Karivik
The kariviks are a nascent specie of intelligent xenoblooded creature with powerful psionic powers who were uplifted from a race of savage insane creatures. The unknown uplifters gifted the race with powerful psionic mind and flesh that seemingly answer to their will. The uplifting however was not completely successful, leaving the race extremely mentally unstable and resulting in them almost going extinct within a year of uplifting. The few who survive managed to keep their population on the low-medium end of viable (a few million individuals). Many karivik become wanderer of the stars, seeking their own fame and destiny while other try to cure the racial insanity that plague their race,
The uplifted kariviks look like a regular humanoid creature, they usually have green skin and colourful hairs a eyes. Because of their uplifting the kariviks's body react immensely to their mind, allowing them to reshape it with ease and to a degree most consider discomforting. Since they have the natural ability to shapeshift to a degree they can look like a lot of things.
Kariviks have a short lifespan, whether this is because of their uplifting or not is unknown. They are more than a little annoyed about their short lifespan and seeking immortality is not an uncommon goal among kariviks.
Racial Traits
- -2 Constitution, -2 Strength, +2 Intelligence or +2 Wisdom or +2 Charisma: Karivik are mentally powerful but frail of body.
- Humanoid (Psionic, Shapechanger, Xenoblooded): Kariviks have a lot of subtypes.
- Medium: As a Medium creature, a karivik has no special bonuses or penalties due to its size.
- Karivik base land speed is 30 feet.
- Low-Light Vision: A karivik can see twice as far as a human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. She retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions.
- Fragmented Mind: Kariviks receive the split mind feat as a bonus feat.
- Arid Dweller (Ex): Kariviks's bodies are used to extremely arid and hot environment, they are always under the effect of endure elements (hot only), take no penalties to movement when moving on desert terrain and halve halves the penalties for being in a sandstorm. Karivik may go 30 days without drinking before suffering from dehydration.
- Karivik Particularities (Ex): As an alien specie Kariviks have a few particularities granting them minor bonuses.
- Kariviks have flexible bones, allowing them to count as one size category for the purpose of making escape artist checks.
- Kariviks can see ultraviolet light, which grant them a +8 bonus on survival skill for tracking as well as allowing them to see things other cannot. They may 'turn off' their ultraviolet vision by closing an transparent eyelid.
- Kariviks have a mild allergy to cold substances (below 0 Celsius).
- Naturally Psionic: Karivik gain 2 bonus power points at 1st level. This benefit does not grant them the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.
- Psionic Body Alteration (Su): By concentrating for an hour a Karivik can duplicate the effect of alter form (self only).
- Racial Insanity: Sadly even with all the uplifted, Karivik still suffer from their racial insanity. When placed under intense stress (like combat) there is a 5% chance that they regress into a violent psychosis, become confused for an undetermined amount of time. If they are able to act normally they may end their racial insanity as a standard action and do not risk any regress into insane behavior for 24 hours.
- Automatic Languages: Common
- Bonus Languages: Any non-secret
- Favored Class: Any
- Level Adjustment: +0
- Effective Character Level: 1
Vital Statistics
Table: Karivik Random Starting Ages
| Adulthood |
Simple |
Moderate |
Complex
|
| 6 years |
+1 |
+1d2 |
+1d3
|
Table: Karivik Aging Effects
| Middle Age1 |
Old2 |
Venerable3 |
Maximum Age
|
| 12 years |
22 years |
26 years |
+1d10 years
|
Table: Human Random Height and Weight
| Gender |
Base Height |
Height Modifier |
Base Weight |
Weight Modifier
|
| Male |
4’ 10” |
+2d10 |
120 lb. |
× (2d4) lb.
|
| Female |
4’ 5” |
+2d10 |
85 lb. |
× (2d4) lb.
|
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