# Ancestry: Thri-Kreen <img src='https://www.gmbinder.com/images/hfki2BM.png' style= 'position: absolute; bottom:975px; right: 270px; height:30px'> ___ Thri-Kreen are humanoid insects with multiple arms covered in protective chitin. They are said to have originally evolved to survive travel through the stars, but after descending to the natural world they constructed complex tunnels in deserts across the world. The Thri-Kreen are social creatures that live in a highly collectivistic society, but have difficulty speaking to non-Thri-Kreen, as they are heavily adapted to speaking with themselves. ___ Thri-kreen have insectile features and two pairs of arms. Their bodies are encased in protective chitin. Thri-kreen speak by clacking their mandibles and waving their antennae, indicating to other thri-kreen what they are thinking and feeling. Other creatures find this method of communication difficult to interpret and impossible to duplicate. To interact with other folk, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy. ### Thri-Kreen Traits **Ability Score Increase.** One ability score of your choice increases by 2, and another by 1, to a maximum of 20. ___ **Age.** Thri-Kreen reach maturity at around 10 and live to be around 50 years old. ___ **Alignment.** Thri-Kreen hold the survival of the group as paramount, leaning towards good, neutral, and lawful alignments. ___ **Creature Type.** You are a Humanoid. You are also considered a Monstrosity for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be a Monstrosity. ___ **Size.** Thri-Kreen stand at around 7 to 8 foot tall with thin builds. Your size is Medium. ___ **Speed.** Your walking speed is 30 feet. ___ **Armored Carapace.** While you aren’t wearing armor, your carapace gives you a base Armor Class of 13 + your Dexterity modifier. ___ **Darkvision.** You can see in dim light within 60 feet of yourself as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray. ___ **Secondary Arms.** You have two slightly smaller secondary arms below your primary pair of arms. The secondary arms can manipulate an object, open or close a door or container, pick up or set down a Tiny object, or wield a weapon that has the light property. ___ **Thri-Kreen Telepathy.** Without the assistance of magic, you can’t speak the non-Thri-Kreen languages you know. Instead you use telepathy to convey your thoughts. You have the magical ability to transmit your thoughts mentally to willing creatures within 60 feet of yourself. A contacted creature doesn’t need to share a language with you to understand your thoughts, but it must be able to understand at least one language. Your telepathic link to a creature is broken if you and the creature move more than 60 feet apart, if either of you is Incapacitated, or if either of you mentally breaks the contact (no action required). ___ **Languages.** You can speak Common and one other language of your choice.