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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Avenger" data-source="post: 8204716" data-attributes="member: 779"><p>So now we go into the other Planetouched, not going into certain specific racial varieties like Fey'ri and Tanaruk which I said I'd not cover, we have: Shyfts of the Ethereal Planes from 3e Fiend Folio, Shadowswyfts of the Shadow Plane from the 3e Planar Handbook, Gloamings of the Plane of Shadow from 3e Underdark, Glimmerfolk of the Plane of Radiance from Dragon #321. There's also the speculated Positar (Positive Energy) and Tenebrians (Shadow) from Dragon 297.</p><p></p><p>I sort of covered Glimmerfolk and the speculated Positar, when I did the Genasi with the Legacy of the Radiant Soul option. So that leaves Shyfts, Shadowswyfts, Gloamings and Tenebrians out of that bunch.</p><p></p><p>For the Plane of Shadow or Shadowfell there seems to be a bunch of conceptual room for a Shadowy Planetouched, though to me only the "Dark Faerie/Pixie" aesthetic of the Gloaming seems interesting to me. Nothing about the hyperactive Shadowswyft seems to suggest Shadows to me though.</p><p></p><p>While the Shyfts are described as being really unremarkable in appearance and good assassins, built around the powerful spell Ethereal Jaunt (they even lack PC info) and they don't seem to have much of a story or a "weirdness" to latch on to. It's as if they couldn't think of anything interesting with an Ethereal Planetouched. The Ethereal Plane often does get overlooked for having anything interesting, but it's a plane of potential sort of the outer edges of creation and used to be where all the Demiplanes connected to, it has Dreamscapes too, though going too much into Dreamscapes steps on the toes of the Kalashtar and Inspired.</p><p></p><p>Feywild is not covered by any past Planetouched Race, likely because The Plane of Faerie was only an optional plane back when they were concerned about Planetouched. But there is the Feytouched from the Fiend Folio, they would be the Planetouched of Feywild. Some of the description of the Feytouched almost mirrors my writeup about the Cansin.</p><p></p><p>And finally there's Astral Plane and Far Realm, no one has anything for the Astral Planetouched though what's written about the Shyfts could almost fit into an Astral Planetouched. And I've already suggested that Cansin could have Far Realm origins.</p><p></p><p>So any ideas on how to handle the remaining bunch? Like 3 distinct lineages? Or like one miscellaneous Planetouched lineage (what would they even be called) to cover the rest?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kobold Avenger, post: 8204716, member: 779"] So now we go into the other Planetouched, not going into certain specific racial varieties like Fey'ri and Tanaruk which I said I'd not cover, we have: Shyfts of the Ethereal Planes from 3e Fiend Folio, Shadowswyfts of the Shadow Plane from the 3e Planar Handbook, Gloamings of the Plane of Shadow from 3e Underdark, Glimmerfolk of the Plane of Radiance from Dragon #321. There's also the speculated Positar (Positive Energy) and Tenebrians (Shadow) from Dragon 297. I sort of covered Glimmerfolk and the speculated Positar, when I did the Genasi with the Legacy of the Radiant Soul option. So that leaves Shyfts, Shadowswyfts, Gloamings and Tenebrians out of that bunch. For the Plane of Shadow or Shadowfell there seems to be a bunch of conceptual room for a Shadowy Planetouched, though to me only the "Dark Faerie/Pixie" aesthetic of the Gloaming seems interesting to me. Nothing about the hyperactive Shadowswyft seems to suggest Shadows to me though. While the Shyfts are described as being really unremarkable in appearance and good assassins, built around the powerful spell Ethereal Jaunt (they even lack PC info) and they don't seem to have much of a story or a "weirdness" to latch on to. It's as if they couldn't think of anything interesting with an Ethereal Planetouched. The Ethereal Plane often does get overlooked for having anything interesting, but it's a plane of potential sort of the outer edges of creation and used to be where all the Demiplanes connected to, it has Dreamscapes too, though going too much into Dreamscapes steps on the toes of the Kalashtar and Inspired. Feywild is not covered by any past Planetouched Race, likely because The Plane of Faerie was only an optional plane back when they were concerned about Planetouched. But there is the Feytouched from the Fiend Folio, they would be the Planetouched of Feywild. Some of the description of the Feytouched almost mirrors my writeup about the Cansin. And finally there's Astral Plane and Far Realm, no one has anything for the Astral Planetouched though what's written about the Shyfts could almost fit into an Astral Planetouched. And I've already suggested that Cansin could have Far Realm origins. So any ideas on how to handle the remaining bunch? Like 3 distinct lineages? Or like one miscellaneous Planetouched lineage (what would they even be called) to cover the rest? [/QUOTE]
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