Innate Bender (3.5e Race)

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Innate Bender

While some spend significant time learning how to master manipulating the elements, others are born with a connection to an element from birth.

Personality

Innate benders of fire are prone to be short tempered and act often on impulse. Airbenders are often comfortable with allowing life to flow around them like the breeze. Earthbenders will often be overly stubborn and set in their ways, unyielding like stone.

Physical Description

Innate benders's physical appearance are the same as humans with one exception. Their elemental link is shown through their eye color. Innate firebenders have eyes that mirror flames, tending towards amber shades, earthbenders have green eyes, waterbenders have rich blue eyes like the sea while airbenders eyes are the grey of stormclouds.

Relations

All innate benders are drawn to connection with others that share a connection to their collective elements. Innate benders often struggle most with dealing with innate benders of their opposite element, water/fire and air/earth. Apart form this innate benders mix with other races without bias like other humans.

Alignment

As with all humans, innate benders have no particular alignment preferences.

Lands

Innate benders are born into human lands that match their elemental connections. Airbenders hail from mountainous regions, firebenders from humid and arid environments, with waterbenders coming from coastal or frozen tundras. Earthbenders can be born into any environment that has ready access to dirt and stone.

Religion

As with humans, innate benders do not have a single patron deity, with the exception of Firebenders who will almost always worship Pelor and waterbenders almost never worship Pelor.

Language

In additon to speaking common, innate benders almost always speak the elelmental language of their bending, airbender speak auran, earthbenders terran, firebenders ignan and waterbenders aquarian.

Names

At birth innate benders are given a standard human name, but often gain a nickname related to their elemental abilities.

Racial Traits

• Humanoid(Human) 
• Medium: As a Medium creature, an innate bender has no special bonuses or penalties due to its size.
• Innate Bender base land speed is 30 feet.  
• Bending (Ex): Each innate bender is able to use a single bend from the minor bend list from the bender of Air Earth Fire or Water list with one exception. The bender can not be based on the basic bend ability of the class. You bending level is based on the Connected Bending ability 
• Blood of the Elements: Innate are treated as thought they have the appropriate elemental subtype for the purposes of spells and feats, including being able to take elemental feats . 
• Connected Bender: An innate bender's bending level is always equal to you HD - 4 (minimum 1) or their actual bending level, whichever is higher.
• Automatic Languages: Common, plus Auran, Terran, Ignan or Aquan.
• Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages, such as Druidic). See the Speak Language skill.
• Favored Class: Bender
• Level Adjustment: +0
• Effective Character Level: 1

Vital Statistics

Table: Innate Bender Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
15 years	+1d4	+1d6	+2d6

Table: Innate Bender Aging Effects

Middle Age1	Old2	Venerable3	Maximum Age
35 years	53 years	70 years	+2d20 years
At middle age, −1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At old age, −2 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At venerable age, −3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

Table: Innate Bender Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	4’ 10”	+2d10	120 lb.	× (2d4) lb.
Female	4’ 5”	+2d10	85 lb.	× (2d4) lb.

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