious and helpless, and can be repaired to return to functionality. They are destroyed beyond repair when reduced to a negative number of hit points equal to their Constitution score. They can be raised or resurrected when destroyed if a new body is available for them to inhabit.
- Constructed Requirements: Magitborne physiological needs are different than those of creatures of flesh. They do not need to eat, drink, or sleep, but they still need a daily period of rest. During this period of rest, they must enter a recuperating standby state for 2 hours, which is similar to sleeping except they are aware of their surroundings and don't take penalties for being unconscious. All applications of the Heal skill while used on a magitborne are replaced with the Knowledge (Engineering) skill.
Weakness Racial Traits
- Vulnerable to Anti-Magic: Magitborne are magically powered and are react negatively to being within areas of anti-magic. Magitborne are exhausted when affected by effects that suppress magical effects, such as anti-magic field. Casting dispel magic on a magitborne exhausts it for one round unless it rolls a will save of equal DC to the caster level check the dispel magic had to roll against.
Alternate Racial Traits
The following alternate racial traits may be selected in place of one or more of the standard racial traits above. Consult your GM before selecting any of these new options.
- Unmasked: Magitborne who have lost their mask, broken it, or removed it from their face and placed elsewhere, demonstrate immense instability and are inherently dangerous, possessing glowing eyes within a black void that dwells where their mask once was, giving them a +2 racial bonus on intimidate checks, a -2 penalty on diplomacy checks, and providing them 2/- damage reduction. This racial trait replaces the porcelain mask trait and their +2 charisma racial bonus.
