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When Dracula meddled in the machinations of the interplanar cosmos, he inadvertently created a massive new demiplane referred to simply as “Hell.” It has significant overlap with the more well-documented plane of Inferno, but the borders between Hell and Ancerra are also much more permeable. Hellspawn are created when fiendish spirits are drawn out of Hell and imbued into a corpse. This causes the corpse to take on various fiendish characteristics, such as bug eyes, devilish horns, or tentacles. Most hellspawn are mindless monsters, possessing the instincts of a feral animal but lacking any true spirit and completely devoid of Essence. The occasional exception possesses Essence, and as such develops sapience.   

The most common origin of a sentient hellspawn is being summoned by a skilled Hellcrafter. If this is your origin, consider your relationship with your summoner. Are you friendly towards one another, begrudgingly work together as allies of circumstance, or are you outright hostile to one another? If you were not summoned by a Hellcrafter directly, consider other methods of how you reached the mortal world. Perhaps a portal to Ancerra opened when Dracula or another powerful caster was meddling with interplanar magic, causing a fiendish spirit to latch onto a corpse during the process. Perhaps the massacre of a village led to such overwhelming negative energy that a portal to Hell briefly opened, and you happened to inhabit the corpse of one of the recently deceased.

Consider how long you have been in the world, and how long you have possessed sentience. You might have a naive understanding of the world, or you might have a sophisticated outlook on life. Hellspawn almost never remember anything about the former corpse that now serves as the basis for their body.

Hellspawn struggle to find a place in the mortal world. Their outward appearance is usually hideous by most humanoid standards and is clearly fiendish in nature. This leads most other humanoids to be mistrustful of hellspawn at best, and violently aggressive towards them at worst. Many hellspawn have physical characteristics approximately akin to those of fiendbloods, and so larger population centers that have learned to accommodate fiendbloods will extend the same grace to hellspawn.   

In addition to the two unique features you selected at level 1, you gain one more feature at 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, and 29th levels. Choose from the following features.  <blockquote>'''Hideous Trait.''' For each time you have this trait, you suffer -2 to all skill checks with the influence and performance tags except for Intimidating. You may only have a maximum of four features that give this trait.  </blockquote>

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