The Gilded

The Gilded are a celestially created race with otherworldly beauty, living in the world but not entirely from it. They live wherever their travels take them and find homes in places of great beauty. The Gilded love art and artistry, music and poetry, and all other beautiful things in the world.

The Gilded Traits

From your creation, you are given certain characteristics you share with all other members of The Gilded.

Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age. The Gilded are created by the Goddess of Art, and are therefore fully mature at their creation. Their constructed body starts to wear around the age of 500, but if they can return to their Goddess, she may amend their bodies.

Alignment. The Gilded tend to be drawn to art and are very into self expression, so they lean toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They are small and gentle beings, sent in to the world to bring joy and life to the world with their masks, therefore they are more often good than not.

Size. The Gilded range from about 3 to 4 feet tall and weigh around 70 pounds. Your size is small.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Celestial Being. You are Celestial instead of Humanoid, and are affected by spells and effects that specify Celestials, but not by spells and effects that specify Humanoids.

Expertise. You are proficient in your choice of one of the following skills: Deception, Intimidation, Performance, or Persuasion. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen proficiency. The chosen proficiency is typically reflected by your mask.

Gilded Cunning. You have advantage on all Charisma saving throws against magic.

Natural Artist. You know one of the following cantrips: Druidcraft, Minor Illusion, or Prestidigitation . Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it.

Trance. The Gilded don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

Languages You can speak, read, and write Common and Celestial.

Celestial Creation

The Gilded were first created by the Goddess of Art, Lirr (or any other God in your pantheon). They were created when a divine being noticed that over time, civilizations had created masks for many different purposes. Those masks over time had been worn down, broken, and shattered. The Goddess took it upon herself, and using essence of her life, melded various pieces of the masks together, sealing the cracks with gold. Her essence gave life to these new constructs as supernatural beings, and their masks give way to their personality, showcasing certain general aspects of their lives.

The Gilded Way

Most seek to bring beauty in to the world, and create things of great beauty all on their own. Once set off in to the world, they try to find their niche form of art in any aspect of life, and hold on to that form greatly. They are more apt to become bards and sorcerers, but over time, different personalities have wandered into other occupations.

Inspiration Inspiration and concept by checkforloot on reddit. Here's a link to the post by them.