Selkie (5e Creature)

Selkie

Medium humanoid (shapechanger), neutral Armor Class 12 Hit Points 16 (3d8 + 3) Speed 30 ft. (20 ft., swim 30 ft. in seal or hybrid form) STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 10 (+0) 14 (+2) 12 (+1) 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 14 (+2) Skills Perception +3, Performance +4 Damage Resistances cold Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 13 Languages Common, Selkie Challenge 1/2 (100 XP) Shapechanger. The selkie can use its action to polymorph into a seal-humanoid hybrid or into a seal, or back into its true form, which is humanoid. Its statistics, other than its movement speeds, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies. Hold Breath. The selkie can hold its breath for 15 minutes. Keen Smell. The selkie has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell. Seal Telepathy. The selkie can magically command any seal within 120 feet of it, using a limited telepathy. ACTIONS Bite (Seal Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage. Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 bludgeoning damage.

Three selkies, source Selkies are a kind of shapechanger that live among pods of seals, typically in colder oceans. While they are sometimes called sealweres, à la jackalweres and wolfweres, this is a misnomer; while most other creatureweres are animals capable of taking on a humanoid form, a selkie's true form is its humanoid form, though unlike werecreatures their ability to transform into their more animalistic forms is completely natural. Selkies are universally beautiful, leaving desire in the hearts of the few who lay eyes on them. Some legends state that a selkie's ability to leave its humanoid form lies in a cloak of seal skin they are born with, though such a cloak only functions in such a way for selkie. It is believed that one can take a selkie's freedom by stealing their cloak, making it completely obedient to its cloak's holder, though the selkie will always try to reclaim its cloak and return to the sea.

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