Scion

Snapping like a whip, a barbed tail draws the last blood and the last breath of the chain devil standing before a group of adventures. The tail belongs to one of them, a human with a calculating look in his eyes and a grin on his face. Dark energies pour from the chain devil's body and into the human's body, whose wounds close themselves.

A halfing spreads white feathered wings that jut from her back and wraps them around her human and elf ally. All of them are weakened from an ongoing fight with an adult red dragon. It breaths deadly flames that envelop them, but the halflings wings protect her companions. Later, as they move to attack the dragon, she heals herself and uses the surge of magic to wrap herself and the elf in protective energy.

Inside of the Mount Inn, a crowd of dragonborn are have surrounded a single dragonborn that sports wings and a hide thicker than that of his admirers. He boasts to the others about how he has reached the pinnacle of dragonborn heritage, using his inborn power to become more like their ancient creators. He is pressed with drinks and requests of how to follow in his steps.

Though the human, halfing, and dragonborn described above gained their heritage from some different sources, all of them used the latent energies within them due to that heritage to grow closer to their ancestors. The human's family hides the shame of a devil amongst their forefathers, but he has awakened that power and becomes more like a devil every day. The halfing's family legends include a halfing that seemed supernaturally beautiful, and was discovered to be an angelic passerby that had fallen in love. The dragonborn had done has he described, and used the magic within him to empower his draconic heritage.

These are scions, individuals that take the magical power that often comes from such bloodlines, and turn it inwards to transform themselves into beings that mimic their ancestors. As they grow in power, their body changes more and more, most eventually looking nothing like their original selves.