Appearance

Pick Elf, Human, or Goliath for your family. You do not gain the abilities, traits, and/or feats of that race but do gain their appearance, specifically the mother. Until adolescence, an astari will be indistinguishable from their peers, at which point three abnormal changes take place.

1. Their hair turns an unnatural color as though it were dyed.
2. Their physical appearance becomes exaggerated and stylized, becoming more cartoon-like. (ie. Slightly bigger eyes, slight V or Hourglass figure, natural makeup, ect.)
3. Their eye color shifts to gold(solar), silver(lunar), or violet(nebula) in correspondence with their sub-race.

Astari are born to families of elves, humans, or goliaths, seemingly out of nowhere. In truth, this only happens whenever the gods are trying to fix something, which is all the time. To this end, the gods decided that they needed people with a natural predisposition for questing and adventure. To save the day and become heroes, without the tragedy usually needed to get mortals off their butt. Unfortunately, this has led to Astari being relatively rare, do to them dying on one of their numerous quests. However, should they survive and settle down, any children they have are guaranteed to be another Astari of the same sub-race.   A very important distinction is that Astari are NOT demigods, the gods just messed with them a bit before they were born. This does not make them any better at being a cleric, paladin, or priest than any other race; not that any of them realize that.   A few gods known to make astari: