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Hello guys, I have a question for you. I will start Rise of the Runelords soon. In my group there is an human, an aasimar (garuda touched), a tiefling and a kitsune. I try to figure how the group will be perceived in Sandpoint and how Nualia will interact with them.
Thanks for your help.
This is why I told my players core races only. :P
I don't think anyone would mind an Aasimar, since Nualia is a cherished memory as of the start of the AP. The Tiefling would face typical discrimination; association with the Aasimar might get him grudging acceptance, but he'd be on thin ice. (A good target for the beginning of book 2.) As for the Kitsune, I'm hoping the player will be smart enough to stay in human form most of the time--otherwise I'd expect a general panic regarding the werefox invasion (!!!1!) which would subside into general mistrust.
Or at least that's how I'd run it. :)
You might be able to give the kitsune some leeway by having it tied to the Kaijitsu family, saying some of them came over to the region with them.
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Yeah, of those, tiefling's the most unusual, though they're not unheard of. Habe's Sanitarium employs a pair of tiefling orderlies, and I'm sure the larger cities in Varisia has a small population of them. Besides the usual discrimination that comes from being a tiefling, there's also the fact that some people (the Shoanti and Varisians, most notably) came to Varisia to escape Chelish rule, and tieflings might be a reminder of the Thrice-Damned House of Thrune.
That said, Sandpoint is filled with good and forgiving people for the most part, and while they might distrust the tiefling before and during the Swallowtail Festival, they'll recognize good deeds when they see them. Assuming the tiefling steps up to defend the town when the goblins attack, they should soon look past his infernal heritage. (Most of them, at least. Titus Scarnetti won't, but he's a jerk.)
Nualia, honestly, won't care. She might envy the tiefling and see the aasimar as a kindred spirit, and try to get them to join her when they meet in Thistletop. I'd also have the people go back to their old habits when another aasimar comes into town. Have them always pressing the character for locks of hair, asking them to touch their sores or remove the colic from their infant, especially if they have no connection to the divine at all. Play up the things that Nualia must have encountered for years. It will make her story all the more tragic, and they'll see why she fell into Lamashtu's service so readily.