User:Stryker/Mortem (3.5e Race)

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Mortem

Introduction

The mortem are a strange race that have accepted that death is the only constant. Their strange acceptance has granted them limited powers over death, allowing them to see how close someone is to death or if they are capable of dying at all. They also have very long lifespans, although they had this before their acceptance of death.

History

Long ago their race along with many other inhabitants of their continent were forced into slavery by a vile race of creatures now known only as the Unforgiven. Eventually the slaves formed an uprising where they took back ownership of their lands and destroyed most of their captors .One powerful mortem spellcaster enacted a spell to form the slavers into mindless monsters with an appearance which reflected their evils. They have since built a few cities though only a bit more than half are at the city at anyone time due to their wandering nature.

Personality

The Mortem are a generally serious and areserved race. Most people would call them anti-social, although those who know a mortem personally would say they are just thoughtful and quiet. They are generally content with their lives for they know that they will one day die, even though that death will be far away, by virtue of their long life spans. Although they do not show them often they do have emotions, however they almost never display these emotions and tend to have better control over not showing their negative emotions than showing their positive emotions.

Physical Description

The Mortem stand anywhere from 5 to 6 1/2 feet tall, with women tending to be a bit smaller than the men. They’re skin is stark white. They have no hair aside from the hair on their heads. They generally have pitch-black hair though light shades of gray and streaks of white are not uncommon, their eyes are generally similar colors to those of most humans but with less vibrance, and completely black irises are common.

Relations

Most other races tend to get uncomfortable around the mortem, they find the acceptance of death to be eerie and unsettling. The mortem on the other hand are easygoing and judge people as individuals not judging people by race or appearance.

Alignment

The Mortem race tends toward neutrality, with an inclination towards good over evil and law over chaos. There are very few evil mortem in the world.

Lands

Mortem don't have many lands of their own that are known of, except for one major city known as Morigis Psotem, however most mortem do not live in a city and have adopted a life of travel and wander.

Religion

Mortem don't have a specific religion or god, though some do worship a god.

Language

Mortem speak common and a rare language called Whisper, the language of ghosts and the wind. They share their unique knowledge of this language with the Cardomor race

Racial Traits

• +2 Wisdom, -2 Strength: The mortem’s acceptance of death has granted them wisdom and patience like no other, but their bodies aren’t especially strong.
• Humanoid Humanoid (Mortem)
• Medium: As Medium creatures mortem have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Mortem base land speed is 30 feet.
• Low-Light Vision: A Mortem can see three times as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. he retains the ability to distinguish color under these conditions.
• Darkvision: Mortem can see in the dark up to 60 feet. Darkvision is black and white only, but is otherwise like normal sight, and mortem can function just fine with no light at all.
• Emotionless (Ex): Mortem are immune to fear effects and have a +4 bonus to resist mind-affecting effects.
• Longevity (Ex):The mortem stops physically aging at the age of 30 and as such does not gain the aging penalties/bonuses most others do.
• Deathsight (Ex):Whenever the Mortem looks at something he can tell whether the creature is dead, fragile (alive and wounded, with 3 or fewer hit points left), fighting off death (alive with 4 or more hit points), undead, or neither alive nor dead (such as a construct), like the deathwatch spell.
• Automatic Languages: Common and Whisper..
• Bonus Languages: Any non-secret.
• Favored Class: Spiritualist
• Level Adjustment: +0
• Effective Character Level: 1

Vital Statistics

Table: Mortem Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
18 years	+1d8	+2d8	+3d8

Table: Mortem Aging Effects

Middle Age1	Old2	Venerable3	Maximum Age
N/A	N/A	N/A	1000 years
At middle age, −1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At old age, −2 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At venerable age, −3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

Table: Mortem Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	4'10"	+2d10	110 lb.	× (2d4) lb.
Female	4'5"	+2d10	110 lb.	× (2d4) lb.

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