Aasimar Aasimar , derived from the Mulhorand i word " aasimon " , were human - based planetouched , native outsider s that had in their blood some good , otherworldly characteristics . They were often , but not always , descended from angel s and other creatures of pure good alignment , but while predisposed to good alignments , aasimar were by no means always good . Description . Aasimar bore the mark of their celestial touch through many different physical features that often varied from individual to individual . Most commonly , aasimar were very similar to humans , like tieflings and other planetouched . Nearly all aasimar were uncommonly beautiful and still , and they were often significantly taller than humans as well . While several aasimar were immediately identifiable as such , others were even less distinguishable than tieflings from their human ancestors , commonly standing out with only one unusual feature . Most aasimar had pupil - less pale white , gray , or golden eyes or silver hair , but those descended from planetar s could also have emerald skin , while those descended from avoral celestials might have feathers mixed in with their hair . Those descended from ghaele s often had pearly opalescent eyes . Solar - descended aasimars often had brilliant topaz eyes instead or silvery or golden skin and deva s with couatl or lillend lineage most commonly had small , iridescent scales . Many aasimar also had a light covering of feathers on their shoulders , where an angel ' s wings might sprout . As in tieflings , aasimar bloodlines could sometimes run dormant for generations , reemerging after being hidden for some time . Abilities . As a general rule , aasimar were a wise and charismatic race , possessed of strong insights and a powerful allure with which most races could not compare . Aasimar were also quite perceptive , noticing things that others did not , and many could see largely unimpeded in perfect darkness , while also possessing the ability to cast magical light to aid those who could not see . Aasimar were also , like many of their celestial forebears , resistant to the effects of acidic elements , extreme cold , or electrical charges . Psychology . Most aasimar grew up cautious around others and , like tieflings , were sometimes misunderstood , though never to the hateful extent many of the fiendish bloodlines were . Even those raised by understanding parents could not escape their strangeness , or the curiosity ( or even fear ) that their unique nature sometimes provoked . Many aasimar even suffered prejudice , something that deeply hurt the soul of the aasimar in question since most had an inherent bent towards empathy for others . Though many aasimar were good in nature , thanks in a large part to their celestial ancestors , not all were , just as not all tieflings or fey ' ri were evil . Some aasimar fell into the trap of evil , corrupted perhaps by experience or the counsel and aid of an evil god . Shar and Sseth in particular took pleasure in corrupting aasimar and turning them from the ways of their celestial forebears , nursing grudges fueled by the prejudice of others . Most aasimar avoided this path , however , and a few even received direct counsel from their celestial ancestor or a creature in its service . These individuals were the aasimar most likely to manifest the stereotypical virtues of a celestial . Society . Aasimar were exceptionally rare throughout Toril and , as such , had no true cities or societies of their own , much like other planetouched . Aasimar could live for the whole of their life without ever meeting another of their kind and , as such , were resigned to living amongst other races . Very few aasimar had siblings who were also aasimar , in large part due to the rarity of a celestial or god mating with a human but also due to the fact that aasimar who sprang from ancient bloodlines long left dormant were even rarer . As a result , not many aasimar met others of their kind , though such meetings were more common in Mulhorand , owing to the relatively larger number of aasimar there . On the rare occasions where two aasimar did meet , they often felt a kind of kinship and unspoken understanding with one another . Most aasimar were likely to take the side of another instinctively , regardless of personal feeling and there was a strong bond between aasimar of all stripes . Religion and magic . Because of their ties to the goodly gods and celestial beings , many aasimar were drawn to a religious path and most aasimar spellcasters called on divine magic as opposed to arcane magic . A great many become paladin s , most in the service of good , and the philosophy of lawful good paladins often resonated strongly with aasimar . Those descended from non - lawful outsiders , on the other hand , most often became cleric s , though a few also became paladins . Like other half - breeds , aasimar did not feel , as a whole , beholden to any one god or pantheon , but many aasimar worshiped the Mulhorandi pantheon and a large proportion of the race was descended from the goodly gods of Mulhorand . Many of these aasimar in particular often felt a strange bond to the animals whom their divine ancestor was a patron of . Others , particularly those born outside of Mulhorand or its neighbors , often took on gods appropriate for the nation in which they lived . Relations . Aasimar , despite their human ancestry , did not typically feel a strong draw to their kin but instead felt a stronger bond with other half - breeds . Many aasimar enjoyed the company of races as varied as half - elves or half - orc s , though very few aasimar got along well with tieflings , whom the celestial - descended race was instinctively wary of . Genasi were likewise alien to aasimar , who found the elemental race strange even by their own standards . Of the other common races , aasimar had little overall opinion , since dwarves , elves , and the like had little history of persecuting aasimar but neither did they have a history of befriending them . History . Though mortal aasimar were the result of breeding between human s and celestials , devas were unheard of in the local multiverse prior to the arrival of the Mulan i from a forgotten plane . Drawn to Imaskar by powerful wizard s , the Mulani slaves called upon their gods for aid . Just as the gods could initially appear only as avatars so did their celestial servitors initially require mortal bodies , resulting in the first devas . Since then , devas , also commonly called aasimar in Mulhorand , ( a term then adopted for the mortal progeny of celestials and mortals by others ) , were created through other means , but all of the race shared certain qualities with these first individuals . Homelands . Aasimar were most commonly found in the eastern lands of Unther and Mulhorand , where they were the descendants of the good deities who once walked among the mortals . Since the Spellplague , however , and the devastation of both lands , aasimar became wandering nomads bound to no land or god and spread widely over the face of Faerûn , as well as other parts of Toril . Those from outside of Faerûn were often drawn to it , perhaps by the ancestral lure of Unther and Mulhorand , and so many aasimar could be found in borderlands such as Durpar , Murghôm , Thesk , or Waterdeep , though none of these places were considered traditional homelands .