Shardbound

• Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.

• Age. The maximum lifespan of a shardbound depends on how well you can maintain your new body, though the exact number is unclear, some have lived for over 200 years. You are immune to magical aging effects.

• Alignment. Your alignment carries no favors in any direction, who you were previously will most likely dedicate this. Though one put through a soul extraction might see parts of their personality or values change or warp.

• Size. Shardbound weighs around 240-280 lb and stands anywhere from 3-7 feet in height. Your size is Medium.

• Speed. Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

• Constructed Resilience.Your new body is very resilient and easy to maintain compared to your previous one:

  • You have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned, and you have resistance to poison damage.

  • You don’t need to eat, drink, or breathe.

  • You are immune to disease.

• Soulcharge. When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert. You can’t be put to sleep by magical means.

• Natural Defenses. Your body has built-in armor.

  • Your Armor Class (AC) equals to 14 your Dexterity modifier(max +3)

• Accessible Implements. You may implement weapons or tools into your limbs. A small weapon or a set of tools can easily be implemented in a way where it is not noticeable at a glance and retractable as a free action. At most 1 weapon or tool can be added to a limb, up to a total of 4, and weapons implemented like this can not be two-handed.

• Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice if you pick this at character creation. Otherwise you retain any languages spoken previously.

Shardbound are people who have perished or had their bodies heavily damaged, and instead of living out the rest of their existence in flesh go through an extreme process of extracting their soul and inserting it into a crystal shard. The shard is at least 10 cubic centimeters in size, and after being infused with the soul of a creature it glows faintly. A creature must be willing to have their soul extracted, and if done so they may lose favor with gods who oppose the natural orders of life and death.

The shard is then inserted into a body which acts as a vessel, this body is usually close in appearance to the person it is intended for, however it is not always the case. Movement and dexterity in the new body doesn’t take very long to train as long as they retain a similar structure and number of limbs as before, and they are often up and running after just two or three weeks. 

Total cost for this procedure depends on how prevalent artificers are in your area. If they are few and far between the price will probably rise greatly. The actual material costs are on average 500 Gp, but hiring someone for someone to build a body will take about 1 month in time and can cost anywhere in between 10,000 Gp - 50,000 Gp.

When you create a shardbound, think about how you had the resources to become like this. Some shardbound lose the memories they had previously to their soul extraction and are thus prone to abandon their previous life, is your first memory that of waking up in a new body?