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Sarangay Heritages

Source Player Core pg. 41 2.0
You select a heritage at 1st level to reflect abilities passed down to you from your ancestors or common among those of your ancestry in the environment where you were born or grew up. You have only one heritage and can’t change it later. A heritage is not the same as a culture or ethnicity, though some cultures or ethnicities might have more or fewer members from a particular heritage.

PFS StandardFull Moon Sarangay

Source Tian Xia Character Guide pg. 60
You were raised in a shamanic tradition transcending a single sarangay community or heritage. You spent your youth under the guidance of a shaman elder, who taught you to commune with spirits in the hope that you'll one day use that knowledge to advise and guide your people. Those from your tradition are priests or shamans who channel the spirits and see things others can't. You gain an ancestry attribute boost to Wisdom instead of Strength, and you gain an attribute flaw in Constitution instead of Wisdom. You gain the Folk Healer ancestry feat.

PFS StandardHalf Moon Sarangay

Source Tian Xia Character Guide pg. 60
You come from one of many traveling communities that migrate seasonally along Tian Xia's vast rivers and mountains, bringing news and tidings to villages along their path. Your people connect sarangay communities to one another across vast distances and are symbolized by the half moon, which conjoins the light and dark; so too do you conjoin the dark from the bright, the red from the blue, the wind from the sea. Your ancestors were tall and burly with shiny black fur, light spots or markings, and short, tightly curved horns. You become trained in two Lore skills of your choice, and you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Recall Knowledge checks using those skills.

PFS StandardNew Moon Sarangay

Source Tian Xia Character Guide pg. 60
Some people call you a dwarf sarangay and your kind “hiding ones.” Others whisper you go out with the moon when the moon “goes hunting”—a common folk saying for when the new moon vanishes from the sky. Your elusive ancestors built their lodgings in the shade of bamboo thickets, and your ancestral communities valued caution and independence, passing down the knowledge of walking lightly and moving like smoke through bamboo. Your ancestors had dark brown or gray fur with white markings and a V-shaped pair of flat, triangular horns. Your size is Small instead of Medium. You gain 10 Hit Points from your ancestry instead of 8 and gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks to Shove.

PFS StandardWaning Moon Sarangay

Source Tian Xia Character Guide pg. 60
Your ancestors were named for the moon in transition, ever-changing and ephemeral. They're the keepers of secret arts, just as the waning moon hides its face, and their communities were highly regarded for their storytellers, performers, and artists. You lived among your community on the outskirts of forests or rivers, where many answers came as riddles, and you learned to see the world from different perspectives. Your people are often red or fawn colored, with prominent eyes and flat, compact horns. You become trained in your choice of Acrobatics, Crafting, or Performance.
Once per day, when you roll a critical failure with the chosen skill, you can reroll the check, taking the new result, even if it's worse. Rerolling in this way is a fortune effect.

PFS StandardWaxing Moon Sarangay

Source Tian Xia Character Guide pg. 60
Your ancestors dwelled in the swamps, fens, and flooded forests, where they contended with fierce predators and formed raiding parties to claim scarce resources. Blessed by the growing crescent, you're one of the eviscerators, and you can overcome threats that lurk in murky waters as well as those that hunt on land. You're a powerful swimmer with brown or gray fur and backward- or downward-curving horns. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks to Long Jump or Swim.

Versatile Heritages

Source Player Core pg. 74 2.0
The peoples of Golarion are many, and they have a long history of intermingling or dabbling with forces capable of altering the very fabric of a mortal body or soul. The children born to such parents might have traits from each of their parents or physiological manifestations of the forces their ancestors were influenced by, manifesting as a specific heritage.

Click here for the full rules on Versatile Heritages.

PFS StandardAasimar

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 34 2.0
Ancestry Page Aasimar
You descend from celestials or were touched by the celestial realms, gaining an air of awe and grace, as well as features distinctive to your celestial forebears. You gain the aasimar trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from aasimar feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardAiuvarin

Source Player Core pg. 82 2.0
Ancestry Page Aiuvarin
You have elves, or possibly other aiuvarins, in your family tree. You have pointed ears and other telltale signs of elf heritage. You gain the elf trait, the aiuvarin trait, and low-light vision. In addition, when you gain an ancestry feat, you can choose from aiuvarin and elf feats in addition to those from your ancestry.

PFS StandardAphorite

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 75 3.0
Ancestry Page Aphorite
You were born with a connection to Axis, the Plane of Law. You gain the aphorite trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from aphorite feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardArdande

Uncommon 
Source Rage of Elements pg. 47 2.0
Ancestry Page Ardande
You descend from wood elementals or have some other heritage influenced by the elemental Plane of Wood. You might have green, mossy skin, vines that grow from your head instead of hair, or thin appendages that resemble twigs. You gain the ardande trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision.

You can choose from ardande feats, geniekin feats, and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardBeastkin

Legacy Content

Rare 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 79 3.0
Ancestry Page Beastkin
The blood of a beast flows through your veins, granting you the ferocity and might of animals. Only creatures with the humanoid trait can take the beastkin versatile heritage. Choose a type of animal such as bat, eagle, shark, spider, tyrannosaurus, wasp, or wolf. This is the type of animal tied to your heritage and is known as your inherent animal. You gain the beast and beastkin traits, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain the Change Shape ability. A beastkin's hybrid form is their natural shape. You can choose from beastkin feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

Change Shape [one-action]

Concentrate Polymorph Primal Transmutation 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 79 3.0
You change into your humanoid or hybrid shape. Each shape has a specific, persistent appearance, and most beastkin remain in their hybrid shapes by default. In hybrid shape, you appear as a mix between your ancestry and your inherent animal. While in hybrid shape, you gain a jaws unarmed Strike resembling the features of your inherent animal (fangs for bats, beaks for eagles, mandibles for wasps, and so on). Your jaws deal 1d4 piercing damage, have the agile, finesse, and unarmed traits, and are in the brawling weapon group. In your humanoid shape, you retain the appearance of your original ancestry.

PFS StandardChangeling

Uncommon 
Source Player Core pg. 76 2.0
Ancestry Page Changeling
Your mother was a hag. Your eyes' heterochromia is the most obvious signifier of this parentage, but you likely also have a slighter build, paler skin, and darker hair than most members of your other parent's ancestry. You gain the changeling trait. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can select from changeling feats and feats from your other parent's ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardDhampir

Uncommon 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 42
Ancestry Page Dhampir
You are the scion of a vampire, half living and half undead, gifted with uncanny charm and grace, a bloodless pallor, and elongated incisors. You gain the dhampir trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You have the void healing ability, which means you are harmed by vitality damage and healed by void effects as if you were undead. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can select from dhampir feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardDragonblood

Uncommon 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 44
Ancestry Page Dragonblood
You're descended in some way from a dragon. Your physical features might show this outwardly, with a pair of draconic horns, patches of scaly skin, or even a tail, or you might develop an internal reserve of draconic power. You gain the dragonblood trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. Add Draconic to your ancestry's list of additional languages (allowing you to choose it as a language if your Intelligence modifier is positive). When you roll a success on a saving throw against a fear effect, you get a critical success instead. You can choose from dragonblood feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

Draconic Exemplars

Some abilities reference your draconic exemplar, which is a specific type of dragon from which you draw your draconic powers—typically the type of dragon whose blood runs in your veins. You can choose your exemplar when you create your character, but are only required to choose one when you select a feat or other option that requires you to have one (such as Breath of the Dragon). This means your draconic nature might be a mystery to you for some time. The table below lists the dragons from Monster Core and their specifications. The dragon breath entry lists if the given breath uses a Fortitude (F), Reflex (R), or Will (W) saving throw. If you choose a dragon from a different source, work with your GM to determine if you have access to it.

DragonTraditionSpeedsDragon Breath
AdamantinePrimalBurrowCone of bludgeoningR
ConspiratorOccultClimbCone of poisonF
DiabolicDivine-Cone of fireR
EmpyrealDivine-Cone of spiritR
FortuneArcane-Cone of forceR
HornedPrimalSwimCone of poisonF
MirageArcaneClimbCone of mentalW
OmenOccult-Cone of mentalW

PFS StandardDromaar

Source Player Core pg. 83 2.0
Ancestry Page Dromaar
Orcish strength emboldens your bloodline. You have a green tinge to your skin and other indicators of orc heritage. You gain the orc trait, the dromaar trait, and low-light vision. When you gain an ancestry feat, you can choose from dromaar and orc feats in addition to those from your ancestry.

PFS StandardDuskwalker

Uncommon 
Source Player Core 2 pg. 48
Ancestry Page Duskwalker
Thanks to an ancient bargain, your soul has been reborn as a duskwalker, a planar scion with a connection to psychopomps and the Boneyard. You gain the duskwalker trait. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. Neither your body nor your spirit can ever become undead. You can select from duskwalker feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardGanzi

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 96 3.0
Ancestry Page Ganzi
Your blood is touched by primal chaos. You gain the ganzi trait in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain resistance to a single damage type equal to half your level; at the beginning of each day, determine randomly whether this resistance applies to acid, electricity, or sonic damage. You also gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against effects that would cause you to gain the controlled condition. You can choose from ganzi feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardHungerseed

Uncommon 
Source Tian Xia Character Guide pg. 36
Ancestry Page Hungerseed
One of your parents was an oni or a hungerseed. You possess a pair of horns, ranging in size from conical nubs to lengthy protrusions. You might have other signs of your parentage, such as colorful skin, fangs and claws, or a third eye in your forehead. You gain the oni trait. You gain a horns unarmed attack that deals 1d6 piercing damage and is in the brawling group. You can select from hungerseed feats and feats from your other parent's ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardIfrit

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 101 3.0
Ancestry Page Ifrit
You descend from fire elementals or bear the mark of the Inner Spheres, and your features illustrate the influence that elemental fire has over you. You gain the ifrit trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain resistance to fire equal to half your level (minimum 1), and you treat environmental heat effects as if they were one step less severe (incredible heat becomes extreme, extreme heat becomes severe, and so on). You can choose from ifrit feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardNephilim

Uncommon 
Source Player Core pg. 78 2.0
Ancestry Page Nephilim
Your nature is influenced by celestials, fiends, or monitors. This manifests as a combination of features that belie your heritage, such as golden eyes, a halo, horns, or a tail. You gain the nephilim trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from nephilim feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardOread

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 105 3.0
Ancestry Page Oread
An earth elemental ancestor has influenced your bloodline, and your features highlight this elemental planar connection. You might have a crystalline or metallic sheen to your skin or hair, rough and stony flesh, or glittering gemstone eyes. You gain the oread trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from oread feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardReflection

Legacy Content

Rare 
Source Dark Archive pg. 119
Ancestry Page Reflection
You were created as a duplicate of another creature, intentionally or accidentally, though you might not know of your origins. Other than a minor mark or two, you look just like your progenitor. You gain the reflection trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You don't need to attempt Deception checks to Impersonate your progenitor unless you're interacting with people who know them personally or you do something known to be out of character for them. The GM might require you to roll a Deception check in other circumstances, such as if you're mirror-risen and interacting with someone who has seen an accurate likeness of your progenitor and might notice a distinguishing feature on the reverse side. You can choose from reflection feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardSuli

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 110 3.0
Ancestry Page Suli
You are descended from a janni or otherwise embody a dichotomy of opposing elemental planar forces. You gain the suli trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from suli feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardSylph

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 114 3.0
Ancestry Page Sylph
You are descended from air elementals or were born under the element's influence. You gain the sylph trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision or darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from sylph feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardTalos

Uncommon 
Source Rage of Elements pg. 51 2.0
Ancestry Page Talos
Your physical features reflect the influence a zuhra or other metal elemental has had over your bloodline. Your skin likely has a metallic sheen, ranging from the dull luster of raw ore to the gleaming polish of a new blade, with the wear of age or hardship taking the form of tarnish, rust, or scouring. Your hair might resemble spun gold, coiled steel, copper wiring, or braided chains. You gain the talos trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain resistance to electricity equal to half your level (minimum 1). You can cast the detect metal cantrip as an arcane innate spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell rank equal to half your level rounded up.

You can choose from talos feats, geniekin feats, and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardTiefling

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 39 2.0
Ancestry Page Tiefling
You descend from fiends or bear the mark of the fiendish realms, manifesting as some unusual feature that belies your heritage, such as horns or a tail. You gain the tiefling trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from tiefling feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

PFS StandardUndine

Legacy Content

Uncommon 
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 118 3.0
Ancestry Page Undine
A water elemental ancestor influences your bloodline. You gain the undine trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You gain a swim Speed of 10 feet and the amphibious trait. Like all creatures with the amphibious trait, you can breathe both water and air. You can choose from undine feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.