The Peoples on The Moonshroud Realms — GM Reference

Core & Void Ancestries

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Core & Void Ancestries#

The following ancestries are available in this campaign from the core Daggerheart rulebook and The Void supplement. They represent the full range of peoples found across Elderland and beyond.

For ancestries specific to the Moonshroud Realms, see the individual pages for Aelfaen, Mustelin, Ursinor, and Dragonblood.

Mixed ancestry characters take the primary feature of their main ancestry and the secondary feature of their other ancestry.

Core Daggerheart Ancestries#

Clank

Clanks are sentient mechanical beings built from a variety of materials, including metal, wood, and stone. They can resemble humanoids, animals, or even inanimate objects. Because of their bespoke construction, many clanks have highly specialized physical configurations. A clank's lifespan extends as long as they're able to acquire or craft new parts, making their physical form effectively immortal — though their minds deteriorate as the magic that powers them loses potency.

Mustelin

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Mustelin#

Mustelin are small, quick-bodied mammalian folk — lithe and flexible, with keen senses and survival instincts honed in tight places. They share traits of furred, long-bodied creatures such as otters, weasels, and badgers. Expressive and physical, they rely on motion and body language as much as speech, with quick gestures and restless energy common in conversation.

They are found throughout Elderland and are a familiar sight in Bridgeport’s markets, docks, and alleyways.

Ursinor

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Ursinor#

The Ursinor are bear-like humanoids — broad of shoulder, thick of limb, with long torsos and powerful arms. Their size suggests slowness. It shouldn’t. They are capable runners and nimble climbers when pressed, and those who underestimate them based on appearance tend not to make the same mistake twice.

They are found across Elderland, most commonly in woodland settlements and northern communities, though individual Ursinor appear in cities and on roads throughout the world. Bridgeport has its share.

Aelfaen

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Aelfaen#

The Aelfaen are a people shaped by an ancient purpose — born as wardens between worlds, created by the Eternal Absot to safeguard the boundaries between Orb and the fae realm of Haelo. For generations they tended crossings and preserved the balance between realms. When those crossings stabilized and their task ended, the Aelfaen dispersed into the societies of Orb, where they now live as artisans, soldiers, scholars, and travelers.

Saelfaen

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Saelfaen#

The Saelfaen are a people shaped by deep water and patient purpose — born as wardens beneath the waves, created by the Eternal Absot alongside the Aelfaen to guard the hidden passages of Orb’s oceans. Where the Aelfaen tended the crossings between land and the fae realm of Haelo, the Saelfaen watched the thresholds hidden in trenches, reefs, and rifted shelves — the places where currents crossed between realms far below the surface. Their watch was patient and unyielding, measured not in years but in tides.

Dragonblood

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Dragonblood#

Dragonblood resemble tall, hairless elves at first glance — features refined but subtly sharpened by draconic influence. Fine scales trace their skin in irregular patterns, most often along the spine, temples, or cheekbones, though some bear them across the neck, hands, or feet. A rare few develop horn-like protrusions or vestigial claws at the fingertips, a lingering echo of the ritual that shaped their kind. Their natural lifespan is approximately 500 years.

Communities

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Communities#

A community represents the culture, environment, and values a character was raised among. It is fully decoupled from ancestry — any character may take any community regardless of their lineage. A Ursinor raised in a city grows up differently than one raised in a forest clan. A Mustelin from a noble house carries different instincts than one from the docks.

Your community shapes how you move through the world, what you reach for instinctively, and what your upbringing gave you that nothing else could.