Homo ventisalis
Born to Sourwind, where grit rides every gust and a careless traveler can lose the road in minutes, Sourwinders grow up reading the air as carefully as other folk read a page.
At a glance
Darkvision 60 ft.
Languages Common, Sourcant
Height 4 ft. 10 in. to 6 ft. 2 in.
Weight 100 to 210 lb.
Lifespan 80 to 100 years
At the table
You have Darkvision with a range of 60 feet.
You have proficiency in either the Nature or Survival skill. Your people teach that a route is a living thing, and that even familiar ground must be read again after the weather changes.
When an effect would move you against your will, you can use your Reaction to reduce the distance moved by 10 feet. You can use this Reaction a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.
Common, Sourcant
Sourwinders tend toward Constitution and Wisdom, shaped by hard weather and careful observation. Players assign ability score increases as they wish.
Often wears copper-threaded scarves and favors careful, deliberate speech.
Cisternward Sourwinders grow up tending wells, sheltered courtyards, and the settlement's stores. They are known for patience, hospitality, and an exacting knowledge of water.
Born to Sourwind, where grit rides every gust and a careless traveler can lose the road in minutes, Sourwinders grow up reading the air as carefully as other folk read a page. They are practical hosts, shrewd guides, and keepers of hard-won directions. Whether they leave home to map a changing world or to discover what has unsettled the winds, they rarely travel without a spare scarf and a plan for shelter.
Sourwinders are sturdy, long-limbed people with close-set eyes, broad noses, and skin that ranges from warm brown to muted ocher.
Their eyes often have pale inner membranes that protect them from grit and glare. Many have fine, salt-colored flecks across their cheeks and forearms, more conspicuous after a day outdoors. Hair is commonly kept braided, wrapped, or cropped close beneath scarves and goggles. Their voices carry well in open air, and they often use small hand signs when the wind makes speech difficult.
Sourwind, a wind-battered settlement among salt flats and dry ravines, along with its caravan roads and scattered wells.
A child learns to read gusts, dust patterns, and the moods of the settlement before being trusted to travel beyond its walls.
Most Sourwinders are considered adults after completing a long outland journey and returning with a useful account of what they found.
Elders are valued as living archives of routes and weather cycles. Their skin grows paler and more finely lined, and many speak in old caravan signs.
Sourwinders measure wealth in useful knowledge as much as in goods.
Families and chosen households preserve route books, well records, and accounts of unusual weather, revising them whenever a traveler brings new evidence. Children learn caravan signs early, and adults often take turns maintaining public shelters. Their directness can sound blunt, but they consider a clear warning more respectful than comforting uncertainty. A guest is offered water and a place out of the wind before being asked for a name.
Sourwinders honor a varied host of local spirits, ancestors, and deities associated with travel, weather, endurance, and safe returns.
Many leave a small offering at a threshold before setting out. Their culture prizes mutual aid and honest warnings, but it does not prescribe a single alignment; Sourwinders may be generous, ambitious, wary, or fiercely independent.
Sourwinders are accustomed to travelers and tend to judge people by how they treat shared water, shelter, and directions.
They can seem guarded at first, since false confidence about a route has cost lives in their homeland. Once trust is earned, they are generous companions who keep watch and remember favors. They often find city folk fascinating, particularly those who can tolerate still air without becoming restless.
Sourwind is built low and close together, with rounded walls of packed earth, salt-fired brick, and scavenged stone.
Narrow entries face away from the prevailing gusts, while roofs carry small vanes that mark shifts in the wind. Deep cisterns and shaded courtyards are shared civic spaces. Sourwinders who travel often carry portable wind screens and sleep in shallow, sheltered hollows.
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