Prestige Ancestry: Warpflesh
When arcane experiments go wrong, when eldritch entities muddle the world, people fall apart, morphing into the semi-shapeless beings called Warpflesh. The Warpflesh are a group of shapeshifting creatures that, for whatever reason, were physically warped beyond recognition. Terrified people often hunt Warpflesh for their hideous morphing powers, believing all manner of rumors about them, but Warpflesh aren't innately evil. In fact, all of them were once regular people, now capable of so much more. The few Warpflesh that haven't been hunted down hide among other societies living fake lives, usually alone or in small groups, terrified to reveal their true identity in any way, else thes meet the same fate as their kin.
Warpflesh appear to be a normal member of another race at first glance, but close inspection might reveal imperfect characteristics of their appearance- limbs might be too long, faces might be just shy of proportionate, maybe even whole fingers and toes are missing. The distinct appearance of their transmutative abilities clearly identifies Scourgespawn as what they are to others, and as such they only use said powers out of desperation or in rare circumstances with people they trust.
Prestige
The Warpflesh is a Prestige Ancestry. It can be taken after character creation at any point when you would receive a Feat in place of taking a regular Feat. A character must meet the following prerequisites to do so:
- You must have an Constitution score of 15 or higher.
- You must have a Common or Uncommon Ancestry.
- You can't already have a Prestige Ancestry.
Your DM might allow you to ignore one or more of these prerequisites, and may allow you to take this Prestige ancestry at 1st level.
Regardless of when you gain this ancestry, its features modify or add onto your base ancestry's. If a feature is present on both the prestige ancestry and the base ancestry, you take the version of the feature in the prestige ancestry unless specified otherwise. If your DM allows you to gain more than one prestige ancestry, you use the newest version of any feature it has that you previously gained.
Warpflesh Traits
Size. Warpflesh are normally about the same size and build as humans, but you can alter your height to be up to 6 inches taller or shorter. Your size is Medium.
Creature Type. You are a Monstrosity. You are also considered an Aberration for any prerequisite or effect that requires you to be an Aberration.
Unusual Biology. You do not need to breathe, eat, or sleep unless you choose to do so. To gain the effects of a long rest, you can spend 8 hours only performing light activity.
Memorized Weapons. You can use manipulate your biomass to create weapons. You can commit one one-handed nonmagical weapon to your memory. You perform this ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. Once memorized, you can mutate a free hand into this weapon or vice versa as a bonus action. This weapon can't be disarmed, as it is part of your body.
You can memorize up to 3 weapon at a time using this feature, with additional weapons replacing the oldest. You are proficient with weapons you create in this way.
Amorphous Shift. When you are hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to attempt to quickly morph out of the way, raising your AC by 1d4. To do so, you must see the attacker. If this causes the attack to miss, you can move up to half your speed without provoking opportunity attacks.
Once you use this feature, you must complete a short or long rest to do so again.
Languages. You know how to speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
