Hulines Species in Faerin | World Anvil

Hulines

The Hulines (called cat-people, leopardfolk by some) are a reclusive race of feline humanoids that dwell far from settled areas, making their home deep in the forests and jungles. They rarely engage in trade or dealings with other races, preferring to keep to themselves most of the time.   Hulines are very graceful and catlike in their movements. They resemble humanoids with feline characteristics most akin to leopards, there are some with Tigar and Jaguar coloration as well. Both hands and feet sport vicious claws that can do significant damage when they leap upon their prey.   Although hulines have little use for clothing or other material possessions, they have a great fascination for and aptitude with weapons of all kinds, learning to employ them with great skill after only a little practice.   Hulines are skilled with using their claws and bite in combat, often striking from ambush or a height, pouncing upon their prey and attacking with all four claws at once. However, due to their love of weapons, many will instead employ a hand-held weapon of some kind while in melee, foregoing their natural attacks. Tabaxis can still employ their bite as a secondary attack if using a weapon, as well as one claw as an offhand attack if the hand is free, but they cannot use their grab or rake abilities while doing so.   A typical Hulines stands 6 to 7 feet tall and weighs about 160 pounds.   Hulines Society Hulines live in small groups called prides deep in jungles and warm forests. A typical pride consists of mostly females, with a few young female warriors in training, males are rare and when seen are normally found in camp. The females tend to be slightly larger than the males, and typically are the dominant members of a pride. They live a nomadic lifestyle, prowling through their chosen range and hunting in groups of three to five. They carry little in the way of possessions, although they often sport a miscellaneous array of weapons wrested from past prey. Unless hungry, most Huline prides leave other intelligent creatures alone, though they may attack if intruders in their range bear especially interesting-looking weaponry.  

Huline

Ability Score Increase Dex +2, Cha +1
Size Medium
Speed Base walking speed: 30 feet, Climb speed of 20 feet.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity increases by 2, and your charisma increases by 1.   Age. Your kind have shorter lifespans than humans. They reach maturity at about 8 years old and can live to 60.   Alignment. Tend toward chaotic alignments. Very rarely are evil.   Size. Taller than humans, slender. Your size is Medium   Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.   Low-Light Vision. Characters with low-light vision have eyes that are so sensitive to light that they can see twice as far as normal in dim light. Low-light vision is color vision. A spellcaster with low-light vision can read a scroll as long as even the tiniest candle flame is next to him as a source of light. Characters with low-light vision can see outdoors on a moonlit night as well as they can during the day.   Feline Agility. your reflexes and agility allow you to move with a burst of speed. When you move on your turn in combat, you can double your speed until the end of the turn. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you move 0 feet on one of your turns.   Cat's Claws. Because of your claws, you have a climbing speed of 20 feet. In addition, your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.   Cat's Talent. You have proficiency in Perception and Stealth skills.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

  Environment. Warm forests, jungles.   Organization. solitary or pride (2-8)
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The Heart of Tervel

The earliest mentions of the Huline Amazons are to be found in the Saga of Kate Sutton, a bold explorer who was first to pierce the jungles south of Vidar. Sutton describes their society as exclusively matriarchal race of tall, thin feline-like humanoids with fur patterned like the great cats of the jungle. Sutton, claiming never to have encountered a single male in over a dozen instances of contact with them. She states that the Hulines are ruled over by a priesthood of warrior-mystics, known as the Sisterhood, and every warrior is a devout follower. Many are said to be crazed zealots, berserker-women permanently in the grip of a jungle-brewed narcotic. Whilst under the influence of this highly poisonous substance, these women are the fiercest of warriors, said to equal the much-feared Northern berserkers.   Other details of the Amazons' world remain vague. Sutton describes their habitat as flimsy wooden dwellings built upon stilts amongst the ruins of Lizardmen temples. But although she mentions a number of such cities, she fails to provide any clue as to where such settlements might be located. Furthermore, Sutton goes on to offer tantalising glimpses of further mysteries — the Temple of Karra, the Great Shrine of Rigg upon the shores of Lake Lokka and the untold riches of the otherworldly Royal Palace of the Sisterhood.   -From the Book "The Heart of Tervel" by Kate Sutton.

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