Iyuzi
Races • DnD 5e
Appearance
Iyuzis are slender humanoids with blue, striped skin. They have a stubby blue tail and elongated head with a pair or more antennae. Their forearms and calves are larger with only 3 fingers on their hands and feet.
Culture
The Khor is the name of what an iyuzi calls the voice of the people. When an iyuzi Bastion grows large enough, the overlapping network allows an iyuzi to communicate with anyone within the city. When people share ideas, desires and goals and debate it on a larger scale within the Networks, everyone within the combined Network will instinctively know what they need to do. This instinct is called the Khor. Iyuzis follows The Khor without objection and in most cases, it allows for the success of the Bastion. This creates a militaristic society where everything operates with efficiency. However, this does not mean all comply with the Khor. Some Iyuzi are willing to be cast out from their Bastions and sever their connection to their Khor, leaving them alone in the world.
History
Iyuzis have kept to themselves for most parts of history keeping to themselves in their Bastions until they were discovered during the Age of Arcanum. Since then, they have been a part of many major conflicts increasing the territory by miles at a time. In the modern day, Iyuzis lead research companies that are often mired by sentient experiment conspiracy.
Location
Iyuzi’s bastions can be found scattered around the Barco de Cola continent. Within the mountains of that region or the world, iyuzis have built the bastions while those who decide to abandon the city and The Khor live on the surfaces of the land.
Iyuzi Traits
Your Iyuzi character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of Iyuzi nature.
Ability Score Increase. Intelligence score is increased by 2.
Age. Iyuzi adulthood at 18 and can live up to a century
Alignment. Iyuzi thinks very pragmatically, often taking emotion and empathy out of the equation. This led them to usually be slightly Neutral Evil in alignment.
Size. Iyuzi’s heights are similar to Homeborns, around 5 to 7 feet in height. Your size is medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30ft.
Additional Starting Hit Points.
Lifesense. Iyuzis are sensitive to life signatures making them less susceptible to illusions. You gain advantage on saving throws against illusory effects and spells from the Illusion school.
Darkvision. Living underground in a bastion for generations has allowed the iyuzis to adapt to the darkness. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Mental Network. During a long rest, you may try to attune to another creature that has at least 6 intelligence. At the end of a long rest, the creature is now within your Network. Any creature within a Network may communicate telepathically with each other if they are within 30ft of each other. In addition, if two or more Network overlaps, iyuzis from both networks may communicate telepathically if at least one creature is a part and in range of both networks. You can choose to remove a creature from your network at the end of a short rest. You may attune to a number of creature equal to your intelligence modifier (minimum of 2)
Blits (Lightmind)
When the iyuzis were discovered, some iyuzis were instructed to prepare for a hostile world. These iyuzis later became the blits iyuzis well known to slowly spread their influence across home via a resilient army. They are adapted to war to a point where blits iyuzi has a semi translucent energy surrounding their torso manifested from just the passive mental acuity.
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
Mental Shield. Every creature within your network is protected with your mental energy. All creatures within your network also gain the benefit from Lifesense.
Empower Shields. As a reaction to an attack, you may direct your psychic focus onto the creature giving the a +5 to their armor class against the attack. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier until long rest.
Egida (Darkmind)
Egida iyuzi has closed off from external influences and have focused on growing their connection to The Khor, almost to a point of religiousness. Even while cut off from the rest of Home, they were able to survive with what little connection they have in the Bastion. Egida iyuzi’s antennae often look weightless supported by their psychic belief in the Khor.
Ability Score Improvement. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
Transcendance. All creatures within your Network may perform a meditative ritual instead of sleeping during a long rest. If they do, they do not need to eat or sleep for the next 24 hours.
Focus. As an action, you may sense the psyche of the creatures around you. For the next 1 minute, you and creatures in your Network gain 10ft blindsight. Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until a long rest.
