Tabaxi
Description
What this people is, and the time it is given.
Insatiably curious wanderers, tabaxi roam the world in search of stories, relics, and wonders to bring back to their clan — driven more by a thirst for discovery than by ambition.
- Size category
- Medium
- Speed
- 9 m
- Stature
- 1.63 – 1.92 m
- Weight
- 43 – 63 kg
The ages of a life
Traits shared by the whole people
Night Vision
The character sees in darkness up to 18 meters, as if it were dim light.
Feline Claws
Natural claw attack (1d4 slashing damage).
Feline Nature
Climbing speed equal to their speed; advantage on saving throws against being knocked down, and on Acrobatics tests related to a fall; disadvantage on Swimming tests.
Usual names
Sha'Ssir Ssi'Sahrin "Dawnwatcher", Rha'Khaz Khar'Zhaan "Spinebreaker"
Sha'Ssir Tsi'Shiriza "She-Who-Sees-Beneath-the-Moon", Rha'Khaz Rha'Jhaarra "First-to-Blood"
A tabaxi's name carries four parts: the clan name (translated into Common — Sha'Ssir for the Pointed Ears, Rha'Khaz for the Sharp Claws), the childhood name (a single sharp syllable one could shout across a clearing, such as Ssi, Khar, Tsa, Rhi, Mish, Zhaa), the adult name (at the rite of passage, the childhood name becomes the root of a longer name joined by an apostrophe — the apostrophe marks the rite; a name without one is a child's name), and finally an earned title describing a deed or role, never given but won (Dawnwatcher, Spinebreaker, She-Who-Sees-Beneath-the-Moon). Hissing consonants: aspirated H, KH, rolled R (often doubled as RR), J; sibilant consonants: S, SS, SH, Z, ZH, TS; vowels mainly a and i, often lengthened (aa, ii), with no silent e; the apostrophe marks a glottal stop, like a brief hiss between two sounds. The Pointed Ears favor sibilance (S, SH, Z, i), while the Sharp Claws favor the growl (KH, RR, H, a).