Guromescai (3.5e Race)

Guromescai

Pronunciation: \'gü-rō-"mes-kī\,\'gə-rō-"mes-kī\

Guromescai are the result of a rare breeding between a merfolk and a malaquian. A great majority of guromescai are female (around 90%). Of these pairings, the mother is typically a malaquian, and thus raised in malaquian society.

A guromescai can breed with merfolk to have a 50% chance of having either merfolk or guromescai offspring. If they breed with malaquians, there is only a 25% chance a child will be carried to term, of which it is always a guromescai.

Personality

While often seen as freaks or monsters, guromescai are typically warm and kindly toward others, though, they use their charm as a front to hide their true feelings and rarely open up to others. Because of this, they often tend to appear as "putting on a show" for those around them, only relaxing and being themselves around their closest friends or when alone.

Physical Description

Guromescai are smaller than their parental races, being roughly human in size and weight, albeit slightly lighter and thinner built. Their heads bear a great resemblance to that of a fish, but their jaw structure is mostly human. They have wide brightly colored eyes, which are typically bright golds, greens, blues and purples. A large fin protrudes from the back of their striped head and runs to the base of their neck. Another small fin appears midway down their spine. A fishlike tail protrudes from their hips and hangs down nearly to the ground. Their smooth skin is typically a shade of green with bluish or aqua stripes that run from their forehead down to the tip of their tail. The rest of their body is humanoid, with gentle hands and feet and trim and lean arms and legs.

Female guromescai, being the most common, overshadow the less seen male guromescai, who's coloration is a bit duller. Male guromescai rarely appear rugged or manly, often looking like young adults well into middle age. Guromescai in general age in appearance very gracefully, with the only sign of aging being a gentle fading of their color to a silvery tone.

Relations

Guromescai get along with most gentler races. Since they are so few in number, they are typically seen as strange curiosities.

Alignment

Guromescai have no known predisposed alignment, though most are goodly aligned.

Lands

Guromescai live within the lands of other civilized cultures, most often those of their parent races, but also among other welcoming lands, and typically those that border large bodies of water and waterways. Guromescai loathe dry and cold climates.

Religion

Guromescai often follow those deities to whatever society they were raised within. As adults, they may stray and worship whatever deity they please, but those deities with the Water domain are most common.

Language

Guromescai speak Common and Ayawii. Though the Ayawii language is mainly spoken, components of it involve a few gestures, which are widely accepted among other cultures as well.

Interestingly, the term "guromescai" in Ayawii roughly translates to "fish, not newt".

Names

Guromescai often use malaquian names or merfolk names.

• Male Names: Aleyuo, Aureu, Beureu, Boyuo, Reuyu, Tanuren, Umeten, Uneo, Vastenen
• Female Names: Alielie, Awabanya, Binooa, Caidea, Esaya, Lyroni, Maimai, Uleyo, Usima

Racial Traits

• 3e Charisma Score Adjustment::+4 Charisma: Guromescai are limber, flexing and twirling in rhythm, and charming with their bright eyes and gentle smiles.
• Humanoid3e Creature Type::Humanoid (Aquatic3e Creature Subtype::Aquatic): While guromescai live under water, they also breathe air and travel on land.
• Medium3e Size::Medium: As medium size creatures, guromescai have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Guromescai base land speed is 30: Guromescai also have a swim speed of 30.
• Amphibious (Ex): Although guromescai are aquatic, they can survive indefinitely on land.
• Lithe Build (Ex): A guromescai slinks and swerves. She gains a +2 racial bonus to Escape Artist skill checks. However, her lifting and carrying capacities are ¾ of those of other medium creatures.
• Water-breathing (Ex): Guromescai can breathe equally well with both gills and lungs.
• Adept Swimmer: A guromescai has a +4 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. She can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. She can use the run action while swimming, provided she swims in a straight line. Swim is always treated as a class skill and a guromescai may apply her Dexterity bonus instead of her Strength bonus as her key ability modifier.
• Environmental Distress: Guromescai suffer a −4 penalty on Fortitude saves to resist non-lethal damage due to exposure to inhospitable environments.
• Automatic Languages: Common and Ayawii. Bonus Languages: Aquan, Celestial Elven, Sylvan. See the Speak Language skill for other languages.
• Favored Class: 3e Favored Class::Sorcerer.
• Level Adjustment: 3e Level Adjustment::+0.
• Base Effective Character Level: 3e ECL::1st

Vital Statistics

Table: Guromescai Random Starting Ages

Adulthood	Simple	Moderate	Complex
12 years	+1d3	+1d4	+2d4

Table: Guromescai Aging Effects

Middle Age^1	Old^2	Venerable^3	Maximum Age
35 years	53 years	70 years	+2d20 years
At middle age, −1 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At old age, −2 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha. At venerable age, −3 to Str, Dex, and Con; +1 to Int, Wis, and Cha.

Table: Guromescai Random Height and Weight

Gender	Base Height	Height Modifier	Base Weight	Weight Modifier
Male	5' 4"	+2d6	110 lb.	× (2d6) lb.
Female	5' 0"	+2d6	90 lb.	× (2d6) lb.

Races of Rom

Other races from Rom include:

• Aiton Amazons
• Aroghin

• Granlings

• Candothists
• Darkkin
• Deeka

• Ivories
• Ivory Elves

• Durzites
• Malaquians

• Guromescai

• Yearlings

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