Nagual (3.5e Race)

Nagual
Summary::Servants of a forgotten nature deity in the Outlands, the nagual are sent to the material plane to pose as a creature's familiar and guide them from their current path to one closer to neutrality and the will of nature. By tempering the zealous souls of the extreme alignments, neutrality becomes stronger.  They are sometimes known as transformation witches.

Personality
The nagual are beings of nature and typically get along well with all things natural in the world. And yet they are also schemers and tricksters, both in their divine mission and in their abilities. For when one has the power to become an animal one can fool many a person. It is said that the nagual pick up personality quirks from their animal, resulting in craven rat-nagual, flighty bird-nagual, and all sorts of others.

Physical Description
Nagual are short humanoid creatures similar to halflings or the stereotypical "pygmy", with small subtle animal features according to their animal type (such as feathers, cat ears, a tail, or patches of fur). They have sharp pointed ears and limbs slightly long for their body, and skin colors trend from tan and bronze to an unnatural pitch black. They are native outsiders, as they were originally creates as scouts and saboteurs of the nature god whose existence is now lost to time, but the race itself breeds true. Even so, fewer and fewer nagual have been created over time resulting in some believing the god's power is waning or even perished.

Relations
Creatures don't known the nagual are there, usually, and those that do often have reason to see them with mistrust. They are tricky and clever and often have an agenda, and you can never trust when an animal of their kind is about. For that reason most nagual simply claim to be halflings, it causes much less questions.

Alignment
Most nagual are true neutral, but as the god's power wanes so too wanes the control of the nagual and some have found to have adopted other alignments to their own.

Lands
Nagual do not have a land, for they are too few and two widespread. Few even remember the mission they were originally tasked to do. In some communities they became known as transformation witches and taken up the role of shamans or witch doctors, while others presume them to be a form of lycanthrope and are hunted on sight.

Religion
Nagual used to follow the will of an unnamed nature god, a god whose name and existence is lost to time. Now few follow him, choosing vague worship of nature or even nothing at all.

Language
Nagual speak Common and Sylvan.

Names
Nagual usually adopt nicknames, especially if one is pretending to be a familiar. Their original names seem to be simply descriptions of what they are: Crow, Cat, Rabbit, and so forth.