"Planetouched" is a generic term for humanoid races originating from planes other than the material, and descendants thereof. It is ethnocentric and the planetouched do not really use it themselves. (In rules terms, they all have the planetouched tag.)
A given planetouched character may be descended from a marriage or pact with spirits, altered by exposure to radiation or toxins, or simply extraplanar tourists. Various sourcebooks, such as Secrets of the Planes: Planar Races, Children of the Planes, Legends & Lairs: Mythic Races, Dragonstar: Galactic Races, The Traveler's Guide to the Elemental Plane of Fire, Races of Renown: A Guidebook to the Planetouched, and Dark Roads & Golden Hells, have introduced a wide variety of planetouched, far too many to explain in one short post.
Although there are a wide variety of planetouched, they may be sorted into a few basic categories depending on their plane of origin. The aasimars come from the upper planes, tieflings come from the lower planes, maxims come from the planes of order, warplings come from the planes of discord, and elems come from the inner and transitive planes.
Elems are a special case because they are basically a grab-bag of planetouched that could not be fit into the other four categories. In essence, they are not associated with any particular alignment. They include races from the planes of air, earth, fire, water, astral, shadowfell, radiance, vault of stars and oddly enough the material plane.
Helpful links:
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150921141949/http://www.andycollins.net/Features/planetouched.htm
- http://daedaluswing.wikidot.com/planetouched
- https://daemonsanddeathrays.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/bloodlines-of-the-planes-more-planetouched-pcs/
- https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Planetouched
- http://errantd20designer.blogspot.com/2012/06/pfrpg-planetouched-race.html
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