Kishi

Kishi are twin faced demons with a humanoid face looking forward but the face of a hyena protruding from the rear of their heads. Tales wax about the alluring charm of these kishi, who will often seduce those they find desirable with their sharp wit and beautiful features. Such beauty however, merely disguises their fiendish nature. If they reveal their true form, one will clearly see a hyena snarling from behind them, an hyena which will ravenously devour those the kishi charms to slake its voracious hunger.

Kishi are often known to take the trophies of their victims, often stealing away their heads for personal or darker reasons - few beside the kishi know for sure. They are known to fully transform into hyenas when the fancy takes them and return to a humanoid form to whisk away new victims in a flurry of humour and elegance.

Your kishi character has the following traits as a result of their heritage.

Ability Score Increase. Increase one ability score by 2, and increase a different one by 1.

Age. Kishis are spawned out of the chaos of the Abyss and spring into the world fully formed. They do not age.

Size. Kishi are typically between 5 and 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your walking speed is 35 feet.

Fiend. Your creature type is fiend, rather than humanoid.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Silvertongued. You have proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, Performance or Persuasion.

Second Face. You have a second face attached directly to the back of your head. This face is naturally that of a hyena, but you can alter it. Once before you complete a short or long rest, you may transform into a hyena. While you are transformed in this way, your game statistics remain the same except your speed is replaced with the hyena’s speed. You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take any action that requires hands is limited to the capabilities of your beast form. You choose whether your equipment falls to the ground in your space, merges into your new form, or is worn by it. You revert to your normal form if you fall unconscious, drop to 0 hit points, die or return to your original form as a bonus action.

Alternatively, using this trait you can transform into the likeness of a fallen humanoid you have devoured. You may perform a 1 minute ritual with the corpse of a slain humanoid. After this ritual is complete, you may change your appearance and voice to that of the slain humanoid. Your game statistics do not change and you can also adjust your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes.

When you perform this ritual, you keep a store of humanoid's likenesses which you may transform into. You can store a number of such likenesses up to your proficiency bonus and when you store a new likeness, you must choose a likeness you already knew to be lost.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Abyssal and one other language of your choice.