You can enter a rage as a bonus action. While raging, you gain advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, a bonus to melee damage with Strength-based attacks, and resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. Your rage lasts for 1 minute, ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you have neither attacked a hostile creature since your last turn nor taken damage since then. You can rage 3 times per long rest.

While not wearing armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.

Starting at 2nd level, you can attack recklessly. On your first attack on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly, giving you advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during that turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn.

You gain advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can't be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

You choose a primal path, which grants features at 3rd level. Kest follows the Ancestral Guardian path, calling on the spirits of their line to shield others rather than to dominate them.

When you enter your rage, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of ancestral protectors until the start of your next turn. That target has disadvantage on attack rolls against creatures other than you, and when it hits a creature other than you with an attack, that creature has resistance to the damage dealt by the attack.

At 4th level, you can increase one ability score by 2, or two ability scores by 1, or choose a feat if your DM allows feats. Kest chose to deepen the strength that lets them stand between danger and the helpless.

When you are in a rural area, people are inclined to think the best of you. You can find a place to hide, rest, or recuperate among common folk, unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them.