Avatars

Avatars are the Incarnations of Hindu deities in human or animal form, usually in order to counteract an evil in the world. Sometimes when one deity is incarnated as an Avatar, that deities divine spouse will also incarnate into the human world so they can find each other again and still be with each other.

Like the Egyptian gods, the Hindu gods cannot exist independently on the physical plane. The Egyptian gods get around this problem by binding themselves to "Hosts" but the Hindu gods get around this problem by reincarnating themselves as humans or animals.

Avatars are functionally the closest thing to half-bloods that exists in Hindu mythology, in that they are half-divine beings which fight evil and they are sometimes erroneously referred to as Demigods.

Because the power of an Avatar comes from the spirit and not the blood, the powers of an Avatar cannot be inherited by his or her descendants. The offspring of an Avatar and a human or even two Avatars would simply be a human being and would not inherit any magical abilities.

The most famous and important avatars are the Dashavatara, the Avatars of Vishnu. The 10th and current Avatar of Vishnu is a woman named Kamala Anderson.