Physical Description: This race of tall and bulky bug-like humanoids have metallic skin, often consisting of bright golds and silvers, or coppers and bronze. Their skin color is not passed down from their parents, leading to the possibility of two gold-skinned parents producing a silver child. Their eye colors range from different variations of violet, blue, and red. Tekrae do not have hair on their body.

Society: Tekrae live in treetops, making their homes in tree houses or in caves by forests. These societies consist of scholars and warriors, though sometimes tekrae take both paths, improving their battle skills and intellectual skills.

Relations: Tekrae get along well with elves and gnomes race-wise, and druids of any race, seeing them as allies of nature and appreciating their work. Not too fond of any humanoids who don’t appreciate nature, the tekrae often drive out societies seeking to ruin their forests.

Alignment and Religion: Tekrae favor neutrality, seeking inner harmony within the confines of being unbiased to other ways of thinking that do not harm oneself, or other societies. A tekrae that is any extreme alignment other than true neutral is rare.

Adventurers: Tekrae make great barbarians, fighters, wizards, and other paths that require their extraordinary toughness, or vast intellect. They do not favor becoming paladins, antipaladins, or any class with an extreme alignment other than neutrality.

Standard Racial Traits

• Ability Score Racial Traits: Tekrae have strong builds and are vastly intelligent. They gain +2 Constitution, +2 Intelligence.
  
• Size: Tekrae are Medium creatures and thus receive no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Type: Tekrae are aberrations with the tekrae subtype.
• Base Speed: Tekrae have a base speed of 30 feet.
• Languages: Tekrae begin play speaking Common and Tekrae. Tekrae with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Infernal, Gnome, Abyssal, Celestial, Auran, and Undercommon. See the Linguistics skill page for more information about these languages.

Defense Racial Traits

• Moon-Touched: Tekrae gain DR 5/silver

Magical Racial Traits

• Enclave Protector: Tekrae add +1 to the caster level of any abjuration spells they cast. Members of this race also gain the following spell-like abilities (the caster level is equal to the user's character level):
  
  Constant—nondetection; 1/day—faerie fire, obscure object, sanctuary

Movement Racial Traits

• Forest Stride: Tekrae do not count as being in difficult terrain when inside of forests or spells such as entangle.

Offense Racial Traits

• Tekrae Battle Strategy: Tekrae are used to living and fighting communally with other tekrae. Up to two tekrae can share the same square at the same time. If two tekrae that are occupying the same square attack the same foe, they are considered to be flanking that foe as if they were in two opposite squares.