Homebrew Godkin Species Details

Born of a tiefling-aasimar parentage, godkin have both fiendish and celestial blood coursing through their veins. This dichotomy in nature can lead to a questioning of their motives, what it means to be good and evil, and other such musings of inner turmoil. Though not all godkin share this angst, and are content with living their lives purposefully avoiding said question, or just not caring whatsoever. However they choose to take on their contradictory blood, their appearance is sure to raise the suspicion of those who are less welcoming to those that are "different" or "strange," such as that one uncle who always talks about the dangers of the halfling agenda at harvest festival dinner. For godkin, they have to live knowing that they are forever caught not just between the two worlds of their heritage, but the third world of indifference and hate.

The Godkin of Valanthë

On the world of Valanthë, godkin live in the city-state of Ishto, along with tieflings and aasimar, who are not just descended from fiends and celestials, but also the evil and good gods respectively. Tieflings and aasimar have been living together for so long on Valanthë that they have developed one unified culture that the godkin share, which has a very live-and-let-live attitude, with plenty of festivals and gatherings to go around. Ishto is a bastion of tolerance and respect of those deemed too alien by the other races, so godkin face little to no discrimination or hate within the city-state, which often saves them from their own inner turmoil and confusion. Many godkin grow up to live happy and healthy lives with the confidence to face those outside of the city-state, no matter how suspicious or cruel they might be. A little acceptance, it seems, goes a long way.

Godkin Names

Some godkin might have names derived from infernal or celestial, which would mirror names often given to tieflings and aasimar respectively. Others have names derived from Godspeak, a language that started as a pidgin of Infernal and Celestial that now serves as the official language of Ishto. Those who have parents raised in another races society might take a name of that race. In Ishto, surnames are generally in Godspeak, and are passed down from parent to child (parents choose which last name their children take). Some example names in Godspeak include:

Male Godspeak Names: Ishkos, Julianos, Kistiel, Malaki, Urlamosh

Female Godspeak Names: Avakis, Ëissa, Kuydëa, Phai, Zahra

Gender Neutral Godspeak Names: Beluuz, Elsik, Pherin, Phorae, Vaiël

Godspeak Surnames: Avidan, Denatus, Khalbeter, Kuelisik, Naukalin

Godkin Traits

Your godkin character has the following racial traits.

Ability Score Increase

Your Wisdom, Intelligence, and Charisma scores all increase by 1.

Age

Godkin live about as long as humans, and many have comfortably lived to 100 years.

Alignment

Alignment is stupid. Pick one you think is cool.

Size

Godkin are often well-proportioned like aasimar, but with a slimmer build like a tiefling. Your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 ft.

Darkvision

Thanks to your infernal-celestial heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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 can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Dichotomous Resistence

You have resistance to fire and necrotic damage.

Dual Legacy

You choose to know either the light or thaumaturgy cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you choose to know either the lesser restoration spell or the hellish rebuke spell.  You can cast the chosen spell once with this trait as a 2nd-level spell, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Once you reach 5th level, you choose to know either the daylight  spell or the darkness  spell. You can cast the chosen spell once with this trait as a 3rd-level spell, and you regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Godspeak (DM's discretion if Godspeak exists in their world), Infernal, and Celestial.

*note: Godspeak (as far as I can tell) must be added manually.