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==Races==
The default race in a game of Inferno is the '''Lost One''', the displaced, sin-warped soul of a living being. Neither alive nor dead, Lost Ones have a chance to redeem their sins and escape Hell, but not the certainty of doing so.

Virgilio's Other Tales offers three alternative races to the Lost One in the form of the '''Indifferent Angel''', the '''Malebranche''' and the '''Noble Soul'''. Because these Hope-imbued spawn of the pit are a very different breed to the Lost Ones, they don't use Archetypes in the conventional sense, but rather they function as both race and class in a single package, with a set of specific racial traits followed by level-based class traits. Like Archetypes, each pit-spawn has Emblems that embody their spiritual aspect, empowering these as they level up.

The '''Indifferent Angel''', also known as the '''Angel of the Indifferent Choir''', represents a fallen angel from the ranks of those who chose not to pick sides during the great war in Heaven, and thus were cast down to Antinferno  to suffer. Though they still appear as towering, majestic humanoids of great beauty and bearing white-feathered wings, their features are forever shrouded by immovable veils, their wings pierced with bracelets, rings and chains that make them useless, and their forms covered in mud and crawling insects. Their emblems are the '''Veil of Indifference''', their '''Haunting Insects''', and the '''Shield of Indifference'''. They can spend 2 points of Hope to regain all of their spent Indifference Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.

The '''Malebranche''' is a low-ranked devil normally assigned to drudgery, such as the tormenting of the damned. But, every so often, one manages to embrace the Divine Hope and seek redemption. They appear as winged devils with curving horns, bat-like wings, and skin like smoked glass; black and dull at a distance, but translucent enough to reveal their muscles and golden bones up close. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their '''Weapons of Damnation''' and their '''Wings of Sin'''. They can spend 2 Hope points to recover all spent Damnation Dice, a resource they use to power various racial-class abilities.

The '''Noble Soul''' represents the elite of Purgatory; the spirits of heroes, warlords, poets, philosophers and other virtuous beings condemned to never reach heaven for being pagans or heathens, now waiting for Judgement Day and hoping to be accepted into God's grace.. They resemble living statues; men and women with marble-white skin, like an ancient effigy come to life, and with cracks in their flesh revealing hints of their golden bones beneath. Their ancient wisdom and eons spent in Hell grant them the power to wield magic, and they can spend 2 Hope Points to cast any 1st level or higher spell without spending a spell slot. Their Emblems are their '''Golden Skeleton''', their very appearance of being a living '''Stone Effigy''', and their '''Ancient Relics'''.