Viashino

A non-native species of Tarana, Viashino are wiry reptilian humanoids, known for their quickness, love of fire, and emotions that run high. Nimble, wily, and naturally equipped with sharp jaws and a near-prehensile tail, they can usually be found in military roles . Viashino enjoy rushing into the heat of battle, often accompanied by some fiery weapons or magic.

Passion and Rage

Unlike the lizardfolk of other worlds, viashino are full of emotion and passion, believed by many to indicate their relation to enigmatic dragon ancestors. Their heightened emotions mean that viashino make fast friends to those they get along with, and present themselves as vicious, raging enemies to their foes. Some say that viashino have a smoldering inner fire, which they can call upon when a battle is turning against them, driving them to never give up in a fight.

Viashino and fire

Viashino have a deep cultural attachment to fire, ranging from a believed draconic ancestry to the heat of their traditional spicy cuisine. Among the Gruul, they are often tied to the clans' fire-focused cultural practices, such as wild pyromancy, or rage magic derived from the Great Bonfire of Skaarg. In the Izzet League, viashino make up the majority of the Scorchbringer guards, an elite combat force armed with flame-hurling pyroconvergers.

Ravnica Races Expanded II

Viashino

ability score increase: Choose one of: (a) Choose any +2; choose any other +1 (b) choose three different +1

age: Viashino reach adulthood in their early teens, and have short lives governed by their hot-running emotions, rarely surpassing 60 years old.

alignment: Viashino generally lean towards chaotic alignments, with no particular tendency towards either good or evil.

Size: Medium

speed: Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for your character.

race features:
Bite. Your jaws are a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Inner Fire. When you take damage that reduces your hit points to less than your Constitution score, you can use your reaction to call on an inner fire. You gain temporary hit points equal to your Constitution modifier, and whenever you deal fire damage to a target with an attack or spell, increase the damage dealt by an amount equal to your Constitution modifier until the end of your next turn. Once you use this trait, you cannot do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
Sweeping Tail. You have a near-prehensile tail that you can use as an additional weapon, or even augment it with a weapon tied to its end. You can make unarmed strikes using your tail, which is treated as an off-hand attack with a light weapon. If you hit with it, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. On a critical hit from a tail attack, the attack's target is knocked prone.
Alternatively, you can use it wield a light weapon that you have attached to your tail. This attack can be used as an off-hand attack, but does not count as wielding more than one weapon for abilities like the Duelist Fighting Style.

Average viashino are wiry and slender, standing slightly shorter than most humans because of their hunched postures.

Viashino in Tarana

Viashino were brought to Tarana through the . They have largely set themselves up in the wild places of the world on the continents of Gaelynn, Serau, Yllew, and Tarjin. There are even rumors of Viashino living on the islands of the Dragon Sea.