Bhrunai

Bhrunai
Height	3’4” - 4’2”
Weight	50 - 120 lbs
Size	Small
Base Speed	20 ft
Appearance	Skin: Shades of Gray or Brown Eye Color: Gray, Brown, Green, Blue, Hazel, or Metallic Features: Stocky or Cherubic builds. Hair resembling moss, lichen, or fungus.
Lifespan	Maturity: Around 10 years Lifespan: 400 - 500 years

(BROO-nye)

With their brown-green skin, pointed ears, and thick manes of mossy-green, brown, or black hair, the bhrunai originally come from the southern swamplands and possess a captivating appearance they share with their northern relatives, the trollkin. Existing on Ancerra for countless ages, this ancient lineage is deeply intertwined with the myths and legends of many other cultures.

In the past, it was well known that bhrunai would often sneak into homes deep in the night and take food, trinkets, or other such things they deemed useful as tools.

The evidence of this theft could always be found the following morning in the form of shoes with new soles or clothes expertly patched with tightly-wound swampgrass. Bhrunai generally struggled with the concept of ownership and so these exchanges were often deemed as thefts, though many homes grew to welcome these small services and so began leaving offerings for the bhrunai directly. However, it is only in recent centuries that these once-reclusive beings have emerged from their seclusion and embraced integration into society at large.

Travelers may now encounter bhrunai as they engage in commerce in bustling city markets or traverse trade routes with their turtle-pulled wagons. They have earned a particularly notable reputation as skilled artisans and craftsmen and are known to pour themselves into perfecting a craft over their long lifetimes. They take great pride in their independence and resourcefulness, relying on their own abilities to solve problems before seeking assistance.

Bhrunai Culture

Bhrunai have traditionally preferred either solitude or the company of their own kind, building tiny, stilted hovels and forming small communes, usually close to established settlements with which they could trade. Passersby may mistake a group of sleeping bhrunai for mossy boulders. Bhrunai have unique romantic relationships, wherein two who chose to spend their lives together perform a “Melding” wherein two become one. This new bhrunai shares the memories of both mates, but is an entirely new unique individual. Ten to fifteen years after a Melding, two to four small, round, pebble-like eggs break off from the bhrunai while it sleeps, which grow into young.

Bhrunai Traits

Height: 3’4” - 4’2”

Weight: 50 - 120 lbs

Size: Small

Base Speed: 20 ft

Appearance: Bhrunai are usually stocky or cherubic with earthy skin tones: primarily shades of gray, green, and brown. Their hair resembles mosses, lichens, or fungi, and their eyes range in coloration, most commonly natural or metallic tones.

Lifespan: Bhrunai reach maturity around ten years of age and live very long lives. Bhrunai do not physically deteriorate until around their 400th year of life when their body slowly begins to solidify as they spend more and more time resting in their stone form. By their 500th year, most bhrunai become stone permanently.

Bhrunai Features

Bhrunai Starting Features

At level 1, you get the following features as a bhrunai.

Feature	Description
Fae Step	Bhrunai have the natural ability to wink out of sight and slip into places unnoticed. Gain the Fae Step ability. Fae Step (1/Rest). Spend 2 AP to become Unseen for 1 minute. This condition ends immediately if you take damage, make an attack, or use a magical ability.
Stone Sleep	Bhrunai do not sleep like other creatures and instead enter a state of suspended animation called “Stone Sleep.” You must enter Stone Sleep for 6 hours to regenerate your energy on a daily basis. While Stone Sleep is active you gain DT 30, and you are Unconscious but not Helpless. You may remain in Stone Sleep indefinitely, but taking any damage immediately ends your Stone Sleep.
Unique Feature	Choose one additional option from the All Bhrunai Features table at level 1.

All Bhrunai Features

In addition to the unique feature you selected at level 1, you gain one more feature at 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, and 29th levels. Choose from the following features.

Feature	PreReq	Description
Arcane Affinity		Learn two cantrips from the Arcane Source of magic. Use your magic attribute. If you do not have one, use INT.
Bhrunai Expertise		Repeatable. Gain +6 Skill Points to one skill of your choice with the crafting tag.
Environmental Adaptation		When making END checks to resist a harmful environmental condition such as extreme heat, cold, or weather, roll 2d20 and take the higher.
Fae Step II	Fae Step	Fae Step becomes 2/ Rest. Additionally, when you activate this ability you may immediately teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 15 ft.
Grove-Born		Gain +6 Skill Points that you can spend on any of the following skills. With this feature, you may put up to +4 points into any individual skill. Acrobatics: Balancing, Contorting, Tumbling, Athleticism: Athletics Crafting: Alchemy*, Cobbling*, Cooking*, Weaving* Influence: Persuading Luck: Scavenging Subterfuge: Evading, Lockpicking*, Sleight of Hand Survival: Animal Handling, Forage, Nature, Sheltering, Sneaking
Natural Camouflage		While you are outdoors and Concealed, gain +3 on DEX/Sneaking and INT/Evading checks. You can only use this feature when you have not moved since the start of your last turn.
Natural Camouflage II	Natural Camouflage	You no longer have to be Concealed to gain your Natural Camouflage bonus.
Natural Camouflage III	Natural Camouflage II	Natural Camouflage becomes +6 on DEX/ Sneaking and INT/Evading checks.
Natural Camouflage IV	Natural Camouflage III	Your Natural Camouflage works both outdoors and indoors, as you blend in with the once-natural elements of wood and stone.
Naturefriend		Gain the Naturefriend ability. Naturefriend (1/Rest). You can cast the Animal Bond primal spell without spending SP. If you do not know this spell, this is the only way you can cast it until you learn it.
Naturefriend II	Naturefriend	Naturefriend becomes 1/Recoup.
Primal Awareness		Gain the Primal Awareness ability. Primal Awareness (1/Rest). By spending one minute, you sense primal power in a 1-mile radius from yourself. Learn whether or not primal magic has been used in the last 7 days, as well as if a creature with the fae tag has been present.
Primal Power		Learn two chants from the Primal Source of magic. Use your magic attribute. If you do not have one, use AWR.
Stone Gut		Gain Resist Toxic +3.
Stone Gut II	Stone Gut, Character Level 10	Gain Resist Toxic +3, Immune Common Diseases, and Immune Common Poisons. Furthermore, you can receive nourishment from eating any biological plant or common mineral such as clay, dirt, or stone.
Stone Gut III	Stone Gut II	Gain Resist Toxic +3.
Stone Sentinel		You are Immune to magical sleep effects.

*Updated to v1.2