Aasimar

Aasimar
Characteristics
Alignment	Usually good
Type	Outsider
Image	Wizards.com image
Publication history
Source books	Races of Destiny, Monster Manual, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, Races of Faerûn, Planar Handbook
First appearance	Planescape Campaign Setting

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy tabletop role-playing game, aasimar are a fictional race of humanoid creatures who are descended from celestials, angels and other creatures of good alignment. In the 4th Edition of the game, the equivalent race are referred to as devas.

The aasimar race was introduced in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition in the Planescape Campaign Setting series of books, published April 1994. The aasimar first appeared in Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix II (1995), and as a player character race in Planewalker's Handbook (1996), and later Warriors of Heaven (1999).

In 2000, Wizards of the Coast released the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons. The aasimar race appears in that edition's third core book, the Monster Manual, first published October 2000. The Monster Manual describes the aasimar race as a pleasant and attractive people. It also states that most aasimars are "decidedly good-aligned", and their favored class is paladin.

The aasimar race was expanded in the Forgotten Realms series of books. Two books reference the aasimar race, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and Races of Faerûn. The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, published June 2001, contained a synopsis of the information provided in the Monster Manual and includes some additional information to allow players to select aasimar as a race.Races of Faerûn, published March 2003, explored the aasimar race in greater detail any of the previous books, describing the fictional history, society, education, and religion of the race.

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