Cambions Species in The Brass Realms | World Anvil
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Cambions

Rarity: Rare (1 per 300)

Cambions are the unfortunate souls born into the world with demonic heritage. How that heritage came into the family's bloodline is often unclear. Possible sources for this affliction could be a curse, a vile pact made with a dark entity, or stemming from an unholy union between ancestor and fiend. Cambions who have strikingly inhuman features are often abandoned at birth by their horrified parents or others and so grow up as orphans, not knowing their origins.
Tieflings are humans that are touched by evil, an affliction that is incurable and which they must wrestle with their entire lives.

Inner Demons:
Cambions are touched by evil. This does not mean that they are inherently evil but they are often more easily influenced and tempted by dark power or have issues with self-control. A very common way this trait expresses itself is that cambions might be exceedingly vengeful to those that have wronged them. In rare cases cambions have to quite literally wrestle with their inner demons to merely stay sane.

Cambions are often met with open distrust, sometimes taken as criminals, murderer or cult members when they have done no such thing. They often find solace among others of their kind, banding together for safety and companionship.
They are shunned by society, taken as bringers of dark things and ill omens. Often this is a self-fulfilling prophecy, the shunned cambions rejecting society in its entirety, turning to dark acts to take their revenge on the world that spurned them so. Cambions may not be harassed or beaten in the streets, but they often find it hard to find employment or a place to live. They often don't receive much charity, even in rural areas where hospitality is far more common.

Forced into violence:
Cambions are born with innate infernal magic. This is highly valued by those who would use the cambions for their own ends, such as criminal organizations or the military. In tough times, Cambions know that so long as they are willing to hurt others, they will not have to go hungry.

Traits:

Cambions are humans in all the ways that matter.
However, cambions have inherent demonic magics that they may tap into, allowing them to conjure fire and are infused with hellish resistances.
They can also speak demonic inherently.

Appearance

Cambions are humans with one or multiple demonic traits. This might manifest in:
  1. horns
  2. unnatural skin colors including red, alabaster white or grey
  3. eyes ranging from iris- and pupil-less eyes of black, gold, red, to silver or white
  4. inhuman body parts such as goat legs, prehensile tails
  5. sharpened teeth or Fangs
  6. Scales all over their body, Spikes growing from their joints and/or spine,
Or other clearly inhuman features.

This Means a cambion's appearance ran range from a normal looking guy with an unnatural eye color all the way to a a barely human creature with red skin, horns, pointed ears, sharpened teeth, a tail and eyes of molten fire.

Cambions age the same as humans though they live slightly longer.

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