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I was actually searching for what happens when you polymorph with a Ring of Sustenance. Given the answers here and a re-read (ie. it's about keeping the ring attuned to you), I would think in that situation it would also keep functioning without another week of re-attuning. Mind you, just like the anti-magic field, it would not actually function with you polymorphed, assuming the usual "your stuff transforms/melds and doesn't function while so."

The wearer will still WANT to eat, drink and get a full nights sleep, but they won't need to. Otherwise putting this on a guard beast would make the thing too content and lazy to do its job.

I can't completely agree with this. For one thing, it is based on Create Food and Water. I would think that it would curb your hunger. Also, I would think you would be finding yourself waking up after some period of time proportional to your normal sleep habits. Nothing says you can't eat more, wouldn't be tempted by tasty food, wouldn't like to drink mead all evening with friends, or want to/not be able to sleep all day long, though.

Your guard beast reference though... well... sounds very much like you are looking at a particular situation, saying it wouldn't be to your liking, and saying it therefore can't work that way. I don't agree. While your guard beast would, in my opinion, still value tasty treats, a Ring of Sustenance should keep him relatively content as I argue it should keep the PC's so. That doesn't necessarily mean he'll be all lazy and napping all the time. I would say that depends entirely on the beast in question if it did happen. Mind you, it would make it for a highly amusing if the low level PC's could just stealth by the sleeping beasts because they are that way before later in the story the NPC figures out whom can get the rings and whom he has to feed by minion.

So... without the Scion of Humanity Trait you are obviously inhuman. While tieflings tend to all have horns and a tail, aasimars one (usually one, anyway) peculiar trait. There are suggestions and a chart for this non-human trait: wings, anime eyes, fur, a tail, hair that looks like shining metal, etc. You could also have more than one feature, as shown in the artwork.

Now the impression that I am getting from reading the Scion of Humanity trait is that, with it, you do not have any unusual features. Your eyes do not glow with the color of the dawn; your hair does not turn to silver in the moonlight; you have no little claws, fangs or wings. You look human. (Maybe, if you as the player decides, you look like the milkman, but clearly he was human as well.)

Do other people get the same impression?

Personally I would think such a character would also be allowed to either choose a human racial appropriate language or get it automatically. If your family grew up speaking Varisian or Shoanti (for example) as much as they did Common, that would make sense... especially since you aren't constantly distracted by hearing the chatter of angels.

I would think in role-paying terms an assimar with Scion of Humanity might know not that they are one. While having dark vision is a tip off that something is amiss, exactly what might not be obvious. Creating daylight and manifesting a glowing halo at will are both excellent hints, but what if you have other alternate abilities that are more subtle than that? Bonuses to skills, stats, and saves might not even be something your character actively notices as anything more than a knack for something.