Heritage and Half-breeds: Blasphemy

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# Heritage and Half-breeds: Blasphemy

Blasphemies are the result of the mixing of diluted fiend and celestial blood, often crossed in the intermingling of human bloodlines. Their souls are pulled in all directions, and are often caught in the conflict between good and evil, may it be from without or within.

### Celestial and Fiend
Blasphemies are derived from human bloodlines with tiefling and aasimar heritage. These folk look human, but their mixed blood has a clear effect on their appearance. Blasphemies often have pale to grey skin and piercing eyes. Some may even have small horns or tails. They are often eerily beautiful, but there is something unnatural about them that makes others uncomfortable or distrusting.

### Dual Nature
Because of their dual nature, their souls are naturally very conflicted. Both the forces of good and the forces of evil seek to use them as powerful tools for their purposes, or seek to destroy them for being a blasphemous corruption.

### Blasphemy Names
Most blasphemies are born from human parents, and they use the same naming conventions as their native culture. As many also have tiefling heritage and have a conflicted nature, some may instead adopt a "virtue" name in their search for identity.

### Blasphemy Traits
Blasphemies share certain racial traits due to their heritage.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Charisma score</br> increases by 2.

**Age.**
Blasphemies mature at the same rate as humans, but they can live up to 160 years.

**Alignment.**
Due to the strong pulls by both good and evil, blasphemies tend towards neutral alignments.

**Size.**
Blasphemies are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

**Speed.**
Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

**Darkvision.**
Thanks to your celestial and fiendish heritage, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. 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. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

**Profane Resistance.** You have resistance to necrotic damage.

**Abhorrent to All.** As an action, you can cast *Protection from Evil and Good* on yourself, using Charisma as your spellcasting ability for it. When cast in this way, the spell only protects you from celestials and fiends and requires no material components. Once you this feature, you can’t cast it again with this trait until you finish a long rest.

**Languages.**
You can speak, read, and write Common, Celestial, and your choice of Infernal or Abyssal.

**Subrace.**
You have a subrace based on your ancestry: Heresy, Sacrilege, or Apostasy.

#### Heresy
Heresies have heritage stemming from the more lawful planes, such has Mount Celestia or the Nine Hells. They may have more devilish traits and tend toward a lawful alignment.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Strength score </br> increases by 1.

**Will Made Manifest.** Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the energy within yourself, causing your eyes to burn with a fiery light and two flightless wings of shadowy flame to sprout from your back.

Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. During it, you have the power to impose your will upon others; you can cast the *Command* spell at will on each of your turns. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for this spell.

Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

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#### Sacrilege
Sacrileges have heritage from the more chaotic planes, such as Arborea or the Abyss. They may have more demonic traits and tend towards chaotic alignments.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Constitution score</br> increases by 1.

**Entropic Aura.** Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the energy within yourself, causing your eyes to turn into pools of darkness and a dark cackling aura of necrotic energy to emanate from you.

Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. During it, every creature within 10 feet of you must must each succeed on a Charisma saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) at the beginning of each of their turns. On a failed save, the creature must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from any attack roll or saving throw it makes before the beginning of its next turn.

Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

#### Apostasy
Apostasies have heritage from the more neutral plans, such as Elysium or Hades. They are the most varied of blasphemies, and might have more lothic traits. They tend towards neutral alignments.

**Ability Score Increase.** Your Dexterity score</br>  increases by 1.

**Corrupting Power.** Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the energy within yourself, causing your eyes to glow dark with necrotic power, sapping life from everything around you.

Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. During it, at the beginning of your turn, if you have more than 0 hit points, you heal a number of hit points equal to one fourth your level (rounded up). In addition, once on each of your turns, you can deal extra necrotic damage to one target when you deal damage to it with an attack or a spell. The extra necrotic damage equals your level.

Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

> ##### Variant Blasphemy Traits
>At the DM's option, you may create a blasphemy character using an Aasimar subrace from Volo's Guide to Monsters, or a Tiefling subrace from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes and the Tiefling's variant traits from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide.
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> This option replaces the Blasphemy's subrace feature. When using the variants provided by other sources, follow the rules provided.
> Additionally, you may use the Variant Aasimar traits provided in the DMG. The subrace would be as follows:
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> * **Ability Score Increase.** Your Wisdom score increases by 1.
> * **Celestial Legacy.** You gain the Celestial Legacy trait.

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 ##### Credits
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* **Art:** Nahiris Stoneblades by Micah Epstein
* **Art:** Bishop of Rebirth by Tommy Arnold
 
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