Pahtra Heritages

You descend from a long line of hunters, and your fur is especially well suited to blending into multiple environments. As long as you’re in a natural and undeveloped environment, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Stealth checks to Hide and Sneak, to Survival checks to Subsist, and to your Survival DC to Cover Tracks.

You have an undeniable streak of luck that you believe is a blessing from your ancestral god Meyel. You might come from a long line of mystics. Perhaps you were born at a holy site on Pulonis, or you reached out in fervent prayer at a time of crisis. Most of Meyel’s chosen can point to at least one past event when their goddess might have intervened to save them from death or some other awful fate. Whether metaphorically or literally, you always seem to land on your feet. The first time each day that you critically fail a saving throw, you immediately reroll the saving throw as a free action; this is a fortune effect.

You're a Volosian, a deep-jungle pahtra of the southern Pulonis coasts who permanently bonded with a specially bred symbiotic ooze called a hymothoa. Your body secretes a slime that protects your coat, keeping it slippery and shiny. You gain resistance to acid damage equal to half your level (minimum 1), and a +2 circumstance bonus to Reflex saves to avoid being Engulfed by creatures and to checks to Escape after being Engulfed.

Your size is intimidating to most creatures, and you know how to use it to your advantage. Your size is Large instead of Medium. You're trained in Intimidation. If you would automatically become trained in Intimidation (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in another skill of your choice.

You’ve adapted to cold environments by growing a fluffy fur coat. You might be the descendant of ancient pahtras who dwelled in the frigid regions of Pulonis long before the Veskarium’s exploitation changed its climate, or you might have unlocked this genetic potential through bioengineering. You gain cold resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1). You treat environmental cold effects as if they were one step less extreme (incredible cold becomes extreme, extreme cold becomes severe, and so on).

Saberine pahtras carry far more muscle than the average pahtra and are built for hand-to-hand combat. Instead of the normal attribute boosts, you can choose to gain a boost to Strength, a boost to Charisma, a free boost, and a flaw in Intelligence. You gain the Ancestral Unarmed Attack standardized ancestry feat twice.

Your ancestors roamed blasted terrain leached of vital nutrients by the Veskarium. You’re shorter and stockier than most pahtras, with wide, tufted ears and fur-covered paw pads. Your size is Small instead of Medium. You ignore difficult terrain and uneven ground caused by sand and gain fire resistance equal to half your level (minimum 1).

Your shimmering black coat acts as a sort of natural space suit that's especially visible on the infrared spectrum. While in a vacuum, you temporarily gain the cosmic trait. Creatures with the cosmic trait don't need to breathe while in space or a vacuum and are immune to the harmful effects of being in space. You also gain darkvision.

You've returned from the brink of death as a borai— at once both living and undead. You gain the borai and undead trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. Unlike other undead, you don't gain void healing. You're healed by vitality effects and damaged by void damage, as if you were a living creature. Likewise, you can be stabilized, healed, and brought back to life as if you were a living creature, save that you always return to life in your normal undead state (as a borai). You gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from borai feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

You are a reanimated corpse. Your undead nature might physically manifest in gray or pale skin, eyes that turn solid black or white, or an unnatural elongation of the fingernails (or similar appendages). You gain the corpsefolk and undead traits, 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 corpsefolk feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

The Gap has subsumed some part of you and left you with weird powers and jarring existential issues, while giving you a unique ability to perceive the history obscured by the Gap. You gain the Gap-touched trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You can choose from Gap-touched feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat. You gain the Additional Lore general feat for Gap Lore. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to saving throws against mental effects.

You have an innate connection to the Drift. You gain the prismeni trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. While you're in the Drift, you can automatically pinpoint the location of Drift beacons, Drift lanes, Drift engines, and other Drift-related technology within a 100-mile radius. If you're Piloting a starship that doesn't have a Drift engine, you can serve as a connection between the Drift and that starship. This is a 1-minute activity that has the concentrate trait, and it allows the starship you're Piloting to enter or exit the Drift. Once within the Drift, the starship travels via conventional thrusters, as normal. When you get a critical failure on a Piloting check to Navigate or Plot Course through the Drift, you get a failure instead. You gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from prismeni feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.

You're a constructed version of a non-human ancestry. You gain the android trait, in addition to the trait associated with the ancestry you resemble. You gain the constructed ability but not the low-light vision ability of androids. In addition, your size category and reach changes to match the chosen ancestry. You can select from android feats up to 13th level, any of the feats of the ancestry you resemble, or xenometric android feats whenever you gain an ancestry feat. Choose a heritage from your ancestry, but you don't gain its mechanical benefits. The xenometric android heritage shouldn't be taken by a member of a constructed ancestry, such as android, or a human.