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The Founders were a group of Changelings from the Gamma Quadrant, who mainly existed in the form of the Great Link.
"When you return to The Link, what will become of the entity I'm talking to right now?
The drop becomes the ocean.
And if you choose to take solid form again?
The ocean becomes a drop."
From Changelings to FoundersEons ago, Changelings evolved from non-metamorphic lifeforms, who were limited to one form like other humanoids. Later, the Changelings roamed space, searching out other races so they could add to their knowledge of the galaxy. The Changelings came in peace, though "solids" feared their metamorphic abilities, met them with suspicion, and even "beat, hunted, and killed" them.
Deeming "Changelings" to be nothing but make-believe by the current era, the many gamma quadrant races told mythical tales of them, with some races refering to them as "evil shape-shifters." According to Dominion legend, on one planet, a group of Vorta – a species of small, timid, ape-like forest dwellers living in hollowed-out trees – hid a Changeling from an angry mob, and in return the Changeling promised that one day they would be transformed into powerful beings and placed at the head of a vast interstellar empire.
As an adverse reaction to being hunted and rejected by the solids, the Founders accepted the pejorative "Changeling" as their own and retreated to a rogue planet in the Omarion Nebula, where they existed as the Great Link. Adapting a philosophy of "what you control can't hurt you," Changelings realized they had to "guide" the solids, who, in turn, had to "be broken of their love for freedom."
They determined that, in order to be safe, they had to set themselves the task of creating order from the chaos they saw around them, and as a result, they became the "Founders" of the Dominion circa 1,600 years ago.
The Founders genetically engineered the Jem'Hadar as their front line soldiers and also kept their promise to the Vorta by empowering them to become the Dominion's civil servants and commanders. Amongst other methods, both species' loyalty was ensured by implanting into them a reverence of any Changeling as a living god.
Deeming "Changelings" to be nothing but make-believe by the current era, the many gamma quadrant races told mythical tales of them, with some races refering to them as "evil shape-shifters." According to Dominion legend, on one planet, a group of Vorta – a species of small, timid, ape-like forest dwellers living in hollowed-out trees – hid a Changeling from an angry mob, and in return the Changeling promised that one day they would be transformed into powerful beings and placed at the head of a vast interstellar empire.
As an adverse reaction to being hunted and rejected by the solids, the Founders accepted the pejorative "Changeling" as their own and retreated to a rogue planet in the Omarion Nebula, where they existed as the Great Link. Adapting a philosophy of "what you control can't hurt you," Changelings realized they had to "guide" the solids, who, in turn, had to "be broken of their love for freedom."
They determined that, in order to be safe, they had to set themselves the task of creating order from the chaos they saw around them, and as a result, they became the "Founders" of the Dominion circa 1,600 years ago.
The Founders genetically engineered the Jem'Hadar as their front line soldiers and also kept their promise to the Vorta by empowering them to become the Dominion's civil servants and commanders. Amongst other methods, both species' loyalty was ensured by implanting into them a reverence of any Changeling as a living god.
Racial Traits
Ability Adjustment:+2 Strength, +4 Dexterity, +4 Constitution, +2 Intelligence, -2 CharismaRacial Traits
Wound Die d10 Chakra Modifier +0
Medical Classification: Group VI-C - Invertebrates
Note: character weight is tracked in Litres [Example:a 120 pound being turned into a founder [by like a god] would weigh 54 Litres.Maximum Litres is 226 Litres [500 Lbs]
Ordered Mind -Cannot take Chaotic Alignment paths.
No Sense of Smellfounders have no sense of smell, even when shapeshifted, they cannot use the scent ability of a shapeshifted form.
No Sense of Tastefounders have no sense of Taste, even when shapeshifted.
Unusual BiologyFounders gain a +4 bonus on Fortitude saves against disease and poison,including magical diseases.
Revert to Liquid State:Founders must revert back into liquid form every 16 hours to regenerate.If they do not they begin to flake and peel and loose liquid mass until death.
A character can go without regenerating for one day plus a number of hours equal to his or her Constitution score. After this, the character must make a Constitution check each hour (DC 10, +1 for each previous check) or take 1d6 points of damage, this cannot be healed until regeneration has occured.
Founders do not eat or breathe, they do sleep when they revert back to a gelationus state every day, during this process their morphgenic matrix repairs itself.
Enhanced Movement:
Founders glide with a liquidlike grace even in shifted forms
movement speed is increased due to their form of movement and design
With Age Comes Morphing
Changlings who are adult or younger cannot emulate sentient faces properly, this restriction is removed at middle age, until its removed shifting changlings will always have the 'founder face'
-4 to disguise checks to emulate humanoids, race identity cannot be hidden without magic, this defect is removed at middle age.
Subspace Mass Storage
Founder Biology baffles even palman scientists, while other shapeshifting races can only shift into creatures within one size step of their original size, founders have no issue assuming extremely large and extremely small shapes, this is due to the fact they have the ability to store some of their liquid mass in subspace, unfortunately this also makes them vulnerable to tetryons.
+2 Damage From Tetryon Sources, Size catagory restrictions to shapeshifting removed.
Copycat (Near-Perfect Transformation):
Founder are able to change shape at will altering their physical form as the Transformation Technique except without the drawbacks.A founder is able to replicate all aspects of his subject including fingerprints and retina, chakra signature, and the subject's voice well enough to fool any forensic equipment.
Blood and DNA - if tested remotely [not removed from physical mass], then the test will be tricked,[a medical scanner for instance] but if its a extaction say with a needle it will revert back to liquid state and easily identifible as not the blood of a humanoid or animal.
They can shapeshift into nearly any form with practice regardless of its matter type, such as humanoid forms, liquid, fire, fog and even electrial equipment
Severed Reversion
Removed parts of Changelings revert back to liquid state,
but can be reabsorbed into the main body at any time with contact.
Skills: A Founder gains a +20 racial bonus on Escape Artist checks.
Immune to Physical Critical Damage:
Their unique biology prevents them from taking critical hits from Physical sources - Piercings, slashing and Bludgeoning, Energy weapons and Techniques however are a different matter., they can also reattach lost limbs within 1d4 rounds of detachment with no serious issues, regrowing or reattaching a limb costs 80 or 40 chakra respectively. For each +1 modifier to constitution decrease cost by 10 to a minimum of 20/10 respectively.DM-RP: 27HP/Chakra - Balance 0 RPOrdered Mind -1 RPAbility Scores: Advanced (4 RP)Advanced Dexterity 4 RPUnusual Biology 2 RPForsaken - No, Templates - Check with DM but likely not
(all of the attributes are linked together, stemming from Gelatinous Biology:)Copycat: 5 RP <linked> Gelatinous-biology: 5 RP <linked> Goo Escape 10 RP <linked> Fast 1 RP <linked> Subspace Mass Storage 0 RP [Benefit+Defect]<linked> With Age Comes Morphing -2 RP <linked> No sense of Taste/smell -1 RP <linked> Revert to liquid state -0 RP [Benefit+Defect]
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