Human

Human Features

Source: The Player's Handbook
Ability Scores Choose any two unique +1
Speed 30 ft.
Size Your size is Medium.
Languages You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice. Humans typically learn the languages of other peoples they deal with, including obscure dialects. They are fond of sprinkling their speech with words borrowed from other tongues: Orc curses, Elvish musical expressions, Dwarvish military phrases, and so on.
Skills You gain proficiency in one skill of your choice.
Feat You gain one feat of your choice.

Basic Information

Behaviour

Humans are the most adaptable and ambitious people among the common races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human’s memory. They live fully in the present—making them well suited to the adventuring life—but also plan for the future, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Having so much more variety than other cultures, humans as a whole have no typical names. Some human parents give their children names from other languages, such as Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most parents give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the naming traditions of their ancestors.

History

In the reckonings of most worlds, humans are the youngest of the common races, late to arrive on the world scene and short-lived in comparison to dwarves, elves, and dragons. Perhaps it is because of their shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty empires on the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the worlds.

Notable Characters

• Myra 'The Black Dahlia' Dharxikas 
• Ysmir Arenthus 
• Augustine Boone 
• Haydn of House MacGearailt 
• Hazel 
• Avery 
• Lewis 
• Joan 
• Dizen Djinn Djigaren 
• Hilda Heathendor 
• Gurak Agirimm  (Half)
• Elara  (Half)
• Matteo Valentius (Half)
• Sebastion Willhollow (Half)
• Phoebe Willhollow (Quarter)
• Nika Willhollow  (Half)
• "Sir" Korynth Vern Kostya (Half)

Genetic Descendants

• Aasimar
• Cyborg
• Fallen Aasimar
• Half-Elf
• Half-Orc
• Protector Aasimar
• Scourge Aasimar

Scientific Name

Humanoid

Lifespan

Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and live less than a century.

Average Height

Humans vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall.

Average Physique

There is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc, or other lineages.