Mothlings are medium-sized humanoid creatures with a unique blend of insectoid and mammalian features, setting them apart as one of the most distinct races in Tagaz. Their appearance is characterized by a balance of practicality and elegance, designed for both agility and adaptability.

Base Traits

Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 2.
Age: Mothlings mature quickly, reaching adulthood by age 10-15, and live up to around 60 years.
Alignment: Mothlings value adaptability and community. They tend toward neutral alignments but can vary widely based on upbringing and experiences.
Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Racial Traits

Darkvision: Thanks to your sensitive antennae, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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. At 8th level, your heightened senses grant you blindsight out to 30 feet.

Sunlight Sensitivity: Your nocturnal nature makes sunlight difficult to tolerate. While in direct sunlight, you have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.

Handiness: Your industrious nature shines through your dexterous hands. You gain proficiency with one tool of your choice.

Winged Leap: Using your wings, you can leap great distances. As a bonus action, you can leap an additional 10 feet in any direction, including vertically. You cannot hover or remain airborne using this trait.

Sub Species:

Atlas Mothling

Known for their beauty and charisma, Atlas Mothlings excel in roles that involve creativity and leadership.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Charisma score increases by 1.
• Skill Proficiency: You gain proficiency in Performance and Arcana.
• Minor Illusion: You know the Minor Illusion cantrip. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it.

Maple Mothling

Fluffy and warm, Maple Mothlings are hardy and sociable, often serving as comforting guides.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Constitution score increases by 1.
• Skill Proficiency: You gain proficiency in Animal Handling and Persuasion.
• Poison Spray: You know the Poison Spray cantrip. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for it.

Sphinx Mothling

The swiftest of the Mothlings, Sphinxes are built for agility and speed.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by an additional 1 (total of +3).
• Skill Proficiency: You gain proficiency in Athletics and Acrobatics.
• Fleet of Foot: Your walking speed increases to 40 feet.

Scarab Mothling

With a knack for science and engineering, Scarab Mothlings have a natural affinity for electricity and innovation.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
• Skill Proficiency: You gain proficiency in Investigation and Arcana.
• Shocking Grasp: You know the Shocking Grasp cantrip. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.

Optera Mothling

Mysterious and fey-touched, Opteras are highly resourceful and enigmatic.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Skill Proficiency: You gain proficiency in Survival and Investigation.
• Sapping Sting: You know the Sapping Sting cantrip (from Exploring Eberron). Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for it.

Mothlings grow faster than humans. They reach adulthood around the age of 12, and live up to 60 years.

Mothlings have summer skin and winter skin. During warm times of summer, their skin is mostlty smooth and powdery. However during colder winter period, they develop a longer fuzz or fur, that covers their entire skin and wings and keeps them warm. The winter fuff sheds during spring, usually unnoticably while they wash their bodies.

A pair of long, feathery antennae crown their heads, granting them exceptional sensitivity to their surroundings. These allow Mothlings to sense changes in air currents, vibrations, and even faint magical energies, compensating for their poor eyesight.

Mothling eyes are on the larger side and adapted for dim light, granting them darkvision. However, their sensitivity to sunlight results in sunlight sensitivity, hindering their vision and perception in direct daylight.

Most Mothlings have small, delicate mouths suited for a vegetarian diet of fruits, nectar, and plants. However, the Optera subspecies have fangs and an omnivorous diet, reflecting their unique heritage.

Most mothlings have either darkvision or even blindvision, based on their traits and heritage. They are however quite sensitive to light, and tend to have a disadvantage on perception in bright daylight outside.

The Mothlings are a race intricately tied to the wild magic of Tagaz, particularly the untamed Feywild-infused Western Tagaz.

According to their legends, they were once ordinary moth-like creatures drawn to the glow of the sun. The sun goddess took notice of them, and brimming with untamed magic, transformed the moths into sentient beings. The first Mothlings were wanderers, gifted with intelligence and dexterity, yet still tethered to their insect origins. This origin story has made the Mothlings deeply reverent of the sun and their own sun goddess.