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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9344914" data-attributes="member: 58172">The Aasimar − here Awsimar − are a species of life in the 2024 Players Handbook. They are something like playable angels.The angels are kinda like sky elves, and viceversa. Luminosity is useful visual cue for Awsimar, glowing like the daylight of the sky, literally able to glow in the dark. Hence an aura of light around the body. Possibly the CG Awsimar actually are Elves, the Eladrin of Arborea.I am unsure how to make the Awsimar story "cool".I would probably respell the name as Awsimar, to prevent "assy mar" giggles.In my eyes, the following are less cool.The "conservative" religious version of some angels tends to be unappealing − either too sexist, homophobic, dictatorship supporting, etcetera.The Lawful Stupid Paladin ethics are unappealing.The elevator-music goody-two-shoes is boring.The fallen angel, including the angel becoming flesh, is a tired trope. A flavor that rejects what Aasimar culture is, offers less information about what that culture actually is. Also, the angels as flesh, sex with angels, and misguided attempts to return to the Garden of Eden come with objections from various reallife religions.So, I know what I dont. I am less sure what I do want.Awsimar are a "kind" of angel − an Astral Construct made out of thought is cool. They are actually information structures.Their mind maintains a personal connection with the Astral Plane and the Positive Energy that the multiverse is made out of.Perhaps their "bodies" in the Material Plane are made out of a Force, similar to a temporary summoning spell. Actually, they lack flesh.Each Awsimar comes into existence to fulfill a certain mission. The player can decide what this mission is for ones own character.The player can choose almost any kind of personal appearance for ones own character. Some will want the "pretty" character (traditional angelic iconography), some want Eladrin Elves, some will want the "furry" character with animal head or features (from the GCG plane Beastland). All are ok personal preferences, and doable as individual characters. Whatever their appearance, their luminosity signals the identity of their species.</blockquote>

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