Piscyan
Races • DnD 5e
Appearance
The psicyans are humanoid creatures with the head of a lion fish. They have spines that grow along their back and limbs that they use to communicate in long distances. Their bodies are usually brown with color stripes that is unique to each individual.
Culture
The piscyans are a culture that revolve around sounds. While spoken voice doesn’t travel well in water, piscyan use melodic vibrations through their spines to communicate. When outsiders enter a piscyan city, they are greeted with a choir of music around town.
History
The piscyans was apparently a very technologically advanced race that exploiteed audiotory vibrations to create powerful magics and interesting effects. However, like most technology, they were abused and forced to leave the depths of the ocean and come into contact with the surface people. As time goes by, the technology is now forgotten but the songs are still passed down through generations.
Location
The piscyans used to live deep underwater where the sunlight barely reaches. However, due to a calamity that almost killed off their entire race, they had to evacuate to the surface and now try to recall their glory days in the floating towns.
Piscyan Traits
Your Piscyan character has an assortment of inborn abilities, part and parcel of Piscyan nature.
Ability Score Increase. You Wisdom Increases by 2 and your Charisma increases by 1.
Age. Piscyans reaches adult at the age of 20 and can live up to 180 years. However, they often get sick at older ages and many succumb to disease.
Alignment. While they can be very curious and experimental, they always care for life around them and try not repeat their past mistakes. The piscyans are considered Chaotic Neutral.
Size. Piscyans are usually on the shorter end of medium creatures. They usually range from 5 feet to 6 feet at most.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25ft and you have a swimming speed of 40ft.
Additional Starting Hit Points.
Wavesight. . Your race used to live in the depths of the ocean but have slowly adapted to the surface. You gain blindsight up to 10ft but the range increases to 40ft while underwater.
Echolocation. . You can’t use your blindsight while deafened.
Echoes of the Past. . While you have forgotten the songs of the past, your body seems to remember. As an action, you can cast Thunderwave or Sleep. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier per long rest.
