Fangor, the dust genasi's fascination with death can best be explained in the old adage, "Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust." Dust is what we are all created from, and dust is to what we will all return. Life and death can be almost the same thing to a dust genasi, and some consider life to be very cheap. They tend to wear black, or other kinds of funeral garb even when it would be inappropriate. They tend toward the gaunt, with hollow cheeks and dark circles under their eyes.
Their sarcasm seems most to stem from their contempt for others who hold such ridiculous high values of life.
The dust cloud they can create is as follows: Once per day a dust genasi can create a 20 ft. radius cloud of dust, centered on himself. This cloud grants one quarter concealment (10% miss chance) to any creature more than 5 ft. away from another within the cloud, and all creatures except the dust genasi must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 character level + Cha mod) or begin coughing uncontrollably. This coughing imposes a -2 penalty to attacks and skill checks, and it lasts until the victim leaves the cloud. The dust cloud lasts for 5 minutes.
You tend to find several dust genasi along the fringes of the Unwanted Desert, as well as in the cities, as their nimbleness make them fine rogues. Also you see several that take jobs that require swimming underwater to sabotage boats, or other types of things because they don't need to breathe. You see several in Gajin, one of the more corrupt port cities. (Ooze genasi, lizardfolk, salt genasi, water genasi are the other types of oddities that can be found there.)
Some of their more unusual traits can include perpetually dry skin (it never gets wet, water slides right off it), a cloud of dust that follows wherever they go, dusty skin that gets on everything, or having puffs of dust come from their mouth when they talk.
Their sarcasm seems most to stem from their contempt for others who hold such ridiculous high values of life.
The dust cloud they can create is as follows: Once per day a dust genasi can create a 20 ft. radius cloud of dust, centered on himself. This cloud grants one quarter concealment (10% miss chance) to any creature more than 5 ft. away from another within the cloud, and all creatures except the dust genasi must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 character level + Cha mod) or begin coughing uncontrollably. This coughing imposes a -2 penalty to attacks and skill checks, and it lasts until the victim leaves the cloud. The dust cloud lasts for 5 minutes.
You tend to find several dust genasi along the fringes of the Unwanted Desert, as well as in the cities, as their nimbleness make them fine rogues. Also you see several that take jobs that require swimming underwater to sabotage boats, or other types of things because they don't need to breathe. You see several in Gajin, one of the more corrupt port cities. (Ooze genasi, lizardfolk, salt genasi, water genasi are the other types of oddities that can be found there.)
Some of their more unusual traits can include perpetually dry skin (it never gets wet, water slides right off it), a cloud of dust that follows wherever they go, dusty skin that gets on everything, or having puffs of dust come from their mouth when they talk.
