Broadly speaking humans lack any specialized adaptations to aid success in a particular field or environment. However they are spread across the entire planet and reproduce at a faster rate than most other humanoids, so their numbers and determination make them a force all the same. Their appearances tend to be quite varied, having a wide range of body shapes and sizes, pigmentation for skin and hair, and more.

Despite not being innately magical, humans have exhibited the propensity to undergo gigantomachia and become giants more often than most other types of person. This has led some researchers to hypothesize that magic may interfere with the processes that trigger gigantomachia. The only group that undergoes gigantomachia more regularly than humans are orcs, who are themselves descended from giants.

Humans are the type of humanoid with the easiest time reproducing with other varieties of humanoid person. As a result half-humans are the most common variety of mixed lineage person, and they often act as vectors for bringing human traits into other populations. The reverse is also true, as half-humans who live within human communities introduce traits from other lineages into the human genome. This has resulted in an increase in the variety of features in populations of humans, and sometimes traits from an ancestral lineage can go unexpressed for generations of humans. A human whose ears end with a slight point might have an elven ancestor, and the number of generations back that ancestor was has little to no effect on when the trait might appear in their human descendants.

Humans are one of the oldest known varieties of humanoid. Multiple accounts from across the world dictate that ancestral humans were present when the Cataclysm began and that they took shelter from the demonic hordes in fortified locations, many of which were underground. Such sanctuaries seem to have existed across the entire planet, which has directly led to modern humans being found on every known continent.

This has also led to humans overall being a very disparate people. The human populations of any given continent may descend from ancestors who emerged from the same sanctuary, but every region’s humans have vastly differing histories and legends based on their ancestors unique struggles within their own sanctuaries and unique encounters since emerging in the Reborn World. Human culture therefore varies wildly by regional population, with little uniting separate human groups spread across the entire planet.

There are a few common elements across differing human cultures, however, one being a societal friction with giants. The eldest giants predate the Cataclysm and have given accounts of fighting against the invading armies of demons that ended the world. Many giants view humans as cowardly for their ancestors hiding in their sanctuaries rather than assisting in defending the world, a view mirrored by the giants’ own orcish descendants. In turn humans have blamed the giants for causing the Cataclysm; the elder giants were alive at the time and were unable to stop the event from happening in the first place.

There are some human communities that hold a view of human superiority, stemming from human legends that their ancestors took shelter in their sanctuaries to become “the inheritors of the future”. For this reason some modern humans believe the world to belongs to them by birthright, and communities that hold these views do not embrace people of other lineages, even going so far as to spurn humans with ancestral traits from other lineages.

These groups tend to be in the minority however, most human communities will ally with others to share commerce, resources, and ideas. This has caused many human cities to become commercial hubs, for better and for worse.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. Choose either Medium or Small size.

Speed. You have a 30ft walking speed.

+ Cosmopolitan Versatility. Humans are found on every continent working in every field. You gain proficiency in two of any skill, tool, or language of your choice in any combination.

+ Expertise. Humans need to be the best there is at what they do to survive. You gain Expertise in one Skill that you are Proficient in. You can change which proficient skill gains this bonus at any level up where you receive an Ability Score Improvement or a Feat.

* Push Your Luck. Even in the face of overwhelming odds and common sense, humans will look for an opening and take it. A number of times per Long Rest equal to your proficiency bonus, you can give yourself one level of Advantage on any attack roll, skill check, or saving throw. You must decide to use this feature before you make the roll and can only spend one use per roll.

* Ancestral Quirk. You have inherited a unique trait from an ancestor that is not commonly seen in humans. Select a quirk of your choice below or roll 1d12 to decide randomly.