Ayumu

General role: Leaders and negotiators
Hunger: Blood of a sentient creature
Clan Gift: Sight of the Sun. Incapable of being blinded and may shift sight to see in UV spectrum and Infrared Spectrum

The Sun Clan are the ones the trys'tet tend to revere and hold on high standing. While it is true that no single trys'tet is above one or the other, those of the sun clan tend to be looked upon as leaders and negotiators. They are brought in because they tend to be level-headed and calm. Many become community leaders or aids to those of higher authority.

The Sun Clan hunger stems from the need for sociability and interaction, their enviousness of the ability of others to blend in. This need causes them to become a hematophage, a monster that preys upon the weak and only the blood those capable of thought would do. The hormones laced within the blood from such sentient creatures is what makes this necessary. Over the period of centuries, a Sun Clan may become gorged with blood and be able to be fed from by other hemophages, other than fellow trys'tet.

General Role: Racial ruler
Hunger: Same as the clan they came from.
Gift: In addition to their clan gift, they gain the ability to sense all trys'tet within a mile of them. The Prime also gains a divine gift. This gift varies from Prime to Prime.
Current Prime: Ayumu Capris

There is only ever one Prime. The trys'tet prime is the ruler of the species, the one that is destined to keep their kind safe and to protect the trys'tet grove island. When it comes to creating new trys'tet, the Prime must be consulted first and they must find the one that is to be turned worthy of carrying the species forward with them.

The Prime is not always the eldest, but they are selected for their tenacity, wisdom and their loyalty to the species.

Prime Gift: None

Trys’tet as a species are very hardy. While they do not possess instant regeneration, they do have the capability to expend their stored energy to re-attach limbs and recover from most injuries. Utilizing their energy pool, a Trys’tet can regenerate a wound level of a wound per point of expended energy. Reattaching limbs requires two points to re-graft to their body.

Trys’tet automatically gain the ability to speak with flora. They can communicate and understand them with relative ease. They gain the bonus language of Plantspeech racially.


Trys’tet are capable shapeshifting into three forms. They capable of taking on their anthro form, plant form and two other forms of their choosing. Once chosen, these forms are locked and cannot be changed without significant effort. To change these forms, a Trys’tet must return to their tree and meld with it, realigning their body to the new chosen form.

Ayumu is incapable of shapeshifting to any degree. He has gained an alternate form.

All Trys’tet have a plant their soul is tethered to. This tether cannot be broken except in the event of the Soul Plant’s destruction. Should a Trys’tet be felled by any means, their soul is returned to their plant where they are regrown in a month. This is a harrowing experience and the wound that slays the Trys’tet leaves a mark on their soul in the form of a scar that remains on their body. Destroying this plant makes the Trys’tet vulnerable. Should the plant be destroyed and then the Trys’tet killed after, the Trys’tet is permanently slain with no recovery without aid of outside influence.

Trys’tet are psionic creatures. Many are in possession of psionic abilities, whether that manifests as empathy, telepathy or a kinesis of some kind, they all have some sort of psionic prowess.

Detriment Removal: As the name suggests, the trys'tet may opt to entirely remove the ability score detriment they suffer. This confers no other benefit, and comes with the price of never being capable of taking any other special ability. This is mutually exclusive with all other trys'tet special abilities.

While a Trys'tet can survive on regular food, it is only a temporary substitute. Trys'tet need regular access to water, sun, and soil. Food turns to soil in the Trys'tet digestive system, but it is taxing on their body and takes a lot of energy to do so. Eating normal food only will starve a Trys'tet in a matter of weeks. If they do not have access to all 3 things, they will begin to wilt. They will show signs like their hair will turn brown and dry out. Their abilities will become weaker as time goes on. Without water, they burn more easily and take more damage from it. However, plants are very durable. Completely devoid of nutrients, water, and light, it will still take 2 months for the Trys'tet to die, though they will go into a coma after 4 or 5 weeks depending on how durable they are. No matter how long they are without food, it will only take them a few days to a week to become revitalized should they get what they need.

All of them are severely weak to fire, though there are occasional exceptions to this as there have been some that are resistant to it or outright immune due to plant type or special abilities. Wounds inflicted by fire leave scars providing the Trys’tet is weak to fire. All wounds inflicted by fire are treated as one wound level higher and cannot be regenerated by energy expenditure.

Trys’tet are incapable of using magic. They do not have the capacity for magic, as they cannot tap into the ley-lines or magical forces.

While unique to each House, all Trys'tet must also feed on a type of essence. They can keep up to 6 units of essence in their body at one time and lose 1 unit every week. If they only have 2 left, their hunger is overwhelming and they lose the use of their abilities. If they only have 1 unit left, they frenzy until they satisfy their craving. At 0 units, they go into a coma until they are fed by another the essence in which they need. See the different clans for specifics. After being in a coma for 2 weeks the Trys’tet dies and is reborn from their tree (see Soul Plant) but are permanently affected by a Trys’tet Vulnerability.

Additionally, Ayumu must also feed upon another, secondary, source to feed his B'natfal seed.

Trys’tet have several attributes that they select from to have a bonus to. Those attributes become supernatural in how powerful they are. They may select any one of their core attributes as their primary attribute. This attribute is raised to a supernatural high. This means they can lift beyond what a creature of their size normally can, move more gracefully or faster, tougher, smarter, wiser, more charismatic. They also chose a secondary attribute that is also enhanced likewise, though not normally as high. They also are required to have one decreased attribute (detrimental). Detrimental stats can be no higher than a 6 in D&D terms, but no lower than a 3.

Wisdom

Secondary: Grants a 50% resistance to all mind influencing effects and increases all psionic capabilities by one step.

Strength

Primary: Increases strength to be able to carry up to a metric tonne and a half. This strength is controllable so one can still do non-lethal damage.

Suffers from mild-to-moderate erectile dysfunction due to damage done by a previous illness.

Night Terrors

Depression

None

• Rings
• Necklaces and pendants
• Bangles and anklets
• Piercing jewelry

• Ability suppression items
• Telepathic link items (Restricted to rings and bracelets)
• Shock crystal weapons