In Baseline reality someone was playing a custom modded version of Sid Meier's Civ 2, opened the Cheat menu and selected the "Remove Civilization" option?
Definitely. It's fascinating stuff. Reminds me of how the Illithid traveled back to the beginning of the multiverse repeatedly to create a truly eternal empire, if memory serves.
The Grey Ones. The Ones who came from the Before. The Outsiders of Outsiders. I've been running D&D for some years now and the LeShay will always be my favorite race. The Elves of the Elves.
I am lucky enough to have been allowed to play one, very toned down with normal stats, but a lot of their other properties. In this world he was a rare birth (the first recorded in eons) and he is a Bladesinger wizard. Which shifts the Bladesinger lore to origination with the Le'Shay race, then passed down to the elves. Most fun I've ever had with a character.
@@brianroberts783 I'm kind of disappointed that 5e doesn't really have any high CR fey (the closest we get is some hags.) Sure, you can homebrew some stuff up, but I'd like to have *something* for the AL people and sweet baby DMs. Currently I've got an archfey warlock character concept of someone who made a pact with a Verdant Prince (from the 3.5 Monster Manual IV)
@@thevoidcritter there's a few individual entities for powerful Fey, Titannia, The Queen of Aor and Darkness, etc. but I tend to agree that it would be great to have some more options for powerful Fey, even some powerful Fey races.
Do the ancient races (Leshay, Mindflayers, Aboliths, spellweavers, etc) have souls? If so what happens to them when they die, are they judged the same as the others, does Asmodeus get them, like mortals? do they merge with their aligned plane like elementals? Does something mysterious happen to them like dragons? It may be worth it to make a video covering all different afterlives for the nonmortal creatures of D and D, up to you.
Aboleths return to the collective mind, a vestige of the far realms being that originally created them and from whence their incredible racial memory comes from. Mind flayers join the elder brain, which actually destroys the personality of the dying mind flayer, but that's a well kept secret so as not to disrupt illithid society
I let one of my players play a LeShay. He gave me the material for it. Plot twist. His LeShay was the first LeShay youth in eons. His mother used magic and her self-altering ability to be a human mother. She grew tired of the role, leaving his teenage character in the mortal world after she told him what he really was... a taboo new LeShay she grew from herself. The player was disappointed that he had to "purchase" a little nugget of the LeShay's ability each class level he earned. He had to earn 50 levels to have 100% of the LeShay's racial abilities. "But it will take me forever to earn all those levels" "So? You're a LeShay... you have eternity." Awesome video AJ. If you take my path, you could allow your players to play a LeShay without losing game balance. I started them off as elves with slow regeneration and slow self-altering in base abilities.
Not relevant to the video but you'd be proud Professor. Last nights game left my players so morally conflicted they asked for time off before the next session to talk about how they wanted to move forward. They've been at war with a giant army for about 16 sessions and met the human leaders ancestor. (Now a lich) a little later the barbarian engaged a stone giant dream Walker who didnt lift a finger to resist but instead spent all 256 of his hit points worth of time to speak to the rest of the party about the history of the giants here before the humans came and the greater Formian threat below the island. It was incredible, the bard was absolutely shook. Your giant lore videos have played a huge roll in this game and I couldn't thank you enough. the bard and sorcerer think they may even switch sides after this new development and the barbarians actions (it wasnt a that guy situation either. The player in question checked with the other players if they opposed to this evil act)
I suppose the LeShay definitely could create their own gods. I can definitely imagine some elves having a phobia of the LeShay. The groveling, the slapping, the attention to detail driven deep cutting remarks and all of it exposing the unrefined savage inferiority of the elves. And to drive it all home the elderith starring. As a side note this was one of your best vids - top ten or five? It's hard to say, as you do so many good ones.
The Dark master I feel as thought the LeShey would harbor more pity than resentment for the Elves. Seeing them as a younger and even more foolish version of themselves. Watching over the millennia as time and time again, the Elves build up their great kingdoms and empires, only to inevitably watch them crumble, and seldom because of the actions of others, but usually because of the Elves’ own choices. Be it out of hubris, hunger for power, or benevolent intent, the consequences of their actions always spell the doom of their societies, setting their people’s knowledge back hundreds if not thousands of years each time, oftentimes never to be recovered. They perpetually suffer the worse kind of cataclysm, one of their own design. For this reason I believe the LeShey would pity them, with any anger towards them being only because of the Elves inability to learn from their past mistakes.
I once asked my DM to play a LeShay, he said yes, i played them as a curious investigator and a 30 year in game campaign and none of my comrade knew what i was, as i had taken on the guise of a human, we had been playing for two year's then one day my DM asked to look at my character sheet, he was baffled when he spotted what was on there, so i went and found all the books i had read and presented them to him, he asked me why i didn't use any of the over powerd stuff, my simple response. "It's what my character would do" [Edit] btw the campaign he ran was superb, and we should be starting a new one soon, i haven't played in a year so I'm looking forward to it.
heck yeah friendo that also never played D&D. i listen to these like monster stories all because some girl on a website asked if I meant D&D and I had no idea... no idea at all. Just guys piling on stories and references for generations.
I know I've commented before, but I would like to illustrate: HE IS RIGHT. After playing a Leshay and having them even *remotely involved in the goings-on of a specific plane of existence, sometimes leaving well-enough alone is good enough...
Wait, are the Leshay an allegory for players? They've outlived worlds (campaigns starting and ending) They shapeshift to take on new personas (playing different characters) They have so much life experience and knowledge stored in their memory they might as well be omniscient (metagame knowledge)
Maybe...? Honestly they do seem really similar to isekai Litrpg characters...especially one's who have been in their worlds for eons. But that doesn't explain everything.
How to deal with eternity. Step 1: research how to cast perminancy spell on a contingency spell. Step 2: research how to cast contingency on imprisonment (slumber) Step 3: Wake me up when the world gets interesting.
I honestly dread some players I know watching this article...they'll come to their next game with a Half-Leshay/Half-Aasimar with some kind of tragic backstory and soulful demeanor who only ever pauses in their contemplation of the futility of existence to dish out major asskicking to anyone who dares disrespect them.
@@AJPickett Oh, if they tried it with my game I would. Or if i did let them I'd just end up having them constantly ambushed and attacked by parties eager to get their hands on the only half LeShay on the planet. Even if they managed to fight off every attempt they'd end up so paranoid they'd have to start reining in their power
I have no idea who Leshay is but I'm a simple man. See a notice from the gluestick, click. Oh. Well this is interesting. I feel like the LeShay would be cordial no matter how much they disagree with someone because you never know if you might make an enemy for the rest of eternity.
My Warlock of the Archfey had a Leshay patron (unbeknownst to them for most of the campaign). I had almost the entirety of the race die off in an ancient war with the Obyrith.
Im currently in the midst of drawing up new feywild demiplanes for a campaign. Similar to the old quasi elemental planes, but with the feywild and inner/outer planes bleeding into each other, including the far realm. Im having a civilization of leshay act as those who practically wrote themselves out of time, and sealed off these places and stand guard.
@Amber Hoke lol the You Tube channel is called "All Things DnD", with a website of the same name. Link is below. I believe you have to submit the story on the website, first. Then, it may get chosen, at some point, to get narrated on the You Tube channel. Good luck! allthingsdnd.com/
The Joker as a LeShay. He knows this world isn't the original, and plays the faux affably evil role well. It's all a grand joke, and a good joke has timing.
Do you think the LeShey disaster is related to the Illithid’s time travel? Like, could the LeShey have been the ones who defeated the Illithids in the original timeline, causing the Illithids to travel back in time to prevent the LeShey from become as powerful of a civilization as they were originally?
There is a group I play with where leshay are legendary. One player had made a knowledge check about them and learned quite a bit. When his character told the party about it in game, he said a Chuck Norris joke.
I feel like the LeShey could be cast as a good Ancestor Race or Creator Race for Doppelgängers, Changelings, and the like, given their mercurial physical nature and grey-white color palette. They’re like the perfect form of the typical shape changer. Graceful and beautiful in their natural shape, but still fluid and willing, almost wanting, to change.
I'm actually doing this for my own campaign! The Changelings, having lived in isolation due to the inherent distrust from other races, live in a remote area of my world and grow very uncomfortable when outsiders come to visit. Their land has been ruled by the same LeShay since its inception, as their own personal playground, but the Changelings don't know this. They believe their history is filled with cruel rulers, bloody rebellions, benevolent protectors, and shocking assassinations. The truth is that it has all been this one being, growing bored of the status quo, burning it down in a way mortals can understand, and rebuilding only to have the same thing happen over again.
@@AJPickett I play with a lot of veteran D&D players, so I like to mix up the lore so they don't know what to expect from my campaign. I love listening to your videos because it tells me what things are supposed to be and from that I get inspired and tweak them to fit into my campaign in ways that WotC may not have intended, but make sense for my world. The LeShay are just one of those races I always felt fit better with the Changelings than the Elves, because of the sort of personas they adopt and the gender-shifting. They just always felt like perfected Changelings to me ^^
@@LuciaSeelie Elves were able to change sex and appearance too, before Lolth in her elven form tricked them into remaining in a fixed shape. That's what made Corelon force the elves out of Arvandor, because them not beeing able to change made him unable to do it too, and he loved doing it as a Chaotic good god. The history behind that makes me want to play an elf obsessed with making elfkind able to shift again, and having an obsession with shapeshifters, changelings and the like.
The perfect npc who is the artist met in the market square, the ruler of "that mysterious kingdom" and also the great power who was behind the whole thing.
with so minor tweaks, more personality than anything. you could build a npc lashay in the same vein as the Doctor, from Doctor Who. who with companions (pc's) travverse space and time and realities on adventures. But this Lashay Doctor is trying to find out where it all went wrong with his people. as for the tardis. well. it would be a leftover artifact the lashay build. and yes. bigger on the inside. it just kinda hit me as A.J. was talking in this video. that they somewhat sound like Timelords. lol
@@lemankurtz8950 I would use one for a super powerful neutral npc. Somebody the pcs could go to for information or stuff. My current campaign features a night hag in that role, but LeShay seem decent for exactly that
I have been having trouble finding a real conceptual explanation for the Leshay so this video is a godsend. While it doesn't give me a lot of inspiration i have always have had problems with characters that have the been here done that philosophy I am glad to know what there mentality and motivations are so I can at least roleplay them properly.
I like to think of the LeShay as from the same Reality of the Obyrith. They escaped, thinking that they locked the Obyrith behind them, but then the Obyrith used the Shared of Chaos to follow the LeShay into the Multiverse that we know as the great wheel. Is there any reason that this fan fiction won't work with the canonical lore?
Well since the lore says in their reality the obyriths won and killed everything else. That's one. Don't think the leshay are from a nightmare universe that makes the far realm look friendly(since it's basically the front door to the mess they escaped).
I've been waiting for this video for quite a while. In my homebrew campaign, the players ignored the wrong set of circumstances and went back in time to just after the "worst thing ever" and are (unknowingly) headed towards a LeShay in the town that is their destination. I'm hopeful that they will actually interact instead of ignoring or worse, Murder Hobo-ing. I feel that, if run well, the LeShay represent an unparalleled possibility for Lore delivery for players. That is if the players are polite.
These seem cool as a almost watcher race looking over the material plane, perhaps they could also have like sleeper agents that don’t know what or who they are. You could flavor them almost like time lords from doctor who, only able to change faces at will. Maybe to balance them they can never go back to a face. Like if they accidentally change form or are forced to they can not return to their original face. Just ideas to evolve them beyond Mary Sue elf territory.
AJ - where all did you find the information for their time being out of place / removed entirely? I am looking at building a campaign around these guys and would like to know more
This is exactly what I needed!!! Again you saved me hahaha. I needed to send my party back in time and now they have a NPC that can be in both times Hahahaha.
To expand more. I have a campaign that is running Storm King’s Thunder. I have decided to weave my PCs story into the main narrative or have them go along side it. My first issue was that I loved the idea of netherill (don’t think that is correct but I am a DM not a computer haha) and their floating city’s. So I thought maybe a delve into a ruin of the city find some cool magic items and that’s it. However I have a PC that has a pact with the old ones. Then I thought to myself... what if the old ones had something to do with the fall of netherill? I wanted the PCs to see the city’s/empire fall. So now in the present time the old ones are “coming back”. Which the PCs are going to learn that last time this happened netherill fell!! Now I can add in that it was the Leshey who banished the old ones which destroyed their reality! They don’t want to talk about it but will have to do that the PCs can stop this incursion!!! The only way to do so is to travel back in time and meet the Leshey who banished the old ones. Who of course is the person/leader they will be talking too. Hahahah he just won’t want to talk about it with them! P.S. I think I may have derailed my campaign!! Hahahahaha P.P.S. Thank you again for the netherill video!!! These 2 together are making my campaign fucking epic. All hail lord Glue Stick hahaha.
Leshay: I’m only level 20 in every class, where’s my 25 for each class, bow I’ll be bored for the next millennium while I find something else to interest me Everyone else: only.... every class..... next....are you sure you aren’t a god?
One of my favorite fey races! Thank you, love the video! Think you'll ever get around to some other fey races? I would love a video breakdown I can show my friends that might convince them that their views of nymphs are wrong lol
I've always held that eladrins were the multiverses response to something should be here but isn't. Got to be awkward when you are still here and the multiverse forgot you. I think the leshay could be revived but it'd require the complete eradication of the eladrin. And that would be tragedy of a magnitude no leshay would contemplate.
leshay would one, be a bit, they are definantly willing to nerf themselves to experience things more but they would problibly use their great amount of skill and power to avoid any possibly sever or fatal damage that makes certain situations more interesting.
@@2lazyt378 every PC of mine that's "died" shortly after the party is no longer around gets back up/drops the illusion or my personal favorite after a TPK the goliath barbarian gets back up, shakes himself like a dog reverting back to his Leshay form and winkes at one very frightened hag as he teleports away.
@@dmstantastic3653 ok that's a neat and funny. I could imagine some poor normle adventurer gets caught up in this leshay part, gets close with one of them to soon see they mutilated, and himself traumatized with the death of his best friend, only for his "dead" friend to get up, turn back into a leshay and say "ok I'm out". And the guy still standing there traumatized and confused.
I'm planning something similar,the leshay recruits the party to go on a mission through space,time and on several "side quests" that lead to the leshay being rebourn and going back in time to start of the story in the first place
Yeah my players found one of these fishing. They thought he was a crazy hermit and subsequently pissed him off. He scorched them a bit and told them to 'bugger off' They are basically Tolkiens elves
This is... interesting. I may actually need to have a chat with my DM. My current character is a Half-Elf Hexblade named Alsen Dunstrove. He was adopted into the Dunstrove family by its last remaining member in order to carry on their ancestral pact, the long and short of which is that the patron grants power in exchange for efforts made against various malevolent outsiders. This can include anything from conducting research to prepare future generations, erecting or reinforcing planar barriers, or even personally crusading across the lower planes. Alsen, though still fairly young, isn't thrilled at the thought of eventually giving up the position. As blasé as he acts, he is very, very aware of the responsibility and danger attached to his role, and isn't keen to hand it off. He's considered pursuing immortality through various means, but all came up short. Divinity? Too restrictive. Lichdom? Rots your soul. Vampirism? Dangerous and impractical. Stasis? Too passive. Clone? Concerning side-effects and risk. The list goes on. If he learned about the Leshay however... Well, first he'd be livid. Power to him is a vital tool- something with responsibility attached. Knowing that a race powerful enough to rival Gods, Archdukes, and Demon Princes not only existed, but dawdled their days away with landscape painting would not sit well with him. After he cooled off however, his first and only question would be "how do I get there?" That would be it. He'd have one clear, indivertable goal: Become a Leshay. Nothing short would do. Obviously that would be a very high-level character retirement, but if you've reached that point, you're pretty well finished anyhow.
This really seems like a race some douchebag would ask if they can play. Hey, I want to be a completely aloof character, who has all kinds of excess innate abilities, and can change sex at will!! I want to be artistic, but also good at combat..... This is a race a person who has no creativity, personality, or accountability would want to be.
@@lemankurtz8950 Yeah, I would agree. The problem as I see it lies in the gap between Tolkien elves and D&D elves. D&D elves are watered down, not actually immortal ect ect because to play Tolkine elves as they actually are in the series which spawned most of modern fiction, it would be insanely imbalanced. But that leaves the desire to represent something like the Tolkien elves, so we get things like the Leshay and and Eladrin. In the hands of a good writer, such beings can be very interesting, but in the hands of most players they would be painfully bad 90% of the time.
Well, that depends I would say. How pragmatic is that God? You are offered a paladin that can solo an ancient dragon or a demon lord. Yes, the LeShay is essentially LARPing but they are almost the NPC equivalent of player Characters in terms of effects they could have. If they choose to. They might also just want to save a few local villages. They might chose to become your enemy ten thousand years down the line, they might also not care for your cause anymore in twenty years. But right now they want to "Deus Vult" a little. So you really got to ask yourself: Do I want to have them LARP on my team or do I want to send them off and risk scorning them and have them casually wipe out some of my future champions or entire temples of mine because they perceived me as rude? Like, you LITERALLY need to send a Solar or full divine Avatar to take one out and then you realize those fuckers can TELEPORT AT WILL. If you, hypothetical God in question, are a lesser deity, you likely don´t even HAVE an angel that can take one of these guys, so you probably have to intervene personally if that LeShay thinks that it would be funny to hunt down your chosen champions for the next few centuries. And if it´s a particularly poweful one then they might evade or even outright defeat you.
I keep thinking this. These are the guys that would have a Demi god a empyrean and a spellweaver in a party with the leShay and Reigar and course all sorts of troubles and just leave mortals open jawed
It almost doesn’t make much sense for a society of people with the average citizen a fair match for an ancient dragon, to exist just in a city somewhere on the material plane. Not isolationist, and not a large part of the world either
If they have this huge sense of displacement, then maybe they don't care to engage in this world that they don't really feel like they belong to. If the world comes to them, they will respond, but they aren't going to try to fix or run things.
I wonder how you would make a balanced half-leshay… Maybe something along the lines of a normal half elf but with the added immortal longevity, and the ability to conjure weapons…
@@JonKlement hell if I know. Then again I’m fairly certain weirder shit has probably happened in D&D before. In any case it was an intriguing concept that just popped in my head randomly. I imagine probably the normal way things come into the world, hell maybe even “thousands of years ago.” Maybe one of them was a bard. But jokes aside, I don’t think it’s too far-fetched. Then again, what do I know.
@@JonKlement "a being thousands upon thousands of years old" here's your reason, when you're basically immortal you have the time to try every little things, boredom is one hell of a drug.
What led you to the 28d10+100 HD, the epic level handbook states 50d6+650+3. I've been looking for good conversions to 5e for the LeShay with little luck. Your stats are the best reference I've found, are they from some reference material you found or did you do the conversion based on your own judgment? Sorry if this had been ask before.
No problem, I am here to answer questions just like that one. The Epic Level Handbook is WAY overpowered for 5th edition play, so yes, I reduced the hit points a lot, even so, the 28d10+100 is an enormous amount of HP for a humanoid in 5E D&D, so, still pretty formidable.
@@AJPickett Thank you for your ongoing support for the community, and taking so much of your time producing these great references. Your efforts are very much appreciated even if unspoken.
I think there is a update for Leshay in the Epic level handbook update ... they lose I think a couple feats for the base level monster and 2 hp, but mathematically if you look at the way they tell you to build a monster in 3.5e and then look at any monster that is 3.5 and the hp (average is done wrong) I guess from a DM perspective it comes down to are LeShay at their base level like a super elf from something like the Tolkien universe where elves can see miles etc. etc. or do you want LeShay to be so other worldly that even a very old elf wizard would be in awe ... I also personally run my LeShay as basically super bored ... they have seen everything at least twice , so they care little for century to century events.
So basically the LeShay get really into their DnD Characters? I can also imagine them as kind of treating the lesser races sort of like Video Game NPCs. Perhaps there are two LeShay who have decided to play Age of Empires or Civilization and have taken control of a Country or two just so they can see who is the best RTS player among them, throwing away the lives of thousands in a sick game. Because who really cares about the lesser races after all? I mean they are basically Ants anyway right?
In my current campaign I'm running my big bad is Malconthet and I'm thinking of turning her into a severely corrupted Leshay. One of the last 3 in existence. Any thoughts or tips, hell I'll take dirty jokes if you got um.
Plot twist in Sigil: lady of pain at some point has been supplanted by a LeShay unbeknownst to all but a few anonymous rumors that few dare think on let alone speak them aloud
Or the lady here selfish was a very powerful and old leshay long before the current multiverse was born, so like an oberith but grandmother to the people who created the feywild
Another theory of mine is that the Leshay are the reason why cursed races of Fey exist like Fomorians and maybe Hags. Mess with the Fey wild or piss them off as a race and you can count on being humbled.
Small Correction: I don't think the original statblock had legendary resistances, as it was 3e and legendary resistances are a 5e thing. However, it would have them if it was in 5e.
I have a theory. The LeShay have pale, translucent skin, white hair, and are androgynous with the potential ability to change sexes. Their origin may be unknown, but I think all of this might point to them being something like an evolved form of Changelings.
@@robertcorley5225 That could be, but Changelings are typically thought to be the descendants of Doppelgangers. Maybe Changelings are a mix of LeShay and Doppleganger. That would explain the appearance of Changelings in their default form as well as why their shapeshifting ability is less than that of a Doppleganger and more than that of a LeShay.
@Darian Darkkchild I'm not familiar with Fey Eladrin, so you could be right. I was mostly going by the way LeShay look and their malleable view of identity.
@Darian Darkkchild Not necessarily. By the lore they are as different from elves as elves are from humans. Eladrin might fall in that same category though.
So picture this.... it’s DR 1400 in the Moonshae. There is a Leshay necromancer or sorcerer going through an “emo” phase. His is taking on the guise of a vampire lord. He already looks dead and pale like a vampire and with his arcane power would be able to mimic all the powers of a vampire.
Could a "Half-Leshay" exist? Say a Leshay was curious to know what life in a mortal family was like and held a mortal partner for some time. Is this possible? What would be the qualities of a Half-Leshay?
Well they are on the same power level of dragons. They are older than dirt ,smart and geeks. So the chance of a half breed . Now zero but long ago their may of have been some . heck some of the creator races may of been the half breed . The Spell Weavers might be the half breed .
I think a half-Leshey would be on par with a half dragon, so a player class would have to be more diluted than that. I would play an Aasimar and flavor it that they are descended from an ancient Leshey bloodline.
@@AJPickett But the "blank slate" allows SOOO many sub-plots, even disconnected "heresy", to be new plots and stories. They are the ultimate "oh... this is interesting" barely interested aliens.
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Plot twist: the Lady of Pain is actually a **grk** (suddenly dies)
Thinks thats fair. *Ends up in a maze*
Ohh were you implying that she’s- **Hurg** THUD
Aoskar didn't deserve it"also mazed"
orks, dragonborn and warforged *are* interesting races. harumph!
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I feel like I need to go into more detail on what "Their reality was deleted" means.
Please don't people winked out of existence from the spellweaver vid. 😅
In Baseline reality someone was playing a custom modded version of Sid Meier's Civ 2, opened the Cheat menu and selected the "Remove Civilization" option?
@@Michaeljack81sk Except the some of the populace survived and somehow managed to make it to a new game file.
There's a BEST STORY EVER hidden in the Spellweaver, Illithid and Leshay.
Definitely. It's fascinating stuff.
Reminds me of how the Illithid traveled back to the beginning of the multiverse repeatedly to create a truly eternal empire, if memory serves.
"Positively filthy with faeries!"
lol brilliant dude. I swear I'm gonna find a use for that quote one day.
The Grey Ones. The Ones who came from the Before. The Outsiders of Outsiders. I've been running D&D for some years now and the LeShay will always be my favorite race. The Elves of the Elves.
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hail the mighty gluestick!
I am lucky enough to have been allowed to play one, very toned down with normal stats, but a lot of their other properties. In this world he was a rare birth (the first recorded in eons) and he is a Bladesinger wizard. Which shifts the Bladesinger lore to origination with the Le'Shay race, then passed down to the elves. Most fun I've ever had with a character.
Other People: "man this race is Mary Sue as shit, I'd never allow this"
Me: "okay not as a PC race, but this would be a DOPE warlock patron"
Good Call
Kind of a combination of the Archfey and a touch of Great Old One.
@@brianroberts783 I'm kind of disappointed that 5e doesn't really have any high CR fey (the closest we get is some hags.) Sure, you can homebrew some stuff up, but I'd like to have *something* for the AL people and sweet baby DMs. Currently I've got an archfey warlock character concept of someone who made a pact with a Verdant Prince (from the 3.5 Monster Manual IV)
@@thevoidcritter there's a few individual entities for powerful Fey, Titannia, The Queen of Aor and Darkness, etc. but I tend to agree that it would be great to have some more options for powerful Fey, even some powerful Fey races.
Huzzah! A man of quality!
Do the ancient races (Leshay, Mindflayers, Aboliths, spellweavers, etc) have souls?
If so what happens to them when they die, are they judged the same as the others, does Asmodeus get them, like mortals? do they merge with their aligned plane like elementals? Does something mysterious happen to them like dragons?
It may be worth it to make a video covering all different afterlives for the nonmortal creatures of D and D, up to you.
It does seem to be a subject of fascination with more than a few folks.
Aboleths return to the collective mind, a vestige of the far realms being that originally created them and from whence their incredible racial memory comes from.
Mind flayers join the elder brain, which actually destroys the personality of the dying mind flayer, but that's a well kept secret so as not to disrupt illithid society
I let one of my players play a LeShay. He gave me the material for it. Plot twist. His LeShay was the first LeShay youth in eons. His mother used magic and her self-altering ability to be a human mother. She grew tired of the role, leaving his teenage character in the mortal world after she told him what he really was... a taboo new LeShay she grew from herself. The player was disappointed that he had to "purchase" a little nugget of the LeShay's ability each class level he earned. He had to earn 50 levels to have 100% of the LeShay's racial abilities. "But it will take me forever to earn all those levels" "So? You're a LeShay... you have eternity." Awesome video AJ. If you take my path, you could allow your players to play a LeShay without losing game balance. I started them off as elves with slow regeneration and slow self-altering in base abilities.
That would be the way I would handle it as well. Purchasing racial abilities as feat packages.
@@AJPickett So, nothing is a hard "no" for you and you love game balances and work with player requests. You would have been my 1990s best friend DM.
My character will likely meet Lady Ordalf in the near future. This was pleasantly relevant and MUCH needed.
Not relevant to the video but you'd be proud Professor. Last nights game left my players so morally conflicted they asked for time off before the next session to talk about how they wanted to move forward.
They've been at war with a giant army for about 16 sessions and met the human leaders ancestor. (Now a lich) a little later the barbarian engaged a stone giant dream Walker who didnt lift a finger to resist but instead spent all 256 of his hit points worth of time to speak to the rest of the party about the history of the giants here before the humans came and the greater Formian threat below the island. It was incredible, the bard was absolutely shook.
Your giant lore videos have played a huge roll in this game and I couldn't thank you enough. the bard and sorcerer think they may even switch sides after this new development and the barbarians actions (it wasnt a that guy situation either. The player in question checked with the other players if they opposed to this evil act)
Excellent!
Outstanding! XD
I suppose the LeShay definitely could create their own gods. I can definitely imagine some elves having a phobia of the LeShay. The groveling, the slapping, the attention to detail driven deep cutting remarks and all of it exposing the unrefined savage inferiority of the elves. And to drive it all home the elderith starring. As a side note this was one of your best vids - top ten or five? It's hard to say, as you do so many good ones.
The Dark master I feel as thought the LeShey would harbor more pity than resentment for the Elves. Seeing them as a younger and even more foolish version of themselves. Watching over the millennia as time and time again, the Elves build up their great kingdoms and empires, only to inevitably watch them crumble, and seldom because of the actions of others, but usually because of the Elves’ own choices. Be it out of hubris, hunger for power, or benevolent intent, the consequences of their actions always spell the doom of their societies, setting their people’s knowledge back hundreds if not thousands of years each time, oftentimes never to be recovered. They perpetually suffer the worse kind of cataclysm, one of their own design. For this reason I believe the LeShey would pity them, with any anger towards them being only because of the Elves inability to learn from their past mistakes.
I once asked my DM to play a LeShay, he said yes, i played them as a curious investigator and a 30 year in game campaign and none of my comrade knew what i was, as i had taken on the guise of a human, we had been playing for two year's then one day my DM asked to look at my character sheet, he was baffled when he spotted what was on there, so i went and found all the books i had read and presented them to him, he asked me why i didn't use any of the over powerd stuff, my simple response.
"It's what my character would do"
[Edit] btw the campaign he ran was superb, and we should be starting a new one soon, i haven't played in a year so I'm looking forward to it.
Ok, this time you can try and play a Silver Dragon pretending to be a human adventurer, fits the Silver Dragon lore perfectly.
Perfect timing. I have my session 0 for a Moonshae Isles campaign tonight!
I've come to the theory that the Leshay were the only race that Selune and Shar made together. With the catastrophe being Selune and Shars battle.
Interesting.
AJ, I have class in 15 minutes! Why do you have to live in New Zeland?
Great work as always, here’s to many more videos!
Nice. I'm loving this stuff. The imagination level of all this d&d stuff and lore is very fun.
heck yeah friendo that also never played D&D. i listen to these like monster stories all because some girl on a website asked if I meant D&D and I had no idea... no idea at all. Just guys piling on stories and references for generations.
I know I've commented before, but I would like to illustrate: HE IS RIGHT. After playing a Leshay and having them even *remotely involved in the goings-on of a specific plane of existence, sometimes leaving well-enough alone is good enough...
"They're immortal unless killed"
Eternal youth, got it.
I'm gonna keep laughing though.
when my Changeling character that wants to be a Fey finds out Fey ancestors look like changelings)
O_O *blank eyes grow even wider*
I've been waiting for this video since the raven queen video I love the idea of mixing them together thank you mighty glue stick
Thank you, I have been trying to write a book with something/one as the narrator and you have provided it.
Oh yes, they would be perfect for that.
Wait, are the Leshay an allegory for players?
They've outlived worlds (campaigns starting and ending)
They shapeshift to take on new personas (playing different characters)
They have so much life experience and knowledge stored in their memory they might as well be omniscient (metagame knowledge)
Not as far as I know.
Maybe...? Honestly they do seem really similar to isekai Litrpg characters...especially one's who have been in their worlds for eons. But that doesn't explain everything.
DM race:)
Steel Dragons
I feel like they're meant to be something closer to the Sidhe
I would absolutely love anything you can do on Ravenloft. Ecology, regions, dread lords, anything. It's my favorite setting ever.
That's the one!!! I was searching for this for over a WEEK!!!
How to deal with eternity.
Step 1: research how to cast perminancy spell on a contingency spell.
Step 2: research how to cast contingency on imprisonment (slumber)
Step 3: Wake me up when the world gets interesting.
I honestly dread some players I know watching this article...they'll come to their next game with a Half-Leshay/Half-Aasimar with some kind of tragic backstory and soulful demeanor who only ever pauses in their contemplation of the futility of existence to dish out major asskicking to anyone who dares disrespect them.
A murder hobo with a backstory.
Just learn how to say "No".
@@AJPickett Oh, if they tried it with my game I would. Or if i did let them I'd just end up having them constantly ambushed and attacked by parties eager to get their hands on the only half LeShay on the planet. Even if they managed to fight off every attempt they'd end up so paranoid they'd have to start reining in their power
Meh, just put them up against stuff that can "humble them". Not just with shear stats, but with machinations. Like maybe their actual perants.
I have no idea who Leshay is but I'm a simple man. See a notice from the gluestick, click.
Oh. Well this is interesting. I feel like the LeShay would be cordial no matter how much they disagree with someone because you never know if you might make an enemy for the rest of eternity.
Also it pays to be friendly to what could be a god in the near future.
My Warlock of the Archfey had a Leshay patron (unbeknownst to them for most of the campaign). I had almost the entirety of the race die off in an ancient war with the Obyrith.
Im currently in the midst of drawing up new feywild demiplanes for a campaign. Similar to the old quasi elemental planes, but with the feywild and inner/outer planes bleeding into each other, including the far realm. Im having a civilization of leshay act as those who practically wrote themselves out of time, and sealed off these places and stand guard.
They are immortal
UNLESS KILLED
A race of ultra powerful quasi demigods. Would definitely be interesting to have them as part of a story. NOT as a PC, in a ttrpg.
@Amber Hoke that' sounds like a really cool story. Your DM should submit that to Narrated D&D. Would be cool to hear about it.
@Amber Hoke lol the You Tube channel is called "All Things DnD", with a website of the same name. Link is below. I believe you have to submit the story on the website, first. Then, it may get chosen, at some point, to get narrated on the You Tube channel. Good luck!
allthingsdnd.com/
The Joker as a LeShay. He knows this world isn't the original, and plays the faux affably evil role well. It's all a grand joke, and a good joke has timing.
Do you think the LeShey disaster is related to the Illithid’s time travel?
Like, could the LeShey have been the ones who defeated the Illithids in the original timeline, causing the Illithids to travel back in time to prevent the LeShey from become as powerful of a civilization as they were originally?
Could be, I have no info on it, so, it's a coin toss really.
AJ Pickett It was more of a rhetorical “food for thought” type question. But I always appreciate the fact that you take the time to answer fans. 👍
There is a group I play with where leshay are legendary. One player had made a knowledge check about them and learned quite a bit. When his character told the party about it in game, he said a Chuck Norris joke.
I feel like the LeShey could be cast as a good Ancestor Race or Creator Race for Doppelgängers, Changelings, and the like, given their mercurial physical nature and grey-white color palette. They’re like the perfect form of the typical shape changer. Graceful and beautiful in their natural shape, but still fluid and willing, almost wanting, to change.
I'm actually doing this for my own campaign! The Changelings, having lived in isolation due to the inherent distrust from other races, live in a remote area of my world and grow very uncomfortable when outsiders come to visit. Their land has been ruled by the same LeShay since its inception, as their own personal playground, but the Changelings don't know this. They believe their history is filled with cruel rulers, bloody rebellions, benevolent protectors, and shocking assassinations. The truth is that it has all been this one being, growing bored of the status quo, burning it down in a way mortals can understand, and rebuilding only to have the same thing happen over again.
In the Forgotten Realms, the Batrachi amphibian creator race (who became the Slaadi) were the creators of the shapeshifters.
AJ Pickett Ya see, this is why you need to do those Creator Races videos. We need to know this stuff, and we need it delivered to us in a Kiwi accent.
@@AJPickett I play with a lot of veteran D&D players, so I like to mix up the lore so they don't know what to expect from my campaign. I love listening to your videos because it tells me what things are supposed to be and from that I get inspired and tweak them to fit into my campaign in ways that WotC may not have intended, but make sense for my world. The LeShay are just one of those races I always felt fit better with the Changelings than the Elves, because of the sort of personas they adopt and the gender-shifting. They just always felt like perfected Changelings to me ^^
@@LuciaSeelie Elves were able to change sex and appearance too, before Lolth in her elven form tricked them into remaining in a fixed shape.
That's what made Corelon force the elves out of Arvandor, because them not beeing able to change made him unable to do it too, and he loved doing it as a Chaotic good god.
The history behind that makes me want to play an elf obsessed with making elfkind able to shift again, and having an obsession with shapeshifters, changelings and the like.
The perfect npc who is the artist met in the market square, the ruler of "that mysterious kingdom" and also the great power who was behind the whole thing.
Neat. Didn't know these guys existed beyond vague references. Thanks AJ.
Can you say Overpowered? I knew you could. Now let’s do one on the Irdra the super Ogres from dragon lance
A beautiful ogre with a cape...jk
with so minor tweaks, more personality than anything. you could build a npc lashay in the same vein as the Doctor, from Doctor Who. who with companions (pc's) travverse space and time and realities on adventures. But this Lashay Doctor is trying to find out where it all went wrong with his people. as for the tardis. well. it would be a leftover artifact the lashay build. and yes. bigger on the inside.
it just kinda hit me as A.J. was talking in this video. that they somewhat sound like Timelords. lol
Perfect race to make a pact with *cough warlocks patron*
Until you lose your head 😏
Yay
I'm still patiently waiting for a video on Chronepsis, also known as The Silent and The Watcher,
I'm trying to imagine my players eves dropping on a conversation between a LeShay and a Great Wurm Time Dragon.
Wyrm, (srry no passive aggro intended)
The 1275th time that happened...
This description of the LeShay makes me want to run them as the timelords to the various aberrations' dalek.
Made a comment just like this one, they seem really cool to run like that but perhaps with a bit more subtle effect on the world.
10:15 splendid artwork and captures the LeShay essence well
LeShay are a useless race. No good for anything outside of an encounter for the party. They sound freaking abhorrent to me.
@@lemankurtz8950 I would use one for a super powerful neutral npc. Somebody the pcs could go to for information or stuff. My current campaign features a night hag in that role, but LeShay seem decent for exactly that
9:51 You fail to see the power of my stand, ||OMEGA SATAN||! Observe!
I have been having trouble finding a real conceptual explanation for the Leshay so this video is a godsend. While it doesn't give me a lot of inspiration i have always have had problems with characters that have the been here done that philosophy I am glad to know what there mentality and motivations are so I can at least roleplay them properly.
If you're a fan of the show Supernatural Balthazar and Loki/Gabriel are two good examples of a Leshay. As far as roleplay goes.
stanley callahan Balthazar definitely. It really sucked when cass killed him in order to hide his own corruption during the angelic wars.
Love the videos! Also can we get a Pegasus/Nightmare video? Seems like it would be a perfect 2 for 1.
just watched this last night. one of the most interesting videos youve done and one of the more fascinating races ive learned about! well done!
They remind me of the Sidhe of Irish mythology. The Eladrin also remind me of the Sidhe.
I like to think of the LeShay as from the same Reality of the Obyrith. They escaped, thinking that they locked the Obyrith behind them, but then the Obyrith used the Shared of Chaos to follow the LeShay into the Multiverse that we know as the great wheel. Is there any reason that this fan fiction won't work with the canonical lore?
Can’t see any reason
Well since the lore says in their reality the obyriths won and killed everything else. That's one. Don't think the leshay are from a nightmare universe that makes the far realm look friendly(since it's basically the front door to the mess they escaped).
I've been waiting for this video for quite a while. In my homebrew campaign, the players ignored the wrong set of circumstances and went back in time to just after the "worst thing ever" and are (unknowingly) headed towards a LeShay in the town that is their destination. I'm hopeful that they will actually interact instead of ignoring or worse, Murder Hobo-ing. I feel that, if run well, the LeShay represent an unparalleled possibility for Lore delivery for players. That is if the players are polite.
Hobo smashers as its lore friendly for that beggar to really be a Leshay trying out a new experience. Lol
@@dmstantastic3653 In this case, S/He is going to be a fishmonger, but, yeah.
These seem cool as a almost watcher race looking over the material plane, perhaps they could also have like sleeper agents that don’t know what or who they are. You could flavor them almost like time lords from doctor who, only able to change faces at will. Maybe to balance them they can never go back to a face. Like if they accidentally change form or are forced to they can not return to their original face. Just ideas to evolve them beyond Mary Sue elf territory.
Great video AJ! I've just started a high seas campaign and this was very inspiring!
The Kraken video (up next) is going to feature a LOT of stuff for you Joshua.
@@AJPickett Oh man I can't wait! My big bad is a kraken with a Deep Scion as its herald/warlock (ala Davy Jones)
I can see them getting mistaken for Shadar-Kai
AJ - where all did you find the information for their time being out of place / removed entirely? I am looking at building a campaign around these guys and would like to know more
This is exactly what I needed!!! Again you saved me hahaha. I needed to send my party back in time and now they have a NPC that can be in both times Hahahaha.
To expand more. I have a campaign that is running Storm King’s Thunder. I have decided to weave my PCs story into the main narrative or have them go along side it. My first issue was that I loved the idea of netherill (don’t think that is correct but I am a DM not a computer haha) and their floating city’s. So I thought maybe a delve into a ruin of the city find some cool magic items and that’s it. However I have a PC that has a pact with the old ones. Then I thought to myself... what if the old ones had something to do with the fall of netherill? I wanted the PCs to see the city’s/empire fall. So now in the present time the old ones are “coming back”. Which the PCs are going to learn that last time this happened netherill fell!! Now I can add in that it was the Leshey who banished the old ones which destroyed their reality! They don’t want to talk about it but will have to do that the PCs can stop this incursion!!! The only way to do so is to travel back in time and meet the Leshey who banished the old ones. Who of course is the person/leader they will be talking too. Hahahah he just won’t want to talk about it with them!
P.S. I think I may have derailed my campaign!! Hahahahaha
P.P.S. Thank you again for the netherill video!!! These 2 together are making my campaign fucking epic.
All hail lord Glue Stick hahaha.
Leshay: I’m only level 20 in every class, where’s my 25 for each class, bow I’ll be bored for the next millennium while I find something else to interest me
Everyone else: only.... every class..... next....are you sure you aren’t a god?
Just about as powerful as you can get without being a God..... *looks at elvish pantheon* maybe some are....
One of my favorite fey races! Thank you, love the video!
Think you'll ever get around to some other fey races? I would love a video breakdown I can show my friends that might convince them that their views of nymphs are wrong lol
I've always held that eladrins were the multiverses response to something should be here but isn't. Got to be awkward when you are still here and the multiverse forgot you. I think the leshay could be revived but it'd require the complete eradication of the eladrin. And that would be tragedy of a magnitude no leshay would contemplate.
Unless for some reason Leshay can't breed together and the Eladrin were an attempt to procreate without procreating.
You know too much about us A.J. we will be watching...
Love these guys! Thinking of making one out of the custom lineage feature from Tashas.
Might have to add this to a campaign I'm planning
A leshay DM would be an interesting take. I know its uncommon to assign a character to the dungeon master, but they fit that role perfectly.
Wouldn't it make more sense that we are the Leshay? Just playing a different role each campaign?
leshay would one, be a bit, they are definantly willing to nerf themselves to experience things more but they would problibly use their great amount of skill and power to avoid any possibly sever or fatal damage that makes certain situations more interesting.
@@2lazyt378 every PC of mine that's "died" shortly after the party is no longer around gets back up/drops the illusion or my personal favorite after a TPK the goliath barbarian gets back up, shakes himself like a dog reverting back to his Leshay form and winkes at one very frightened hag as he teleports away.
@@dmstantastic3653 ok that's a neat and funny. I could imagine some poor normle adventurer gets caught up in this leshay part, gets close with one of them to soon see they mutilated, and himself traumatized with the death of his best friend, only for his "dead" friend to get up, turn back into a leshay and say "ok I'm out". And the guy still standing there traumatized and confused.
I'm planning something similar,the leshay recruits the party to go on a mission through space,time and on several "side quests" that lead to the leshay being rebourn and going back in time to start of the story in the first place
I've waited months for this vid, ty
Yeah my players found one of these fishing. They thought he was a crazy hermit and subsequently pissed him off. He scorched them a bit and told them to 'bugger off'
They are basically Tolkiens elves
The leshay sound very Sidhe... I would argue the "apple" has only been painted a new colour rather than have fallen from the tree
😭😭😭😭😭 I'm just so happy you did such a good job!!!!! Now what am I going to ask for haha.
This is... interesting. I may actually need to have a chat with my DM.
My current character is a Half-Elf Hexblade named Alsen Dunstrove. He was adopted into the Dunstrove family by its last remaining member in order to carry on their ancestral pact, the long and short of which is that the patron grants power in exchange for efforts made against various malevolent outsiders. This can include anything from conducting research to prepare future generations, erecting or reinforcing planar barriers, or even personally crusading across the lower planes.
Alsen, though still fairly young, isn't thrilled at the thought of eventually giving up the position. As blasé as he acts, he is very, very aware of the responsibility and danger attached to his role, and isn't keen to hand it off.
He's considered pursuing immortality through various means, but all came up short. Divinity? Too restrictive. Lichdom? Rots your soul. Vampirism? Dangerous and impractical. Stasis? Too passive. Clone? Concerning side-effects and risk. The list goes on.
If he learned about the Leshay however... Well, first he'd be livid. Power to him is a vital tool- something with responsibility attached. Knowing that a race powerful enough to rival Gods, Archdukes, and Demon Princes not only existed, but dawdled their days away with landscape painting would not sit well with him. After he cooled off however, his first and only question would be "how do I get there?"
That would be it. He'd have one clear, indivertable goal: Become a Leshay. Nothing short would do.
Obviously that would be a very high-level character retirement, but if you've reached that point, you're pretty well finished anyhow.
And then he shows up as an antagonist when I get back around to DMing again.
And so the great wheel turns ever onward.
I'm not sure that a lot of Gods would be happy having something like a LeShay as a paladin if they knew it was just going through a phase though.
This really seems like a race some douchebag would ask if they can play.
Hey, I want to be a completely aloof character, who has all kinds of excess innate abilities, and can change sex at will!! I want to be artistic, but also good at combat.....
This is a race a person who has no creativity, personality, or accountability would want to be.
@@lemankurtz8950 Yeah, I would agree. The problem as I see it lies in the gap between Tolkien elves and D&D elves. D&D elves are watered down, not actually immortal ect ect because to play Tolkine elves as they actually are in the series which spawned most of modern fiction, it would be insanely imbalanced.
But that leaves the desire to represent something like the Tolkien elves, so we get things like the Leshay and and Eladrin.
In the hands of a good writer, such beings can be very interesting, but in the hands of most players they would be painfully bad 90% of the time.
Well, that depends I would say. How pragmatic is that God?
You are offered a paladin that can solo an ancient dragon or a demon lord. Yes, the LeShay is essentially LARPing but they are almost the NPC equivalent of player Characters in terms of effects they could have. If they choose to. They might also just want to save a few local villages.
They might chose to become your enemy ten thousand years down the line, they might also not care for your cause anymore in twenty years.
But right now they want to "Deus Vult" a little.
So you really got to ask yourself: Do I want to have them LARP on my team or do I want to send them off and risk scorning them and have them casually wipe out some of my future champions or entire temples of mine because they perceived me as rude?
Like, you LITERALLY need to send a Solar or full divine Avatar to take one out and then you realize those fuckers can TELEPORT AT WILL.
If you, hypothetical God in question, are a lesser deity, you likely don´t even HAVE an angel that can take one of these guys, so you probably have to intervene personally if that LeShay thinks that it would be funny to hunt down your chosen champions for the next few centuries. And if it´s a particularly poweful one then they might evade or even outright defeat you.
It sounds more like Gods seem like phases to LeShay, though.
Fëanor of the Noldor was never meant to ever need to roll dice.
Geez they are op no wonder reality tried to nerf em out of existence.
Be interesting to see a LeShay and a Reigar meet.
I keep thinking this. These are the guys that would have a Demi god a empyrean and a spellweaver in a party with the leShay and Reigar and course all sorts of troubles and just leave mortals open jawed
They survived the Snarl.
Im getting some serious Elric Vibes!
Definitely inspired by.Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone.
My thoughts too.
Great video AJ
It almost doesn’t make much sense for a society of people with the average citizen a fair match for an ancient dragon, to exist just in a city somewhere on the material plane. Not isolationist, and not a large part of the world either
They probably just sit around making art all day though.
If they have this huge sense of displacement, then maybe they don't care to engage in this world that they don't really feel like they belong to. If the world comes to them, they will respond, but they aren't going to try to fix or run things.
So basically Leshay are LOTR elves
I wonder how you would make a balanced half-leshay… Maybe something along the lines of a normal half elf but with the added immortal longevity, and the ability to conjure weapons…
@@JonKlement hell if I know. Then again I’m fairly certain weirder shit has probably happened in D&D before. In any case it was an intriguing concept that just popped in my head randomly. I imagine probably the normal way things come into the world, hell maybe even “thousands of years ago.” Maybe one of them was a bard. But jokes aside, I don’t think it’s too far-fetched. Then again, what do I know.
@@JonKlement Possibly experimentation. They've seen everything, entirely possible one of the few left would do something weird just to see it happen.
@@JonKlement same reason dragons or gods do? Wow zero imagination...
@@JonKlement "a being thousands upon thousands of years old" here's your reason, when you're basically immortal you have the time to try every little things, boredom is one hell of a drug.
What led you to the 28d10+100 HD, the epic level handbook states 50d6+650+3. I've been looking for good conversions to 5e for the LeShay with little luck. Your stats are the best reference I've found, are they from some reference material you found or did you do the conversion based on your own judgment? Sorry if this had been ask before.
No problem, I am here to answer questions just like that one. The Epic Level Handbook is WAY overpowered for 5th edition play, so yes, I reduced the hit points a lot, even so, the 28d10+100 is an enormous amount of HP for a humanoid in 5E D&D, so, still pretty formidable.
@@AJPickett Thank you for your ongoing support for the community, and taking so much of your time producing these great references. Your efforts are very much appreciated even if unspoken.
I think there is a update for Leshay in the Epic level handbook update ... they lose I think a couple feats for the base level monster and 2 hp, but mathematically if you look at the way they tell you to build a monster in 3.5e and then look at any monster that is 3.5 and the hp (average is done wrong) I guess from a DM perspective it comes down to are LeShay at their base level like a super elf from something like the Tolkien universe where elves can see miles etc. etc. or do you want LeShay to be so other worldly that even a very old elf wizard would be in awe ... I also personally run my LeShay as basically super bored ... they have seen everything at least twice , so they care little for century to century events.
Leshay vs Arch-Fey, would be very interesting, they seem to be very similar entities.
So basically the LeShay get really into their DnD Characters? I can also imagine them as kind of treating the lesser races sort of like Video Game NPCs. Perhaps there are two LeShay who have decided to play Age of Empires or Civilization and have taken control of a Country or two just so they can see who is the best RTS player among them, throwing away the lives of thousands in a sick game. Because who really cares about the lesser races after all? I mean they are basically Ants anyway right?
In my current campaign I'm running my big bad is Malconthet and I'm thinking of turning her into a severely corrupted Leshay. One of the last 3 in existence. Any thoughts or tips, hell I'll take dirty jokes if you got um.
Plot twist in Sigil: lady of pain at some point has been supplanted by a LeShay unbeknownst to all but a few anonymous rumors that few dare think on let alone speak them aloud
Or the lady here selfish was a very powerful and old leshay long before the current multiverse was born, so like an oberith but grandmother to the people who created the feywild
"herself"
Another theory of mine is that the Leshay are the reason why cursed races of Fey exist like Fomorians and maybe Hags. Mess with the Fey wild or piss them off as a race and you can count on being humbled.
The LeShay were absolutely involved with the magic that cursed the Fomorians.
Every move the Leshay make becomes a shooting stars meme.
Would you consider doing something on the Shadow Fey?
Yeah, the Unseelie court seems under-represented...
Yes.
Small Correction: I don't think the original statblock had legendary resistances, as it was 3e and legendary resistances are a 5e thing. However, it would have them if it was in 5e.
LeShay sound like Isekai protagonists, just all of them
I have a theory. The LeShay have pale, translucent skin, white hair, and are androgynous with the potential ability to change sexes. Their origin may be unknown, but I think all of this might point to them being something like an evolved form of Changelings.
Or the changeling are a diluted, weaker form of them
@@robertcorley5225 That could be, but Changelings are typically thought to be the descendants of Doppelgangers. Maybe Changelings are a mix of LeShay and Doppleganger. That would explain the appearance of Changelings in their default form as well as why their shapeshifting ability is less than that of a Doppleganger and more than that of a LeShay.
@Darian Darkkchild I'm not familiar with Fey Eladrin, so you could be right. I was mostly going by the way LeShay look and their malleable view of identity.
@Darian Darkkchild Not necessarily. By the lore they are as different from elves as elves are from humans. Eladrin might fall in that same category though.
So picture this.... it’s DR 1400 in the Moonshae. There is a Leshay necromancer or sorcerer going through an “emo” phase. His is taking on the guise of a vampire lord. He already looks dead and pale like a vampire and with his arcane power would be able to mimic all the powers of a vampire.
... and the emo phase was the result of a failed relationship with the Raven Queen. The Raven King?
Or he was writing an edgy novel and got writer's block.
Yeeeeee new vid
I'm really curious about the mystery of their old world. Their actions, their disposition, what are they hiding?
They’ve got me thinking of the Eternals from the Marvel Universe
Could a "Half-Leshay" exist? Say a Leshay was curious to know what life in a mortal family was like and held a mortal partner for some time. Is this possible? What would be the qualities of a Half-Leshay?
Well they are on the same power level of dragons. They are older than dirt ,smart and geeks.
So the chance of a half breed . Now zero but long ago their may of have been some . heck some of the creator races may of been the half breed . The Spell Weavers might be the half breed .
I think a half-Leshey would be on par with a half dragon, so a player class would have to be more diluted than that. I would play an Aasimar and flavor it that they are descended from an ancient Leshey bloodline.
Or Eladrin with shorter ears. Maybe replace their “Season” trait with a different aesthetic trait but leave the stats alone.
@@echoesofadistanttime7244 Who was Omanond?
@@echoesofadistanttime7244 Looks like I need to do some reading!
Can u make an more in depth video of the lashay
I think this is about it, I do believe this is most that exists about them as a race. There are some stories that involve individuals though.
I'm surprised he managed to make a video this long about them, there is very little info about them
You did a awesome job on the Leshay and I hope that Chris or Jeremy will expand on them 👍🏼👍🏼💯
I really want to know more about the true history of them, that sucks. Great video though
I would just be making stuff up, as there is no lore on it.
So, really, you have a blank slate to come up with your own ideas.
@@AJPickett oh? Very interesting. I still have never played d&d, I'm just learning more about it and the world it takes place in.
@@AJPickett But the "blank slate" allows SOOO many sub-plots, even disconnected "heresy", to be new plots and stories. They are the ultimate "oh... this is interesting" barely interested aliens.
What about goldl dragon warlocwk with patron as a lashay, considering it's a gold they're probably a monk to
Wow. This was a very interesting type of being. Almost lovecraftian, in a way.