Beorning Cultural Virtues

Brothers to Bears

"I once saw him sitting all alone on the top of the Carrock at night watching the moon sinking towards the Misty Mountains, and I heard him growl in the tongue of bears…"

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Beorn has taught you to heed the call of an ancient animal heritage. When the moon is high in the sky and the world is fully revealed in an argentine glow, no sound escapes your ears, as the night speaks to you in the language of the Wild.
From now on your sight and hearing are greatly enhanced at night, and let you see or hear better than under the light of the sun, and at a greater distance. At night, you have advantage on all Wisdom (Perception) ability checks, you are considered proficient in the Perception skill and you add double your proficiency bonus to checks, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.

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Great Strength

Standing near was a huge man with a thick black beard and hair, and great bare arms and legs with knotted muscles.

Increase your Strength score by 1. As long as you can move freely while fighting, you may profit from your great strength and nimbleness.
If you are using the variant encumbrance rules treat your encumbrance as one step lower. For example, if you would be heavily encumbered, you would only count as encumbered..

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Night-goer

As the light faded, Bilbo thought he saw away to the right, or to the left, the shadowy form of a great bear prowling along in the same direction.

At night you can choose to slip into a dream-like state, and leave your body in spirit form to swiftly travel along the tracks made by animals across the length and breadth of Wilderland.
In this state, you can swiftly explore an area within three days of travel, until sunrise wakes you. While this will not give you every detail, you will have a very good idea of the surrounding terrain and where danger may lurk.
Your spirit form takes the appearance of a full-grown bear. It is visible to onlookers, and leaves tracks on the ground. While you are outside your body, any action you attempt is resolved using ability checks as usual, but any strenuous activity that causes a loss of hit points wakes you up.
Any harm suffered while travelling in spirit form is transferred to your body at the moment of awakening. Once you’ve used this ability, it cannot be used again until you finish a long rest.

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Skin-coat

…nothing could withstand him, and no weapon seemed to bite upon him.

Tales say that a warrior’s own courage will turn steel and iron better than the smith’s hammer-work.
So long as you wear no armour of any kind, you have resistance to non-magical piercing damage.

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Twice-baked Honey-cakes

The making of these was one of his secrets; but honey was in them, as in most of his foods…

The honey-cakes of the Beornings are legendary among travellers. You can march far by eating just a little of them, and they are much more pleasant than cram, the waybread that Dale-men make for journeys in the wild. You have been shown the secret of baking such cakes, and can prepare them for the consumption of all members of your company.
When you are on a journey, you and your fellow travelers may remove the first level of exhaustion you acquire.