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<blockquote data-quote="Corinnguard" data-source="post: 9026780" data-attributes="member: 7033886">I would prefer it if 1 D&amp;D kept the Aasimar and the Ardling as separate species. The Aasimar, the Tiefling and the Genasi are all planetouched species, beings who are the result of planar beings having one night stands with some lucky (or unlucky) mortal from the Material Plane. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Or in some cases, they are result of being exposed to planar energies while still in the womb. &quot;Mom and Dad had a little 'fun' while trekking across the hellish countryside of Avernus.&quot; <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😋" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60b.png" title="Face savoring food&nbsp; &nbsp; :yum:" data-shortname=":yum:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />As for the Ardling, I like the second idea that WoTC came up when the Celestial angle for this species failed to fly. They originated on the Beastlands, but migrated a long time ago to the Material Plane. And they stayed on the Material Plane long enough to see it as their home plane. All of the anthropomorphic animal species currently in 5e could be different kinds of Ardlings so as to avoid any confusion between, for example, a leopard Tabaxi and a leopard Ardling. But I can't see them being planetouched in quite the same way as the Aasimar, Tiefling and Genasi are. If the Ardling were planetouched, I would like it if they were like the Beastfallen from the Grimoire of Zero anime. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; They would be the result of a magic spell that imbued the ancestors of the Ardling with the energies of the Beastlands.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corinnguard, post: 9026780, member: 7033886"] I would prefer it if 1 D&D kept the Aasimar and the Ardling as separate species. The Aasimar, the Tiefling and the Genasi are all planetouched species, beings who are the result of planar beings having one night stands with some lucky (or unlucky) mortal from the Material Plane. ;) Or in some cases, they are result of being exposed to planar energies while still in the womb. "Mom and Dad had a little 'fun' while trekking across the hellish countryside of Avernus." 😋 As for the Ardling, I like the second idea that WoTC came up when the Celestial angle for this species failed to fly. They originated on the Beastlands, but migrated a long time ago to the Material Plane. And they stayed on the Material Plane long enough to see it as their home plane. All of the anthropomorphic animal species currently in 5e could be different kinds of Ardlings so as to avoid any confusion between, for example, a leopard Tabaxi and a leopard Ardling. But I can't see them being planetouched in quite the same way as the Aasimar, Tiefling and Genasi are. If the Ardling were planetouched, I would like it if they were like the Beastfallen from the [I]Grimoire of Zero[/I] anime. ;) They would be the result of a magic spell that imbued the ancestors of the Ardling with the energies of the Beastlands. [/QUOTE]

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