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Player > Races > Kayal
Starfinder Adventure Path #12: Heart of Night (Signal of Screams 3 of 3) p.57
Kayals are Medium outsiders with the native subtype.
Kayals can use disguise self once per day as a spell-like ability; the caster level of this effect is equal to the kayal’s level. Kayals can assume only the form of a humanoid creature using this ability.
Kayals have darkvision with a range of 60 feet and low-light vision, meaning they can see in dim light as if it were normal light.
Attacks against a kayal in dim light have a 50% miss chance instead of the normal 20% miss chance. This ability does not grant total concealment; it just increases the miss chance.
Kayals have cold resistance 5 and electricity resistance 5.
Also known as fetchlings, kayals are descendants of
humans trapped on the Shadow Plane millennia ago. The
ambient essence of shadow has long since permeated
their forms, making them their own unique species.
Their time spent without direct access to light has
left them bleached of color. Dark, pale,
or gray of skin tone, with white or pitchblack
hair and yellow eyes, kayals have
tall, lithe bodies that seem to blend in
and out of darkness effortlessl . Some
kayals are said to be able to command
the shadows themselves, manipulating
their appearance or using them as a
conduit to travel across space and even
between the planes.
Kayals have spent hundreds of
centuries dealing with creatures native
to the Shadow Plane, which requires
a certain amount of moral ambiguity.
As a result, they have made
deals and agreements with
creatures that most other
species would consider
dangerous or evil. For
kayals, these agreements were a matter of simple
survival—the pragmatic decision is always the
right one, even if it involves shaking hands with
those others might consider to be monsters.
Kayals on the Material Plane tend to conceal
their appearances with hooded cloaks or masks,
even though they are not sensitive to bright
light. These kayals hide themselves either out
of fear of prejudice from those who had bad
dealings with their ancestors or because they
are embarking on nefarious deeds and don’t
wish to be recognized by local authorities.
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