Monster Ecology: Aasimar

[@eschaton]

I'm not a gamer of any kind but I'm a Lore nerd, so I've loved watching your monster ecology series. really great stuff!

[@AJPickett]

Excellent! Thanks Eschaton :)

[@mosshivenetwork117]

Yea I like listening to lore videos. Sometimes I'm a sucker for them. I don't play table top games but I do play DDO.

[@Mortablunt]

Careful, it's a slipper slope, I went from watching a bit of lore with AJ to now being a DM myself and working on a homebrew setting, complete with its own splatbooks and some basic constructed languages.

[@noagazen9089]

My general advice for those looking at Aasimars, and finding them visually bland or uninteresting, I suggest looking up the description of celestial creatures in different religions, cultures, and such, especially biblical, cause despite what common depictions would have you think, nothing angelic or celestial in the bible is described as looking human, in fact most of them are basically lovecraftian chimeras with how many bizarre features they have, like for example wings being covered in eyes... and on fire... or spheres of wheels also covered in eyes, or musical piping being a physical part of their body, or literal lightning for a face. Just some food for thought.

[@AJPickett]

And good brain food it is, tasty, tasty brain food, thank you Noa.

[@benb3316]

Well, Angels have to put on guises or people's eyes melt and heads go explodey. But they mated with humans in Antediluvian days and produced Giants, also gave humanity an evolutionary and technological boost - a legacy that continued even after the flood.

[@phoenixfritzinger9185]

Looking into stuff like Evangelion can also help

[@ColonizerChan]

He’s really famous, but saint Francis of Assisi. If you read through his stuff, he is one of the few saints to have met the Seraph. Seraphs are pretty rad. I wish they’d get more love in dnd

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Aasimar of Death and of the After-life. With skeletal wings, a dragon skull for a helmet/mask, and black clothing depicting the Grim Reaper. (Choose: Death Paladin, Death Cleric, Death Mage, or a Death Class Theme.)

[@prague5419]

"Grab a cup of coffee, we're going to get deeply nerdy now" -AJ Pickett

[@samaustin339]

We have a guy playing an Aasamar in our group who has planned to; Rule an army of gargoyles with an iron fist, assasinate a princess(to be fair it’s Moxinare from Tomb of Annihilation.), and start an illegal drug trafficking ring. The kicker, he’s *Chaotic Good*. And he’s not a fallen, I think the only reason he has not yet fallen is due to the fact that none of his plans came into fruition!

[@aaronhumphrey2009]

make him start making seemingly random will saves,as his " pangs of a tortured concience" gnaw at him (increasing difficulty by 2, starting at 8). If he suceedes three times in a row, his alignment will change to Nuetral Evil,and he can go about his Evil ways. But if he fails, he'll realize what a series of horrible mistakes he was about to make- and reverse all his wrongs immediately, freeing the slaves, etcetera.

[@christopherbravo1813]

@@aaronhumphrey2009 that does not sound fun at all.

[@ninsophy9798]

im planning on making a CN aasimar. I want to look into lore cuz I want to have her be sympathetic towards tieflings and other discriminated races. I want to have her be a runaway but exactly a Fallen. I want her to be equipped for survival and a skilled Crafter. But the idea of a fallen does not come to me so bad as she can just hate the idea of being a fallen but also hate the idea of discrimination as well. She's a monk. I imagine she ran away from the God and the church and found her own way amongst humans. i have no idea what her relationship with her Deva be. I need more lore

[@ninsophy9798]

not exactly a fallen*

[@toxicalyss]

​​@@christopherbravo1813I just hate it when players play a role for their stats and having 0 RP or understandjng of racial lore.

[@baronbeat2210]

A trope I love is for a half outsider to be born as a mortal but slowly becomes more and more like their outsider race. Maybe being weaker than average mortals but slowly becomes superhuman as they age.

[@StrainXv]

Fallen Aasimar aren't inherently evil.

[@crowblessed3403]

Met a fallen aashimar once on my campaign , they had wronged him ( he had to kill someone good who was under a charm and was ordered to Burn the orphanage he was when he was a kid ) some time travel bullshit

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Not all Aasimar have bird like wings. Some wings are of shadow, of souls, and of bone.

[@evandugas7888]

Hmm if the divine being in the Raven queen it would be a awesome origin for a Raven queen Paladin.

[@DatGitGhaz]

@@evandugas7888 I've played this character. Dude was a boisterous alcoholic with a burning hatred of all things undead.

[@jeremygriffin620]

Woot, love it! Had a gal recently join my game, and wanted to be an Aasimar cleric. Then she wanted Trickery Domain, then she said half-gnome, half angel. Boy that was a roller-coaster ride of character creation, but she's actually been a fantastic character. Thank you as always for your diligent research and work, this will certainly help me with being a better DM to her!

[@AJPickett]

Half Gnome? I recall in a recent campaign, a druid that channelled so much healing magic into a broken ale barrel, that it came to life, sprouting little vine legs and following them around, they called it Barry. Later, after soaking up a heap of fey magic in a special pool, it swelled and exploded in a shower of foam (also, during it's time, it could produce healing potions of magical mead) from out of the foam, there were six or seven more little barrels, each with different appearance and powers. I still have the miniature I made for Barry.

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

AJ Pickett nooooooo! Such a waste of a awesome barrel.

[@James-vt4fk]

Sounds like a hayoka to me LOL. Sounds like something I would try to do to. Hmmm... Hayoka race anyone?

[@Ed_man_talking9]

you know the stories of animals detecting evil spirits and being spooked by them despite us humans not knowing their presence until they flicker the lights or open a cabinet? would were creatures like the archer werebear pc i got brewing in my head be more subjectable to a fallen Aasimer's presence than a mere human? i like to think my character was a childhood friend with a Aasimer who now has fallen, and would like to experiment with with two former friends with the fallen having a love/hate relationship with him, and the bear who is conflicted between getting the fuck away from him/her or braving thrugh his instincts and rekindling his friendship.

[@MrPomwarlock]

As a note. The scourge deal radiant damage equal to half their level. Because it’s radiant damage the scourge has resistance to this damage. So your still dealing more damage to opponents than yourself :)

[@ZalrokChaos1]

Also all aasimar add Radiant damage equal to their level on all attacks. Spells and melee.

[@jikhari7103]

This is my absolute favorite race to role-play.

[@Three_Tiny_Robots]

I'm playing an Aasimar at the moment, partially inspired by David Tennant's incarnation of The Doctor. He reincarnates like a Diva, and has memory fragments of dozens (hundreds? Thousands?) of past lives. In this incarnation he's a vengeance paladin who will often try to convince his opponents to give up their plans for destruction or domination, but if they continue be becomes a weapon of divine retribution (when the dice are on my side, anyway 😅)!

[@Mortablunt]

Allonnssss-yyyyyyy!

[@dreadedpixel9022]

My Tiefling airlock ones got into a one on one right with a aasimar cleric, it went from a caster fight to a religious debate and ended in a peaceful agreement that celestials are rad and demons are assmongers

[@a15godzilla]

Glad my plans for a warlock hating malevolent spirits isn't too far fetched.

[@christopherbravo1813]

details, please?

[@goldenbrigain7031]

from what I've read, human exclusion isn't so simple that having unique features would immediately alienate you from your family or village. Real human psychology on more raw terms doesn't focus so much on what another person does or how that person looks, so much as whether or not that person contradicts already held beliefs. An Aasimar, if they really do have healing abilities from the get-go, in a human village would more realistically be seen as a bit odd looking but another part of life, like the trees, the wind, the hills, and your uncle Thomas. Their healing abilities would probably have them venerated; surprisingly, humans aren't normally bigoted idiots for no other reason than to force drama for a character's backstory. In farms and villages, things like healing and being nice are usually seen as-get this-nice things! I really don't like how in a lot of media these days you have tropes so ingrained in popular culture that an actual idea of how events would go are thrown out for the belief that life sucking is the same as realism. Instead of thinking, actually researching how humans behave and how ancient culture's operated and some still do, people think that for an adventure to exist you need to over focus on making everything and everyone suck. Making other people seem stupid to fit your worldview is propaganda, and like hell I'll stand by that.

[@a15godzilla]

I agree with that general sentiment. You can look at how people interact throughout time, usually the animosity is cultural or monetary.

[@goldenbrigain7031]

@@juhel5531 Exactly. Aasimar would be walking around like the cock of the walk.

[@DracoMaverick]

I'm making a Aasimar Paladin that's based on Sanguinius or the Blood Angels from Warhammer 40k

[@AJPickett]

Ooooooo yeah baby! That sounds fantastic :)

[@DracoMaverick]

But the problem is trying to figure out the build.

[@DracoMaverick]

Do I do Protector Devotion or Scourge Vengeance? Either way he's getting wings

[@beastwarsFTW]

Now I want to make a Tiefling based off Vulkan

[@DracoMaverick]

Warboss West or a Dragonborn

[@giffordscanlon6503]

I love love love the artwork you find!

[@An_Ian]

I want to play one with a life of Brian like backstory Being worshiped despite not wanting to be

[@ImLordDomo]

Again, I love listening to your lore and ecology videos, it's always a treat. I just thought I would bring up that in my homebrew world setting, I thought it would be amusing to flip the tables on aasimar and tieflings, at least in the empire the players are currently stationed in. Tieflings are generally viewed the same way genasi are, as an oddity to be sure, but more often than not they're viewed as the victims of a planar conjunction, or just happening to have been conceived in the wrong place or at the wrong time. Aasimar, however, are viewed as a menace, as the empire has had an issue in their history of fallen angels attempting to become godlings, and fallen cults pop up every few decades, usually centered around a fallen angel, their nephilim offspring (I like to use the cambion as a base and tweak things to seem more holy) and their aasimar grandchildren. One of my players is playing a fallen aasimar pirate and isn't sure if his character even has a soul, or is a soul that manifested a body. Fun stuff. I completely forgot about the devas, and I'll have to incorporate those in my home game eventually. Anyway, thanks again for another great video!

[@cuddles9952]

For my next character I'm thinking of a Protector Aasimar who is being guided by an angel or some form of celestial. However I'm also thinking of making him Matt Mercer's blood-hunter class, under the order of the profane soul. To explain his powers under this class, I was thinking that a fiend or demon or something would also be guiding him. I think it would be interesting to see him develop while being torn apart by these two very different beings I'm new to d&d, so I was hoping I could receive some thoughts, opinions, and suggestions for this character and how to role-play him

[@AJPickett]

Well I would say have a chat with the DM for sure, particularly if you are thinking of running a character with a planar conflict going on in their background. The DM might want to keep that stuff on the back burner and have player characters with ties to the material world instead.

[@acester8631]

what i have read, there is a distinction between plane touched (aasimar and tieflings) and 1/2 demon/celestial. this might only be in 3.0/3.5

[@felltactician]

So i play an Aasimar bloodhunter, and his whole story was he is a mix between holy and unholy blood, resulting in him being fallen no matter what because of his corrupted blood. He was born as a Bastard child of an Aasimar and a Teifling, with the Aasimar characteristics, the teifling blood just served to corrupt his holiness. Is this functional within the game, other players have agreed with me its fine but the dm despises the idea because "aasimar and tieflings dont trust eachother, why would they have a child"

[@TheAsyouwysh]

Like it's a bit special snowflake but I like the romeo and juliet thing you got going on

[@spenceralexander1768]

Cool story idea. As a DM I would let it go however it's my understanding that tiefling blood ALWAYS breeds true. So there are no half tieflings? In 5e aasimar are made and it's not exactly biological... I still like yours though. Epic redemption story.

[@felixrivera895]

Well. Tiefling always breed true, but being that fiendish blood curses would likely be the same strength as direct celestial blood. All being said, devils are fallen angels or souls given fallen divinity. A Fallen Aasimar might get drunk one night and decide that their rebellion might as well take them into bed with a very attractive tiefling. I see no reason why it would be so unvelievable for a Tiefling/Aasimar crossbreed to exist perminantly as a Fallen Assimar. They'd have a fully unique path to follow. All Aasimar, celestials, good gods, paladins, clerics, druids, and even good warlocks would see them as tainted beings. Fiendish entities would see then as either an interesting curiosity, or a painful reminder. Pity the creature perminantly living in the state of falling.

[@jaypeazy289]

I play an aasimar paladin and my wife plays a teifling fighter that were raised together by a knight after he found each of us orphaned. Working out pretty well; we are each other’s special person. That kind of thing I feel like is all about your history.

[@aaronhumphrey2009]

Like it. The inherent conflict of Good vs Evil. One set of house rules could be: your appearance can change as your alignment shifts, or even as moods change from kindly benevolence , to blood raging kill beast. The path of evil is smooth and easy to travel.....

[@ChasoGod]

They are not the offspring of celestial beings, they are the mortal descendants of celestial beings. Somewhere up their family tree a ancestor got knocked up by an Outsider, most likely an angel, and birthed a Half-Celestial. Then when that child started having children they were the first Aasimar of their family.

[@sea_triscuit7980]

You honestly have amazing content when it comes to monsters and races of the realms.

[@VerityAran]

I think I have watched this one a dozen or so times and the intro never gets old

[@DuskyPredator]

I have looked at the subraces and been interested in the idea of a fallen Aasimar who is actually good aligned. It was a character I have been working on in my head who as mentioned was touched by darkness as a child, their angel disappeared, and they became fallen but mostly good. Was thinking that maybe were made into a librarian to keep them out out of the way as an embarrassment, where they would find forbidden knowledge, make a pact with a Great Old One, and then head out to find out and remove what has made them fallen. Have moments insanity, and alignment shifts when activating power. What you said about Deva being turned into Rakshasa got me thinking what could have happened to the angel. How that could reflect on the Aasimar. One of the things I kept thinking though would be wearing a hood to hide the angelic heritage, and I was having a hard time thinking of what it could be that would be able to mostly hide, like part of or all of hair, or stripes of skin.

[@AJPickett]

I do like the idea of Celestial and Fiendish characters being a lot like Star Wars force adepts.. as they gain strength with the dark side, the physically manifest features to reflect the change. So, why not have a Tiefling devoted to law and goodness, start to manifest angelic features? If an Aasimar can fall, can a Tiefling not rise?

[@DuskyPredator]

One of my players has been playing a good aligned Tiefling paladin of Pelor, so you just gave me another thing to think about. I think that Unearthed Arcana put in a variance for classification that the Tiefling in the book was an infernal Tiefling, and offered up an Abyssal subrace. So there could be room there to have a risen Tiefling. Actually, this just touched on something I have really been thinking about. I want to have a run in at a temple for an evil campaign, or a battle with an overzealous Scourge Aasimar cleric, and balancing out the difficulty rating I want to include a celestial of some sort for a low levelled campaign. But all celestials are pretty high levelled. For the Aasimar I just thought I would just use the stats of an ogre, calling it a weapon from its guardian. But the temple the perfect equivalent would be a celestial version of a Quasit or an Imp, but there does not really seem to be much to really go off of. Right now I am looking at putting in seven Acolytes or only a single priest.

[@AJPickett]

Borrowing from another game system entirely, one of my favorite celestial creatures, kind of like an Imp, is called a Wingtip.. they appear as a ball of soft, fuzzy light, with pure white, dove like wings, they understand languages but don't speak, they fly with amazing skill, like Swallows, never landing, just flying constantly, silent apart from the sound of their wings. They can pass right through a mortal or celestial creature and provide healing of an appropriate level for the encounter, recharging the healing on a roll of 5 or 6 on 1d6, they have no offensive capability other than to pass very close to the eyes of a mortal creature, giving them disadvantage on their next action that requires sight, as the flash of light leaves a streak across their vision. Also, basically any animal has a celestial equivalent, many of which are a bit more intelligent, as they are immortal, astral realm creatures, more spirit and energy than flesh and blood.. they have the same stats as mortal animals, but resist damage from Radiant and Necrotic attacks, and many add Radiant damage to their normal attacks.

[@pandaking7919]

AJ Pickett interesting idea... I'd look into that with your DM/GM

[@pandaking7919]

DuskyPredator have the Scourge Aasimar be a Paladin. They work MUCH better as paladins

[@davidburnett5049]

In some lore I read for an older version of D&D it spoke about the origins of angels. When a soul of someone good, like a paladin, dies it goes up to the higher planes. It can do two things there, in time. It will become part of the plane and lose it's sense of self literally lost and joined with the fabric of the plane or it will become a being native to that plane. The noble paladin may become a powerful angel if will and sense of self press onward.

[@AJPickett]

Yeah, petitioner souls in Celestia are incarnated as Archons, and work their way up the pecking order, until they may choose to become one with the positive energy plane, or become Angels. It seems relatively few become Angels, as their is a Lawful hierarchy there and probably a lot of reasons I am simply too chaotic to make any sense of.

[@davidburnett5049]

About the numbers that become angels, I agree. Perhaps we can view it as another harmony between the mechanics of Hit Die and things like the strength of the result from Detect Good, and the fluff of 'Where do angels come from'. This is part of why people complaining about the alignment system and paladins is such a drag. They don't realize it's tied to the workings of the fluff and the mechanics for real reasons.

[@LemanRussVanquisher]

I'm currently playing a Protector Aasimar Oath of Devotion Paladin in a Ravenloft campaign. And let me tell you that particular character in that setting is role play gold.

[@ClarkyClark]

Will Mills dude! Yes! I'm protector aasimar, pact of the blade celestial warlock. My patron is my grandfather. You're right, aasimar have so much role playing potential.

[@JanusHoW]

I'm running a Protector Aasimar Divine Soul Sorcerer in a campaign I'm playing, whose father is supposed to be a solar. I know Scourge Aasimar are the ones descended from angels, but their level 3 ability is be pretty risky to use, since you have to hurt yourself and potentially your allies to get the extra radiant damage! Meanwhile, the Protector Aasimar gets the ability to FLY. AT 3RD LEVEL. Even if it's for just 1 minute before needing a long rest, flying at such a low level can break the game...and it still gets the bonus radiant damage! And if you're a Divine Soul sorcerer...that flying becomes permanent at 14th level, even if the damage boost doesn't. Also, I have a fun homebrew idea for the Aasimar/Divine Soul Sorcerer combination - a vampire who bites a non-fallen aasimar Divine Soul sorcerer not only fails to turn them into a vampire spawn or vampire, but immediately gets hit with all of its weaknesses at once - a being with that much divinity in them should basically have liquid sunlight for blood, which would be like super-corrosive acid for a vampire.

[@prkr07]

That vampire idea is so brilliant, I beg of you to use it! Also, the Protector fly speed is especially powerful because (if memory serves) you can do it in FULL PLATE.

[@benry007]

A scourge aasimar zealot Barbarian is on my list of characters I'd like to play. Seems to best way to double down on that divine fury.

[@tylercoon1791]

I went Scourge Sunsoul Monk, just to add in extra radiant damage

[@benry007]

@@tylercoon1791 that sounds pretty cool actually. Is it effective?

[@landscapesofink]

Wow another Kiwi! Such a great thing to hear when I'm not expecting it XD

[@alexwest2514]

Aw yis DND ASMR video

[@thurmanstevenson5692]

Ah devas are time lords

[@AJPickett]

Kinda, yeah.

[@dard1515]

With infinite lives though.

[@smilingbandit6900]

@@dard1515 but no police box^^

[@bigmonkey1254]

Honestly, I love how Volo's has a suggestion that their subrace can change for story reasons. Makes playing an aasimar paladin who goes to fallen oathbreaker and back again.

[@mentalrebllion1270]

Because of being able to come from the same lineages (humans) a friend and I decided to play a set of siblings who are an aasimar and tiefling pair. We completely decided to drop the whole instinctual dislike and decided these two siblings, while very much opposites in personality and disposition, not to mention skills and class, they are very close and protective of one another. They have their squabbles of course but that is under the usual level of sibling level of squabbles and never beyond that. They have a high amount of respect for one another too. Actually, one of the ways we made this work is that the tiefling and celestial origins come from the same source….namely, Zariel. Since this figure is both celestial and fiend at this point, this allows us to have the human family lineage have a chance of future generations acquiring these traits. That’s the way we decided to play out this sibling relationship at least and how it works in an atypical manner to what is usually expected by the wider society in the world. Our dm quite loves it. Still, much thanks for this lore video! It helps fill in some blanks and allowed me to expand and understand some nuances I can incorporate into my Aasimar noble bard (the brother is a tiefling mercenary barbarian). It really was very good for inspiration!

[@thurmanstevenson5692]

One day my scourge aasimar barbarian will burn all the bad guys he can find ;)

[@AJPickett]

*shakes bag of marshmallows*

[@krowodom5719]

Sorry for the necro-post, I found out the scourge aasimar cleric devine type is the same as war angels who can destroy entire world's (lore wise).

[@Jader7777]

Now that you've done Tieflings and The Nine Hells can you finish the Aasimar with... heaven? Utopia? Elysium? Valhalla? Whatever it is.

[@AJPickett]

But if I start doing videos on Elysium I may never stop doing videos on Elysium!

[@marsneedstowels]

Well, whatever you do, don't do a video on the Gray Waste.

[@NoNo-lt9bi]

@@marsneedstowels just because of this comment please do a video on the great wastes

[@metalskirmish]

The ASMR, calmest race in dnd

[@elegriffin]

Just started playing an aasimar in one of my games and I was about to do research on them. Thanks man

[@AJPickett]

Got you covered :)

[@karlandersson8652]

lol at the discrimination "woe is me, I'm just TOO beautiful and great and long lived and good"

[@hainleysimpson1507]

Must suck outliving the people you care about and notice how dark and fucked up the world is.

[@sorath1396]

For anyone wondering what the hell the name of the intro song is, it's Angels among Demons by Instrumental Core.

[@AJPickett]

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[@josephbenjamin6426]

Best rendition of Aasimar origins and culture...and Devas too!

[@AJPickett]

Thanks Joseph! :)

[@hawktondog]

my favorite playable race , thanks for the vid!

[@AJPickett]

Yeah, they are great!

[@sea_triscuit7980]

Made an aasimar that was the guardian of a small village. He and his brothers were to protect them from any threat but when it came down to it the village was raided by Gnolls and his brothers refused to help due to the fact that the villagers stopped giving tribute to them. My character stood true to his duty and stood alone against tthe horde but lost due to him fighting alone. His brothers saved him from death but exiled him for going against their orders ... He now wanders the lands stripped of his power to protect those in need and maybe one day lay his life down fora cause greater than his own life...

[@yaldabaoth2]

Grandmother, Grandmother, why do you have such big ears? My father was a hollyphant...

[@yodaxena1366]

One creature I'd love to see researched is the wolfwere. Plenty of people have covered lycanthropes, but none have covered this beastie. Thank you for your videos!

[@abdoul5176]

Aasimar? *More like elves with the brightness turned up*

[@venkelos9]

This was a lot of fun. As someone who really likes Forgotten Realms, specifically, within the greater web of D&D, hearing how the Aasimar came to be is neat. Personally, I avoid 4e stuff like the plague, but when it helps, it's good. I will say, though, this wasn't quite the video I was hoping for. No foul for you, it was good, and relevant to today D&D, but I guess I was hoping for more of their Planescape origins? A video about the Angels did a nice job of showing how little these celestial beings might interact with people, or breed, in this case, so without the context of Faerun, Imaskar, and the Mulan pantheons, I guess I hoped we'd also learn about their 2e origins. I thought it might be neat to build a kind, empathic Bard, but I wasn't sure how the celestial essence got there. I want her to descend from something very powerful, like a Solar, and examples like Zariel, and Malkizid show they can get caught up in stuff, but I wasn't sure how to write it in, here. Yada yada, a very nice video, and thanks for covering the Aasimar! In 5e, I get that Tieflings are more popular, because build-a-bear appearance options, devil but good, and angst if you want it, but that doesn't decrease my like for the angelic variant, even if some folks might wrongly assume they are less diverse, or interesting. I know better. 😊

[@dragonlord498]

now that I've finished going through all your videos (think i did at least) to see what you've covered somethings i would love to see you cover are. anything draconic haven't covered such as non primary dragons such as brown, purple etc from the chromatic and adamantine, iron etc from the metallics as well as planar and undead dragons plus dragon kin such as half dragons, dragon spawn and draconians and dragonborn.

[@AJPickett]

MMMm good idea, I should complete the series on all things dragon.. starting with Drakes.. I love using drakes.

[@dragonlord498]

of course forgot something also should do dinosaurs/RL prehistoric creatures as well dinosaurs (my like of dinos and dragons likely not a coincidence) mammoths etc

[@phoboskittym8500]

In 3.5, go Celestial bloodline, outsider wings and you got an angel...

[@FarmerDingus]

Oh nice, an ASMR video

[@jackeilhigh]

This was amazing

[@anathema1828]

Excellent content!

[@davidfletcher6703]

It would be pretty cool to have a player character who is an Aasimarbarian, that would be a formidable combatant

[@professorsponge1554]

I always liked Peri decended Assimar. Former fiend celestials who had a child with mortals.

[@samburchard9921]

The one thing that confuses me in D&D is the association of the angels and related beings with the gods and yet the gods are not all good. Many of them are evil. It seems to me that all of the gods should have access to celestial beings such as angels. So a 'fallen Aasimar' might not be truly fallen, he may just serve an evil god.

[@TheodoreMinick]

Serving an evil deity tends to result in evil actions, so... Besides, most evil gods are served by fiends, rather than celestials

[@christopherbravo1813]

my assumption was that by "gods", people generally mean the good gods and not whatever deities inhabit the lower planes.

[@antwan1357]

I have this online site that lets you create any kind of template and i love clerics and i really enjoy creating Aasimar clerics i know it is just the same spells verses natural spells but if you need to spam out good cleric spells they are so good to have.

[@elricengquist9989]

Even though they are not really a race really, it would be interesting to hear some of the info on the Ravenloft setting's dark lords. Also though the one setting I quite liked also was the Red steel steel setting too that had some quite interesting aspects to it. I role played as a strange version of a split personality Assimar paladin/dark paladin named Presmergra and Yober (yes like the two knights from Suikoden series.). In the story his mind was broken from ordeals he had gone thru in his past, and which also lead to him not realizing that either of these two personalities were being housed in the same body yet they were chasing each other. his body would actually shift to match the personality in control, since one side had chosen to fallow his celestial calling, but the other in a moment of weakness had forsaken it an condemn himself embracing the darkness that brewed in him from those events.

[@AJPickett]

Exploring Ravenloft, ok, I shall add that to the list.

[@sssargon8569]

0:17 this sounds familiar, can't place where i've heard it before.

[@digi5711]

i would like to know the source, sounds dope

[@dec2200mega]

i would like to know the source to

[@AJPickett]

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[@sssargon8569]

@@AJPickett Thank you sir

[@Oregonxsaint]

As a GM I introduced a character who's mother was an Aasimar and the father was a pirate who sexually assaulted his mother. From an early age, he had to take care of his mom due to a sickness that I introduced into the story called "the Blight". The illness took the character's mother when he was 20 years old, resulting in him vowing to kill his father... no matter what. His fall became more and more noticeable, both in terms of moral choice as well as physical appearance.

[@anthonyromasco3528]

Devas in 5th ed sound like Timelords with amnesia. Lol

[@crimsonslither7252]

"grab a cup of coffee, we gonna get deeply nerdy now". YAAS!! brews coffee*

[@mitchellcleveland6182]

I find it hard to believe that people in the dungeons and dragons world would persecute somebody who's half angel, it they were half demon then yeah I can see why, but half angel it just doesn't make sense.

[@davidfletcher6703]

Aasimar would probably make great Paladins

[@zacwhatevs2439]

I play a scourge aasimar. I played a Chaotic Good barbarian with the zealot path, and was actually my second character that campaign after my first died from rolling 1's. Our DM had a story end with a big zombie hoard, which she had written before my old character died. I get this shit eating grin on my face and she goes "aww shit" when it dawns on her what a scourge can do. I shouted "Jesus wants a hug!" and charged into the middle. It was first time I had the highest kill count. Good times.

[@christopherbravo1813]

epic

[@Azagrath-._.-Elder-._.-fallen.]

The intro: aight so I’m going tech priest in your @ss.

[@tehfuqizg0inon588]

Asmr deity giving everyone super tingles

[@joshkorte9020]

I have an aasimar paladin that one-v-one’d a cr 13 vampire at level 3. Surprisingly I won.

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

how many natural 20's did it take?

[@joshkorte9020]

@Fuzzy Bunny he is a very experienced dm. The deciding factors were that it was a homebrew monster with vulnerability to radiant, it mosty tried to attack the barbarian who was trying to run away and when ever she attacked me she rolled below my ac. It was a challenging fight but the dice were in my favor.

[@FrostWolfPack]

I had Aasimar clerik how whas born as part of old royal line that had aliance for enchent god of gnolege. and blest them that in every 3-7 generations one meber of the house is born as Aasimar.

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

in the Third Edition monster manual one in the back of the book it list the templates for half angel player characters and also has templates for half dragons half demons and other things like that if you look at the immunities resistances and natural buffs they get if you can find a half celestial or angel with a half dragon particularly gold their natural racial immunities and Buffs make that combination so overpowered it's ridiculous

[@R.E.LeBeau]

So Aasimar are the D&D version of Nephilim

[@emiliadaria]

So what about the angelic guide? The Volo's guide mentions that it can be a deva. I'm assuming it's not the angelic parent (or an ancestor if the bloodline was dormant) themselves, but can it be any celestial being? Like a unicorn? xD I wanted to play a celestial warlock but this seems like a fun alternative. I'm binge watching your vids right now.

[@AJPickett]

yeah, I can tell :) Yes, it could be a unicorn, celestial lion, celestial hippogriff, Coatl, Fey lord, etc.

[@emiliadaria]

Nice ~

[@daymanpink3239]

I’m playing Druid/goolock aasimar, feel like I’ve collected the rarest gem. This ginger boy with small ginger angelic wings, who is wearing green is my everything.

[@AJPickett]

Sounds like you are having fun.

[@frostdragonking5336]

A lore question: Are there Evil angels or not? I am having this idea of a fallen Aasimar who's being guided by a Fallen/Dark angel No not a demon some sort of dark divination? hard to explain it...

[@AJPickett]

There sure are, the Erinyes are evil angels (technically the original devils are all evil celestials who have since become the exiled population of fiends)

[@jsizzlesaurusrex]

Frost Dragon King curse of strahd has an evil Deva in it.

[@DeusVult-x6l]

there are fallen angels so yes.

[@seanwarren9357]

Evil is as evil does, and no being is beyond such acts if the will be.

[@thefracturedbutwhole5475]

Anyone can perform Evil acts but it is always a choice but creatures like Devils and Demons are Evil incarnate, it is part of the fabric of their being . . . . you could reason with and/or convince a mortal creature to start doing good or at least stop the evil they are doing but you couldn't do the same with a Demon or Devil i think it is that kind of powerful ingrained evil that angels target because mortals can always be redeemed

[@kevinchristiansen4348]

I love asmir and tieflings.

[@Agendaen]

I like that you used a picture of Abdel Adrian, the spawn of our lord of murder.

[@Marineassassin]

Love the videos, keep it up!

[@Xaylence]

There's a few things to note about Radiant Consumption, the Scourge Aasimar's racial trait: 1. Aasimar are resistant to Radiant damage, including this ability. At level 3, you only do 1 damage to yourself per turn, and at level 20 you do 5 damage to yourself. That really isn't that much damage. 2. It's a great horde-breaker ability. That field of zombies? Yeah, they're taking 2-10 damage per turn, and they can't dodge it. 3. It is a direct counter to many of the monsters that regenerate every turn, vampires and fiends in particular.

[@l0ker507]

If they are half-human, why don't they and tieflings have access to the prodigy-feat like half-orcs and half-elves?

[@AJPickett]

I don't know.

[@Yachera]

Because WOTC only makes books with regard to the PHB in mind, as far as they are concerned it’s PHB+X when designing content in a given book

[@shaunoday3646]

I created another aasimar that isn't evil but follows chaos, in older d&d editions called ashuras

[@onyxcrescent9364]

My friend wants to make an Aasimar with a personality and angel guide that makes me think of Jester Lavorre and the Traveller. What would that make her, a fallen or risen?

[@AJPickett]

I don't know that one.

[@eatme5470]

Thank you for the wonderful video!!👋👋👋 question are there many Solar Aasimar? I thought there were only 27 solars in existence.? And i cant imagine how a coupling might occur? Thank you AJ for all your content!!!!

[@AJPickett]

Those sort of beings don't need to couple in the biblical sense, they can just manifest offspring.

[@That80sGuy1972]

Would a rogue Eryanese's child qualify for this? They are devils that are fallen divine because of the job who, because of that, prove that time and choices matter. I love going all Greek in extraplanar things... Greek in intrigue, not how I just read it, like Greek mythology.

[@AJPickett]

Hey, if they can have children, sure, why not?

[@metooo668]

Thank you for the video

[@Starbuck8008]

Does he whisper soothingly and trigger head tingles?

[@theonly199]

What's the intro song? I want to play the song in my alongside my character in this game

[@AJPickett]

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[@Im-Not-a-Dog]

Can we get a video on the different types of celestials?

[@jacobslattery5493]

I know this video is from 3 years ago, but I'm just now getting into Dungeons and Dragons, I'm playing a Aasimar Paladin in 5e.... is the lore information consistent across editions or no? Just wondering if the info on this video from years ago is still accurate today or not

[@AJPickett]

Pretty much, yes.

[@jacobslattery5493]

@@AJPickett thank you so much, I'm sorry if the way I worded my question was bad or came off rude, I'm just very uneducated about this game and trying to learn as much as I can before I start playing 😅

[@AJPickett]

@@jacobslattery5493 feel free to ask questions

[@evillaughinthebackground5732]

I've always wanted to play as a Fallen Aasimar Vengeance Paladin of the Red Kinght. Basically he was a normal soldier, in a battle one general in his side defects or betrays his army and they're wrecked, almost all his company shattered or dead. The other army then proceeds to massacre the civilians and plunder everything. He only survived because he was hit with a mace and fell unconcious. Waking after the battle, he finds a Red Knight, a trinket from his commander, and upon it swears to take Revenge against the traitor commander, and everyone who attacks civilians in a war. After doing this, the Red Knight reveals his Divine heritage; but given that he's kinda not Full Good (the end will justify the means) he's in the "Fallen Spectrum" He's not opposed to war, he knows it is unavoidable, but he is kinda obsessed with strategy to minimize casualties and to shield civilians against the more visceral consequences of war. Think of him as a cross between Judge Dread (if you're hurting the defenseless, you've got exactly 2 tries before he obliterates you) and Sun Tzu (Art of War all your problems)

[@moonmorth]

I try to look up the one else you were talking about at the three minute 59 second mark. I'm not sure if it's the closed caption spelling but I couldn't find any information on them. Could you give me the proper spelling or a link to a webpage that has information on them berloni?

[@AJPickett]

forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Bralani There you go, glad to help.

[@christophermills7693]

I thought they were next in line down from a half celestial and a human

[@uuuueber]

Wait, this isn’t ASMR

[@sypandacat7236]

Imagine one of these infected with vampirism only incarnated a few times but incredibly long lived

[@baronbeat2210]

The Divas reincarnation immortality should be just how immortals work in D&D!

[@pblackcrow]

Hey AJ, give a video to those critters who should probably never have caffeine. Squirrel folks, squirreling, kercpa, Skiurid, carnivorous flying squirrel, etc.

[@AJPickett]

Okee dokee, added to the list.

[@Suzanne_sf]

When you mentioned Tiamat I know about Tiamat but then you mentioned Asuran and I cannot find anything about Asuran, maybe I'm spelling the name wrong? (16:10).

[@linguisticallyoversight8685]

Divine energy can be neither created nor destroyed we know that because of the way the portfolios work it has to be transferred to something what happened to these lost Pantheon's what happened to all their Divine energy probably taken by other gods or perhaps even those extremely powerful artificers

[@kramooo9666]

In a homebrew I want to make a Aasimar warforged juggernaut Claric of the forge

[@visualaddictions906]

I know this has nothing to do with the topic but.. I have looked until my mind stops functioning but, I know it isn't my imagination, I seen once a race like the Medusa called a Pedraphite (i know I'm butchering the spelling).. can anyone tell me why I can't find any info on it.??? Love the videos btw, thanks for sharing...

[@AJPickett]

Without the correct spelling, there is little chance I can find info on the subject.

[@visualaddictions906]

@@AJPickett yeah that is the exact problem I'm having. I've even went through my Iron Kingdom stuff 😔 thank you though. Love your work, thanks for sharing...

[@jeea.2879]

So Logan is descended from Aasimar.... interesting...

[@MoonbornUwU]

I'd probably be a werewolf protector aasimar, fighter. I'd either be a champion, or monster hunter. Also I wish they refined the fighter monster hunter for fighters in arcana. Maybe I'll just homebrew it a bit..

[@thisdude703]

Could you do videos of op monster creations some refer to as power gaming like for instance a guide on a sand giant who is from eberron 3.5 edition who gets bite by a werebear who takes duskblade starting class for 5 lvls and dragon disciple for 10 lvls eventually via this class dragon apotheosis giving it wings and picking a white dragon an immunity to cold with a cone of cold breath weapon throw in the monkey grip feat for a weapon of 1 class larger than his size already. Could you go over its abilities its likelyhood of existing comparing its strengths an resistances to other monsters could it fight a deity an win what would b a likely background how would it fit in eberron which states alignments for vampires lycans celestial or really any creature can have any alignment even if it might b a rare occurrence would its offspring be naturally lycan and half dragon half sand giant or only lycan sand giant because the parent was only half dragon via a class feature...? I could wonder all day of any odd rare but wonderous mixes of class monster races and templates

[@seanwarren9357]

Once upon a time I had a sword. To me, and with luck, and only because I was obsessed with lore, it was known as "the Lightning Vorpal". It was for me, part 3 of a 6 part set, not including a key sword of binding, which I saw for a brief moment before falling to a skull shattering death upon an enthusiastic yet scrabbled and clutching grasp at a foe whom I critically failed to leap upon, after a long hunt. Basically, I had only one chance to cross a dark underrealm chasm and reach all dreams, where a 1/20 interviened, lead to a great escape by what would be the campaigns greatest demigod. Duk'Tsareth. Weilder of the God Slayer (a wood carvng who's conquest paid under a dark moon 🌒), and champion of Tsareth, the "dark" Deity, and Slayer of God's, under whom the whole campaign would become to be known... Favored of AO, it was said, despite the truth of AO's calling. Such was the world of Tsareth, a world beset upon by the darkest of ancient powers from the void and giant antimagic storms which raged across the continents therein. There I fell... Deep in a crevasse, failed by my own exceptional aptituded, dashing my brains out upon rocks only seen with un-natural infravision, where there spilled all our dreams of uniting the 7 blades of legend. Not just for me, but for those who would follow, and those who would never know. "Soon"(in hindsight) thereafter, another blade of that collection, the "Blood Vorpal" was lost to a stupid attack(again, hindsight, damn you) upon the Avatar of Jubilex[who has a temple in Undermountain]. Mind you, much later, at the same temple, Jubilex had claimed another character of mine... a half dwarf gaint(named Guerdain, of the temple of Dumathoin) curst gladiator slave, who freed himself only to become a slave once again as an slain(literally sundered in Twain atou d the level of 12) undead championic defender ot the temple of Jubilex. I don't mind being ruined, but dayum, the undermountain struggle is too real... LOL. Back to Hammarilion though. Let's just say I survived my first resurrection and never saw the carrier of the legendary key again. Cautious as I was with such artifacts(thereafter, perhaps too much), I did however put the sword to use, though unintentionally... I found the temple of the Imascari in the sixth or so level of Undermountain... (This is where I learned of therir ancient and forgotten empire, as I had not traveled to the lost deserts which they once inhabited.) Well, there were these 150ft+ animate statues with legitimate souls of the ancient imascari. Under huge threat, and never one to squander opportunity... I had learned up to lvl 12(Orcus spell book+dm specials from dragon mag/realm of the dead God's module[rogue-core]) Necro spells, and had my phylactery on me, so, I soul jarred them(the animations), and took over one of their bodies. I wrecked the dungeon(300ft tall/IDK how gigantic cave with huge temple included), and began to dig my way out. My body crushed(oops, did I do that? XD), my possessions left behind, somehow(GM privelage) Solar(Though claimed at the time to be Aasamar) were summoned... :( Fuck'n party poopers. I was resurrected as I surfaced upon Toril(Tsareth). I was put back to my original and gloriously crystal clear body, and my new ancient avatar, slain. XD I was just going to surface, diamond wings and all, to stomp Waterdeep to mud if they would not let me be free, (I had saved them from half that that threat before against the "100 armed one, the Amigdila, and that at lvl 2.)#Lol@the"guard". I would have moved on to the planes asap in my new body, where my destiny awaited, and never been a pion at least. That said, for shame at my top ten opportunities ever missed by my DM(infamous, thus kept quiet), who, this time, was sadly reactionary. He missed one of the best characters that could have ever stayed in his campaign. Tha After that, he didn't really GM much Hmm. :( Nehwon be damned at that point. Perhaps it all went for the best, but damn, that was probably my most powerful moment ever in any campaign and these fancy pants planar beings ruined it all because I kept them in my pocket as an "oh shit" contingency. :P Beware your contingency. XD God damn, I love D&D. GG, brother, keep'em coming! Thanks! I love how you're connecting the dots of my story with your content via my comments. The tale of hammarillion is nearly complete... Such is your grand coverage of the realms, the planes, and the D&D narative in general. That said, dragonlance, greyhawk, oeberth, etc... I'm nearly clueless, with my obsession so deep. Ravenloft is just being fleshed out in the Neverwinter online campaign... Man, my space here, minus darksun, is so complete and I really appreciate the comfort. In closing, I know it's far off so I don't expect a deep I've here, but since we're of the very similar mind here, what say you of the only other true love, Rifts and Phase World?