Genasi (Jen-Nass-Eee)

Touched by the Elements

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 genasi are one such people, the offspring of genies and mortals.
All Genasi have the following features;

• Ability Score Increase: Your Constitution score increases by 2.
• Alignment: Independent and self-reliant, genasi tend toward a neutral alignment.
• Size: Your size is Medium.
• Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
• Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial. Primordial is a guttural language, filled with harsh syllables and hard consonants.

The following features are unique to specific Genasi subancestries;
Air Genasi: As an air genasi, you are touched by the elemental plane of air. As changeable as the weather, your moods shift from calm to wild and violent with little warning, but these storms rarely last long. Air genasi typically have light blue skin, hair, and eyes. A faint but constant breeze accompanies them, tousling the hair and stirring the clothing. Some air genasi speak with breathy voices, marked by a faint echo. A few display odd patterns in their flesh or grow crystals from their scalps.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 1.
• Unending Breath: You can hold your breath indefinitely while you’re not incapacitated.
• Mingle with the Wind: You can cast the Levitate spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Earth Genasi: As an earth genasi, you are touched by the elemental plane of earth. You have inherited some measure of control over earth, reveling in superior strength and solid power. You tend to avoid rash decisions, pausing long enough to consider your options before taking action.
Elemental earth manifests differently from one individual to the next. Some earth genasi always have bits of dust falling from their bodies and mud clinging to their clothes, never getting clean no matter how often they bathe. Others are as shiny and polished as gemstones, with skin tones of deep brown or black, eyes sparkling like agates. Earth genasi can also have smooth metallic flesh, dull iron skin spotted with rust, a pebbled and rough hide, or even a coating of tiny embedded crystals. The most arresting have fissures in their flesh, from which faint light shines.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Strength score increases by 1.
• Earth Walk: You can move across difficult terrain made of earth or stone without expending extra movement.
• Merge with Stone: You can cast the Pass without Trace spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Fire Genasi: As a fire genasi, you have been touched by the elemental plane of fire. You tend toward impatience and making snap judgments. Rather than hide your distinctive appearance, you exult in it.
Nearly all fire genasi are feverishly hot as if burning inside, an impression reinforced by flaming red, coal-black, or ash-gray skin tones. The more human-looking have fiery red hair that writhes under extreme emotion, while more exotic specimens sport actual flames dancing on their heads. Fire genasi voices might sound like crackling flames, and their eyes flare when angered. Some are accompanied by the faint scent of brimstone.

• Ability Score Increase: Your Intelligence score increases by 1.
• Darkvision: You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. Your ties to the Elemental Plane of Fire make your darkvision unusual: everything you see in darkness is in a shade of red.
• Fire Resistance: You have resistance to fire damage.
• Reach to the Blaze: You know the Produce Flame cantrip. Once you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Burning Hands spell once with this trait as a 1st-level spell, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Water Genasi: You are touched by the elemental plane of water. The lapping of waves, the spray of sea foam on the wind, the ocean depths—all of these things call to your heart. You wander freely and take pride in your independence, though others might consider you selfish.
Most water genasi look as if they just finished bathing, with beads of moisture collecting on their skin and hair. They smell of fresh rain and clean water. Blue or green skin is common, and most have somewhat overlarge eyes, blue-black in color. A water genasi’s hair might float freely, swaying and waving as if underwater. Some have voices with undertones reminiscent of whale song or trickling streams.

• Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
• Acid Resistance. You have resistance to acid damage.
• Amphibious. You can breathe air and water.
• Swim. You have a swimming speed of 30 feet.
• Call to the Wave. You know the Shape Water cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Create or Destroy Water spell as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Genasi assume the family name and naming traditions of their parents. However, they will often take on nicknames or change their given name to reflect their elemental nature.
Genasi naming conventions can be found at the following link; Genasi Names

Major Organizations

The following organizations are known factions tied to the Genasi;

• The Descendants: A group of fanatical Air Genasi that believe they are the descendants of Yan-C-Bin, the Prince of Evil Elemental Air. They are attempting to conjure the Everstorm from their citadel in the northern Heartland forest called the Crowned Forest.

History

Genasi have existed as long as humanoids have existed on Thinia. Many Genasi are born through the union between an elemental being like a Djinn, and a humanoid. However, Genasi can also be created through elemental magic rituals, exposure to items of elemental power or places of elemental significance. Due to the neutral nature of the elemental planes Genasi are not viewed with the same reverence as Aasimar or the same disdain as tieflings. There are cultures that view Genasi as blessed children and others as cursed as the physical manifestations of their ancestry often seperate them from their neighbors.

Earth, Water, Fire, and Air Genasi from left to right.

Lifespan

120 years

Average Height

5'00"-6'00"

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Genasi tend to take on characteristics aligned with the elemental plane that they are touched by. For example, a Fire Genasi may have red skin and burning eyes, while an Air Genasi could appear light blue with whispy almost aetherial hair.