Kalashtar, The Spirit Haunted, are humanoids with an unusual connection to The Ethereal Plane. They are a humanoid lineage which trace their roots to The Ethereal Plane. In this context, "lineage" means that an individual adopts the unique racial traits of their lineage, but maintains aspects of their other ancestry in appearance.

For whatever reason, Kalashtar are born with a spirit-kin, a ghostly soul which accompanies them through their lives. The Kalashtar can draw upon the psychic powers of this ghostly comrade, and at night they dream of the spirit's past. While these ghostly companions are often esoteric in nature, some believe that the ghosts latch on to Kalashtar in the hope of fulfilling whatever unmet need still ties them to their previous lives.

Relations of other Races
Some view Kalashtar as dangerous necromancers, holding deceased souls to the plane. Others view Kalashtar as individuals who help maintain the health of the life cycle. Either way, Kalashtar do tend to be adept at both necromancy and putting souls to rest.

Physical Appearance
Kalashtar appear similar to their parent race, though typically have some sort of ghostly marking.

Ability Score Increase
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. You can't raise any of your scores above 20.

Creature Type
You are a Humanoid (Kalashtar).

Age
Kalashtar develop physically at the same rate as their base race and have similar lifespans.

Size
Kalashtar are similar in build to their base race, though they are typically a few inches taller. Your size is Small or Medium.

Speed
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Dual Mind
You have advantage on all Wisdom saving throws.

Mental Discipline
You have resistance to psychic damage.

Mind Link
You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see, provided the creature is within a number of feet of you equal to 10 times your level. You don't need to share a language with the creature for it to understand your telepathic utterances, but the creature must be able to understand at least one language.

• When you're using this trait to speak telepathically to a creature, you can use your action to give that creature the ability to speak telepathically with you for 1 hour or until you end this effect as an action. To use this ability, the creature must be able to see you and must be within this trait's range. You can give this ability to only one creature at a time; giving it to a creature takes it away from another creature who has it.

Severed from Dreams
Kalashtar sleep, but they don’t connect to the plane of dreams as other creatures do. Instead, their minds draw from the memories of their otherworldly spirit while they sleep. As such, you are immune to magical spells and effects that require you to dream, like the Dream spell, but not to spells and effects that put you to sleep, like the Sleep spell.

Languages
You can read and write Common, Ether, and one other language of your choice.