Novian Heritages

Your progenitor star collapsed into a black hole, as have you. You don't shed light, and you lose the solar luminance ability. You gain darkvision and the Absorb Light action.

You're brilliant, blazing with a light that puts other novians to shame. You shed bright light in a 60-foot radius, rather than a 20-foot radius, and dim light for the next 60 feet, rather than the next 20 feet. You gain the Concentrate Light action.

Whether you were born from an explosive supernova or brilliant nebula, your progenitor star remains out there to this day, burning bright as a superdense neutron star or a white dwarf. Like your progenitor, you're incredibly dense, weighing twice as much as a typical novian. You're capable of standing firm against the strongest of external forces and enduring any hardship. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to your Fortitude and Reflex DCs against attempts to Reposition, Shove, or Trip you. This bonus also applies to saving throws against spells or effects that attempt to force you to move or knock you prone. In addition, if any effect would force you to move 10 feet or more, you're moved only half the distance.

You were born from a massive star or red supergiant and are much larger than the typical novian. Instead of Tiny, your size is Small. You gain 10 Hit Points from your ancestry, rather than 6.

Yours is a life-giving flame, nourishing all who bask in your glow. It's likely your progenitor star contained a portal to Creation's Forge or was a site of importance to a deity or other powerful cosmic being. You gain the Nourishing Light action.

Your chemical composition is incredibly volatile, and like the supernova that birthed you, you're ready to go out with a bang! You gain the Mini-Nova reaction.

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.