Revised Avia-Ra
Added 2024-02-09 17:00:00 +0000 UTCAs we revise races from their first printing in Dark Matter, we're avoiding skills and proficiencies that make your character’s traits seem totally inborn and biologically-determined. A dragonborn’s breath weapon is alright, but not all elves, for example, are born with weapon training. As a result, the avia-ra took quite a bit of reworking! I think the new version is quite a bit better in every respect.
The center of the High Solarium bore a dazzling arrangement of polished bronze and glass lenses, flickering from one streak of light at the tip of the pyramid. As we lingered, captivated by the chamber’s glow, our guide, the raven-headed Remembrancer Mose, stepped into the solarium’s centermost platform. At once, the rays that cascaded throughout the solarium met their terminus, alighting her from every angle in a blinding radiance. A trick of the light, to be sure, but one that could have fooled us into believing everything she claimed: that the Sun Above itself spoke to her and delivered a prophecy.
— Jethro Meddlit, visiting the High Solarium of the avia-ra
