Ienua - Genasi
Those who think of other planes at all consider them remote, distant realms, but planar influence can be felt throughout the world. It sometimes manifests in beings who, through an accident of birth, carry the power of the planes in their blood.
The Elemental Planes are often inhospitable to natives of the Material Planes: crushing earth, searing flames, boundless skies, and endless seas make visiting these places dangerous for even a short time. The powerful genies, however, don’t face such troubles when venturing into the mortal world. They adapt well to the mingled elements of the Material Plane, and they sometimes visit—whether of their own volition or compelled by magic. Some genies can adopt mortal guise and travel incognito.
During these visits, a mortal might catch a genie’s eye. Friendship forms, romance blooms, and sometimes children result. These children are ienua: individuals with ties to two worlds, yet belonging to neither. Some ienua are born of mortal–genie unions, others have two ienua as parents, and a rare few have a genie further up their family tree, manifesting an elemental heritage that’s lain dormant for generations.
Occasionally, ienua result from exposure to a surge of elemental power, through phenomena such as an eruption from the Elemental Planes or a planar convergence. Elemental energy saturates any creatures in the area and might alter their nature enough that their offspring with other mortals are born as ienua.
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Genetics and Reproduction
Ienua reproduce sexually. When they reproduce with mortals, their offspring are likely to be of the mortal parent's species well over ninety percent of the time, though the trait is carried down through the generations and may manifest later. When ienua reproduce with other ienua, which is rare on the Material Planes, the resulting offspring is normally another ienua, and children of ienua of two differing elements can be wild and strange, even by the standards of these folk.
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