Fleshwarp Heritages
Source Core Rulebook pg. 33 4.0
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.
Cataphract FleshwarpSource Impossible Lands pg. 28Your battle-hardened skeleton is laced with additional cartilage and muscle to help bear armor across vast areas of operation, and your skin is bedecked with tiny spurs of pliable, resilient keratin to optimize the grip and weight distribution of your armor. You gain the
Armor Proficiency feat. If your class makes you trained in all types of armor, you instead become trained in
Athletics (or a skill of your choice if you're already trained in Athletics) and gain the
Armor Assist skill feat.
Feats Requiring Cataphract Fleshwarp...
Embodied Dreadnought Subjectivity,
Embodied Legionary SubjectivitySource Ancestry Guide pg. 91 2.0You were created through occult or alchemical processes, such as being grown in a vat or stitched together from the body parts of other creatures by a scientist in Ustalav. Your manufactured body is durable; you don't need to eat and can't
starve. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to saving throws against
diseases.
Source Impossible Lands pg. 28The biomancers and mutagenists who warped your form labeled you a “discard on discovery”—a euphemism for destroying you on sight. An anomaly among anomalies, your body stubbornly repudiates the efforts of fleshcrafters seeking to mold you to their grandiose visions, and your immune responses blunt the worst effects of unwanted fleshwarping attempts. If you roll a success on a saving throw against a
transmutation effect, you get a critical success instead.
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 91 2.0Transformed by uncontrolled magic, you originated in a the Mana Wastes or another region similarly devastated by uncontrolled magic. Due to your toughened or redundant organs, the DC for your checks to recover from
persistent bleed damage is 10 instead of 15, and it's reduced to 5 instead of 10 if you have particularly effective assistance recovering from the persistent damage.
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 91 2.0A victim of fleshwarping, you likely bear loose flesh, bony spurs, or features of inhuman creatures sprouting from your skin. You have nevertheless turned the psychic toll of your transformation into a strength. You gain resistance to
mental damage equal to half your level (minimum 1).
Source Impossible Lands pg. 28The undulations of your body's cilia are hyper-attuned to wellsprings of magic; they trill and thrum with insights into occult energies, and their vibrations alert you to the presence of secrets. You gain the trained proficiency rank in
Occultism. If you're trained in Occultism, you instead become trained in another skill of your choice. You also gain the
Oddity Identification skill feat.
Source Ancestry Guide pg. 91 2.0Your transformation is due to manipulation by advanced technology, like that found in Numeria. Your emotions are dulled and hard to influence. When you roll a success on a saving throw against an
emotion effect, you get a critical success instead.
Versatile Heritages
Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 28 2.0The peoples of Golarion are many, and they have a long history of intermingling. The inevitable offspring of these mixed unions share physiological features with both their parents, manifesting as a specific heritage. The most common of these by far are the half-elf and half-orc human ancestries. Some individuals, however, are born under far stranger circumstances, such as a monstrous, undead, or extraplanar parent, a powerful curse, or an incursion of extraplanar energies. As these circumstances aren't unique to a single ancestry, these heritages—called versatile heritages—are likewise shared by many ancestries.
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Uncommon Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 34 2.0Ancestry Page AasimarYou 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.
Uncommon Source Ancestry Guide pg. 75 2.0Ancestry Page AphoriteYou 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.
Source Rage of Elements pg. 47Ancestry Page ArdandeYou 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.
Rare Source Ancestry Guide pg. 79 2.0Ancestry Page BeastkinThe 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.
Concentrate Polymorph Primal Transmutation Source Ancestry Guide pg. 79 2.0
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.
Uncommon Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 30 2.0Ancestry Page ChangelingYour mother was a hag. Your heterochromatic eyes are 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.
Uncommon Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 32 2.0Ancestry Page DhampirYou 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
negative healing ability, which means you are harmed by positive damage and healed by negative 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 choose from dhampir feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.
Uncommon Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 38 2.0Ancestry Page DuskwalkerThanks to an ancient bargain, your soul has been reborn as a duskwalker, a planar scion with a connection to
psychopomp and the
Boneyard. You gain the
duskwalker 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. Neither your body nor your spirit can ever become undead. You can choose from duskwalker feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.
Uncommon Source Ancestry Guide pg. 96 2.0Ancestry Page GanziYour 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.
Uncommon Source Ancestry Guide pg. 101 2.0Ancestry Page IfritYou 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.
Uncommon Source Ancestry Guide pg. 105 2.0Ancestry Page OreadAn
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.
Rare Source Dark Archive pg. 119Ancestry Page ReflectionYou 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.
Uncommon Source Ancestry Guide pg. 110 2.0Ancestry Page SuliYou 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.
Uncommon Source Ancestry Guide pg. 114 2.0Ancestry Page SylphYou 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.
Uncommon Source Rage of Elements pg. 51Ancestry Page TalosYour 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.
Uncommon Source Advanced Player's Guide pg. 39 2.0Ancestry Page TieflingYou 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.
Uncommon Source Ancestry Guide pg. 118 2.0Ancestry Page UndineA
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.