About a month ago, I started spitballing random ideas on Discord. It was around 12, but the ideas were all inexplicably good, so I'm throwing them all out here, with a bit more development than they had when I first made them.
None of the races have stats yet, and won't gets stats until someone wants to play one. I'm hoping to rework 5e's weird race system into something that has less horrible implications and more class variety.
None of the non-races have stats either. They will probably all end up being bears.
SWINEFOLK
Swinefolks are humanoid constructs made out of the flesh of pigs. They vary in sapience between unusually stupid monkeys and fully sapient individuals. They are a playable race. In the New World, aka the As-Of-Yet-Unnamed-Eastern-Continent, they've formed full settlements. Making one of these would might be a good College Thesis for Flesh Wizard College. Flesh Wizard College doesn't exist, but that's the comparison I'm going to make.
TROGLODYES
Maybe playable? I don't know. I love them and this specific variety of troglodyte are some of the very first canon inhabitants of my underworld.
Underworld meaning caves, not the afterlife. I would probably have a second heart attack if I learned that these things were angels.
BRACKEN
Humanoid patches of ivy which spontaneously manifest around civilization. Often quite urban. If Egharl was a different sort of world, I'd say that they're born in the place where civilization and the natural world meet, but those are metaphysical ideas, and we don't do metaphysics here.
They can probably be any plant, ivy just came to mind first.
WARFORGED
I struggled to fit Warforged into the world for a while, but they've finally got a place!
Warforged are born when a blacksmith dies with their work unfinished. They spontaneously assemble themselves from strewn about materials, and begin their lives.
They aren't a reincarnation of the blacksmith, they're independent beings in their own right.
I also guess they don't have anything to do with war now, so they should probably just be called "Forged".
Those are the fancy ones. The rest will be unadulterated, direct-from-source madness.
TEETH MONSTERS
They have no teeth, but they eat teeth. Just fucking swallow them down whole. Either they break the teeth down for the magical energy contained within, or they use the teeth as bladder stones. I don't fucking know which.
WEIRD WAYS PEOPLE ARE BORN
Shifters are just children born under a full moon.
Bullywugs are Grung come into existence when a tribe of existing Bullywug or Grung gather up a bunch of frogs into a pit and then educate them.
Sometimes, turtles lay one really big egg instead of a clutch. These really big eggs hatch into Tortles.
THESE ONES GO TOGETHER
A strange mutation found in the heart of cities - Children are born with gleaming silver eyes, and silver ichor in place of blood - They are the Yine.
Those who are badly burnt while pregnant may give birth to the hot-blooded Adrunt, whose skin is black as soot.
They say that if you stay too long in the mines, your children will have stone-grey skin and dine on rocks - These people are known as the Baniver.
In the wilderness, children born under the full moon sometimes show unusual, animalistic traits. In academic circles, they are called Biinae. Most people know them by their colloquial title: Shifters.
OTHER ASSORTED BULLSHIT
Worm People, who live underground. They're somewhat agoraphobic.
The Pale Ones, a race of cyclopean beings who live underground.
When you carve a Treant into little pieces, you can make people out of it. These people are sapient, and they're called Treelings.
All Dragonborn are born colorless, and dye themselves in a show of loyalty, and to display clan affiliation.
One of the primary elemental heresies is the idea that Gold is the Fifth Element.
