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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Brennen" data-source="post: 4007303" data-attributes="member: 553">Oooo... Renaming Aasimar to Nephilim seems like a great idea to me. They inherit their ancestors grace and charisma, which I think would make them excellent replacements for the half-elf "role". And if, as it's been indicated, all deities in 4E have angels, then this race is unrestricted in alignment, even if they're traditionally pictured  as more virtuous.The question would be, what gave rise to such a race (if they're now true breeding race, like the tieflings)? Do we have a knock-off of the tieflings, with yet another ancient empire, this one maybe involved in angel worship? Or do we stick closer to the mythological origins of the Nephilim, where, at the dawn of time, angels bred freely with the mortal races, until the gods put the kebosh on that? Perhaps there was a time when the World and the planes of the gods where much closer in the Astral Sea, allowing this sort of contact, but as they drifted apart, and the separation became physical, metaphysical and spiritual,  such pairings became impossible. Another interesting story could be told of how the first generations of Nephilim found each other, forming their first kingdom.The MtG reference is much less well known, and don't really think there's going to be much of a confusion issue there. The OP should just have his group read that Wikipedia link <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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