Burgans

Burgans:

Stats: +3 Str +2 Con -2 Wis

Size: 7'–8 ft. tall, 300–400 pounds. Your size is Medium to a small large

Speed: 20

Age: 15-40

Unarmed Claws: each hand is a d6 slashing instead of d4 bludgeoning

Rugged Hide. While not wearing armor, your Armor Class is 13 + your Constitution modifier. You may use a shield and still be granted this bonus.

Load Bearing. Your carrying and lifting capacity is doubled as though you were a Large creature.

Blurry Smell. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks which rely on smell, but have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks which rely on sight.

Bear Necessities: Advantage foraging or hunting for food, also superb gut bacteria allows to eat raw food, and advantage if a constitution  check is required for rotten food or poisoned food (Poisons that do damage or cause disease only)

Bear Wrestling:  Gain Grappler Feat for free, and small or tiny creatures (unless boss) are automatically grappled. All medium creatures you have advantage on the first grapple check only unless they are Goliaths, Orcs, Bugbears, Minotaurs, Centaurs, and Thur’ati.

Languages: Bear, Common, Thur’ati,Orcish or Giant

The Burgan are native to the northern part of Senios that is now known as the Bear Wolf, & Elk Confederation. They however can be found most commonly in Bragiria, and the wilds of Icos. The wilds east of Bragiria is another common place. Burgan’s are extremely social and often jolly individuals, with the peace of mind that comes with knowing you can tear anyones head off at any time. The reason they choose often to live in the wild is because most humans discriminate against them, and the elves truly disdain them. Burgans from a early age must choose a craft they must master throughout their short lives. Smithing, Brewing, and Cooking are often the most common. They prefer to live in colder climates, and can often be see serving giants, living with northern humans, or even within dwarven cities. The Burgans despite many lifestyle similarities do not get along with the Thur’ati. This is often due to Burgans also being a competitor in the mercenary market, often competing for bids with the Thur’ati or ultimately fighting them on the battlefield. Burgans unfortunately due to their lifespan ,being hunted historically, and preference for living in smaller communities( if its going to be Burgan only), had led their populations to be much much much smaller than the Thur’ati. When it comes to personality the two animal like races and very distinct. Where Thur’ati are emotionless stone cold killers, Burgans are full of emotion whether it be rage, laughter, or even crying. While a Thur’ati won’t show up to the party, a Burgan is usually the life of it. Burgans are incapable of tapping into atmospheric magic and must use material magic if they wish to have any power they also can’t have any bloodcurses places on them such as vampirism, werewolf, and wererat.

Classes Locked: Wizard, Sorcerer , Druid , Cleric, Warlock , Artifactor

Classes Available: Fighter, Barbarian, Ranger, Bard, Rogue, Monk, Mystic

Class That Has A Mandatory Subclass: Paladin : Oath Of The Berserker

( https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Oath_of_the_Berserker_(5e_Subclass) )

Creation Story:

The shared creation story of the Burgans across all cultures, including their own is as follows. There was once a group of large human barbarians named the Rusgans, when a male became the age of 16 he was given a longsword and hand axe, he was then sent into the wilderness and had to slay a bear and dragon his body back to the village unprocessed. They then would perform a ceremony bathing in the bears blood, worshiping Ursadez, while the chief would give the young man his new bearskin cloak that he will wear the rest of his life, and will be his death shroud. The entire village then feasts on every edible part of the bear, even the bone marrow, the left over bones are grinded into a powder and used to fertilize their crops. The Rusgans were about to be invaded by a southern kingdom that outnumbered them 10 to 1, they all collectively prayed to Ursadez who turned every man, woman, and child of the Rusgan tribe into a fierce bear humanoid. These Bear Rusgan ripped through the human invaders without loosing a single member of the tribe. They never returned to their human form, due to this other humans would make it a point to hunt down these “beasts”. The Bear Rusgan slowly became known as the Burgans, it wasn’t until the first era that they were accepted as a humanoid race instead of beasts. The Rusgan’s had many allied tribes and through the time of them being hunted these allies protected them, these tribes very very distant ancestors are now the Bear, Wolf, Elk confederation, and this is one of the few places that the Burgans can live without any form of discrimination.

Religion: The Burgans owe everything to Ursadez and refuse to recognize any other god, however they do often worship the elements, and believe every rock tree and flower as a powerful energetic soul. They share the common belief of after death they will inhabit the spirit plane, and if they are lucky progress to the infinites. They differ because they believe there is only one infinite, the infinite forest created by Ursadez, which in actuality does exist in the Infinite Paragons.

Ursadez- an all father god, who loves feasts, grog, and battle. He also loves a nicely knitted quilt or a perfectly severed head.

Icon: A Large Bear Head  Colors; Green and Gold

Misura- The wife of Ursadez, Ursadez created a wife for himself so he wouldn’t be alone, she is responsible for love, fertility, construction, and most importantly escorting souls to the Infinite Forest.

Icon: A Large Maple Tree With A Bear Cub On One Side, and A Old Bear Asleep on the other.

Colors: Green and Silver