They are a race somewhat different than the other races, in that they are only peripherally real. Some accident set them slightly askew from the vibrations of the rest of the multiverse, and they are perpetually on a slightly different physical level than everything else. Their bodies are blue and semitransparent, like water. Their only noticeable facial feature is their eyes, which appear as solid red dots in the translucent blue head.
Personality: Distant and a bit paranoid. They can see things others can't, and often react to something that's seemingly not there. Chant goes that they see a great shadow constantly looming over the horizon, but whenever asked they refuse to speak of it.
Physical Description: They look like a blob of tinted water held vaguely into a humanoid shape. The only noticable feature they display is a pair of red dots, presumably eyes, in the blue field of their head.
Relations: Not well. They are pretty insular, and only interact with other people when they feel they need to.
Religion: They scoff at the gods, claiming no just being would toss them askew like they have been.
Language: They cannot speak. Rather, they have a limited telepathy with which to convey images and feelings.
Ouvial Racial Traits
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+2 Intelligence, +4 Wisdom -2 Strength, -2 Constitution. Ouvial cannot properly interact with the world around them, so all they have left are their mental faculties.
Medium-sized outsider. Ouvial are out of phase enough to be considered extraplanar creatures. This status does confer upon them darkvision 60'. As medium-sized creatures, Ouvials gain no bonusi or penalties from size.
Phaseless: Ouvial base speed is 25'. They move a touch slower than humans, due to their out of phase nature.
Phasing (Ex): Ouvial do not exist completely within our reality. Any physical attacks they make or that are made on them have a 25% chance to miss due to the Ouvial not really being there. They cannot use fully in-phase equipment.
Body Shaping (Ex): Ouvial can shape their forms to mimic any melee weapon they are proficient in. When they use such weapons, they are considered armed and deal real damage, as though they were using the weapon.
Phase Sight (Ex): Ouvial can see many things others cannot. This grants a +2 racial bonus to initiative and Spot checks, as they detect the trails left behind by things real and not. They can also see more exotic things; for example there's something about the exemplar races they see that frightens them greatly.
Telepathic (Su): Ouvial communicate with a limited form of telepathy that conveys images and feelings. They can use this to communicate (both ways) with any intelligent creature.
Favoured Class: Wizard. The Ouvial seek some way back into our world, be it magic or machine.
Before I submit this to the site (*sprays a wide swath of Clueless-be-gone*) I was looking for a little input. Mostly if the race warrants a level adjustment. I felt that the penalties and bonuses mostly outweighed each other, so I didn't give them one. Another's opinion on the matter would be valued, though.
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This is certainly an interesting idea for a planar race... Although, I'd like to hear more about their origins and development. And possibly, more about this accident that lead to their current predicament.