# Race: Imiks > [!info] Quick Facts > | | | > |---|---| > | **Rarity** | Extremely rare | > | **Perception in Gryth** | Neutral. A rumour in most places and a local curiosity on the islands bordering the Bleeding Isles interior. | > | **Guide Section** | Extremely Rare Races | ## Overview The Imiks are fey, and the monkey is a costume. This is worth establishing at the outset, because nearly every written account of them was made by somebody who met one briefly, drew the obvious conclusion, and went away satisfied. ## The Worn Shape Somewhere in the deep past the Imiks settled on the form they wear now and have kept to it since. They stand about three feet tall, long in the limb and longer in the finger, with pink skin and multiple tails. Why that shape was chosen is not a subject they take up with outsiders, and the few scholars who have pressed the question have been informed, courteously, that it is a rude one. The imitation does not hold up to attention. The proportions are a little wrong for an animal, the eyes carry more than an animal’s eyes carry, and the three tails move with evident intention rather than for balance. An Imiks is a fey creature that has decided to appear as a monkey and has never fully committed to the performance, and people who work this out in the middle of a conversation seldom forget the moment. ## The Middle of the Bleeding Isles The Imiks kept to the interior of the [[Region - The Bleeding Isles|Bleeding Isles]] for a very long time and the rest of the world managed not to notice them. Those who have visited remark first on how difficult they are to look at. An Imiks does not turn invisible so much as decline to fully arrive, and at any distance the eye slides away and settles on something else. They also bring their skin to the colour and pattern of whatever stands behind them, which they do without apparent thought and frequently without any apparent reason. ## Unbothered Imiks are not concealing themselves from anything in particular, and they are not frightened of the peoples around them. They prefer not to be looked at, they have arranged their lives accordingly, and they have never understood why the preference should require an explanation. Those who take them for clever animals are not corrected with any urgency. ## Imiks Traits **Ability Score Increase.** Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1. **Age.** Imiks reach maturity at about 12 and live around 200 years. **Creature Type.** You are a Fey. You are not a Beast, and effects that target only beasts have no effect on you. **Size.** Imiks stand about 3 feet tall and are lightly built. Your size is Small. **Speed.** Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a climbing speed of 30 feet. **Fey Ancestry.** You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed condition on yourself. **Half-Seen.** You never quite finish arriving. You are lightly obscured to any creature more than 30 feet away from you. **Patterned Hide.** Your skin takes on the colour and pattern of whatever is behind you. You have proficiency in the Stealth skill. **Three-Tailed Balance.** Your tails keep you upright and leave your hands free. You have advantage on saving throws and ability checks made to avoid being knocked prone. You can also use a tail to carry, hold, or retrieve an object within 5 feet of you, though a tail cannot wield a weapon, hold a shield, or perform the somatic components of a spell. **Worn Shape.** The animal is a borrowed form and everyone eventually notices. A creature that observes you closely for at least 1 minute can make a Wisdom (Insight) or Intelligence (Nature) check against a DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier. On a success, it realises that you are not an animal and not a beast-folk, and that whatever you are is wearing the shape rather than born to it. **Languages.** You can speak, read, and write Common and Sylvan. ## Connections - [[Region - The Bleeding Isles]] — Homeland; the Imiks kept to the interior of the isles --- ## Gallery ![[Race - Imiks.jpg]] --- *See also: [[Races]]*