Lipoti

The industrious lipoti dig deep into the earth of the World, building elaborate tunnels and underground villages to live in. Though they may be a rare sight in above-ground cities, they're known for working hard and putting the whole of themselves into their labor, hardly resting until their job is done.

Built to Dig

With stocky, squat bodies and thick limbs, the lipoti fit comfortably and stay warm in their below-ground tunnels. The long claws at the end of each finger are perfectly suited to tearing through soil and chipping away at rock, and these claws continue to grow if they break or become dull.
The lipoti have very poor eyesight due to life down below, but a truly remarkable sense of smell and touch. Other species who expect to meet a totally blind creature are often surprised by the way a lipoti can smell movement by changes in the air, or feel the feet of everyone around them stepping on the earth.

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Female Names: Ceres, Eos, Minerva, Nike, Rhea.
Male Names: Apollo, Atlas, Helios, Somnus, Vulcan.
Pride Names: Blackeye, Greymane, Nightplain, Redpaw, Sharpclaw.

Traits

Your lipoti character has the following species traits:
Ability Score Increase Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Age Lipoti age and mature at similar rates to most other species.
Alignment Lipoti lean towards lawful alignments.
Size Your size is medium.
Speed Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Underground Senses As a lipoti, your special sensory organs give you tremorsense of 60ft on land. This radius is doubled to 120ft if you are burrowed. You also gain advantage on Insight, Investigation, and Perception skill checks that involve smell, but gain disadvantage on those same checks when you're relying on sight.
Burrow You have a burrowing speed of 10 feet through dirt, snow, mud, and ice. You may choose to leave behind a hole that other creatures may follow you through. Small creatures may move through the tunnel at full speed, and medium creatures at half speed. Creatures larger than medium may not enter the burrow.
Claws Your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Hold Breath Adapted to life in low-air environments, your species has become capable of holding its breath for extended periods of time. You can hold your breath for up to 30 minutes without penalty.
Language You speak Common and Critteran.

Origin/Ancestry

Oroi

Lifespan

80

Average Height

4'6"

Average Weight

220 lbs.

Related Organizations

• Oroi

Tunnel to the Underworld

Some cultures hold a belief that the lipoti have the power to dig all the way down to the underworld, a place where the dead reside. Others believe that the lipoti themselves ferry souls down to the underworld when their Worldly body dies. It's said that their poor eyesight is to prevent them from seeing what happens after death; they simply listen, smell, and feel their way there to drop a soul off for its eternal rest. Of course, the cultures that hold these beliefs tend to be ones where few lipoti live, and the average lipoti has just as little idea what happens when a soul moves on as any other species does.

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