History Characters / PathfinderPlayableRaces

* MarkOfTheSupernatural: The easiest way to figure out if someone is a changeling is to check their eye color -- all changelings have mismatched eyes.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Inverted. In 1st edition, nagaji had fundamentally human faces, apart from the serpentine eyes, scaly skin, and snake-like fangs. In 2nd edition, nagaji literally have the heads of giant snakes on an otherwise humanoid body.
** Played straight with the Sacred Nagaji ancestry; whereas 1st edition nagaji features were more human-like, they were still reptilian enough to make them disturbing. Sacred Nagaji look like very attractive and normal humans... from the waist up.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: As befitting the TropeCodifier of ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''Dungeons and Dragons'' orcs being violent warmongers, they were usually depicted as evil throughout 1st Edition, mostly due to having evil gods and {{Demon Lords|And Archdevils}} as patrons. 2nd Edition has [[ZigzaggingTrope zigzagged]] this - orcs are described this way in the Bestiary (much like Goblins), but the Advanced Players Guide gives no indication that they have an inherently-evil nature, and there are examples of good-leaning orc societies on Golarion such as the Matanji orcs of the Mwangi Expanse, with Remastered having it that the Belkizen orcs are slowly becoming less xenophobic out of necessity [[EnemyMine to fight Tar-Baphon]].

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Their artwork in 1st edition sources gives them visually scaly skin and forked, snake-like tongues. 2nd edition artwork makes them all but indistinguishable from humans outside of the very subtle giveaway of their eyes.

* PoisonousPerson: Vishkanya have poisonous fangs, and delight in coating their weapons with a layer of poisonous saliva before attacking.

* MagiTek: They are robots in all but name, and were made via techonology from a cabal of mages, soldiers, and artificiers trying to save their kingdom by transferring their consciousness to a Construct and setting out to save it by any means.

* AdaptationalAtttractiveness: Their artwork in 1st edition sources gives them visually scaly skin and forked, snake-like tongues. 2nd edition artwork makes them all but indistinguishable from humans outside of the very subtle giveaway of their eyes..

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: As befitting the TropeCodifier of ''Lord of the Rings'' and ''Dungeons and Dragons'' orcs being violent warmongers, they were usually depicted as evil throughout 1st Edition, mostly due to having evil gods and {{Demon Lords|And Archdevils}} as patrons. 2nd Edition has [[ZigzaggingTrope zigzagged]] this - orcs are described this way in the Bestiary (much like Goblins), but the Advanced Players Guide gives no indication that they have an inherently-evil nature, and there are examples of good-leaning orc societies on Golarion such as the Matanji orcs of the Mwangi Expanse.

* ProudWarriorRace: Of {{Blood Knight}}s, though they tend to view things like honor and loyalty as getting in the way of brute force.

* {{Gonk}}: They can be this. It's mentioned that they often have oddly proportioned features; often eyes that are too big for their face and mouths that are too small.

* BreakoutCharacter: ''Pathfinder'' goblins' much more unique design and characterisation from their original ''Dungeons and Dragons'' versions proved immensley popular with players, eventually promoting Paizo to promote them to a core race in 2nd Edition.

* GeniusDitz: They have a penalty to ''Wisdom'', not Intelligence; many goblins are gleeful and highly competent alchemists.

* UndergroundMonkey: Goblins are very adaptable, quick and eager colonizers of new locations, and worshippers of the goddess of mutation, and as such it's quite common for populations of goblins who settle extreme or exotic environments to develop into new variants on the basic goblin theme adapted to that area. Common variants include the prehensile-tailed, arboreal monkey goblins of the jungles of Mediogalti Island, arctic goblin populations with thick fur or blue skin and resistance to cold temperatures, aquatic grindylows and cavern-dwelling goblins with bulbous eyes and long limbs adapted for climbing.

* CreepyDoll: Invoked by a racial option.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: They're ports of Duergar from ''Dungeons & Dragons'', down to being fatalistic, pessimistic jerks who worship work for work's sake and utilitarianism to the extreme.

* BeastMan: They resemble small anthropomorphic orangutans.

%%* PowerGivesYouWings: The "Tengu Wings" racial feat in a nutshell.

* ParentalAbandonment: The standard procedure for hags is to leave their children for someone else to rear. If the changeling is lucky, they can live a moderate happy life, but most tend to end up being outcasts because of it, making them more likely to seek out their mother.

* LineageComesFromTheFather: Generally a dhampir is born from a mortal female, and a male vampire, though the rules do generally allow for them to be born differently, such as being concieved prior to the mother being made a vampire.

* OurNephilimAreDifferent: The Remaster uses "nephilim" as a collective name for beings born from mortals and the natives of the Outer Planes, including celestials, fiends, and monitors, alongside mortals altered in similar manners by exposure to planar energies.

* TooManyMouths: Some fleshwarps can have extra mouths or eve entire extra faces.

Adventurers in ''Pathfinder'' come in many shapes and sizes and from as many backgrounds as you can imagine. A character's [[Characters/PathfinderClasses]] is only half of the equation; their species plays an equal part in determining that character's history, how they view the world, and how the world views them.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Were initially straight ports of ''D&D'''s Locathah fishmen until the OGL change.

* CatGirl: Their official artwork tends to flip-flop on their anthropomorphism, and at the most human-like end they tend to resemble humans with minor feline features.

Dromaars are the offspring of orcs and other humanoid races, chiefly humans. If aiuvarins have a hard time fitting into society, dromaars tend to have it even worse. To orcs, they're made tainted and weak by their human blood; to humans, they're monsters no better than their orcish parents. This drives most dromaars to the fringes of civilization, where they seek the companionship of others of their kind, or to the adventuring life, where the details of your ancestry matter less than the trust between TrueCompanions; many also find solace in the worship of Gorum, whom they view as a proud, idealized example of their kind, unbroken and unbowed.

* NonhumanHumanoidHybrid: Orcs are remarkably cross-fertile with other species, and as a result many dromaars have goblin or hobgoblin blood. These different crosses all look mostly the same, largely due to orc traits tending to dominate those of the other parent. Elves are one of the few species with whom orcs cannot successfully reproduce, something the elves rarely let other species forget.

* {{Determinator}}: Orcs can keep fighting even when their hit points slip into the negatives.

* FantasticRacism: They view elves and dwarves with hatred and resentment, halflings and gnomes with hatred and contempt, and humans with plain hatred.

* OurNephilimAreDifferent: Third Edition uses "nephilim" as a collective name for beings born from mortals and the natives of the Outer Planes, including celestials, fiends, and monitors, alongside mortals altered in similar manners by exposure to planar energies.

[[folder:Azarketi]]

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The mutated offspring of the few Azlanti to survive Earthfall.

* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk: Depending of the type. Some look more or less like average humans, albeit with purple eyes and gills on their necks. Others have small fins instead of hair, and the ones that live in more deep area of the seas such as the one in the image, have a much more alien look, with blue skin and glowing spots across their bodies.
* SlaveRace: Remnants of the Azlanti who were mutated and enslaved by the alghollthus after they destroyed the Azlanti Empire during the Earthfall, they feeling on the subject are mixed, some still default to their rule, while others go out of their way destroy them were they can find it.

[[folder:Locathah]]
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Fish people with an emphasis on the fish part, unlike merfolk. They smell as foul as they look, but are in fact a friendly race.

* CreepyGood: Despite their repulsive appearance and odour, locathahs are friendly towards their own kind and go to great lengths to befriend surface folk.
* {{Expy}}: They are a port of the same-named species from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons, and most resemble their 3rd Ed appearance and behaviour (surprise!).
* FishPeople: Locathah are humanoids with fish faces and crested fins that exude a foul odour and live in the sea.

[[folder:Merfolk (Sapiaquali-oth)]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (aquatic)

Reclusive inhabitants of the ocean depths, the merfolk are secretive to the point of paranoia. Unknown to many, they're among the numerous servitor species created by the aboleths in ancient times, and are known as the sapiaquali-oth in the aboleth tongue.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: While they generally don't seek out other species to kill, they defend their own territories mercilessly and view all other species as invaders and enemies.
* OddFriendship: With the ''[[EldritchAbomination aboleths]]'', of all things. The aboleth were their creators, and to this day they're the only creatures the merfolk think of as allies.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Amphibious, pointy-eared and extremely reclusive, but otherwise fairly standard.
* ServantRace: They were created as the aboleths' first foray into creating humanoid servitor species, and to this day often serve the fishlike aberrations as agents and unwitting wardens.

[[folder:Monkey Goblin]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (goblinoid)

A goblin subrace from Mediogalti Island off the coast of Garund, they're distinguished by their prehensile tails and tree-dwelling nature.

* DemotedToExtra: In mechanical terms, they went from being their own ancestry in 1E to just a Heritage in 2E.
* HumanSacrifice: They're believed to practice it.
* PrehensileTail: Their main distinction from other goblins is their prehensile, monkey-like tail, which they can use as an additional grasping limb.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Like regular goblins, they love them some fire. It's suspected that their current city is at least the fifth site to bear the name, the previous incarnations having been burned down by its inhabitants.
* ReligionOfEvil: They're suspected to be demon-worshipers.
* TreeTopTown: Ganda-Uj is an especially primitive example of this.
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[[folder:Munavri]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (munavri)

A race of human-descended albinistic psychics who dwell BeneathTheEarth, the munavri sail the lightless seas of Orv and make up the only non-evil faction of any real size in the bowels of the world..
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Reptilian, shapechanger)

* WeakToFire: Since they are often made of wood, cloth, and wicker.

* {{Dhampyr}}: The half-living children of vampires and living mortals, dhampirs are technically living beings but are animated by negative, rather than positive, energy, and inherit their undead parents' aversion to the sun.

* ReviveKillsZombie: Like their undead forefathers, positive channeled energy can leave a nasty sting, even kill them, while negative channeled energy heals them.

* DumbMuscle: In first edition, they receive the second highest strength bonus out of any race in the game, surpassed only by the trox. They also receive penalties to ''all'' mental scores.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Being pretty much the TropeCodifier, they were usually depicted as evil throughout 1st Edition, mostly due to having evil gods and {{Demon Lords|And Archdevils}} as patrons. 2nd Edition has [[ZigzaggingTrope zigzagged]] this - orcs are described this way in the Bestiary (much like Goblins), but the Advanced Players Guide gives no indication that they have an inherently-evil nature, and there are examples of good-leaning orc societies on Golarion such as the Matanji orcs of the Mwangi Expanse.

* {{Hobbits}}: Shoonies are small, hairy (or in this case furry), good-natured people who enjoy the simple pleasures of life who will heed the call of heroism if they need to.

* MischiefMakingMonkey: Vanaras tend to appreciate and play pranks and games, thought usually they draw the line at actually harming others.

* MischiefMakingMonkeys: Vanaras tend to appreciate and play pranks and games, thought they draw the line at actually harming others.

* MischievousMakingMonkeys: Vanaras tend to appreciate and play pranks and games, thought they draw the line at actually harming others.

* HatesReading: Goblins traditionally hate reading and writing, because of a supperstition that it will rob them of their souls and steal their thoughts. This supperstition is born of their origins, when Asmodeus tricked the goblin gods with a contract that enslaved them until Lamashtu liberated them. As with most of their overtly negative aspects thought, 2e edition has downplayed this aspect a bit, with some Goblins starting to learn to read and write so they can intregate themselves better with other societies.

* WeakToFire: Since they are often made of flammable materials.

* HatesRedaing: Goblins traditionally hate reading and writing, because of a supperstition that it will rob them of their souls and steal their thoughts. This supperstition is born of their origins, when Asmodeus tricked the goblin gods with a contract that enslaved them until Lamashtu liberated them. As with most of their overtly negative aspects thought, 2e edition has downplayed this aspect a bit, with some Goblins starting to learn to read and write so they can intregate themselves better with other societies.

* AndroidIdentifier: They look almost exactly human except for a subtle metallic sheen in their eyes and faint circuit-like patterns on their skin, which [[TronLines glow]] when they active their [[{{Nanomachines}} nanite surge]].

* BizarreAlienBiology: Their face/snout has a portion that looks like a wooden visor. Their hair? Those are eyes.

Nobody really knows where halflings come from. As far as even the halflings themselves know, they have always lived in the shadow of Humanity. And that suits most of them just fine

* ReptilianConspiracy: They're shapeshifting humanoid lizard aliens sent to infiltrate society, gain positions of power, and prepare for the invasion.

* DumbMuscle: Described as "strong and alert, but simplistic." They gain a bonus to strength and a penalty to intelligence.

%%* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Their justification for mass enslavement.

* DraconicHumanoid: Dragonkin can stand on their hind legs and have opposable thumbs that allow them to wield weapons as humanoids do.
* DragonRider: Inverted. Dragonkin can form bonds with a humanoid, whom they will allow to ride them into battle.