Homebrew fallen Aasimar Species Details

H’Kathchar was once the scourge of the realm, pleasuring in the destruction of all life at the hands of his sentient sword, Xaraxis. After thousands of years of battle against the Demon armies, a Deva Knight, Kasthyr, battled him to a stalemate, disarming him and taking the sword, Xaraxis, prisoner. An unlikely bond developed between Kasthyr and Xaraxis, with Kasthyr convincing Xaraxis of the value of life and the pleasure that comes from the experience of free existence. Xaraxis vowed to join Kasthyr in vanquishing threats from the Demon armies to protect and experience the world. During their many adventures together, Xaraxis developed a taste for new and varied adventures, craving new experiences and knowledge of the world. They fought against H’Kathchar's destruction, saving many from his nefarious plans.

After years together, Kasthyr and Xaraxis learned of H’Kathchar's plan to destroy a remote village in the foothills made of humans, elven, and other refugees that had been saved from previously-destroyed settlements. During the ensuing battle, realizing they could not defeat H’Kathchar outright, Kasthyr and Xaraxis summoned a celestial cage, fortified by the combination of radiant and necrotic energies, to trap H’Kathchar forever. The plan worked, but at a great cost. Kasthyr and Xaraxis were trapped in the cage alongside H’Kathchar, sacrificing themselves to maintain the cage and prevent H’Kathchar from escaping and again wreaking havoc on the world. In addition, the cage constantly produces radiant and necrotic energy, imbuing local veins of iron and silver with strange properties which could eventually erupt and destroy the cage and everything within miles.

Xaraxis desperately misses experiencing the world, and Kasthyr feared that the sword would not adapt well to an eternity of solitude. To keep Xaraxis satisfied, and to siphon off the radiant and necrotic energy to maintain the cage, Kasthyr imbued the denizens of the village with Celestial and Infernal energies, tasking them, for generations, with the task of channeling the energy into new sentient weapons, offspring of Xaraxis, which experience the world in his stead. These sentient weapons, gifted with the all of the knowledge and experience of Xaraxis, bond with the souls of their wielders - champions selected by the Village Elders once per generation - joining them on adventurers and aiding them in their mandate to protect freedom and conquer evil. At the end of the lives of their champions, the swords return to the mouth of the mines from which they are forged, re-joining their progenitor and sharing their experiences with it (if found by someone outside of the Kerym Gisir, the swords compel them to return it to the mines).

You are a member of this Aasimar race, the Kerym Gisir (Sword Guardians), perhaps even a generational champion or one of the initiates who competed for, but was not selected for the honor and burden of wielding a sentient Xaraxis-spawned weapon. Your blended lineage of Human, Elf, and other races, combined with the Celestial and Infernal energies imbued by Kasthyr grant you various unique abilities.

fallen Aasimar Traits

you are a fallen Celestials offspring cursed with necrotic powers that corrupt your soul

Creature Type

 

You are a Humanoid.

size

You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.

Speed

Your walking speed is 30 feet.

corrupted form

You have resistance to necrotic damage .

flight speed

gain ability to fly from necrotic shroud 

Darkvision

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colours in that darkness only as shades of gray.