Gosh, it's been a while since I wrote up a race. It was fun to go back to doing that for this.
So yeah, the Asyne. I'm a fan of planetouched races, they're just really cool to me, and with the vast number of planes within dnd's lore, there's a lot of opportunities to fill in the gaps sitting between the Aasimar and Tieflings of the world.
I chose Limbo for a plane to make a race out of partly because of my DM's setting being a bit different, using a Limbo-style plane in place of the astral, with a different plane filling limbos role, but also because out of all the planes, limbos just the weirdest. Like, it's a plane where reality and its usual rules are just thrown out of the window for whatever is chaotic and random. So for a race, that's a fun place to build from.
So yeah, lore-wise you don't even need to have any connection to limbo to be born or become an Asyne, since why should a plane of randomness let you logically draw a line to how you became one?
This race also functions as a sorta alt - changeling in a way, which you can see in their racial mimicry powers. Though, the changeling does definitely have a different role in comparison to the Asyne, since the Asyne cannot mimic things perfectly. A changeling wanting to steal someone's appearance could just up and do that, while an Asyne might have to wait a whole day for their natural shapeshifting, and when they do, they'll still have noticeable quirks that give them away.
Another note on changeling light is their action - race shift, though this one differs in that it's limited in its usage in both amount of times per day and duration but in exchange its a good bit more powerful, in that you can steal racial traits.
So, their roles do differ. Changelings definitely do better in terms of deception and stealth, while an Asyne is better suited to pulling out the right tool when they need it during the day, such as a Goliath's strength or an Aasimar's wings or a Drow's sight.
Ah, and there's a racial feat too, which is fun since you get extra uses of your class feature, as well as bonus traits that you can use outside of your imitation form
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