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Casglwyr [Race]
« on: May 29, 2014, 11:28:44 PM »
Casglwyr

The third of the three races with some position of power in the realms of Marleath, the Casglwyr have always been regardeded with some suspicion by the others. Doubtless useful, their strange prediliction for body modification and grafting, especially to their own living forms, has caused the Hegni and the Gollwyd to view them with some suspicion. But the Casglwyr do not appear particularly interested in the politics or the power struggles, and as such are mostly left alone to pursue what strange desires they wish. Their mastery has come at a price, however, and Casglwyr have degenerated in body and mind. Casglwyr have paid the price gladly, as it has allowed them to carefully craft their own destiny on an individual basis.

Personality
Casglwyr are extremely unsettling due to uncanny reserves of patience and focus, benefits that are balanced with unstable and uncertain minds. Casglwyr are sometimes encountered deep in the middle of an internal dialogue, except they seem to be speaking for both sides. Other times, they may burst out in an intense and sudden display of rage, despair, fear, or any number of other emotions, seemingly for no reason at all. Other Casglwyr are capable of coming across as completely sane and normal, though one may yet wonder if their mental instability is merely hidden away. The only common trait is that they are, one and all, obsessed with the process of changing their forms.

Physical Description
Casglwyr come in all shapes and sizes, with many of their physical features having been replaced with a variety of grafts from other creatures, or altered through magic. An unaltered Casglwyr ranges in height between Hanian averages to slightly larger. Their skin is naturally a pale shade of violet with their darker veins providing a contrast not entirely unlike marble stone, and their wispy hair comes in shades of white. Their eyes are solid orbs of white, with no discernable pupil or iris, though this has no effect on their vision.

Relations
The attitude of the ruling races of Marleath, the Hegni and the Gollwyd, is that it is best to leave the Casglwyr to their unnatural researches. While keeping a weather eye on them, of course. The Boncyff, often the target of their experiments, are terrified by what the Casglwyr are able to do to them, and avoid the vivisectors at any and all costs. The races of the surface have not yet met the Casglwyr, but when they do, their reactions will be one of horror.

Religion
Casglwyr are aware of the Gods and their imminent war, but are far too busy fine-tuning their craft to care much beyond a nodding worship in the direction of Lledrith. The other gods they worship as the need arises, a mercenary attitude that has not endeared them to any of the pantheon.

Language
Casglwyr speak Marletan. They occasionally learn to speak other languages, mostly to speak to any creatures captured from the surface.

Adventurers
Casglwyr are seen as useful freaks, which gives them more freedom within the constraints of Marletan society than any other race possesses. Casglwyr are free to set out on long expeditions to hunt down artefacts, unusual creatures for grafting, or all other manner of treasure, and as long as they are not disruptive, Ve Angau and his servants are entirely unconcerned.

Casglwyr Racial Traits
  • +2 Intelligence, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma: Casglwyr have spent ages perfecting their necromantic grafting talents, at the expense of their sanity and their self-knowledge.
  • Medium: As Medium creatures, Casglwyr have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
  • Grafted Form: Upon character creation, the Casglwyr may choose one undead graft of 1st or 2nd level, and gains the benefits and penalties of that graft.
  • Flesh Heritor: Casglwyr start with one bonus corpuscle available to them at character creation.
  • Grotesque Countenance: With any creature who is not necromantic or undead, Casglwyr take a -4 penalty on all charisma-based skill checks.
  • Graft Familiarity: Casglwyr gain a +4 bonus to Knowledge checks to identify grafts and their abilities, and may make such skill checks untrained. They also receive a +2 bonus on all Heal checks related to grafts.
  • Automatic Languages: Marletan. Bonus Languages: TBD
  • Favored Class: Vivisector
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Re: Casglwyr [Race]
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2014, 11:29:04 PM »
Proposed Casglwyr Racial feats:

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Re: Casglwyr [Race]
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2014, 07:13:27 AM »
Looks good. I don't really have any additions at this point in time. And I'm fairly certain Nanshork can build his character now ;)

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Re: Casglwyr [Race]
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2015, 10:38:59 AM »
And that's 4 out of 5.