{"id":799,"date":"2026-06-12T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/?p=799"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:14:27","slug":"xeph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Xeph"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.kb-row-layout-id799_41a538-df > .kt-row-column-wrap{align-content:start;}:where(.kb-row-layout-id799_41a538-df > .kt-row-column-wrap) > .wp-block-kadence-column{justify-content:start;}.kb-row-layout-id799_41a538-df > .kt-row-column-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);max-width:600px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;padding-top:200px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:140px;padding-left:0px;grid-template-columns:minmax(0, 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data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading799_f53507-4e\">Xeph<\/h1>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading799_94a15b-54, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading799_94a15b-54[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading799_94a15b-54\"]{margin-bottom:40px;text-align:center;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading799_94a15b-54 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading799_94a15b-54[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading799_94a15b-54\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading799_94a15b-54 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading799_94a15b-54[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading799_94a15b-54\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading799_94a15b-54 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Xephs are celebrated for the fabulous objects of subtle beauty they produce for trade. Their lands lie far to the east, contained within a great rift that hides a broad valley permanently plunged into darkness, except for several psionically illuminated forests. Despite the lack of sunlight in this environment, xephs thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Personality<\/strong>: Xephs are quick to laugh or joke, welcoming of strangers, and especially charitable to those who really earn their confidence. If they are betrayed by a friend, xephs are dwarflike in their resolve to seek justice and redress. Xephs value artful sculpture, beautiful paintings, expensive clothing, and other art objects. They prefer to avoid a fight rather than wade in, but they are not timid if combat is their only recourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Physical Description<\/strong>: Xephs stand about 5-1\/2 feet tall and are slender and graceful, usually weighing about 140 pounds. Males are typically taller and heavier than females. Xephs&#8217; skin is typically brown, and their eyes are dark. Their hair is usually black and straight; some wear it clipped short, while others shave their heads except for a topknot and weave that hair into a single long braid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Relations<\/strong>: Xephs get along well with humans, half-elves, and halflings. They think that elves might be a little too good to be true, while they view half-orcs and half-giants with some suspicion. Xephs and maenads tend to rub each other the wrong way; xephs see maenads as too stiff (little realizing the reason why), while maenads envy xephs their free and easy attitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alignment<\/strong>: Xephs tend toward good. Those who take up the soulknife class learn to be lawful, though on balance, the race is somewhat chaotic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Xeph Lands<\/strong>: Xeph cities are found far to the east across wide-open savannas, then deep below the lip of a great rift, where darkness reigns. There they practice their arts and sing their songs under the boughs of a gloriously illuminated forest. Members of other races are welcome in the forest, though some ancient temples are off limits to those not of the blood. The wealth the xephs own is due in part to their artistic bent, and in part to their desire to travel far and wide to trade for the wealth and art of other cultures. Some prefer overland caravans, others seagoing ships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Religion<\/strong>: The chief deity of the xephs is Fharlanghn, the Dweller on the Horizon. He is the deity of travel, roads, distance, and horizons, all of which are concepts that stir the xeph soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Language<\/strong>: Xephs speak their own language, which uses the same alphabet as Common. Some also learn Sylvan, the language of fellow wanderers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Names<\/strong>: A xeph&#8217;s name is granted to her by her parents on her fourth birthday. Most xeph names are used and reused down through the generations. Xephs who travel usually take the name of their city of birth as a second name, a reminder of where they originally began their journey through life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Male Names<\/em>: Assim, Bahram, Behrooze, Cyrus, Jamsheed, Ksathra, Majeed, Mehrdad, Nasim, Shatrevar, Xerxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Female Names<\/em>: Amira, Azar, Cyra, Darya, Jaleh, Marjan, Narda, Shahin, Soraya, Zenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Second (City) Names<\/em>: Asha, Dareh, Feroz, Kurush, Melchior, Saeed, Val.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Adventurers<\/strong>: A xeph adventurer is usually motivated merely by the thought of travel and exploration itself. A xeph may also be motivated by the desire to see new wonders, feats of might, psionics, or magic great enough to inspire the xeph to greater works of personal art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XEPH RACIAL TRAITS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>+2 Dexterity, -2 Strength: Xephs are quick but not very strong.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medium: As Medium creatures, xephs have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Xeph base land speed is 30 feet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Darkvision out to 60 feet.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>+1 racial bonus on saving throws against powers, spells, and spell-like effects. Xephs have an innate resistance to psionics and magic.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Naturally Psionic: Xephs gain 1 bonus power point at 1st level. This benefit does not grant them the ability to manifest powers unless they gain that ability through another source, such as levels in a psionic class.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Burst (Su): Three times per day, a xeph can put on a burst of speed to increase her speed by 10 feet, plus 10 feet per four character levels beyond 1st, to a maximum increase of 30 feet at 9th character level and higher. These bursts of speed are considered a competence bonus to the xeph\u2019s base speed. A burst of speed lasts 3 rounds.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automatic Languages: Common, Xeph. Bonus Languages: Draconic, Elven, Gnoll, Goblin, Halfling, Sylvan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Favored Class: Soulknife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xeph XEPHS Xephs are acknowledged for their skill in feats of agility, their uncontested ability at generating bursts of speed, their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-race","category-rare"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":19,"label":"Race"},{"value":28,"label":"Rare"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Gemini_Generated_Image_gmm4g2gmm4g2gmm4-1024x559.png",1024,559,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/?author=1"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":19,"name":"Race","slug":"race","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":31,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":19,"category_count":31,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Race","category_nicename":"race","category_parent":0},{"term_id":28,"name":"Rare","slug":"rare","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":28,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":19,"count":12,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":28,"category_count":12,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Rare","category_nicename":"rare","category_parent":19}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesmarches.gamesoup.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}