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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 7261523" data-attributes="member: 5100">Your question doesn't make any sense. Aasimars are the scions of celestials (angels), not gods. I suppose you could statistically represent Heracles' great-great-great-grandbaby as an aasimar, but it's not a core assumption of the race. As a GM, you could decide that's the case for you game, but then it's on you to fill in the blanks for other non-core questions.Even assuming a celestial as a parent, the aasimar race is more of a recessive gene that semi-randomly manifests -- kinda like my daughter having blue eyes, even though mine are brown. It can (and usually does) skip generations and can pop up where no one even has a clue when it entered the bloodline or from which branch of the family tree.That's actually how the sibling aasimar in my current game are being handled. It's a pseudo-Chinese setting where the various noble lines claim some sort of lineage with the Celestial Court. The PCs are heirs to a mercantile house that has ties, on both sides, to being younger children of this or that dynastic family. Apparently, someone was telling the truth, but no one knows who and it could have been 1,000 years since the last manifestation of the blood in this way (hard to tell what stories are true and what are self aggrandizement, at a certain point). To make things a bit more interesting, in my setting there aren't any real gods, in the D&D sense. There are just celestials of varying ranks and abilities; some of the highest, especially, are venerated in a semi-worshipful way, but they're mostly viewed as just the emperors of the Courts.Once upon a time, tieflings were to fiends as aasimar are to celestials. I still use them that way, and downplay the overtly fiendish traits.</blockquote>

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