Hawk
Hawk
Hawks are a reclusive, xenophobic, and territorial tribe that lives within the trackless southern deserts. They have a fierce and spartan lifestyle and mind-set, and consider all other races and tribes to be invaders and parasites.
Physical Qualities. Hawk typically stand anywhere from 5'2 to 5'7 feet tall. They are slender and agile, with slim physiques. Hawks have light brown skin, narrow features, and uniformly yellow eyes. Hawks prefer their hybrid form, which manifest as a raptor-head on an otherwise human body, with a pair of feathered wings sprouting from their backs. Coloration of the feathers ranges from brown, to black, or grey.
Playing a Hawk. You're an asshole. Lean into it.... if you want to piss off the table.
Culture. Hawks have clans led by a single male patriarch. The patriarch will have a harem of human women captured in raids from other tribes or traded from other Hawks. They typically travel the desert between small settlements, trading with other Hawks and raiding any non-Hawks they encounter.
Young Hawk males are initially raised by their mothers communally, until they are able to lift a sword or spear. After which they are given over to their elder brothers for training. Once a young man has reached the age of 18, he is given his first bride and driven from the family.
Human males are gelded and raised as servants.
Humans females are raised to become concubines and traded to other clans.
Hawk females are typically killed in infancy, as they're considered useless. Some especially soft and weak Hawk fathers might allow the child to be raised to pre-puberty, and trade them to Tiger clans for mineral resources.
Relations. Hawks hate everyone, and everyone else hates them.
Humans. Humans are, quite literally, the slaves of whichever Hawk owns them. Females are kept in harems and used as livestock or breeding stock. Males are put to work as farmers, laborers, and soldiers. Males are castrated to prevent unwanted breeding. Unlike other Theru tribes, were-Hawks are almost uniformly slaves captured from other tribes, thus were-Hawks do not have distinctive ethnic features.
Hawk Traits
Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
Flight. While in your hybrid form, you have a flying speed of 30 feet. You can’t use your flying speed while you wear medium or heavy armor.
Heat Resistance. Your people hail from a trackless desert, and you are naturally adapted to hot climates and environmental conditions. In addition, you have advantage on Survival checks when in such environments.
Hawkeyed. You have proficiency in the Perception skill. In addition, attacking at long range doesn’t impose disadvantage on your ranged weapon attack rolls.
Were-Hawk Traits
Any human slave raised in a Hawk tribe environment is considered a Were-Hawk, regardless of their original tribal affiliation. PC Were-Hawks can use the Wyld human racial features.