Selkie

A beautiful species of mostly aquatic people with a humanoid upper body and below the waist they have the body of a seal. Being widespread over Bratilenna with multiple subspecies over the continent. As a Selkie grows older they gain the ability to change into a completely humanoid form; they usually learn this ability around 5 years old.

Selkie Mechanics

Hit Points

8

Size

Medium

Speed

5 feet, swim 25 feet

Ability Boosts

Constitution
Charisma
Free

Ability Flaw

Dexterity

Languages

Common
Selkie
Sylvern
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it's positive). Choose from Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Goblin, Jotun, Orcish, and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).

Aquatic Adaptation

Your seal-like biology allows you to hold your breath for a long time. You gain the Breath Control general feat as a bonus feat.

Change Shape ⬗⬗

Primal	Selkie	Polymorph	Transmutation

Your lower body magically transforms into human-like legs, you lose your swimming speed and your walking speed becomes 25 ft. You may dismiss this transformation as one action.

Selkie Heritages

Spotted leopard

Found in the southern parts of the continent in the kingdom of Koss. Spotted leopards are one of the more fearsome heritages with sharp teeths. Unlike most other Selkie’s the Females often tend to be almost half a foot taller than the males.
Mechanics
Your family's teeth are formidable weapons. You gain a jaws unarmed attack that deals 1d6 piercing damage. Your jaws are in the brawling group and have the unarmed trait. You treat environmental cold effects as if they were one step less extreme (incredible cold becomes extreme, extreme cold becomes severe, and so on).

Large tooth

Found around the continent, this subspecies of Selkie is the largest. With big strong bodys most people judge them as brutes but they are often intelligent and exsell in social situations.
Mechanics
You are acclimated to living in frigid lands and have a thick skin and blubber. You gain cold resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1). You treat environmental cold effects as if they were one step less extreme (incredible cold becomes extreme, extreme cold becomes severe, and so on).

Mystical

This subspecies of Selkie are believed to be connected to the fey and gain more magical power during midsummer.
Mechanics
The blood of the fey is so strong within you that you're truly one of them. You gain the fey trait, in addition to the selkie and humanoid traits. Choose one cantrip from the primal spell list. You can cast this spell as a primal innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up. You can change this cantrip to a different one from the same list once per day by meditating to realign yourself with the Fey Wilds; this is a 10-minute activity that has the concentrate trait.

Lake Born

The Lake Born are a subspecies of Selkie who live around purely fresh water; they are also the smallest of all the Selkies. Even Though they usually swim in fresh bodys of water they are one of the best subspecies at diving deep underwater.
Mechanics
Unlike other Selkie Lake Borns are unusually small and because of this your size is small. From hunting in deep waters at night has forced them to adapt to see with almost no light, You gain darkvision.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Selkies' natural form is centurion in nature, with their upper resembling a fur covered human and their lower body resembling a seal. Their fur is patterned with spots that run along their back, arms and face. Selkies' hair is often a similar colour to their fur. Two hairs in their eyebrows are long and prominent and have the same use as whiskers. Common Selkie are 6 - 8 ft long in their normal form and 5 -7 ft tall in human form but some heritages are smaller.

Genetics and Reproduction

Selkie pregnancys are often longer then a humans being on avrage being around 10 months, for the last month of this pregnency the mother loses the ability to transform out of their natural form. Selkie are compleatly capable of having children with other Ancestorys although the centorion gene of Selkies are very strong and every child of a Selkie will have the centorion body plan as their natural form. A Selkie child born to a mother of another Ancestory are born in their land form and the first time they are bathed they transform into their natural form.

Growth Rate & Stages

Selkie are compleatly dependent on there famaliy units. Selkie children will begin swiming at around the age of 3 weeks and at the age of 4 years old they often get the ability to change his into their land form. A Selkie will reach adulthood at 18 years old and will reach their physicall peak at 28 years old and at 50 years old most Selkies health begins to decline. A Selkie will most often die of natural causes around 100 years old.

Additional Information

Facial characteristics

The face of a Selkie is very human-like, with one of the only diffrences other than the coat of fur being 2-4 long wisker like hairs sprouting from their eyebrows.
Selkie eye colour is most often black or dark brown.

Civilization and Culture

Relationship Ideals

Selkie are traditionally polygamous forming large family units consisting of 2-4 males and 6-16 females. These family units will communally take turns looking after the children had in the family, treating all children equally no matter who birthed them. Other Ancestry's can join these polygamous relationships. Selkie are fine to have a monogamous marriage to those of other Ancestry's as they understand their traditions are not common and may put others off. In exceedingly rare cases two Selkie might decide to marry monogamously to each other, when they decide to do this they perform a ritual in which for 8 full hours one of them must stay under water with their only source of air being mouth to mouth with their partner.

Selkie	Humanoid

Society

Selkie society is usually based around large bodies of water, with them usually taking the role of fishermen in coastal cities with other ancestry. Selkie are traditionally polygamous but females will only raise one child at a time which means that most families of Selkie will consist of one-three males and up to 15 females. As these families consist of multiple males they will all take care of every child equally even if it's not theirs where the females will help the others with their children but her own will take priority. Sometimes a Selkie will marry manogululy to those of other races as they understand their traditions are not common. Selkies have very powerful voices. This has led Selkie Culture to be very musical and oral, most of their traditions and legends have not been written down making their origin almost a complete mystery.

Alignment and Religion

Many Selkies are kind folk that will help those that they can but they will not go completely out their neck to help people they do not know so they tend to be the more neutral alignments. Selkies often will praise local Water and Wind spirits for good halls on their fishing trips and in return will give sacrifices and only take enough to not destabilise the ecosystem.

Adventurers

Selkie will more often become sailors or pirates than adventures as their love for water makes them stay near large bodies of water. The few Selkie who do decide to become inland travellers, are often motivated by the wonder of exploring what their family doesn't know.

You Might

• Feel relaxed by the sound of flowing waves and the smell of sea water.
• Be quite the seducer and enjoy the exploits of love.
• Enjoy singing and taking part in other musical endeavours.

Others Probably

• Are curious of you when you travel inland as they haven't seen one of you before.
• Will ask you to perform for them for small amounts of money.

Lifespan

100 years

Average Height

On average adult Selkies in their land form are between 150-180 cm. Males are often larger then the Females.

Average Length

Selkies in their natural form are larger then their land form, on average being inbetween 180-215 cm in length. Males are often larger then the Females.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Selkie are covered in a layer of thick warter resistent fur. This fur is patterned with spots that run along their back, arms and face.