Ovisii (5e Race)

Ovisii

Physical Description

In the simplest terms, ovisii are humanoids that resemble domestic sheep. The ovisii's bodies are covered almost completely in wool, which feels identical to a regular sheep's wool and can come in various shades of white, brown and black whilst their heads have more regular looking but fluffy hair that's usually a darker or brighter shade of color then their wool. They have curled horns adorning their heads that grow as they grow older and must be regularly trimmed so they don't get too big. The horns of a male ovisii are typically bigger then the females, but both are just as effective at hitting. They have rectangular pupils and their eyes come in various shades of yellow, greens and orange, with some exceptionally rare ones having blue ones. Their faces also have a human-like look to them with the exception of a short button nosed, sheep snout.

Strange Beginnings

The ovisii began life on a small farm, owned by a lone shepherd. Back then, they were nothing more than normal sheep, completely unaware of anything but their everyday routines. The story goes that at some point in the shepherd's life when they were younger, they ran into a fey and apparently offended it somehow. So years later the fey enacted a plan to make the shepherd's life chaos, which started with giving his flock of sheep sentience and trying to get them to rebel against their former master. This plan however backfired as the now awakened sheep warned their shepherd of the coming danger, allowing him to enlist the aid of adventurers to deal with it, but consequently forgot about curing the sheep of their newfound sentience. Despite that, the shepherd did not seem to mind at all and allowed the flock to continue living on the farm if they wanted to, an offer these sheep graciously accepted. Then as time went on, they started speaking his language more properly, becoming more and more humanoid looking and acting with each generation and soon started helping around on the farm, learning more about the tools, the crops grown and the other animals on the farm, developing an entire community and culture devoted to this farmstead, once and truly becoming ovisii. Even now, centuries after the shepherd died peacefully in his sleep and later his last descendant fell as well, the ovisii still honor their shepherd as they live out their simple farmer lives.

Simple Folks with Simple Lives

The ovisii are a simple, hard-working and communal people, with a culture that encourages hard work and care in all matters of life. A single ovisii family can often grow large enough to fulfill every role needed on a farm within a generation or two, with the children raised together by the community build around their homes. With so many ovisii and their sheep wool to go between them, they often make a lot of warm clothing, bedsheets and various other things that they trade with merchants, travelers and adventurers. Through these trades, ovisii are often told stories of wonder and adventure, giving many young ovisii a sense of wanderlust and desire to see the rest of the world beyond their meeker little farmsteads.

Ovisii Names

Ovisii naming conventions are typically rather simple but very traditional. Their first names tend to have at most two syllables that traditionally end with an 'i' and their family names usually are alterations of words from the Common tongue, noticeably ones that relate to farming. Male ovisii have an 'oh' suffix before their family names whilst female members have 'ah' before theirs. For example, a male name is built like: Bori oh'Mahson, whilst a female's is built as: Ami ah'Mahson.

Male: Bori, Dhori, Monni, Kari, Edri

Female: Ami, Nomi, Sari, Demi, Molli, Kori

Family: Mahson, Ja'ar, Shephyyrd, Hamihr, Faarmiir, Haorse, Ba'arn, Siikil

Ovisii Traits

The ovisii, a simple people reminiscent of domestic sheep.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.
Age. Ovisii mature faster then most, reaching adulthood at 14 years old and tend to live an average of 80 years.
Alignment. The ovisii are a simple people that prefer the calm and quiet, making most of them lawfully good.
Size. Ovisii vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Horns. Your horns are natural melee weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the normal bludgeoning damage for an unarmed strike.
Shepherd's Teachings. You are proficient in two of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Survival, Medicine, Perception, Nature and Athletics.
Woolcunning. Your body is covered in wool all over that steadily grows over time. Once every month and over the course of a short or long rest, you can shear it off and gain an amount of wool, in pounds equal to 2 x your Constitution modifier. In addition, whenever you make an ability check with weaver's tools to make something from wool, you are considered proficient in the tool if you aren't already and add double your proficiency bonus to the check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus.
Fey Cunning. Although you are not fey yourself, you do have a knack for evading some of their tricks. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed.
Beastborn. Your creature type is both humanoid and beast.
Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan.

Random Height and Weight

Base Height	Height Modifier*	Base Weight	Weight Modifier**
4′ 2''	+3d6	100 lbs lb.	× (d6) lb.
*Height = base height + height modifier **Weight = base weight + (height modifier × weight modifier)

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