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I open this post to discuss the possibility that the Aasimar race is included as playable for baldurs gate 3 this debate is due to the fact that in the recent trailer for Baldurs gate 3 a winged character is shown.

showing a screenshot of said winged creature would be nice!

There are two of them ...

One is wearing armor of Flaming Fist ... have somehow damaged wings ... and seems to release some sort of darkness and shockwawe on inpact:




And another have quite clear angelic visage:

Yeah the first one looks like a Flaming Fist Oath of Vengeance LVL 20 Avenging Angel Pala or an https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-MDsib2N_Q7i7r_Ve_tZ with Feather Step Animation?

The second one looks like a Deva.

The second one (with white wings) is probably a servant of Selûne given the silver star and moon crescent symbols found on the armor.
Maybe one of the Shards which are a loyal planetars serving Selûne.

No idea about the first one which is indeed wearing the flaming first armor.

From Volo's Guide to Monsters :

- Protector Aasimar
Radiant Soul. Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing your eyes to glimmer and two luminous, incorporeal wings to sprout from your back.

- Fallen Aasimar
Necrotic Shroud. Starting at 3rd level, you can use your action to unleash the divine energy within yourself, causing your eyes to turn into pools of darkness and two skeletal, ghostly, flightless wings to sprout from your back. The instant you transform, other creatures within 10 feet of you that can see you must each succeed on a Charisma saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

The supposed protector aasimar doesn't seem to have glimmering eyes or incorporeal wings. The supposed fallen aasimar wings aren't ghostly too.
But you never know, there has been traces of warforged from some datamined content. I just hope that if they are in the game, they will be part of the playable races...

I'm going to guess that the fight we see in the place swathed in shadow is Moonrise, maybe that flaming fist guy is a recent convert to the Absolute. Judging from the second picture he's got bone wings. There's another guy in the trailer who looks like he grafts things onto people, the sinister guy with goggles, I wonder if they're connected.

Your explanations make much more sense

As for the angel lady, could she be an actual angel? She's wearing the symbols of Selune. It's in the first pictures too. Is that the absolute's symbol?

Moonrise was a cathedral to Selune.

I don't get Aasimar vibes at all from those two. The first one looks outright evil, and the 2nd looks more like an Angel, but i don't know what the purple disc on her wings is all about. She looks evil too if I'm honest.

I'm seeing evil everywhere!!

Short reminder:
- No one ever said that aasimar are a playable race or that they come with the next patch.

I think the video and patch 9 are not related.
Just because something is shown in this video does not mean we have it in the next patch.
Like we see Baldurs Gate and they said we will only have act 1 in EA.
Even if there are aasimar in the video, this does not mean we get them next patch.

The first image looks like a human flaming fist soldier with raven wings, the second like an angel.
I would not consider any of these two characters a typical aasimar.

They could just be high level Paladins, the one with white wings looks like a vengeance Paladin using their avenging angel feature, like Lotus said. The discs actually look like someone decided to glue couters (elbow armour) to their wings for some silly reason. It looks silly and I hope it doesn't stay.

The black winged one... The uncharitable part of me says a Larian homebrew evil-themed Paladin subclass, instead of doing oath of conquest or oathbreaker, because they aren't PHB.

This again ...
Where you all took it i wonder?

I may know both of these characters
however, does that indicate we will see playable aasimar? I don't think so. at least not in EA and even patch 9.

Because Lariansaid that their aim was to get all the player's handbook stuff in first, so that's the only stuff we can say with anything close to reliability is going to be in the final game. Having said that though, I do think Piff is being a bit too uncharitable since it's not like Larian isn't ALLOWED to use stuff outside PHB, or that they don't want to. PHB content is simply their first priority, so if they really want some sort of evil-themed paladin, then I fully expect them to include one that already exists before they make another.

from a reddit thread, a datamined image:


all that said, I don't think anything we've seen points to Aasimar as player characters at all. I wish it did though.

@Gray Ghost
Exactly my point. ^_^

Just a quick reminder of exact quote for others:

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/baldursgate/comments/fhq9cq/compiled_baldurs_gate_ama_20200313/

//Edit:

I would be shocked if we got subclasses from other sourcebooks that weren't paid DLC, and Larian has already tried their hand at homebrewing classes.

It's entirely possible that it's just an evil vengeance Paladin, which is the only Paladin subclass that specifically sprouts wings, but it's just as likely that it's something else not related to either Paladins or Aasimar.

you are correct. it's still available.

The game doesn't go to 20th level.


The first one is clearly a Fallen Aasimar, partially Skeletal wings.

The second one is either a Protector Aasimar or they ported in Battleforce Angels into the Forgotten Realms. I lean towards Aasimar.

And to those who think they will go to all the effort of creating Aasimar NPCs, but then decide naw, it's more fan to tease Aasimar fans with the hope of playing Aasimar, then actually use all the Aasimar assets to make them playable, I have to ask why?

I mean Aasimar aren't even a monster race unlke Drow and Gobliniods, there are no Aasimar Monster stats in 5e. So creating Aasimar mechanics and art and more for just a couple if NPCs seems absurdly wasteful.


Aasimar are playing in Neverwinter Nights 2, Icewind Dale 1 & 2, Wrath of the Righteous, Kingmaker, possibly elsewhere. The only time Aasimar appear only as NPCs is in Planescape Torment because you don't get to pick your race period.

I just find the idea that the Aasimar won't be playable to be Absurd.

She has decorated wings though. She might be an aasimar ok, but doesn't it mean that decorated wings point to her whole model being like that? So she might be a custom npc like emissary of Selune or whatever, with one model only.