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CONRASU

ANCESTRY

RARE

AEON

CONRASU

PLANT

Hit Points 10

Size Medium; Speed 25 feet

Ability Boosts Constitution, Wisdom, Free; Ability Flaw Charisma

Languages Mwangi, Rasu

Additional Languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it is positive). Choose from Celestial, Elven, Iruxi, Sylvan, Terran, Utopian, and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent to your region).

Sunlight Healing A conrasu can enter a meditative, healing state as a 10-minute activity when exposed to direct sunlight, in which case they recover 1d8 Hit Points. At 3rd level, and every 2 levels thereafter, this healing increases by 1d8. Once a conrasu has recovered Hit Points in this way, they are temporarily immune to further uses of Sunlight Healing for 1 day.

Conrasus are shards of cosmic force given consciousness who construct intricate exoskeletons to interface with the mortal world. Both an integral part of the underlying processes of the universe and strangely set apart, conrasus look to aeons to understand their existence.

Conrasus aren’t entirely clear on their own origins. Some historians think them a failed experiment of a wizardly cabal—possibly a splinter of artificers from the ancient Jitska Imperium—who desperately hoped to bind a pleroma to bolster their army but who accidentally conjured shattered scraps of the aeon instead. Others believe conrasus were built by their ancestors using an accelerated, iterative evolution process as natural as one designed by those who build portions of their own bodies could ever hope to achieve. Most likely, it is a mix of the two.

You Might...

  • Do your best to determine and act upon the will of your guiding aeon.
  • Use rituals and repetitive actions as a means to meditate and reflect on your purpose.
  • Have difficulty applying your cosmic instincts and senses to a physical existence.

Others Probably...

  • View you as part of a hivemind at best or lacking in free will at worst.
  • Have trouble understanding your perspective or attempts at communication.
  • Look to you as the expert on any matters involving aeons or related beings.

Physical Description

The true form of a conrasu is an abstract chunk of spiritual essence. While their being exists beyond the truth of humanoid senses, to the mortal eye, their body usually resembles a globe of light, darkness, or space. Floating, internal pinpricks of illumination sit inside the ball, slightly obscured as if peeking through a gelatinous substance. These “cores” surround themselves with bodies made out of still-living wood, creating the form that most people recognize as a conrasu. Conrasus themselves are called to a path and, once they find it, shape frames to create a suitable form, leading to a wide variety of appearances.

As a conrasu ages, the supple green wood of their body hardens, causing their limbs to lose mobility. Conrasus must constantly grow new arms and roots for their living exoskeleton, leaving their frozen limbs as immobile effigies along their shell.

Conrasus can’t maintain their integrity without their wooden exoskeletons. A conrasu that loses its exoskeleton dissipates and dies, though they can be returned to life with magic like other beings.

Society

There are three distinct types of conrasus. Maintainers tend and care for others, believing they must cultivate a proper balance between various forces. Shapers build and direct those around them, and feel that balance is maintained by those who strive to preserve the world’s equilibrium. Lastly, correctors fix problems of all sorts, often acting as stalwart bastions of law who perceive the world in absolutes, with few to no shades of gray. True balance can be achieved only in cases where pressure and force have been applied to make necessary changes.

On rare occasions, a conrasu may hear and heed the call of another form of extraplanar being. One might serve a psychopomp, another an archon, and yet another might become a witch and adopt an unknown figure as a patron.

Alignment And Religion

Many conrasus consider themselves bound to a specific aeon, following them like a deity and doing what they believe to be the aeon’s bidding. As a result, almost all conrasus are lawful neutral in alignment.

Names

Conrasus have little in the way of consciousness as others understand it before they self-actualize and leave the nursery-towns where they sprouted. That includes a name, a concept of gender, and even the passage of time beyond their little bubbles—these are picked up in the wider world. As a result, a conrasu might have nearly any appellation.

Sample Names

Automa, Azubu, Dumi, Emeka, Ganizadi, Locu, Incanes, Radi, Shell, Weave

Conrasu Adventurers

Maintainers who become adventurers are often wizards, bards, or clerics who offer their magic and knowledge to the group and subtly nudge the party as needed. Correctors tend to become champions, clerics, and fighters, forming heavy and hard living wood armor around themselves to keep them safe from harm. The rare shaper might travel with a group as a druid or even a bard, usually to accomplish a goal they believe lies outside of the enclaves.

No matter the path a conrasu finds themselves on, they tend to come from similar backgrounds. Field medic and herbalist tend to fit those who find themselves comfortable in their homes and with those of their nursery while conrasus of nomad or emissary backgrounds tend to enjoy roaming from place to place.

Conrasu Enclaves

The Creche is an enclave comprised primarily of shapers who tend an expansive nursery of the strange trees, each sprouted from severed conrasu limbs, that eventually become the conrasus and their exoskeletons. Located in the dense and largely unmapped jungles of the northeastern Mwangi Expanse, this enclave is the first place most conrasus know and where they begin their journeys as the hands of aeons. If any one place serves as the heart and soul of conrasu civilization, the Creche is it.

The Copses is another enclave between the Creche and Lake Ocota where shapers tend to trees that are used to reinforce the exoskeletons of young conrasus as they set out into the world. Conrasus traditionally stop here to take some time to learn as they craft their new selves.

TABLE 1: CONRASU HERITAGES
Exclusive Heritages Description
rite of invocationLOTME You augmented your exoskeleton with magic.
rite of knowingLOTME You enhanced your exoskeleton with a connection to Axis, allowing you to tap into the infinite knowledge of the plane.
rite of lightLOTME Your exoskeleton bears small shoots that can share life.
rite of passageLOTME Your exoskeleton remains connected with the plants that created it.
rite of reinforcementLOTME Your woven exoskeleton rivals the hardest armors that can be found.
Versatile Heritages Description
ArdandeRE Your elemental heritage is reflected in the oils and fragrances of plants, in tree resin that fossilizes into amber, or in the gentle smell of a flower.
ReflectionDA You were created as a duplicate of another creature, intentionally or accidentally, though you might not know of your origins.
TalosRE Your physical features reflect the influence a zuhra or other metal elemental has had over your bloodline.
draconic scionBAD You possess the power of dragons, whether you descended from dragons, learned from dragons, were transformed by exposure to draconic energy, or reincarnated from a past life as a dragon.
TABLE 2: CONRASU ANCESTRY FEATS
Level 1 Conrasu Feats Prerequisites Benefits
Ceremony of ProtectionLOTME — You manipulate your exoskeleton to overlap itself.
Ceremony of the Evened HandLOTME — You have cultivated your exoskeleton’s form for close combat, using knots, whorls, and reinforced branches.
Conrasu LoreLOTME — You have learned about your history and your people from shapers.
Conrasu Weapon FamiliarityLOTME — You have taken it upon yourself to learn the ways of combat to aid with your tasks, perhaps in a role as a corrector.
rLet’s Try That AgainSG-04 — You feel a sense of deja vu when you’ve made a mistake, almost as if you weren’t so careless in a past life and could certainly do better if given another chance.
rLike a RoachSG-04 — Living with the bare necessities isn’t terribly hard for someone who has defied death, and like a cockroach, you always know how to survive.
rWeight of ExperienceSG-04 — The experience you’ve accumulated over multiple lifetimes envelops you like a weighted blanket, providing comfort and bestowing confidence under pressure.
rWisdom From Another LifeSG-04 — You absorbed a wide variety of facts before you died, and your soul still remembers slivers of this precious knowledge.
Level 5 Conrasu Feats Prerequisites Benefits
rAnimal Soul SiblingsSG-04 — Your eyes have been opened to the spiritual essence suffusing the world.
Ceremony of KnowledgeLOTME — You tap into aeon knowledge.
Ceremony of SunlightLOTME — You have learned how to master the power contained within sunlight, just like the trees that form your body.
Conrasu Weapon UnderstandingLOTME — You have come to know conrasu weapons as you know yourself.
rEmpathy IncarnateSG-04 — Reincarnation has given you a compassionate perspective and enabled you to relate to almost everyone you speak with, putting them at ease and quickly generating trust.
rFey InfluenceLOIL — You have been exposed to powerful fey magic.
rI’Ve Had Many JobsSG-04 — Finding and excelling at odd jobs is child’s play to one who has worked many occupations during many lives.
rReincarnated RidiculerSG-04 — You’ve practiced the art of taunting an enemy, ensuring they know death will only make you stronger.
rSleep of the RebornSG-04 — Philosophers compare the cycle of life, death, and rebirth to sleeping, dreaming, and waking.
Level 9 Conrasu Feats Prerequisites Benefits
Ceremony of Aeon’s GuidanceLOTME — Your patron aeon has allowed you to call upon their gifts to serve their ends.
Ceremony of Aeon’s ShieldLOTME — Your patron aeon graced you with powers of protection.
Ceremony of FortificationLOTME Ceremony of Protection Your exoskeleton arranges itself into an optimal defensive shape.
Ceremony of the Strengthened HandLOTME Ceremony of the Evened Hand Your exoskeleton’s weapons are even more potent.
rDrain EmotionLOIL Fey Influence You touch an adjacent creature and attempt to draw out its excess emotion.
rFey AscensionLOIL Fey Influence The fey influence on your form and features grows even more powerful and notable.
rLingering EchoesSG-04 — Not everyone is reincarnated, and you feel a strong connection with the spiritual echoes of those who didn’t receive the same opportunity as you.
rPlant Soul SiblingsSG-04 Animal Soul Siblings You’re now able to connect with the spirits present in the greenery of the natural world.
rRapid RetrainingSG-04 — Some feel trapped by their choices and have a tough time reinventing themselves.
rYou Seem Somewhat FamiliarSG-04 — You fought hundreds of foes in your various past lives, and now and then, something about a new opponent tugs at your memory, almost as if you defeated their grandparent long ago.
Level 13 Conrasu Feats Prerequisites Benefits
rCannibalize MagicLOIL Fey Influence The fey magic inside of you is a vital part of your body, and you can steal other sources of magic to replenish yours.
Ceremony of GrowthLOTME — You can alter your exoskeleton’s size.
rClinging to LifeSG-04 — This life still holds much for you, and you aren’t ready to fall back into the River of Souls just yet.
Conrasu Weapon ExpertiseLOTME — Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in certain weapons, you also gain that proficiency for composite shortbow, glaive, longspear, longsword, shortbow, spear, and all conrasu weapons in which you are trained.
rEldritch CalmLOIL Fey Influence Your fey heritage has altered your mindset to more resemble the uncanny perspective of the fey.
rGlamourLOIL Fey Influence You unlock a new level of fey power and can manipulate the perceptions of others using a font of First World magic.
rI Sense MalevolenceSG-04 — Your time in theRiver of Souls has given you deep insight into the machinations of those who refuse to move on.
rLinguistic RevivalSG-04 — You achieved fluency in different languages with each reincarnation, and your brain remembers much of the grammar, idioms, and obscenities that you spouted in old lives.
rPain Is TemporarySG-04 — Sangpotshi practitioners know that suffering is a fleeting sensation that ultimately strengthens the soul and prepares it for a new reincarnation.
rStone Soul SiblingsSG-04 Plant Soul Siblings Your connection with nature’s spirits has progressed to the point where you can even have casual conversation with pebbles and boulders.
rUnbreakable ResolveSG-04 — The experience of coming back after death has granted you a strong sense of resolve; devilish words, slick spells, and conniving trickery can’t easily catch you off guard.
Level 17 Conrasu Feats Prerequisites Benefits
rBoneyard AcquaintanceSG-04 — Before your soul returned to the Material Plane, you interacted with a host of other souls on their way to the Boneyard.
Ceremony of Sun’s GiftLOTME — Your connection to the sun has become an unbreakable bond.
rFey TranscendenceLOIL Fey Influence You become a powerful fey creature, gaining strengths tied to the First World but also some of the weakness against which all fey must contend.
rIndomitable SpiritSG-04 — Your soul has accumulated countless particles of quintessence over myriad deaths and rebirths, and for one moment, this raw material from the Great Beyond envelops you and your comrades.
rRelease the LightSG-04 — Many people report seeing a bright light before their death.
rSee You in HellSG-04 — You aren’t sure if you’ll be reincarnated again, so you might as well take this foe with you.
rThis Time, Bring the BodySG-04 — Death sends a soul into the River of Souls.