Deviation Actions
I never did use it, regrettably. I will use it in the revision to follow the end of the Ancestries (races) chapter.
pictured above;
*The six armed "Sorotshi"
*The "Gian'" aka "Giant blooded", a truly "Large sized" player race.
*The Fey "Vaus Tian" also called "Ramai" elves with curled ram's horns, in 3.0 D&D the horns were additional magic item slots... you could pull bracelets and rings onto the horns. Also, there were feats that allowed you to "Shape" your horns so you could use them in combat. Their people were set up to fail, big.
A demonic sorcerer threatened to genocidally wipe these fey and their kingdom out.
A summoned Pit fiend chased twin brothers into a cave. One was wounded, unconscious and dying... the other unharmed.
Rather than both die fighting the fiend, the unharmed brother made a pact with the demon. The pact? "My brother should be king. Spare him and you can claim all I own when I die of old age."
the demon used powerful magic to bolster all six of the dying twin's ability scores by 8 each!
The demon cast a healing spell just as it vanished.
The Brother, suddenly healed and seething with supernatural ability scores, single handed lead the defeated armies to rout all of the demons and slay the sorcerer.
As all of the royal line was dead, and the healed brother was the exalted hero who saved the fey-wild... he was made king of the kingdom.
His rule was so just, inspiring, and righteous... that divine beings regularly visited the kingdom. The king himself managed to win the love of an angel, and marry her.
A decade later the kingdom was "lifted" transcending the Few-wild and was brought to the shores of Mt. Celestia (*D&D heaven). The King and his Angel queen had a baby girl. a true "Aasimar".
Once the king passed away, the brother inherited the kingdom...
The fiend appeared and cast a spell that passed a thousand years over the pact-bound brother, the brother died of "old age" as his body was reduced to dust.
The Fiend called forth his armies of devils and demons to fight at the very gates of the celestial domain!
Repelled by angelic defenders, the fiend was defeated, but the "Kingdom" was placed on a mortal world. The "Vaus Tian" had lost all of their divine blessings and were reduced to a mortal race/ancestry.
The Daughter of the good king and the angel had amnesia and she had to start from nothing to reclaim and rebuild the kingdom.
*The "Yan" which were a "tiny sized" halfling race/ancestry.
*The "Mirux" which were a "half-goblin" people who had somewhat "reversed" concepts of physical beauty.
They saw "ugly" as beautiful, and it affected game play both mechanically as well as role playing.
*The "quel tian" were fey who were created to guard tries that bore fruit of the gods. A fruit that empowered those who ate it, it would grant immortality if one ate the whole thing. These capricous fey would catch and share overripe fruits which fell from the trees with creatures of the fey-wild. (This is why elves and gnomes live for so long, and why unicorns have magical powers, etc.) These "Quel Tian" fey were given powers to move among the tree branches with ease, as if they had no weight (*but they still had Mass). They could walk on the thinnest branches and make impossibly long gliding leaps. Then they were exiled to the mortal world for sharing/eating the fruits of the divine trees.
*The "Satorian" who were meditative philosophers and dream explorers who discovered their own psionic path... Yet, the religious zealots of the kingdom did not tolerate them and used wish spells (*PLURAL) to create a portal to the realm of dream and exiled them all. These planar Exiles had to adapt to an alien dimension and after millennia, they became the "Satorian" race/ancestry. Oddly, a carbuncle is both a Jewel and a very nasty condition. All of the Satorians developed a "carbuncle" on the forehead where the third eye would be. Instead of a nasty pustule festering sore, the "Satorian" carbuncle was a form of hyperkeratosis that became a biological Gemstone. The Satorians use their "caste mark" what they call their forehead gem as a "Focus stone" when using psionics, as a "power storing crystal", and etch the stone with their societal rank. The Satorian people also evolved to have the majority of their veins closer to the surface of their skin, this creates blue and violet lines and marks on their bodies that look like tribal tattoos.
*The "Dremnori" were also a race of "Evolved Planar Exiles" who embraced lawful alignments to survive the plane of "Pandemonium" the plane of chaos. their bodies process metals differently and excrete metals with keratin structures; Their hair is like wire, their eyes look like metal, their fingernails are metal. This was my "Most anime" race/ancestry as they styled their hair in pretty wild ways.
*The "Rhodex" were a small sized, thick Leather hide, hunchbacked race/ancestry. Scholars claimed they were a mutated off-shoot of Orcs. The "Rhodex" had solid black eyes, and a natural ability to "ball up" and tumble everywhere they wanted to go.
There are now almost 30 ancestries planned for the Revised "Tome of Psionics"