Hmonqi
Monkey Men
Hmonqi are "born" when a monkey eats a purple banana. The Purple Banana has psychedelic effects that magically change monkeys, granting them greater intelligence and self-awareness.
Basic Attributes
Ability Score Increase
DEX +2, CHA +1.
Age
A hmonqi reaches adulthood at the age of 5 and generally lives into the middle of his or her twenties.
Alignment
Most hmonqi are chaotic good. As a rule, they are good-hearted and kind, but mischievous and curious to a fault. They are difficult to govern, and hmonqi states and organizations tend to be small and short lived.
Speed
30' base walking speed.
Size
Hmonqi average about 2 feet tall and weigh about 20 pounds. Your size is Small.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Tradespeak and a regional Hmonqi variant of either Vosche or Cro-Mag language. They write very little, so they don't have a rich body of literature. Almost all hmonqi speak Tradespeak to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling.
Abilities
Climber
You can climb at move speed.
Hmonqi Nimbleness
You can move through the space of any creature that is of a size larger than yours.
Prehensile Tail
Your tail counts as an extra free hand.
Lore
The Purple Banana
Hmonqi are "born" when a monkey eats a purple banana. The Purple Banana has psychedelic effects that magically change monkeys, granting them greater intelligence and self-awareness. Hmonqi are physically indistinguishable from normal monkeys. The effects of the Banana are non-transmissable; a pregnant Hmonqi will birth a regular monkey.
The Banana Kingdoms
The Hmonqi homeland is the Northern Jungle of the western Riftlands. Hmonqi often squat in the ruins of earlier, greater civilizations. Monkey Lords rise through the highly social, and often brutal, world of Hmonqi politics. The Lords command, through their extensive loyalty networks, huge and diverse armies. The jungle fiefdoms of the Monkey Lords are collectively known as the Banana Kingdoms.
The Hmonqi Diaspora
Many Hmonqi feel stifled under the traditional simian politics and culture of the Banana Kingdoms and choose to make their life among the other humanoid civilizations. Hmonqi minority communities exist in cities across Oda. Some rumor that an Eastern Monkey King is forming a new Hmonqi Kingdom hidden in the wildernesses of the Tradelands.
Hmonqi Style
Like other monkeys, Hmonqi are small, agile and curious. Hmonqi rarely create their own cultural objects, but they do combine and "remix" the artifacts of other races. Hmonqi often adorn themselves extravagantly, preferring shiny, noisy or bright attire.
Hmonqi Urbanism
Hmonqi, where they are dominant, most often live in the ruins of older, more prestigious civilizations. Hmonqi culture is essentially additive, so they never demolish, repair or maintain anything. They simply build another layer on top. Hmonqi cities are loud, garish and completely dysfunctional.
Featured Quote
"All the talk we ever have heard Uttered by bat or beast or bird -- Hide or fin or scale or feather -- Jabber it quickly and all together! Excellent! Wonderful! Once again! Now we are talking just like men. Let's pretend we are... never mind, Brother, thy tail hangs down behind! This is the way of the Monkey-kind."
— The Tall Tales of the Tulgg'a