Aasimar

Aasimar are human-based planetouched that have in their blood some good, otherworldly characteristics. They are often, but not always, descended from angels and other creatures of pure good alignment, but while predisposed to good alignments, aasimar are by no means always good.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Aasimar bear the mark of their celestial touch through many different physical features that often vary from individual to individual. Most commonly, aasimar are very similar to humans, like Tieflings and other planetouched. Nearly all aasimar are uncommonly beautiful and still, and they are often significantly taller than humans as well.
While several aasimar were immediately identifiable as such, others were even less distinguishable than tieflings from their human ancestors, commonly standing out with only one unusual feature. Most aasimar had pupil-less pale white, gray, or golden eyes and silver hair. Many aasimar also have a light covering of feathers on their shoulders, where an angel's wings might sprout. As in tieflings, aasimar bloodlines can sometimes run dormant for generations, reemerging after being hidden for some time.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Most aasimar grow up cautious around others and, like tieflings, are sometimes misunderstood, though never to the hateful extent many of the fiendish bloodlines are. Even those raised by understanding parents cannot escape their strangeness, or the curiosity (or even fear) that their unique nature sometimes provokes. Many aasimar even suffer prejudice, something that deeply hurts the soul of the aasimar in question since most have an inherent bend towards empathy for others.
Though many aasimar are good in nature, thanks in a large part to their celestial ancestors, not all are, just as not all tieflings are evil. Some aasimar fall into the trap of evil, corrupted perhaps by experience or the counsel and aid of an evil god. Cyric in particular takes pleasure in corrupting aasimar and turning them from the ways of their celestial forebears, nursing grudges fueled by the prejudice of others. Most aasimar avoid this path, however, and a few even receive direct counsel from their celestial ancestor or a creature in its service. These individuals are the aasimar most likely to manifest the stereotypical virtues of a celestial.
Aasimar are exceptionally rare throughout Winval and, as such, have no true cities or societies of their own, much like other planetouched. Aasimar can live for the whole of their life without ever meeting another of their kind and, as such, are resigned to living amongst other races. Very few aasimar have siblings who are also aasimar, in large part due to the rarity of a celestial or god mating with a human but also due to the fact that aasimar who spring from ancient bloodlines long left dormant are even rarer. As a result, not many aasimar meet others of their kind. On the rare occasions where two aasimar do meet, they often feel a kind of kinship and unspoken understanding with one another. Most aasimar are likely to take the side of another instinctively, regardless of personal feeling and there is a strong bond between aasimar of all stripes.

Lifespan

160 years

Average Height

5' - 6'6"

Average Weight

124‒280 lbs