I'm working with my DM making a new character and we're taking some creative liberties.
He's a Fallen Aasimar Assassin an Acolyte of ”Good Church”
1.) My character's father was an Erinyes Duke in Hell and his mother was a ranking member of the church. She thought he was an angel. (I know devil + human = traditionally makes a tiefling)
2.) His father's power, position, and influence grants my character an ”angelic guide” to be an Erinyes. (Erinyes aren't angels)
3.) When he was born his mother died and the church raised him in secret and trained him to be an assassin that eliminates threats to the church.
We haven't ironed out all the backstory details yet. I'm just curious if anyone else would support the flavor of things.
From what I can tell, statistically nothing is changing, you are just re-flavoring the angelic/divine parts of the Aasimar to be demonic. All in all there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with some darker window-dressing, especially if it helps you enjoy your character more and you and your DM have some fun story ideas to go along with it.
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Thanks for the support. I know it's really nothing mechanically and It's all just reflavoring. I'm just hoping it's a flavor other people like and tell me it's ok.
It's actually not a creative stretch at all as fallen angels are routinely put in positions of power in the Nine Hells, with Asmodeus being the most well known in D&D. So your characters father could easily have been one of those fallen angels, plus Erinyes themselves are (or originate from) fallen angels. So your angelic guide being one would make perfect sense, as it's a role they would have formerly served prior to their fall.
Besides that, the only real issue I see is that your character is very mission-driven by being an assassin for the church. So you will want to figure out why they are with a group of adventurers, instead of on more clandestine operations for their church. For example, you could easily say that your character is posing as an adventurer to essentially hide in plain sight. Since peoples opinions of adventurers usually are anywhere from glory seeking treasure hunters to heroes of renown, making it easy for people to not think an assassin of the church is among them.
I proposed a similar idea over there once using a tiefling for the Ifrit wishcrafter sorcerer. I found a combination of racial variant rules to give a tiefling unlimited access to all 0 lvl spells and i found a breed of evil outsiders descended from geniekin to explain how a tiefling could be used for the Ifrit class variant. I thought It was a fun idea, but those guys told me it absolutely could not happen and I was ridiculous for even suggesting it.
I know that idea did stretch the mechanics a lot more than this one even thinks about touching them, but having access to seemingly any spell sounded like a fun trickster or evil character to play.
I'm working with my DM making a new character and we're taking some creative liberties.
He's a Fallen Aasimar Assassin an Acolyte of ”Good Church”
1.) My character's father was an Erinyes Duke in Hell and his mother was a ranking member of the church. She thought he was an angel. (I know devil + human = traditionally makes a tiefling)
2.) His father's power, position, and influence grants my character an ”angelic guide” to be an Erinyes. (Erinyes aren't angels)
3.) When he was born his mother died and the church raised him in secret and trained him to be an assassin that eliminates threats to the church.
We haven't ironed out all the backstory details yet. I'm just curious if anyone else would support the flavor of things.
From what I can tell, statistically nothing is changing, you are just re-flavoring the angelic/divine parts of the Aasimar to be demonic. All in all there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with some darker window-dressing, especially if it helps you enjoy your character more and you and your DM have some fun story ideas to go along with it.
Thanks for the support. I know it's really nothing mechanically and It's all just reflavoring. I'm just hoping it's a flavor other people like and tell me it's ok.
It's actually not a creative stretch at all as fallen angels are routinely put in positions of power in the Nine Hells, with Asmodeus being the most well known in D&D. So your characters father could easily have been one of those fallen angels, plus Erinyes themselves are (or originate from) fallen angels. So your angelic guide being one would make perfect sense, as it's a role they would have formerly served prior to their fall.
Besides that, the only real issue I see is that your character is very mission-driven by being an assassin for the church. So you will want to figure out why they are with a group of adventurers, instead of on more clandestine operations for their church. For example, you could easily say that your character is posing as an adventurer to essentially hide in plain sight. Since peoples opinions of adventurers usually are anywhere from glory seeking treasure hunters to heroes of renown, making it easy for people to not think an assassin of the church is among them.
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I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?
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I proposed a similar idea over there once using a tiefling for the Ifrit wishcrafter sorcerer. I found a combination of racial variant rules to give a tiefling unlimited access to all 0 lvl spells and i found a breed of evil outsiders descended from geniekin to explain how a tiefling could be used for the Ifrit class variant. I thought It was a fun idea, but those guys told me it absolutely could not happen and I was ridiculous for even suggesting it.
I know that idea did stretch the mechanics a lot more than this one even thinks about touching them, but having access to seemingly any spell sounded like a fun trickster or evil character to play.
I know what you're thinking: "In that flurry of blows, did he use all his ki points, or save one?" Well, are ya feeling lucky, punk?