Illittum

Species descended from inmortals.

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Coeligian

The rainbow people.

• Alignment : Celestial
• Lifespan: 300 years
• Diet: Fruit-heavy pescatarian
• Habitat: Islands
• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Coeligians appear to be mostly human-like beings in shape and size, but their skin and hair color ranges the entire spectrum of the rainbow. They have small antennae on their foreheads. They also glow softly, the same color as their skin. Usually, their hair color is a lighter or darker shade of their skin color. Those whose hair and skin are shades of different colors are seen as rare and beautiful. They have serpentine teeth used to tear the flesh of hard fruits and fish.

As they complete tasks for the rainbow serpent (if they so choose), they gain colorful stripes on their arms.

Some coeligians take on the features of radiant animals after they have completed some special task in life. The most powerful and rarest grow rainbow scales and feathers like a rainbow serpent. Others include

• Warriors sometimes grow the rainbow fur and panther claws of an iridal painter.
• Healers sometimes grow the fiery feathers of a zumrud-u anka.
• Fishers and sailors sometimes grow the teeth and rainbow skin of a yaku patiri rainbow shark.
• Travelers and messengers sometimes grow a rainbow carapace and extra legs like a satie harish, the shining centipedes.
• Laborers sometimes grow large in size and gain the shining, tough skin of a naange ngabu, or sun hippo.
• Poets and writers grow the beautiful feathers and beak of a sakwie, the blue-grey tanager.
• Dancers and lovers grow the wings of the vannattuppucci painted lady butterfly.
• Rangers and druids sometimes grow the glowing rainbow scales and tails of the berpendar biawak or glowing monitor lizards.
• Hunters, shepherds, and scouts sometimes grow the rainbow fur and jaws of the kuri taika, or radiant thylacine.
• Singers, musicians, and actors sometimes grow the rainbow feathers of the griv ti gout (the thrush made of the droplets of the rainbow).

These features may change as they grow or complete tasks or quests, but they never have more than one animal feature at a time.

The inherent radiance within coeligians makes them glow various colors. This soft aura grows stronger as they are nearer to those in need, and they can discharge it using one of their various powers involving their task or touch.

Every coeligian is connected to the rainbow serpent and may seek them out to gain a task, starting at the age of seven. They do this by using special teas to have a vision. The vision is a series of dreams, culminating in an interaction with a rainbow serpent. If they do this once, every seven years, they will gain a new task unless they have three tasks unfinished. If a task proves impossible to complete, they must petition the rainbow serpent in their dreams to relieve them of it. They do this by drinking the special tea before they sleep every night until they see the serpent. If the serpent refuses to forgive them and the task is impossible to complete, the serpent will then give them a larger task, a quest, to complete. Those who receive a quest always gain animal features to help them complete the quest. If multiple people are given the same task, they are encouraged to complete the task together.

Early tasks seem to be general, in that anyone can do them, but once a coeligian takes on a role in their community or has a job or otherwise becomes more specific and defined in their lives, the tasks tailor to what and who they are. Warriors get tasks related to fighting off enemies. Healers get tasks related to healing others. Sailors get tasks related to their boats, to giving people passage, or to warning others of dangers at sea.

As they complete tasks, they gain new powers which reflect the services they have provided, as well as a stripe on their arms in a new color.

The touch of a coeligian can empower people to complete a simple task, giving them physical or mental bonuses to do so for a brief period of time. Using this power uses up some of their radiance which must be replenished by doing something kind (and without esoteric assistance) for someone else.

Coeligians can sense when a person is tired physically, mentally, emotionally, or metaphysically.

The native coeligians of the area are most integrated with other species.

Coeligians are severely oppressed in most parts of the world. In the colonies, they are among the most oppressed and subjugated. Most are enslaved, and those who aren't are treated as subhuman. They maintain some small fragments of their previous cultures, mostly a preference for arts and music, flower gardens, nautical lore, and certain foods.

PRO 8 ATH 9 STR 8 AWA 10 WIL 9 PRS 12 STH 7

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Eximus

Serendipitous protectors.

• Alignment: Celestial

• Lifespan: 2,000 years

• Diet: Sky fare

• Habitat: Sky islands

• Socioeconomic Status: Oppressed

Skin blacker than night, eyes bright in every color of the rainbow, hair like curled strands of precious metals, bodies like humans. Their arms have white feathers. They stand between 6’ and 9’ tall.

Eximi fly on the winds of fortune. They can sense these winds, but not control them. When they take flight, they are uplifted by serendipity, allowing them to move with incredible speeds. As serendipity guides them, the winds of fortune in their wake are filled with it, meaning anyone behind them is granted good luck.

As beings of serendipity, eximi always take the high die.

Eximi can see vast distances. Every eximus has a different esoteric vision to complement their farsight, though this varies by individual and always has a basis in a different celestial energy.

The original eximi live in a series of small islands in the floating continent of Gyrah. They believe that they were tasked by their progenitors with protecting the skies and preventing grievous misfortune from befalling Shem, and so central to their culture is watching the skies for incoming disasters. When major impacts seem possible - i.e., an incoming comet or asteroid - they take flight in a ritual called the bonum turbo, or “good whirlwind”, which spins the winds of fortune such that they eject any approaching doom. Except during these times, they live in small communities. They get by hunting and sky-fishing, keeping small farms, and gathering condensation. Their communities are matriarchal, keeping all property in common, and raising children together. Survival comes easy to them, due to serendipity, so their days are filled with events that others would find remarkable, because so many of them live in one place.

The original eximi form bonds with the ilaaliye, alien eyes that keep watch over Shem and warn of danger. They believe the ilaaliye are messengers of the Celestial Realms and honor them as spiritual beings.

The eximi believe that they are descended of the rainbow serpents, and therefore, they worship them. They also believe that there is a goddess, named Fortunata, who creates serendipity and blows it towards them. They honor her through rituals and superstitions.

In the colonies, the eximi are either there because the winds of fortune led them there on a strange quest, or because they are seeking some source of doom or danger. None are native to the area, and it would take an extreme event to make one leave their home culture to settle there.

PRO 8 ATH 8 Flight 11 STR 8 AWA 9 WIL 8 PRS 9 STH 8

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Grile

Subterranean devourers of emotions.

• Alignment: Infernal

• Lifespan: 2,000 years

• Diet: Emotion and meat

• Habitat: Subterranean Realm

• Socioeconomic Status: Ruling class colonizers or Refugees

Griles appear to be 8’ tall, mottled, cobalt-blue-skinned and palest white beings with motes of light and shadow throughout their flesh. They have sharp claws that can rend stone and eyes made of molten metal. Their mouths are disproportionate to the size of their heads and filled with many different kinds of teeth - tusks, fangs, blunt molars, curved razors, and more. Their faces are blunt and broad, and their hair runs in a furry mane down their backs.

Griles can breathe a blue and white flame that transforms the target’s emotions into a wave of energy that is consumed by the griles. The stronger the emotions felt by their victims, the more they can consume. They do not need to devour negative emotions, but they choose to do so culturally.

Griles can cause negative emotions with their rasping, rumbling voices. They are natural ventriloquists, bouncing their voices throughout the caverns they dwell within. They have minor empathic senses for all emotions if they are close to someone, and they can see fear, loneliness, and sorrow as auras around people.

They hate sunlight and can only tolerate it if they find ways to block it from their eyes and shade their skin.

The original girls lie in nomadic bands of 289. If a 290th grile is born, the parent and baby leave the band and seek another to dwell with or the baby is killed.

Every band is led by the strongest warrior. In theory, griles could feed each other their emotions and survive without any help or support from others. Two griles could lead long, healthy lives feeding off one another. Loving couples do this in remote places, though if they meet a grile band, they are tortured and killed. But grile culture has evolved to instead torture others to desperate actions in order to feed. So griles take other mortals as slaves, keep them barely fed and watered, and torment them so they may feed off them.

Because grile society is so brutal, many slave griles escape their circumstances and seek a better life elsewhere. These are hunted, enslaved, and eaten. Many who manage to escape face discrimination in the cultures they seek refuge in and are driven out. But some find meaningful lives, especially among the jark’aqana. In the colonies, some griles come as colonizers and some come as refugees.

Griles worship Thacyilzok, a mother goddess figure they credit with birthing them from the tears of desperate mortals. They believe that by driving others to desperate actions, they honor and feed her, and therefore, they are more in her favor.

PRO 11 ATH 9 STR 13 AWA 8 WIL 9 PRS 6 STH 7

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Jarka’qana

The celestial powers beneath the surface.

• Alignment: Celestial

• Lifespan: 2,000 years

• Diet: Fungi and other subterranean fare

• Habitat: Subterranean Realm

• Socioeconomic Status: Demonized but unoppressable

Jark’aqaña appear to be 7’ tall sentinels of power that dwell beneath the ground. Their bodies are sinews of vegetation and animal muscle, their heads are animal skulls, and their organs are made of precious stones. Their fingers appear to be animal claws, but they can be extended, transformed into vines, at will. Their bones, other than their skulls, are fibrous plant tissue as well.

Beetles dwell within their flesh.

Jark’aqaña have the power to draw raw celestial magic from their own organs, which are made of massive jewels, and create barriers around others. If those barriers are attacked, the organs of the jark’aqaña crack, but they heal very quickly.

Jark’aqaña are one of a few species that can choose someone for whom they take wounds. They can only do this by washing their chosen with their nectar. They will stop taking wounds for someone once the target has received 13 wounds.

Jark’aqaña can sense how physically strong another mortal is by looking at them.

In their belief, the exigency of life is to preserve other life. The exigency of life is to protect one another. The exigency of life is that no harm shall be done to those not strong enough to defend themselves. All jark’aqaña nations respect the exigency of life, which they call kamachixa.

A jark’aqaña is born a seed and gains a skull after germinating in dust. From the moment they have a skull (and thus a mind, though what is actually the brain and not just random plant matter is unclear), they are educated by their elders about the kamachixa. From dust to skullflower to sprout, they are raised by their whole community. They are raised to know the kamachixa and the rules of who is weak, who is strong, who is worthy, who is unworthy, and when and why these states of being change. They are raised to believe in the worth of the weak.

They are taught how to fight, because there are those in the world who would harm the weak. And they are taught how to defend, because those who protect the weak are often attacked. And they are taught how to make peace, because most mortals are sensible, if they have not been bought by the cruel. And they are taught that to bend is to be stronger than iron and stone.

They are taught that from within the world, they protect those above by protecting the siqi, the load-bearing columns that keep the world from collapsing in on itself. Even more so, they are taught that the world is in danger from things buried deep, which cannot be spoken of, and they must be ready to sacrifice themselves to save all other life, if these things should be unleashed.

They learn that to protect is to sacrifice, and that to sacrifice is to achieve the kamachixa, and this is the utmost achievement of a jark’aqaña.

Once they have learned this lesson, they are considered an adult. If they do not learn this lesson, but they learn other lessons - perhaps the lesson of the power of violence - they are asked with some force to leave. If they learn this lesson while gone, they may return. If they never learn this lesson, their names are forgotten after they die. There is no time limit on learning this lesson.

None lead them but themselves. None may conquer them, for they are defense itself. None may dominate those who defend the weakest, for they make the weak strong, and thus they have nothing but strength.

On the first day of the year, which they know from the color of the siqi, they sing together, and their voices resonate through all the caverns of Shem, a thrum of calm that promises that, for another year at least, the world will continue to exist.

In the colonies, the jark’aqaña are there only as visitors, seeking to protect someone or something special.

Jark’aqaña are thought to be terrifying monsters of the dark underground, because oppressors hate and fear them and spread lies about them. If they could be conquered, they would make good slaves, but they cannot be conquered, so they must be demonized.

PRO 20 ATH 11 STR 20 Toughness 30 AWA 10 WIL 11 PRS 9 STH 7

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Kashirum

• Alignment : Infernal
• Lifespan: 100 to 3,000 years
• Diet: Bug-heavy mortal fare
• Habitat: Temperate
• Socioeconomic Status: Ruling class colonizers

Kashirum appear to be humans with arthropodal features. Their appearances range from humans with half of their bodies and arthropods with the rest to humans with just a few slight arthropodal features. The commonest arthropods they resemble are spiders, ticks, centipedes, beetles, flies, locusts, mantises, mosquitos, moths, scorpions, dragonflies, and wasps. Culturally, these are chosen because they are associated with power. When they are born, they resemble their parents’ physical appearances, but they molt by the age of eight and get to choose a new form if they wish.

Kashirum have the innate ability to spin light into gossamer light, the infernal energy of manipulation. They do this using mouths, their saliva, which transforms any light they “consume”, then spitting it out as a white slurry. They consume light simply by shining it into their mouths, closing them, and filling up with saliva.

Kashirum use their gossamer salvia to bind other living things. If they apply enough saliva, the person will be bound to them. Each binding allows for more control, each binding gives the kashirum power over another facet of the target’s Name: first mind, then heart, then body, then soul, then the full True Name.

Binding the mind requires only a little saliva. Anything they apply a drop of their saliva to will dissociate mildly, allowing the kashirum to more easily manipulate them.

Binding the heart requires a stronger dose. Anything they apply a mouthful of their saliva to will dissociate significantly, allowing the kashirum to more deeply manipulate them.

Binding the body requires a full wrap of the torso and legs (or equivalent). Anything they tie up in their saliva will be bound as if in spiderwebs, drained physically and slowly, allowing the kashirum to drink their blood for nourishment.

Binding the soul requires a total body wrap. Anything they enshroud in their saliva will be bound as if in spiderwebs, drained metaphysically, allowing the kashirum to steal a tenth their remaining average lifespan (maxing out at 500 years per victim) if they are of an intelligent mortal species. Non-conscious animals, plants, and fungi simply nourish the kashirum as if they ate a significant meal. Inmortal species give a kashirum an extra 500 years. An average kashirum will do this enough to live to the age of 300 or so, but most cannot afford the slaves or victims needed to do this. No kashirum can live beyond 3,000 years of age without some kind of potent supernatural intervention beyond their abilities. If they never consume a single soul, the average lifespan is about 100 years.

Binding the True Name requires performing the four previous bindings. Anything they bind four times will be subject to the fifth binding, which allows them to consume elements of the target. If the target is an arthropod, this allows the kashirum to take on parts of the arthropod in their appearance. If the target is any other living thing, it allows the kashirum to manipulate other beings of that species supernaturally through speech, touch, or gaze for up to a year and a day.

Binding something is exhausting, and most kashirum must rest up to eight days after consuming an intelligent mortal victim at any level. Non-intelligent creatures take less energy, unless they are otherwise supernaturally potent.

While bound in gossamer light, victims may resist. If they successfully resist, they may break free, and during the first 30 seconds or so after the binding is broken, the kashirum will be dazed and vulnerable.

Kashirum are born resembling their parents, having the same arthropodal features as their birthing parent and the same human-like appearance as their other parent. But at age eight or so, they molt, losing their arthropodal features and remaining vulnerable and raw until they find an arthropod of their own to bind and consume. If their parents are supportive (for any reason), they will be provided with one, but many are forced to find one on their own.

After their first consuming, they have to molt every eight to 64 years, depending on their powers. After they molt, they are very vulnerable until they find another arthropod to consume. For this reason, most keep a stock of their favored arthropod. If they do not consume a new arthropod within eight days, they regrow their arthropodal form but minimally. Their gossamer saliva powers will fade over time, and they will become nearly indistinguishable from humans, having only a few minor arthropodal features inherited from their birthing parent.

Most choose to keep using the same arthropodal form over and over, often preferring their first form consistently, but some choose to change it up.

All kashirum have some kind of venom, even if their arthropod doesn’t. If they have a stinger, they will have a venomous sting. Otherwise, they will have a venomous bite.

In the colonies, they are called of many nations. [DIFFERENT NATIONS]

Any PC playing a kashirum would play one who has given up their privilege and become a criminal.

PRO 9 ATH 8 STR 15 AWA 9 WIL 10 PRS 8 STH 8

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Lzs'ma

Deep-dwelling beings descended of unknown powers.

• Alignment: Infernal

• Lifespan: 2,000 years

• Diet: Children, eggs

• Habitat: Deep sea

• Socioeconomic Status: Unknown

Lzs’mas range from 6’ to 10’ tall. They are palest white with nodules all over their leathery flesh. They have disproportionately long arms ending in sharp claws. They have no necks; their heads come directly out of their torsos. They have huge maws filled with sharp teeth, small snouts, and pinpoint, drab grey eyes. Their legs are stubby and their feet are clawed.

All lsz’mas have keen senses of smell. They live deep underwater and are immune to cold and the incredible pressures of the deep. If they move higher, they must adjust their bodies to the lessened pressures slowly or they will explode. Those on land must use special magic or technology to survive.

Lsz’mas are carnivorous. They do not need to eat juveniles or eggs to survive, but if they do, they gain powers similar to the way ogres do. However, instead of specific powers by species, they just gain more energy that they use to fuel one of three powers they might have: a slime that burns the flesh and poisons reproductive organs, a tentacle (growing out of their shoulders) that stuns and paralyzes, or a needle in their tongue that injects poisons that senesce the target rapidly.

Lsz’mas live in huge cities of bizarre construction deep under the sea. They are ruled by a Priest-King of the Lord of the Deeps, an undead deity who promises them an infinite feast and power. Those who come to the colonies are there to work with various land-dwelling powers on some strange task, or they come as refugees who have rejected the vile religion and feudal power of their homeland.

PRO 9 ATH 7 on land 9 in water STR 16 AWA 8 WIL 8 PRS 6 STH 7

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Nanmai

A species cursed to fight against injustice.

• Alignment: Celestial

• Lifespan: 2,000 years

• Diet: Normal mortal fare

• Habitat: Various

• Socioeconomic Status: Demonized

Once, forty great kings and queens engaged in the cruelest reign that could be imagined. They lived for many lifetimes off the suffering of their subjects, becoming less than mortal in their insatiable desire to consume and exploit and dominate. After a thousand years of this, the people were nearly wiped out, and the forty great kings and queens turned to consume each other. Among the sufferers were forty who resisted, forty who refused to die without a fight, and they marched together to where the forty great kings and queens were devouring one another. They looked upon them with disgust, and instead of destroying them as they should have, they instead called upon whatever justice might exist in the universe to give these great kings and queens what they deserved. They laid a curse upon them.

In that moment, all eighty of them were transformed, bound to a purpose. Those with justice in their hearts were given release and freedom, and those great kings and queens were subject to a geas that required they make up for their cruelty by spending the next 2,000 years repairing the world and reparation for their own cruelty. So were born the first nanmai: those who must fight for justice to redeem their past, and those who must fight for justice to live up to their past.

Ages later, they can no longer distinguish who is descended of which group of forty, but it would not matter.

Nanmai are dark-skinned, anthropomorphic figures with eyes made of gold. They smell of flowers when they sweat. They have six arms. They also have three faces, though they only wear one at a time. It is said by some that one face is descended of the liberators, one of the oppressors, and the third unites them, but this is merely a story.

Nanmai all have a geas upon them that drives them to fight for justice, though they were never blessed with the ability to innately sense what justice is. Therefore, they also seek knowledge to understand justice, culturally. They are given, however, powers that may aid in fighting for justice:

All nanmai can fly, though they do not have wings.

All nanmai can switch their faces with one of their other two faces at will.

All nanmai can draw from their own lifeforce to create a weapon of energy - usually some kind of flame or lightning.

When their first face speaks, it speaks freedom. They uplift those who hear them. When their second face sees, it sees the physical health of those they observe. When their third face smiles, all who see it are stunned, momentarily.

Nanmai, beings of justice, may evoke justice to the best of their knowledge and inflict a judgment upon someone if and only if they have proven themselves capable to enforcing it. To put it another way, if they fight an evil person and leave them in a vulnerable position, defeat them in a way that convinces the villain they can be beaten, then they may invoke judgment upon them, spreading some of their curse and alleviating the geas upon their species.

As they are compelled by curse to fight against oppression and injustice, the nanmai are split amongst them into different views on how to do this:

The first is that they must be active members of the oppressed and unite them in battle, protect them from the violence of the state, and lead them in resistance - this is the Urthi of Dabusen. The second is that they must engage the oppressors and infiltrate them, ever-pushing them to alleviate their violence, fighting them from within - this is the Patukavalar in the Low Mines. The third is that they must remove themselves entirely from the systems of oppression and fight from without, to find the moment of weakness and only strike then, otherwise risking escalating the violence - this is the Kitezhi of Gyrah. And the fourth is that they must do what little they can as individuals, to stand against oppression and speakout, independent of the state - this is the Aumanil of the Wyren Ocean.

The Urthi are a severely oppressed nation, hated by rulers and the ruled alike, cast down in the muck and scorned as Undesirables. From this position, they try to unite the oppressed, many of whom think them scum. This is the way of things. This is the way it must be. So they spend their time toiling alongside others who do the worst jobs in society, and they speak of better worlds, and their words fall on ears that only hear whining and laziness, even as they toil harder than any others. So they go to others with their faith in justice, and they speak of the cycle and the way, and they bring messages of a better world, and their words fall on ears that only hear mystic nonsense making false promises, even as they live as proof of what they speak.

And at night, they wear a different face, they take up weapons of energy, and they hunt the most wicked, telling none what they do.

Culturally, they show their primary face to the public, their secondary face only to their family, and their third face to no one for the sake of plausible deniability. Their third face is that of justice, and they wear it when they fight for justice.

They hold onto certain customs, the sources of which are long forgotten, which they practice in their own communities or with their own families:

They practice the holy rituals of body painting; every month, they gather and paint each other with hand marks of many colors. These marks glow when they make love, it is said. These marks allow them to share strength, it is said. These marks are only made between consenting adults if they are done on sensitive parts of the body - children only have them on their foreheads and upper arms. On adults, they are only on parts of the body usually covered, as this would expose them during their nightly acts of vigilantism.

They practice the holy rituals of feasting. After a victory at night, after a good month, after a union of families, after a long year, they feast on lentils and bread, sugary plums and figs, savory pastries and mashes, and a plethora of candied vegetables. They share throughout the community, including to non-nanmai, who rarely join them, and they speak together of good times and kindness. No ill words are allowed at feasts.

And they practice the holy rituals of physical exercise. An hour after breaking fast, they go for a run (if they can). An hour after their evening meal, they go for a swim (if they can). And every three days, they engage in any other form of physical exercise, and they dedicate these hours to their forebears. They do these exercises in groups, if they can, and always say prayers during.

They love bright colors. They wear yellows and oranges, reds and blues, greens and whites, and they do so no matter the time of year. They are seen as clowns by others, but they wear a riot of color no matter what… except at night, when they wear black and grey, dark brown and green, so they may move with stealth. (Having six arms is a bit of a tricky thing to hide, but not as unusual on Shem as one might expect.)

It is said among them that fighting for justice is their most important task, and therefore, they are taught to do so. The Urthi believe in justice as a collective force, and therefore, they try to work with other oppressed people to fight for it. They teach their children many lessons, such as how to recognize injustice, how to speak to other oppressed people, how to show respect, and how to kill someone quickly and hide their body.

Every face of the nanmai is a different gender, or at least referred to differently. They choose which face is which: male, female, or hijra. It is of utmost importance that they respect the gender in use. Most use the hijra at night, to fight for justice, because society does not respect this gender.

“Three-faced bastards. Liars, thieves, and killers. They’ll steal your coin, your liver, and your soul as quick as they can, then blame you for it. Spit on them, it’s the only time they get clean.”

PRO 11 ATH 11 STR 11 AWA 11 WIL 11 PRS 11 STH 11

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Tantum

• Taxonomic Order: Illittum
• Alignment: Infernal
• Lifespan: Varies
• Diet: Varies
• Habitat: Arid and semiarid mountains, temperate swamps
• Socioeconomic Status: Ruling class colonizers or exotified privileged oppressed

Tantum are chaotic beings dwelling in the swamps of eastern Ansulym. Every tantum born takes one of eleven forms, which happen randomly without regard to the parents. These forms are as follows:

• Extremely tall horned snake person with six mouths, seven tongues, and seven belly buttons.
• Lion-headed, draconic body, winged, four legs.
• Lion-body, bird-legs, seven serpent heads.
• Eagle talons, lion arms, long neck, long tail, horned head, snake tongue, crest, reddish scales.
• Hairy hominid.
• Lion-headed person with bird feet.
• Dog person with human head.
• Scorpion person with human head and torso and arms, scorpion lower body and stinger tail.
• Living storm.
• Human head, arms, and torso, with fish lower body and tail.
• Human arms, torso, and head, and bull or bison hindquarters, ears, and horns.

Tantum are beings of chaos, and therefore, they have no consistent powers. Some powers they might be born with include the following:

Power	Description	Roll
Venomous bite	the bite of the tantum inflicts poison at a power of 11.	1-10
Increase or decrease size	they can grow or shrink themselves bodily at will, ranging from half their size to thrice their size.	11-12
Expanded diet	they can consume and digest objects others might not be able to at a power of 11.	13-15
Venom instead of blood	their blood is entirely replaced with a venomous fluid at power of 11.	16-20
Splendorous appeareance	they glow slightly and are perceived as impressive (PRS+3) at will.	21-24
Control river current	if they swim in a river, they can control the current around them, power of WIL.	25-29
Domestic animal influence	they can subtly influence the behavior of domesticated animals at a power of PRS.	30-33
Protect from infernal powers	they can grant someone else protection from infernal energies at power of 11.	34-36
Instill Name	they can give an extra (False) Name to someone or something.	37-38
Protect from death	they can prevent someone from dying of a mortal wound with their touch.	39-42
Summon natural disaster	once per year, they can summon a natural disaster that would not naturally occur in the area they are in.	43-44
Empowered by the sun	while the sun is out, they take +1 to all base stats.	45-49
Protect from disease	they can spit on someone and give them a +3 vs. any disease or poison.	50-53
Dual image	they can create a mirror image of themselves that can act independently for an hour, once per month.	54-58
Death gaze	their gaze (WIL) can kill if they lock eyes with someone, once per week.	59-60
Shadowwalk	they can vanish into shadows and teleport to another shadow within 300'.	61-64
Terrifying presence	they appear terrifying to those who can see them (PRS+3) at will.	65-68
Chaossight	they can see the primordial origins of any target, but they risk entering a psychotic break for three days (roll WIL vs. 14, +3 for every use subsequent, with no restoration).	69-72
Storm control	they can control any storm with their shout, howl, or scream, power of WIL.	73-76
Summon storms	they can summon a storm by stamping their feet, power of WIL, once per year.	77-78
Bond to weapons	they can bond their life to a weapon they have wielded in combat and spilled blood with, meaning they die only if the weapon is broken (conversely, they also die if the weapon is broken).	79-81
Shapeshifting	they can take one of their other potential forms once per year.	82-85
Alter luck	player rolls a d8-1, and that many people within 13' of them rolls a d4. If they roll a 1, no change. If they roll a 2, they take the low die for all rolls until their luck changes. If they roll a 3, they take the middle die for all rolls until their luck changes. If they roll a 4, they take the high die for all rolls until their luck changes.	86-89
Give Divine favor	if they mark someone with their blood, that person will have +6 favor from a random deity, which will be presented to them the next time the target dreams.	90-92
Repel intruder	if the tantum marks their abode with their own blood, intruders suffer a -3 to all actions if they come with ill intent toward the tantum.	93-95
Inflict hex	the tantum mark metaphysically mark someone within line-of-sight, inflicting a randomly generated bad effect on them.	96-98
Astrological insight	the tantum can look into the stars and gain insight into the events of the next month.
99-100	Every morning (whether they have rested or not), the player rolls a d4. What they roll on the d4, that's how many times they roll a d100 to see which powers they have for the day. If they roll a power that has a recovery period, they do not restore the power if it has been used within the recovery period (i.e., if it is once a year, and they have used it within a year, they do not get it again, they simply have no power for that roll).

Tantum live in tribes in the marshes and deserts to the east, but those in the colonies come as revered beings who come from powerful, ancient dynasties and great magic. They are revered as sages and protectors, and they are welcomed by the dreorcwenns as a privileged visiting species. They hold onto their customs and live in mansions gifted them by nobles of Endruin who think they will bring them good fortune or insights.

Any PC playing a tantum would be one who lost their privileged and became a criminal.

Stats vary drastically by form. Confer with the GM.