Genasi
Genasi (pronounced: jen-AH-see) were planetouched humans,infused with the power of the elements. Along with aasimar and tieflings, genasi were the most common planetouched found on the world of Toril.
Technically speaking, the genasi were not a race but rather a general classification of humans who had a heritage (usually unknown) that included some planar being from one of the elemental planes, most often a genie, (dao, djinn, efreet, marid, or jann,) from whence their name is derived.
Each of the four fundamental elements had associated genies, so the most common genasi were air genasi, earth genasi, fire genasi, and water genasi, while stormsoul genasi became common in lands such as Akanûl in the 15th century DR. Para-genasi were genasi who expressed a bloodline of two elements, akin to the Para-Elemental Planes. These included the dust para-genasi, ice para-genasi, magma para-genasi, ooze para-genasi, smoke para-genasi, steam para-genasi, among other possibilities. Para-genasi were even rarer than the four standard genasi.
After the Spellplague, when the separate elemental planes coalesced into the Elemental Chaos, each genasi gained the potential to manifest the power of any of the elements, though only one at a time.[4] After the Second Sundering, the genasi were again separated into the four major subraces of air, earth, fire, and water.
Technically speaking, the genasi were not a race but rather a general classification of humans who had a heritage (usually unknown) that included some planar being from one of the elemental planes, most often a genie, (dao, djinn, efreet, marid, or jann,) from whence their name is derived.
Each of the four fundamental elements had associated genies, so the most common genasi were air genasi, earth genasi, fire genasi, and water genasi, while stormsoul genasi became common in lands such as Akanûl in the 15th century DR. Para-genasi were genasi who expressed a bloodline of two elements, akin to the Para-Elemental Planes. These included the dust para-genasi, ice para-genasi, magma para-genasi, ooze para-genasi, smoke para-genasi, steam para-genasi, among other possibilities. Para-genasi were even rarer than the four standard genasi.
After the Spellplague, when the separate elemental planes coalesced into the Elemental Chaos, each genasi gained the potential to manifest the power of any of the elements, though only one at a time.[4] After the Second Sundering, the genasi were again separated into the four major subraces of air, earth, fire, and water.
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