Lythari (5e Subrace)
Lythari[edit]
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| By Glen Angus |
The lythari, sometimes called ly-tel-quessir, are elves that are able to transform into wolves. Rather than being a convergent affliction like most natural shapechangers, all lythari are afflicted with a unique strand of lycanthropy from birth, possibly even predating modern lycanthropy, which restricts them to either fully humanoid or fully lupine form. In either form, lythari have unnaturally pale skin and silver hair, and their eyes take on desaturated shades of blue and green.
Like all elves, lythari origins trace back to the Feywild, where Corellion's blood created the first elves. However, the lythari passed into the material plane thousands of years after the tel'quessir, from which sprang the much more common high, wood, and dark elves. While they're still welcome, and almost exclusively found on the Material Plane, in the one true elven kingdom Evermeet, they're still treated with some amount of suspicion.
Lythari culture differs greatly from general tel'quessir culture. While most elves rarely eat meat so as to not disrupt the natural order, lythari see hunting deer, rabbits, and wild boars as a natural part of that order. Rather than gathering in arboreal cities, they prefer nomadic packs rarely exceeding 30 members with no distinct hierarchy. When this is not achievable, smaller groups of lythari are often accepted into packs of mundane wolves. Worgs, werewolves, and wolfweres have a natural hatred of lythari and vice-versa. While they sill largely worship the elven pantheon, the goddess of the moon Selune is considered an equally significant god as Corellion himself.
In addition to normal reproduction, lythari are able to create new members of their kind through a ritual. This ritual demands that all involved are willing, and that the lythari bite the future lythari in their wolf form. The scar from this bite never fully heals.
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1.
Lupine Transformation. As an action, you may transform into a wolf as per the polymorph spell. Using polymorph this way does not require concentration, and you may change back into your true form as a bonus action. You retain your mental ability scores. When you reach 0 hit points in this form, you revert back to your true form. You may use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Wolf Communication. You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with wolves. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them.
Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.
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