Kotenoei

The Kotenoei are a cosmopolitan collection of clans that populate and explore the Crystalline Archipelago that spirals outward from the permanent magical storm known as the Whorl. Long ago, as the Eruvenian Empire conquered and colonized much of the known parts of Oshanal, the Kotenoei were the only people to truly hold out against Imperial conquest. Eventually, desperate to win out against the proud Noeian people, the Emperor attempted to summon the true gods themselves, and broke eternity.

Because of this bitter, millennia-long conflict, when the Eruvenian people established the first of the Hanging Towers, the Kotenoei were abandoned to the flooded, monster-infested surface world to die. Instead, they met the challenge and rose above it, becoming firmly engrained with the monstrous world and adapting to it. Today, the Kotenoei are a formidable people once again, and they are almost everywhere in the surface world.

The Kotenoei are a powerfully spiritual people, fully believing in the interior spirits of all things, and seeking some path of rapport or survival with the world itself. When the world changed, they sought to match it, and largely succeeded. Their history is one powerful survival story after another, where the Noeian clans are met with an insurmountable existential threat, only to gather a great Council of Matrons, and in the gathering discover a new way to weather, or tame, whichever titan threatens their life: an Imperial titan, or an actual titan, it has not yet mattered.

Island Orc Ancestral Traits

Your island orc ancestry grants you the following traits.

Age. Island orcs reach adulthood at 14 years, and live to be up to 80 years old.

Size. Island orcs stand 8 feet tall on average and are corded with powerful muscles, weighing up to 280 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Relentless Endurance. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Amphibious. You can breathe both air and water.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.