Cala'diel (5e Campaign Setting)/Races/Tavşan

Tavşan

A Frostfell Tavşan looking over a cliff edge, equipped with a spear about to jump attack whatever is below.

Timid and full of grace, tavşan originate from Soğuk island on the continent of Athlon. A place of beauty, with ancient forests as well as plains of harsh tundra. Tavşan are free spirits and love to be surrounded by nature.

Physical Description

The tavşan have rabbit-like features, including long ears and supple limbs. They generally wear stilettos, possibly due to the shape of their feet, although there have been exceptions. Their trademark long ears grant them exceptionally good hearing, although they are said to have excellent senses overall. Tavşan have shades of brown or shades of silver hair, though those who choose to live outside their native lands often color their hair.

Male tavşan do exist, but female and male tavşan create separate settlements and only communicate with each other when necessary as the males are secretive and competitive for food and space, even with their own race.

Personality

Most tavşan live only with other tavşan, however there are few tavşan who live outside their native lands. Tavşan as a race tend to live secluded lives and often choose the path of loners or traveling in tight knit family units. They usually avoid contact with other races and this leads to them often being misunderstood by other races. When dealing with other races they tend to be introverts. If they learn another language it usually common, and even then it is only as a way of communicating with traders and fishermen. They are soft spoken and are hard to read due to their distrust of outsiders, regardless of the outsiders race. They are not a hostile race and have always kept to themselves when it comes to time of war.

Tavşan who choose to live with other races are doing so because they crave social interaction. These tavşan would be viewed as party animals. Most likely to be living in a large city, drawn to taverns and the promise of adventure. These tavşan crave attention so much that it also common to see them with dyed hair. Any color that is possible will do for these attention seekers. Red, green, blonde and even purple. These tavşan who live in densely populated areas are what bring people to tavşan homelands. False impressions of all tavşan being like those who wish to live a life of popularity rather then seclusion like most tavşan are the reason native tavşan dislike those who leave to live that life.

If you are playing a tavşan in this setting you may want to choose the Survivalist background.

Relations

Male and female tavşan choose to live separately from each other since males are usually very competitive. That is not to say that tavşan don't have large villages and cities, because they do. A common tavşan village is about 1/5th the size of a human village. The only large city that tavşan have is Siginak, the capital city of Soğuk. Siginak is home to both male and female tavşan and houses the largest tavşan population in all of Cala'diel. Outside the walls of Siginak, tavşan villages are few and far between. The village of Arast is the largest male only settlement in Soğuk and Suvari is the largest female only settlement. Most other places you find tavşan living in are unmapped camps and small traveling parties.

Insan is the only village on Soğuk that is home to races other than tavşan. Humans from Brelum sailed to Soğuk and camped onshore while fishing the crescent sea. This also lead to tavşan befriending humans and thus gave the option for tavşan to leave Soğuk.

Lands

Soğuk island is a harsh tundra wasteland. The center of the island is a flat valleyish area that is surrounded by mountains. Humans who first sailed around the island looked onshore for places to camp and found only one area on the most southern part that was not covered in snow. This lead to Soğuk being referred to as The Frostfell Barrens, thinking that no one would want to live there. This works well for tavşan because they mostly don't wish deal with other races. The Meşe Forest, the place humans first camped, however is a beautiful lush coniferous forest.

Names

The tavşan population is very small, and they mostly live in small villages, so they typically only use first names. If you meet a tavşan with a last name, that name was most likely given to them by the people who live in the village or city they are from. This last name usually describes that tavşan very well and would be used to help make finding them easier. Tavşan living outside of Soğuk give themselves last names, most likely choosing the last name themselves to help them stand out more or draw attention.

Female names: Ashly, Cemili, Halyme, Leyla, Nazli, Signi, Semy, Zahra

Male names: Atila, Cetin, Dyre, Ender, Kadri, Leon, Nezi, Semryh

Tavşan with a last name: Ashly Luteplayer, Dyre Swordsmith, Leon Codfisher

Tavşan living outside Soguk: Signi Wonderous, Ender Dragonslayer

Racial Traits

• Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2.
• Age. Tavşan live to be around 80.
• Alignment. Most Tavşan tend to be good.
• Size. Tavşan are as tall as humans but are more slender in build. Not including their ears Tavşan stand about 6 feet tall. With the ears included Tavşan stand nearly 7 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
• Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Natural Jumper. You have advantage on any checks that involve jumping. This includes your having advantage on your Jump attack.
• Big ears. You have advantage on any check that involves hearing.
• Jump attack. Tavşan are known for their jumping ability. They use it as a weapon and have incorporated it into their combat techniques. To use your jump attack you must spend both your move and your action. You must be at most the distance equal to your base speed from your target, spending your move to jump this distance. You then use your action to make a jump attack, adding 1d6 for each 10 feet you jumped vertically. At 1st level the peak of your jump can max out at 20 feet, 30 feet at 6th level, 40 feet at 11th level, 50 feet at 16th level and 60 feet at 20th level. You character finishes this attack in any square within 5 feet of the target. After you use your jump attack, you can't use it again until you complete a short or long rest. If you can make multiple attacks with your attack action this counts as your first one, you may then continue with your additional attacks if you are still in range. This ability can also be used outside of combat to leap over walls and other obstacles.
• Lance Training. Tavşan make using a lance look easy. They use this weapon to great success when combined with their jump attacks. You do not have disadvantage when using a lance to attack a target within 5 feet of you. You also have proficiency with lances.
• Languages. Tavşannese and Common
• Subrace. You may select one subrace.

Meşe Tavşan

Meşe Tavşan paladin equipped with a greatsword.

Meşe tavşan have light brown or tan fur with light blonde or silvery hair. These tavşan live in the southern most part of Soğuk, the Meşe forest. This lush coniferous forest is dense with trees and gives a false sense of what Soğuk is really like. Once you travel through the forest however Soğuk becomes a tundra wasteland covered in snow and harsh weather. The tavşan who live here have turned the lush forest into a weapon to use to their advantage. They all learn to use the message cantrip to speak with animals, using them to get messages to those who hunt in the forest. Since these tavşan live closest to the the other races, and trade with them frequently, these tavşan are the ones who are most likely to leave Soğuk and live else where.

• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Tavşan Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the Glaive, Greatsword, and Spear.
• Animal Messenger. Natural protectors of the forest they live in, meşe tavşan communicate with animals to help them patrol the their homeland. You know the Animal Messenger spell and may cast it once per long rest.
• Mask of the Forest. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, mist, undergrowth and other natural forest phenomena.

Frostfell Tavşan

Frostfell tavşan are the most common type of tavşan on Soğuk Island. They have light brown or tan fur covering their bodies and usually have silver or white hair. They have learned to live in the harsh tundra environment of Soğuk, making them skilled survivalists. Mixing their skills of polearms with the natural ability to jump makes these tavşan extremely deadly. Easily going unnoticed in the snow because of their light colored fur, ability to survive in cold weather, and training in their jump attack makes Frostfell tavşan the ideal traveling companions for anyone looking to set foot in Soğuk.

• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.
• Tavşan Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the Glaive, Pike and Spear.
• Freeze Resistance. You have resistance to cold damage.
• Mask of the Tundra. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by heavy rain, falling snow, mist, rocks and other natural tundra phenomena.