Shattered Realms | Race Compendium

Shar'ii

The Shar’ii are desert elves whose translucent skin and sunlit eyes reflect the golden hues of the dunes. Born of djinn-touched bloodlines and shaped by centuries of life beneath blazing skies, they carry themselves with quiet poise. Their voices are measured, their movements deliberate, and their presence often carries the weight of prophecy.

Nomads of the Horizon
Shar’ii culture is rooted in survival and adaptation. They move in caravans across shifting sands, reading the stars, winds, and desert omens as guides. Hospitality is sacred, for the desert demands generosity to endure. To travel with the Shar’ii is to share in firelit stories, ritual dances beneath the stars, and wisdom passed down in whispers carried on the wind.

Endurance and Clarity
The desert has honed the Shar’ii into masters of patience and endurance. They withstand extremes of heat and hardship with ease, and their minds carry an ancestral insight that guides them through uncertainty. Their calm clarity can seem distant to others, yet it is the same resolve that lets them weather both the burning sun and the storms of fate.

The Shar’ii’s Gift
Shar’ii bring survival, foresight, and subtle magic to any company. They tread unhindered across rough ground, blur like heat-haze when danger strikes, and call upon ancestral insight to guide their allies. To adventure with a Shar’ii is to walk with the desert itself — harsh yet enduring, mysterious yet steadfast.

Stat Increases 2 Wisdom

Size Medium

Movement 35

Languages Common and Sylvan.

Racial Features

The innate abilities of this lineage

Desert Resilience

You are naturally adapted to hot climates, as described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Additionally, you have advantage on saving throws against exhaustion caused by harsh environments.

Ancient Insight

Drawing on the deep well of elven wisdom, you can call upon ancestral knowledge to enhance your abilities. As a bonus action, choose ability check or saving throw; you gain advantage on the next roll of that type.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus, or by expending a 1st level or higher spell slot.

Sand Strider

Your movement is unaffected by difficult terrain.

Shifting Sands

As a reaction when you are targeted by an attack, you can momentarily blur your form like swirling sand, imposing disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your turn.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus, or by expending a 1st level or higher spell slot.

Roll20 Integrations

Ready-to-use macro scripts

Macro 1

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--repeating_traits_-create_description|You are naturally adapted to hot climates, as described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Additionally, you have advantage on saving throws against exhaustion caused by harsh environments.
}}' duda_id='r20-text-1' > !setattr {{
--sel
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--repeating_traits_-create_source|Racial
--repeating_traits_-create_source_type|Shar'ii
--repeating_traits_-create_description|You are naturally adapted to hot climates, as described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Additionally, you have advantage on saving throws against exhaustion caused by harsh environments.
}}

Macro 2

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--repeating_traits_-create_description|Drawing on the deep well of elven wisdom, you can call upon ancestral knowledge to enhance your abilities. As a bonus action, choose ability check or saving throw; you gain advantage on the next roll of that type.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus, or by expending a 1st level or higher spell slot.
}}' duda_id='r20-text-2' > !setattr {{
--sel
--repeating_traits_-create_name|Ancient Insight
--repeating_traits_-create_source|Racial
--repeating_traits_-create_source_type|Shar'ii
--repeating_traits_-create_description|Drawing on the deep well of elven wisdom, you can call upon ancestral knowledge to enhance your abilities. As a bonus action, choose ability check or saving throw; you gain advantage on the next roll of that type.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus, or by expending a 1st level or higher spell slot.
}}

Macro 3

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--repeating_traits_-create_description|Your movement is unaffected by difficult terrain.
}}' duda_id='r20-text-3' > !setattr {{
--sel
--repeating_traits_-create_name|Sand Strider
--repeating_traits_-create_source|Racial
--repeating_traits_-create_source_type|Shar'ii
--repeating_traits_-create_description|Your movement is unaffected by difficult terrain.
}}

Macro 4

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--repeating_traits_-create_description|As a reaction when you are targeted by an attack, you can momentarily blur your form like swirling sand, imposing disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your turn.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus, or by expending a 1st level or higher spell slot.
}}' duda_id='r20-text-4' > !setattr {{
--sel
--repeating_traits_-create_name|Shifting Sands
--repeating_traits_-create_source|Racial
--repeating_traits_-create_source_type|Shar'ii
--repeating_traits_-create_description|As a reaction when you are targeted by an attack, you can momentarily blur your form like swirling sand, imposing disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the start of your turn.

You can use this feature a number of times per long rest equal to your proficiency bonus, or by expending a 1st level or higher spell slot.
}}