Damai

Damai CR 1/2

XP 200
N Medium humanoid (damai)
Init +3; Senses low-light vision; Perception +9

DEFENSE HP 12

EAC 10; KAC 11
Fort +0; Ref +2; Will +3
Defensive Abilities scrappy

OFFENSE

Speed 30 ft.
Melee survival knife +4 (1d4 S)
Ranged tactical semi-auto pistol +2 (1d6 P)

STATISTICS

Str +0; Dex +3; Con +1; Int +1; Wis +0; Cha +2
Skills Engineering +4, Medicine +9, Stealth +9, Survival +4
Languages Common, Daimalkan
Gear estex suit I, survival knife, tactical semiauto pistol with 18 small arm rounds, 6 field rations

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Scrappy (Ex)

Generations of living together in underground shelters and under the constant threat of enormous creatures have taught damais to work together against all odds. Once per day, as long as an ally is within 10 feet, a damai can reroll a failed attack roll or saving throw.

ECOLOGY

Environment any (Daimalko)
Organization solitary, pair, trio, or colony (10–350)

The people known throughout the galaxy as damais are survivors of a shattered planet who are at once hardy yet fragile, savvy yet foolish, prescient yet solipsistic. Their planet is ancient even on the scale of the vast universe, and yet for damais, modern history is merely 200 years old.

Life on their dry, rocky planet in Near Space, transformed when an event called the Awakening wracked the land with earthquakes, evaporated the world’s oceans, and withered its greenery. Worse, the cataclysm awakened the terrible colossi at the heart of the people’s legends. Some of these monstrosities were kyokors, though many were other, equally horrific beasts, and all rose from their slumber beneath the seabed to destroy most of the planet’s inhabitants in short order.

Damai guardians command great power, found both within them and through their orbs, but they are no less mortal than their kin, who age much as humans do. Thus, each Guardian carefully chooses and trains her successor over about a dozen years, using her wits, her wisdom, and her bonded orb, which she transfers to her charge when the time is right.

Though some whisper that the magic flowing through the leaders is somehow tied to the force that sparked the Awakening, trust in the Guardians is nearly universal in damai settlements. Despite their different approaches to survival, the Guardians and everyday damais recognize how deeply tied to each other they are—or without the bonds of their people, damais would have nothing except the colossi that slaver for their end.

The average damai has gray skin, stands 6 feet tall, and weighs around 175 pounds.