Light Touched
The light-touched are beacons of all that is good, a beam that illuminates the darkest of nights, the purest of souls. They are creatures of light. They were touched by it and carry its blessing wherever they go, representing the light, standing tall against the forces of evil.
Consecrated by the Lıght
The origins of the light-touched vary; however, all are somewhat connected to other realms of existence or angelic creatures of such realms. Your parents may be the followers of a God or Goddess of light and may have received said deity’s blessings. You may be the inhabitants of a realm of light where everything consists of radiant energy. Whatever the source of your existence is, you carry the light and as bright and pure as it can get.
Lıght-Touched ın Socıety
A light-touched is a rare sighting in a city, not because they are excluded from society, but because they are uncommon creatures. Light-toucheds try to build peaceful relationships with others. Although their astonishing appearance certainly helps with that, the real reason they are successful in doing so is that they make great warriors, spellcasters, politicians, and so on. They bring solace to the souls of their friends and agony to their foes
Lıght-Touched Names
Most light-touched creatures are native to a realm consisting only of light and have names representing their specific gleaming nature. However, a god of light may bestow its blessing upon a baby whose parents are not light-touched. In such cases, they may have names adopted by other cultures. Also, the light-touched may go by names that indicate the color of their innate light, such as “the Red”, or “the Golden”.
Male Names: Bright, Candle, Dawn, Gleam, Shine, Sunny
Female Names: Aurora, Chiara, Glitter, Eileen, Skye, Starlight
- Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2.
- Age. The light-touched reach physical maturity and are considered adults at about the same age as humans; however, they live up to 500 years.
- Alignment. The light-touched are creatures of light. They are mostly restless fighters against the darkness, the emissaries of mercy, vitality, and hope. Therefore, most of the light-touched favor good alignments, though their ways of achieving the good may vary.
- Size. The light-touched have skinnier builds than the average human. Their height ranges from 5 to 6 feet. Your size is Medium.
- Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
- Creatures of Light. You know the dancing lights and the light cantrips. In addition, when you reach 5th level, you can cast the daylight spell once per day.
- Glowing Bodies. You have a mark on your body that glows and emits a bright light as in the light cantrip. The light of your mark can be covered by 1 inch of common clothing or by similar materials. You have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks when you are in a lightly or heavily obscured area unless you cover your innate glow. You also have resistance to radiant damage.
- Radiant Form. As a bonus action, your whole body emanates intense light, and you can take a humanoid form made of radiant energy (transforming with your equipment) and gain the following traits:
- You gain immunity to radiant damage and resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.
- You can move through a space as narrow as 1-inch wide without squeezing.
- You have disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. You remain in the radiant form until the end of your next turn. Once you use this form, you have to finish a short or long rest to use it again.
- Strangers to Darkness. If a light-touched has had no contact with daylight for three consecutive days, its light slowly fades. Your hit point maximum decreases by 1 each time you finish a long rest, and you suffer one level of exhaustion (that can’t be removed until you see the daylight again for 1 hour). The required daylight can be imitated with the daylight spell or any other spell of 3rd level or higher which radiates light. When you finish a long rest after you get in contact with daylight, your previous hit point maximum is restored and you no longer suffer from one level of exhaustion.
- Language. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
- Subrace. The light-touched have three subraces according to the type of light they host and each subrace has specific magical benefits bestowed upon them.
Goldenborn
Your body emanates light in a form resembling sunlight. Your golden radiance soothes the souls of the innocent and strikes fear into the hearts of the forces of darkness.
- Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
- Wrath of the Light. As a bonus action, you can focus and channel the power of your innate light to your hand for 1 minute. When you make a melee attack, your attack deals an extra 1d4 radiant damage on a hit. This extra damage increases to 1d6 at 6th, 1d8 at 12th, and 1d10 at 18th level.
- If you hit with an attack on which you used the Wrath of the Light trait while in radiant form, you are considered to have dealt the highest possible damage for your extra radiant damage.
- Once you use this trait, you must finish a short or long rest to use it again.
Iridescent Ones
Your body glows with rainbow-colored lights that weave and fade into one another and change as you move, making you a very pleasant sight to behold.
Iridescents generally have artistic souls and a natural ability to blend in with almost any crowd.
- Ability Score Increase. One of the ability scores of your choice increases by 1.
- Natural Born Artists. You gain proficiency with an artisan’s tool of your choice.
- Prismatic. You are iridescent; you shine with different prismatic colors that interlock and change with every step you take; each step making you more elegant than before. However, some iridescents may prefer to settle down and choose a stable or signature color with which to shine. As a bonus action, you can choose the color of light your body radiates.
- Social Beings. You have the ability to blend in with different crowds and to adapt, even in the face of the harshest of conditions. You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Insight or Persuasion
Silverborn
Your body exudes a graceful, silver light. All light touched have an understanding of magic, but silverborns have a natural talent or deeper passion for the magic of all sorts, so do you.
- Ability Score Increase. One of the following ability scores of your choice increases by 1: Wisdom or Intelligence.
- Radiant Magic. You can change the damage type of any spell that deals damage to radiant damage. In addition, your spell save DC increases by one for spells that originally deal radiant damage.
History
The Light Touched race is a unique race with no other race like them. Heralding from the city of Loniel, the floating city of angels, they've slowly started to spread out, but havn't gotten very far yet. Only being sighted in the Aesthral Sea. But it's only a matter of time, before they reach the material plane and change it forever.
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