Suli

## Overview

Suli are the offspring of mortal creatures and jann. Jann are the weakest of genies, but the most common and the most amicable towards mortalkind. Suli carry their ancestry with pride, displaying their elemental strength at every opportunity and expecting deference, if not fealty, from every corner. Many are raised alone by their mortal parents with the only evidence of a second parent being the lavish gifts they receive on holidays and their birthday, and the insistence that their absent father or mother is actually a royal creature of great power. If the suli takes advantage of their circumstances and achieves success, it will often prompt the jann to appear to them and attempt to establish a relationship, taking on the suli as a member of genie nobility. Very few suli turn down this offer, knowing their whole life that they were heir to some power greater than what was present in their relatively mundane lives, and become emissaries between the world of mortals and the world of genies.

## Mechanics

Standard Racial Traits

* **Ability Score Racial Traits**: Sulis are brawny and charming, but slow-witted. They gain +2 Strength, +2 Charisma, and –2 Intelligence.
* **Type**: Sulis are outsiders with the native subtype.
* **Size**: Sulis are Medium creatures and thus have no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
* **Base Speed**: Sulis have a base speed of 30 feet.
* **Languages**: Sulis begin play speaking one elemental language (Aquan, Auran, Ignan, or Terran). Sulis with high Intelligence scores can choose from the following: Aquan, Auran, Draconic, Ignan, and Terran.

Defense Racial Traits

* **Energy Resistance 5**: Sulis have resistance to acid 5, cold 5, electricity 5, and fire 5.

Feat and Skill Racial Traits

* **Negotiator**: Sulis are keen negotiators, and gain a +2 racial bonus on Diplomacy and Sense Motive checks.
* **Incremental Elemental Assault**: Once per day as a swift action, a suli may use their elemental assault ability in 1-round increments, up to a maximum number of rounds per day equal to their character level. These rounds do not have to be consecutive.

Magical Racial Traits

* **Elemental Assault (Su)** Once per day as a swift action, a suli can shroud her arms in acid, cold, electricity, or fire. This lasts for one round per level, and can be dismissed as a free action. Unarmed strikes with her arms or hands (or attacks with weapons held in those hands) deal +1d6 points of damage of the appropriate energy type.

Senses Racial Traits

* **Low-Light Vision**: Sulis can see twice as far as humans in dim light.

## Society

Growing up knowing that they are above other mortals gives suli a sense of entitlement that can come off as grating to those that know them before their work pays off, but not only does such behavior stem from an unshakeable sense of confidence that their destiny has set aside something special for them, often, that entitlement is well-earned from the suli's current efforts. Suli are usually aware that they're not the most competent with numbers and symbols, and so instead ramp up their efforts in other areas of their life, including ensuring that all around them feel valued as they build bonds of friendship and camaraderie. Suli, mostly knowing affection expressed through material things, seek monetary success or political power to best repay those in their life who contributed to their journey, and use such comfortable positions to offer hospitality and assistance to any who pass by - as a true royal would. As a result, young suli seem stuck-up and pretentious in whatever trade they practice - usually the most lucrative available - while older, established suli have reputations as generous pillars of the community.

## Religion

Sulis credit most of the good things in their life to the elements and their noble status, leading them to venerate Basang Ba and Dowager Empress Kyouko above other deities. While Fa'qamuu Twice-Heavenbound is a suli themselves, only the rare suli who deny their jann parent's offer - or more likely, fail before they even receive one and lose hope in their grand destiny - are able to see the value in Fa'qamuu's neglect of worldly duties in favor of inner peace and understanding. Those few who do take after Fa'qamuu learn to emphasize their connection with the natural world, often turning to Vicenta Salcedo and Jolein Composed of Desire's Apparition along the way. Suli have a multifaceted understanding of social interaction and mobility which means that they discount Ketar Mozog's domain as inherent and thus the god as unnecessary, and that the doctrines of Nothing Left of Quibatus are equivalent to disregarding their own identity which is born from their relations with others.

## Relations

Suli are often exhausting to be around, but relationships with them are a form of hard work that tends to be equally high reward. Aasimar and tieflings relate to sulis, as both have great expectations pushed upon them by their ancestry, although suli's acceptance of such things can leave aasimar and tieflings who regret their divine heritage feeling bitter.

Aphorites rarely have the social skill to interact well with suli, finding them more trouble than they're worth, while ganzi have the skill but dislike pretentious aura that surrounds most of them.

Changelings and skinwalkers find suli too similar to the people in power who would exile them to be comfortable, and exit any relationships with suli before either side can truly learn about the other.

Dhampir know that a proper knowledge of their undying nobility is necessary to interact with suli - those who are well-schooled in the world of vampires or royalty get along famously, while those who want to distance themseves from such stereotypes are rebuked.

Drelmans, doing their best to survive day-to-day, have zero patience for suli ceremony and often insult them to their face.

Drow consider suli to be a mixed bag, but altogether more annoying than gratifying to be around - only in the case of an older suli displaying consistent competence matching their attitude will a drow acquiesce.

Duergar, dwarves, halflings, hobgoblins, ifrits, kitsune, orcs, and vanara all view the suli as being more obsessed with their own egos than anything else, though in the case of ifrits and halflings, they will keep such opinions quiet in order to continue being showered with gifts by successful suli.

Ghorans and lizardfolk only see suli as a threat like any other race interested in progress and expansion without an awareness of its cost.

Elves enjoy the companionship of suli solely due to their beautiful faces and forms.

Fetchlings, ratfolk, and gnomes tend to be more interested in a suli's generous wages and extensive connections than anything about them as people.

Grippli idolize suli, seeing them as consummate nobles that they can emulate.

Kobolds carry themselves with the same ceremony that suli do, and the two races see little divide between them - one may be draconic and one may be elemental, but nobility recognizes nobility.

Nagaji acknowledge that sulis may be a bit pompous occasionally, but see past that to their jann-inspired hearts and the good they do for their community, often becoming close confidants or valued employees.

Oreads don't avoid suli, though they generally think that turning hard work into a performance is a noisy waste of energy, and quietly disapprove of each boast and formality.

Parmans find suli to be great company, though once the suli find out that they themselves are the butt of the joke, their anger is legendary.

Sylphs and tengu both eagerly dive into relationships and partnerships with suli, with sylphs seeking to learn every detail about the suli and their past while tengu beg for even just a second-long audience with the famed jann that sired or gave birth to them.

The fact that undine show little emotion allows them to take suli lightly whenever they wish, not allowing their conceit to have any effect, but when a successful suli begins giving gifts that they can't possibly reciprocate, the offense undine take is often enough to end the relationship instantly.

Vishkanya dislike suli because the self-assured race is notoriously difficult to break down, believing in their own abilities and powers even in the face of otherwise damning evidence.

Goblins enjoy the opportunity that suli offer them as natural jesters, and their songs and fires often light up suli celebrations long into the night.