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Gnalin

The Gnalin are an amphibious, reptilillian species widely known for their secretive culture and their hostility towards outsiders.
 

Appearance


  The Gnalin are recognizable for their froglike or lizardlike attributes, including large protruding eyes, webbed hands, large jaws, and green or gray skin that is alternatively smooth or scaled depending on their ethnic origin.
 

Territory


  The Gnalin are spread in small tribes throughout Esome, including in the Ghastead Swamps, the Liarra Murkwater, and the Sunome Wetlands.
 

Description


  The Gnalin are often perceived as resourceful, spirtual, and guided by ancient folk tradition. They raise herbs for witchbrew within their various swamplands, and at the center of their culture is a matriarchal structure.
 

Backgrounds


 

Ghastead


  The namesake of the sprawling swamplands, the Ghastead are more primitive but also more culturally integrated than their northern counterparts. Centered around the small city of Withertree, the Ghastead believe their chieftan, the Witch of Moss, protects them from the curses that afflict the the nearby woodland.
  The Ghastead are known for their witchbrew, an alchemic craft where they utilize natural and enchanted herbs and ingredients to make potions, cursed items, and voodoo-like tools.
 
Sub-Race Trait
Witchbrewer With the Witchbrewer trait, you have a proficency with witchbrew items. You can spend 1 hour and 10 gp worth of materials to craft one of three witchbrew items.
  Screaming Stinkbug You give the breath of life to so a small Screaming Stinkbug. This can travel five feet and explodes in small shower of noxious gas, dealing 1 damage to enemies in its direct vicinity, causing distractions, and causing nausea in humanoid enemies.
  Horizonfly Create an artificial horizonfly, which can be used as a flare device, traveling 20 feet into the air or ten feet across the room. Can be used to temporarily blind enemies, and with great luck, can cause fires.
  Choose If: As a Ghastead, you respect superstition, a matriarchal society, and are influenced by the unique religion of ancestor spirits.
 

Murkwater Triumvirate


  The Murkwater Triumvirate, centered around the northern Liarra Murkwater, is a militaristic tribe of Gnalin. They are known as fearsome warriors who have adapted to secrete natural poisions from their scales and spines. Ruled by a millitary triumvirate, the Murkwater tribe has been warred with neighboring Wood Elves for centuries. Hostile towards outsiders, but fiercly protective of their own, the Murkwater are a powerful group of the Gnalin. Their home city is a large well fortified settlement, Iljikir.
 
Sub-Race Trait
Venomous Flesh: Your scales and blood are poisonous. Melee hits on your character have the chance of applying poison damage to the enemy.
 

Kypae


  The Kypae are a devoutly religous tribe of the Gnalin situated near the Sunome Penninsula. Worshipping the Old God Semiik, they are known as powerful sorcerers for whom the Cauldron is a sacred symbol. Organized in small enclaves and collectives, the Kypae are frequent traders and are known as the most friendly of the Gnalin tribes.
 
Sub-Race Trait
Promise of the Cauldron: Your Intelligence score increases by 1. Equipping a Cracked Cauldron item boosts your Magic damage.
 
 

Gnalin Traits


  As a Gnalin, you have

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