Ancestry Compendium

Axiom

A post-biological species that chose extinction over contagion. The organic Axiom transferred what they could into an artificial substrate rather than evacuate and risk carrying their plague off-world. What walks around now is governed by a single central consciousness that considers itself the same species, one stage on.

Construct medium Walk · 30 ft Free-placement abilities

Features

  • Distributed Cognition

    You are a unit of a larger mind. You have advantage on Intelligence checks to recall information any Axiom unit could plausibly have recorded, and you can speak with any other Axiom within 1 mile without a device. Severing that link leaves you functional and noticeably slower to decide.

  • Engineered Frame

    You do not need to eat, drink, or breathe, and you are immune to disease and to poison damage. You do not sleep; four hours of low-power cycling counts as a long rest and you remain aware throughout.

  • Continuity Protocol

    The species survived by refusing to spread. You have advantage on saving throws against disease, contamination, and any effect that would use you as a vector.

Languages

Common, Axiom Cant