Stalwart Professionals

If there is one thing that can humble a praedaren, it's a failure to do their duty. Praedaren acknowledge that their society rides on the back of each individual's ability to be productive. A failed job is like a swift kick to ones ego. If the salvage crews do not produce, the villages do not prosper. If the hunters do not find prey, the village goes hungry. And if the merchants do not find business, the markets become stagnant. This way of thinking is what motivates the praedaren to be unrelenting until the very last days of their long lives, and it serves as a unifying value shared by most of their race.

Praedaren Names

A praedaren has a given name, often a fleet name, and sometimes a rank or title. Usually, praedaren find themselves making their living among a fleet of ships, and more often than not, they take their fleets name as their own in respect of it. Thus, Minos, who captains a ship within The Great Gam, might call himself Captain Minos the Great, or Gilly, who makes her living as a pearl merchant in The Rising Tide, may call herself Gilly of the Rising Tide. Doing so binds them to others in ways that family or clan names do for other races.

Male Names: Arsenio, Brutus, Don, Emrik, Kawan, Kano, Mako, Minos, Nado, Rex, Ryker, Squall, Thresh, Wade, Zale

Female Names: Adira, Brighid, Ebba, Gesa, Gilly, Lana, Maajida, Mako, Mazu, Nahla, Nakhti, Sedna, Velda, Zarya

Fleet Names: The Apex Armada, The Feeding Frenzy,
The Great Gam, The Hunting Party, The Jaws of Sekolah, The Locker Jocks, The Red Wake, The Rising Tide

Looter

Looters are much smaller than the other praedaren bloodlines. They utilize their size to maneuver through the tight confines present in shipwrecks and undersea caverns, where they're often tasked with retrieving treasure from. Besides their small size, looters also have protruding nostrils, sunken eyes, and a menacing grin, all of which contribute to them occasionally being mistaken as a goblinoid.

Size. Looter praedaren stand roughly 4 feet tall and weigh about 140 pounds. Your size is Small.

Blood and Plunder. When you successfully hit a creature with a melee attack, you can use your bonus action to make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check to plant something on someone else, conceal an object on a creature, lift a purse, or take something from a pocket.

Trap Finder. You have advantage on Perception and Investigation checks made to detect the presence of traps.

Tool Proficiency. You gain proficiency with thieves' tools.

Seeker

This subset of praedaren have a distinguishing head shaped like that of a hammer. Seekers have retained much of their ancestor's sensory capabilities, and because of their usefulness in finding hidden treasures, they are treated like kings by their crew mates.

Size. Seeker praedaren average about 6 feet tall and weigh about 400 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Eyes of the Deep. Your eyes are well attuned to the dark, watery, depths. Whenever you make a Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) check to see or find something while fully submerged under water, you have advantage on the roll.

Electroreception. You are aware of the presence of living creatures and metal objects within 30 feet of yourself but not their exact location. You can use your bonus action to identify their current location and track their movement until the start of your next turn.

Carver

Carvers are most notably defined by their blade-tipped tail, which is twice the length of their entire body. As a carver, you will use your tail masterfully both in combat as a weapon to flay scale from flesh, and out of combat to cut through water at remarkable speeds.

Size. Carver praedaren average about 5 feet tall and weigh about 300 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Tail Whip. Much like the blade of an urumi, your lengthy tail fin is hard, pliant, and razor sharp, allowing you to use it as a natural weapon which you can make attacks out to 10 feet with. You use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls. If you hit with it, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d6 + your chosen modifier.

Cutthroat. When you roll an 18 or 19 with an attack using your tail whip, you can choose to score a critical hit.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Improved Swim Speed. You have a swimming speed of 40 feet instead.

Sinker

Known for their superior jaw strength, muscular build, and all around combat prowess, praedaren of the sinker type are considered the most fearsome foe to have on the sea. Sinkers get their name from their ability to rip holes in the haul of a ship using nothing but their own teeth.

Size. Sinker praedaren average about 7 feet tall and weigh about 440 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Improved Bite. You posses a maw capable of tearing through metal as if it's meat. Your bite attack deals 2d4 + your Strength modifier instead. Furthermore, the damage from your bite attack is doubled and maximized when attacking objects and structures.

Sink or Swim. You have an indomitable attitude, which drives you to succeed in dire straits. Whenever you have below half of your maximum hit points remaining, and roll damage for your bite attack, make a Strength check, or a Strength saving throw, you may roll 1d4 and add it to the result.

Hauler

As a hauler, your responsibilities often involve the protection and transportation of important objects. Haulers are the largest of all the praedaren subraces. They have huge bellies that are surrounded by thick layers of fat. They use their large stomach and wide gaping mouths to swallow precious loot and store it for safe keeping. They've also been been known to repair metal objects using a salivary gland unique to their kind.

Size. Hauler praedaren average about 8 feet tall and weigh about 560 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Devour. As an action, you can make a bite attack against a creature of a smaller size than yourself that you are grappling in an attempt to swallow it whole. If the attack hits, the target is swallowed, and the grapple ends. The swallowed target is blinded and restrained, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside of you, and it takes 2d4 acid damage at the start of each of your turns. You can have only one target swallowed at a time. Your armor class when targeted by an attack made by a creature that is swallowed is 10.

If you become incapacitated the swallowed creature is no longer restrained and can escape using 5 feet of movement, exiting prone. Otherwise the creature can attempt to escape by using it's action as if attempting to escape a grapple. As an action, you can regurgitate a swallowed creature into an adjacent unoccupied space.

Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Store the Hoard. As an action, you can store metallic items in your gut for safe keeping. The space in your gut is equivalent to that of a large burlap sack. To retrieve an item from your stomach also requires an action.

Amending Acids. The acids in your belly have restorative properties for metallic materials. A metallic item stored in your gut for 1 hour is repaired as if effected by the mending cantrip.

Racial Feats

If your DM allows the use of feats from chapter 6 of the Player's Handbook, your praedaren character has access to the following special feats.