Hurwaet - Race

    The hurwaeti are an ancient humanoid race distantly related to both sahuagin and lizard-men. Long ago, they were a great spacefaring race that had colonized many systems, spreading art, civilization, morality, an a philospohy favoring altruism and discipline throughout the spheres. But an ancient war (perhaps agains the beholders or mind flayers) broke up their empire and killed the brightest and most energetic individuals. Most hurwaeti were stranded and degenerated into swamp and salt wiggles. The remaining spacefaring hurwaeti became impoverished wanderers, content to simply earn a living for themselves and their tribes.
    Personality: Hurwaets are generally accommodating and nonaggressive, if a bit covetous and mercenary. Nobody gets anything from a hurweat for free. Once they have come to an agreement however, they will hold up their end of a deal.
    Their greatest hatred is reserved for beholders, illithids, and neogi, probably because of the ancient war. A hurwaet will never surrender to a member of these races, preferring to fight until death.
    Physical Description: They have thick, tough scales; these are very small, hard and shiny, so that their dark olive-green hides look smooth and glossy (many observers mistake this gloss for dampness or slime). They have long, frog-like legs, webbed fingers and toes, and gnome-like faces with large ears, pointed noses, and long, sharp chins. Adult hurwaeti have short, sparse beards and tufts of coarse hair atop their heads. Adults are between six and seven feet tall, and weigh from 190 to 230 pounds. Hurwaeti favor simple clothing, usually long, brightly colored loin cloths, and belts and packs for carrying equipment. They also like to wear jewelry, particularly large earrings mad from ceramic, as well as armbands and bracelets.
    Relations: Hurwaeti tend to get along with almost all races (thew exception being the three named above), being sought after by ship captains because of their willingness to work hard, their ability to refresh a ship´s atmosphere with their fog cloud abilities, and their phenomenal jumps, which make them useful marines.
    Alignment: Most Hurwaeti are neutral, generally leaning a bit more towards law than chaos.
    Hurwaeti Lands: Since the great war, the spacefaring hurwaeti have no homeland, instead drifting through known space in the employment of other races, or on their own ships.
    Religion: The hurwaeti follow a number of gods, the foremost being the "Great Wanderer" (who may or may not be an aspect of Celestian).
    Language: The hurwaeti´s native tongue is a variant of draconic. Due to their extensive contacts with other races, virtually all hurwaeti also speak common, and they can take all languages that are not secret or extraplanar a s bonus languages.
    Adventurers: Hurwaeti adventurers are most often rogues, although there are many clerics and wizards among them as well. Sorcerers, monks, psions and clerics are no rarity either, and there is a number of adventuring hurwaeti fighters. Druids, Bards and Paladins are probably the rarest of hurwaeti adventurers, and barbarians are almost unheard of.

Hurwaet Racial Traits:

+2 wis, -2 con. Their cunning and skill make hurwaeti wiser than most races, but their prolonged live in space without a planetary home has somewhat sapped their physical resilence.
Medium-size: As creatures of medium size, hurwaeti have no special bonuses or penalties.
Hurwaeti base speed is 30 ft.
Low-light vision.
Favored enemy: Aberrations. Due to their hatred against aberrations such as beholders, illithids, and neogi, all hurwaeti gain a +1 bonus to hit and damage rolls against these creatures. This stacks with the ranger ability of the same name.
Leap: Their frog-like, strong legs allow hurwaeti to make astounding leaps. They gain a + 15 racial bonus on jump checks, and their jump distance is not limited by their actual height.
Fog Cloud: Once per day, a hurwaet can produce a fog cloud, as per the obscuring mist spell. This cloud also refreshes ten man-days of ship´s atmosphere.
Due to their thick scales, hurwaeti gain a +4 natural armor bonus. A hurwaet´s favored class is rogue.

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