Changeling
Changeling
Changelings are a humanoid race that can shift their forms with a thought. Many changelings use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression. It's also an invaluable tool for grifters, spies, and others who wish to deceive. This leads many people to treat changelings with suspicion and wariness.
ability score increase:
Your Charisma score increases by 2. In addition, one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.
age:
Age slightly faster than humans but have the same life expectancy of less than a century
alignment:
Very regularly Neutral
Size:
Medium
speed:
30 ft
Languages:
Common +2
race features:
- Shapechanger: As an action, you can change your appearance and your voice. You determine the specifics of the changes, including your coloration, hair length, and sex. You can also adjust your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your game statistics change. You can't duplicate the appearance of a creature you've never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. Your clothing and equipment aren't changed by this trait. You stay in the new form until you use an action to revert to your true form or until you die.
- Changeling Instincts: You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion.
- Unsettling Visage: When a creature you can see makes an attack roll against you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the roll. You must use this feature before knowing whether the attack hits or misses. Using this trait reveals your shapeshifting nature to any creature within 30 feet that can see you. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
- Divergent Persona: You gain proficiency with one tool of your choice. Define a unique identity associated with that proficiency; establish the name, race, gender, age, and other details. While you are in the form of this persona, the related proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses that proficiency.
While changelings can look like anyone, they do have a true form. Their natural look can be scary to some due to their lack of detail and distinctive features. Their skin tone is always pale, either white or light gray, and they tend to have slender bodies with limbs slightly longer in proportion to other humanoids. They have large colorless eyes circled by thick black rings. Their hair color is most commonly a light shade of silver followed by platinum and blonde. In rarer cases, their hair can be pale shades of green, pink, and blue. Similar to elves, changelings lack body and facial hair. That being said, most changelings are rarely seen in their true form and prefer to adopt all kinds of humanoid shapes, treating their appearance like others treat clothes. This includes gender.
Changelings probably didn't exist before Kadamitas , or at least that's what the history books claim. The legend goes that a mother of a dozen children made a deal with a transitory deity that dwelled within Shadowfell and the changeling race formed out of the mother's wishes for safety. Either way, though, the Changeling race finds comfort mostly in the very human streets of Khthon and rarely care about where they truly came from. Quite a few of them can be find all over, in fact, mostly relying on stealth and street smarts to remain undetected.
