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So for this week, I’ve decided to take it a bit easy and work on personal projects, but fear not, I’m not leaving you with nothing. Instead, I’d like to take this week to showcase some of the things I have created off the blog.

Now, some of these thing are things I have posted to my Patreon, but rest assured they are only things that I set to make public after about a month. Items that remain exclusive to my Patreon shall remain so until I create enough to perhaps self-publish something in the future.

Anyway, this first entry is not from my Patreon, but rather a gift I made for friend: a Pathfinder 1e ancestry/race interpretation of itself within the plurality system they are part of. With @dzhukhe ‘s permission, I hereby post this. (Hope you like the lore I extrapolated, let me know if there are changes I need to make!)

Lumin

Blending elements of several insects into one body, the lumin are humanoid insects with four arms, a trio of simple eyes in the middle of their foreheads similar to a mantis alongside their two compound eyes, and elytra like a beetle, as well as a separate abdomen to their thorax, both of which contain redundant internal organs. This last trait reflects another curious trait of theirs: their blend of mammalian traits such as the ability to grow scalp hair.

Hailing from the taiga, mountains, and cool forests, lumins typically live underground, digging out local caves or soil into complex tunnel cities with a keen engineering sense akin to ants, though they are not eusocial in nature, their species having a relatively even distribution of fertile members of any and all genders.

Growing up, lumins only undergo an incomplete metamorphosis, their children being softer, squishier but otherwise true to their adult molt aside from matters of proportion.

According to Lumin beliefs, they were born from the same divine word that gave rise to the greatest of beasts, the mighty divine behemoths, the primordial kaiju, and other titanic beasts like the legendary unique Tane called Leviathan. They even know the individual names of such beasts. To the lumin, these beings are avatars of divine or near-divine will, and though they are often engines of destruction, they are to be revered for their majesty just as much as their wrath is feared. Lumin perhaps have the most encyclopedic body of knowledge when it comes to the origin and behavioral quirks of such beasts as well, making them a useful resource when trying to quell a behemoth or kaiju on the rampage.

Despite revering such massive and destructive creatures, the lumin have no desire for the most part to emulate their more violent aspects. Instead, they live much like any other race, some content to live simple lives, others eager for adventure.

Lumin

Ability Score Modifiers: +2 Con, +2 Wis, -2 Dex

Type:  Lumins are humanoids of the lumin subtype

Size: Lumin are medium creatures

Speed: 30 ft.

Senses: Lumin possess low-light vision and the scent special ability

Megafauna Affinity: Lumins gain a +2 bonus to Animal Handling and Diplomacy checks to interact with living creatures of huge size or larger

Multi-Armed: A lumin has four arms. One hand is considered its primary hand; all others are considered off hands. It can use any of its hands for other purposes that require free hands.

Natural armor: Lumins have a +2 natural armor bonus to AC

Redundant Organs: Once per day, when a Lumin is hit by an attack that is a critical threat, the Lumin may force the attacker to roll twice and take the lower result when rolling to confirm the critical hit.

Languages: Common, Lumin. Lumins with high intelligence scores can choose from the following bonus languages: Draconic, Dwarven, Giant, Gnoll, Goblin, Terran

Alternate Racial Traits:

Flight: Lumin with this racial trait have larger wings under their elytra, and have a fly speed of 30 feet with clumsy maneuverability. This replaces Megafauna Affinity