History Characters / StarfinderPlayerRaces

* {{Reincarnation}}: Inverted. When an android has lived what it feels is a full enough life, it triggers it's nanites into an accelerated repair mode that fixes the body just like new, but their own soul will leave for the Boneyard while a brand new soul will come to inhabit it. They call this "Renewal".

* LongLived: Even more so than dwarves, with lifespans capping out near a thousand years.

->'''Size:''' Small

* OurElvesAreBetter: Zigzagged. Elves are still the same lithe, long-lived, whimsical and passionate race of humanoids with characteristic pointed ears that live in relative isolation with other races. They were also the hardest-hit race by the Gap, and have adopted xenophobia as a result of that.

* BizarreAlienPsychology: If they ''aren't'' ObfuscatingStupidity, then they just genuinely don't understand that they've been conquered, or indeed the concept of ''being'' conquered. Either way, the Vesk are tearing their non-existent hair out.

* HadToBeSharp: When you're living on a cracked planet thats *infested* with local {{Kaijo}}, it helps to be able to survive in it. This is represented as a bonus to their Stealth and Survival skills, which is increased if the damai is underground.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: A variant; while they're still monstrous-looking beetles, their ''personalities'' are greatly improved from Pathfinder. In Pathfinder, trox were wild, ChaoticNeutral savages enslaved by the duergar to be used as war machines. The trox in Starfinder are closer to the original trox that the duergar corrupted; gentle, peaceful emissaries who worship the Forever Queen.

* KillerRabbit: Skittermander whelps are as cute as the adults, save for a secondary mouth they use to take bites out of large prey. It's normally all-but harmless given their diminutive size, but a swarm of whelps can skeletonize a large animal.

* HeavyWorlder: According to ''Near Space'', their homeworld has half-again standard gravity. Accordingly, they take no hit to Strength despite being the approximate size of a human toddler.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: This race was made available for all Society members to play (provided they bought the book/pdf they came in) due to the majority of Society players opting to keep the Izalguun's secret (advanced tech) during their introductory adventure.

[[caption-width-right:250:A damaya lashunta.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: A male korasha is this by default, given how willowy and graceful the caste is.

* DiscardAndDraw: ''Starfinder'' androids don't have the Nanite Surge ability of the Androffan/Numerian androids of the past. Instead, they have a built-in armor upgrade slot. However, the *Character Operations Manual* offers a variant choice that replaces the slot with the classic Nanite Surge again.

* DiscardAndDraw: ''Starfinder'' androids don't have the Nanite Surge ability of the Androffan/Numerian androids of the past. Instead, they have a built-in armor upgrade slot.

* StarfishAliens: They look somewhere between a sea cucumber and a sea anemone, prefer to lie flat on the ground but typically stand upright on their three legs while around other species, and can reproduce via parthenogenesis but prefer not to.

* OneGenderRace: All Bolidas can both carry and fertilize eggs.

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!!Pact Worlds
[[folder:Astrazoan]]
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->'''Type:''' Aberration (Shapechanger)

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: Astrazoans maintain their shapeshifted forms not to deceive or even out of fear, but out of consideration for their neighbors, as they understand that their natural form can be disturbing to humanoids.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Astrazoans can form both male and female reproductive organs and are effectively hermaphroditic.
* NotSoExtinct: Astrazoan DNA samples are suspiciously similar to that of the ilee, the original natives of Apostae that supposedly went extinct.
* StarfishAliens: In their natural form, astrazoans look like seven-limbed, human-sized starfish with cartilaginous skeletons and jelly-like flesh.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Astrazoans can assume the appearance of almost any creature of the same size.

[[folder:Bantrid]]
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->'''Size:''' Small

* BizarreAlienLocomotion: They roll on a single sphere-shaped foot.
* {{Keet}}: They're very hyperactive; they literally cannot sit still for any length of time or else they start to experience a sensation similar to claustrophobia that causes them to hyperventilate and pass out.
* StarfishAliens: A bantrid is a single column head/torso mounted on a spherical, rolling foot, with two sets of hand-like tentacles extending from either side of their bodies. They also have no sense of smell at all.
* ThrillSeeker: They're always in search of new experiences.
* TrulySingleParent: They reproduce via budding.

[[folder:Borai]]
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->'''Type:''' Undead
->'''Size:''' Medium

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: Despite being considered undead, borais are only mostly dead bodies that still have a sliver of the soul inside, usually because of a botched resurrection or because the borai was too stubborn to die. They still need to breathe, eat and sleep like normal living people.

[[folder:Khizar]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Khizar, Plantlike)

* BizarreAlienBiology: They're masses of roots and vines arranged in the structure of a bipedal humanoid with a glowing seedpod where the head would be.
* NatureHero: They're big on preserving nature and the natural world from the constant encroachment of industrialization.
* PlantAliens: Technically they're humanoids so physically and mentally they're a lot closer to other humanoid species than the ghorans of Golarion, despite looking more alien.

[[folder: Sentient Robotic Organism]]
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->'''Type:''' Construct (Technological)
->'''Size:''' Small or Medium

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: [=SROs=] are constructs with positronic brains so complex that they've attracted souls and developed free will. They can eat and drink but don't need to, and they have to sleep by entering offline mode for 8 hours every day. Because of their healing circuits, [=SROs=] can heal naturally and be resurrected like organic creatures, and healing spells can also affect them to a lesser degree.

[[folder: Strix]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Strix)

Another race formerly originating from Golarion, the Strix of the Pact Worlds come from a spire on the "Day" side of Verces.

* BirdPeople: They have several subtle avian qualities. For instance their eyes are fixed in their skulls and they have to turn their whole heads to look around.
* SlaveRace: They were originally bred as one by the syrinx, but since they seem to have vanished with Golarion, the strix in Starfinder are entirely free.
* WingedHumanoid: Despite their avian natures they do look more like this, as they lack feathers anywhere but their wings, don't have beaks, and have humanoid hand structures (though they do have digitigrade legs, and non-functional claws instead of nails).

!!Adventure Paths
!!!Dead Suns
[[folder:Elebrian]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Elebrian)

Sentients native to Eox, most turned to undeath when the backlash from a superweapon decimated their world. A few survived in their normal, living forms.
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* MyBrainIsBig: Their enlarged craniums signify their advanced intelligence.
* TheNecrocracy: Undead elebrians now far outnumber living ones, ruled by the bone sages.
* RubberForeheadAliens: They resemble humans with enlarged craniums.
* SuddenNameChange: The elebrians were originally just called Eoxians after their home planet in ''Pathfinder'', as no one on Golarion knew their racial name, or that they were a distinct race from humans, back then.
* UndeadLaborers: The undead elebrians know that they won't age or weaken, there's no concept of retirement, and an elebrian tasked with guarding a wall knows that in 3 centuries, the wall will still be standing and the elebrian capable of doing so.

[[folder:Ferran]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Ferran)
->'''Size:''' Small

A stout race from a world consumed by a black hole. They now live on their moon, still floating just outside of the event horizon.
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* DyingRace: Their planet being consumed by a black hole has put them in a precarious position, and they're currently one natural disaster away from being effectively extinct.
* RubberForeheadAliens: They look like stout yellow-skinned humans or, alternatively, yellow dwarves.

[[folder: Ghibrani]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Ghibrani)
->'''Size:''' Medium

* AfterTheEnd: Their homeworld, Elytrio, was devastated by nuclear war, with a portion of the survivors living in a protected dome city while the rest eek out a living in a harsh, radioactive wasteland.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Ghbrani are dimorphic, but this is due to environmental factors, with the membrane ghibrani living in comfort and luxury growing soft but retaining their ability to fly, while the husk ghibrani have adapted to life in a radioactive wasteland, becoming hardier but losing their wings.
* InsectoidAliens: They're humanoid beetles.
* NiceGuy: Their "affable" trait gives them a racial bonus to diplomacy checks.
* ScamReligion: The husk ghibranis who live outside the domed city of Arkeost do so because hundreds of years ago, the ancestors of the membrane ghibranis told them the goddess Mother Touloo had declared them her chosen people and had a promised land for them in the wasteland. Problem being that Mother Touloo is entirely fictitious, invented for this purpose to save Arkeost from overpopulation. Centuries later, the membrane ghibrani have completely forgotten their own deception.

[[folder:Ilthisarian]]
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* BizarreAlienBiology: They've got multiple heads and multiple sets of redundant organs.
* GeniusBruiser: Large sized, and with racial bonuses to both strength and intelligence.
* MadeOfIron: Large and hearty, they've also got multiple sets of redundant organs.
* ManBitesMan: Ther multiple sets of powerful jaws and sharp teeth allow them to bite enemies and hold on and grapple enemies once bitten.
* MultipleHeadCase: They have one primary head, but have several (artwork depicts both six and seven) other, smaller heads that look like snakes sprouting from their neck ad shoulders. Their language is particularly hard to master because all of these heads speak together in a way that isn't easy to immitate, to the point that many other races choose to send whole teams of diplomats trained to speak together as a chorus to deal with the ilthisarians.
* SnakePeople: They're serpent-like aliens with a humanoid torso, but with a snake's tail as a lower body that forks into two tips at the end.

[[folder:Kish]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Kish)

Primitive descendants of the kishalee, an advanced civilization that once ruled the stars, the kish live among the ruins of their former glory, ignorant of the power their people once held. They are humanoids with skull-like faces, mandibles, and digigrade feet.
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* ExtraEyes: They have a literal third eye on their foreheads.
* FuturePrimitive: They're at a largely stone age level of development even though they're the descendants of a star-faring people.

[[folder:Scyphozoan]]
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->'''Type:''' Aberration

* BioPunk: Scyphozoan technology depends on genetically manipulated organisms that function similar to mechanical and electronic devices.
* TheFederation: The most advanced and powerful economic and military force on Primoria is the Council States, a commercial and defensive confederation of scyphozoan city-states and tribes.
* FunnyAnimal: Scyphozoans are a race of civilised jellyfish that can breathe air as well as water, has two prehensile tentacles ('arms') and multiple ambulatory tentacles to walk on land.
* PoisonousPerson: Scyphozoans can secrete corrosive acid with their tentacles.
* XRayVision: The scyphozoan's bell and tentacles are sensitive to vibrations in the air or water, allowing them to sense nearby creatures even if they can't see them.

[[folder:Selamid]]
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->'''Type:''' Ooze

* BaseOnWheels: Selamids build their cities called megadoplexes upon the backs of their gentle, half-mile-long cousins called megadolorids.
* BlobMonster: The first playable race of oozes in ''Starfinder'', selamids have mutable, flexible bodies made of protoplasm.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Selamids can eat nearly any organic matter.
* NoBiologicalSex: Since they reproduce asexually via binary fission, selamids have no concept of biological sex, and game material refers to them by the pronoun 'it'.
* OneSizeFitsAll: Invoked: equipment and armour of the appropriate size never needs to be adjusted to allow a selamid to use it.
* TrulySingleParent: Selamids reproduce by dividing into two identical ones at the end of their lifespan.

[[folder: Seprevoi]]
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->'''Type:''' Monstrous Humanoid (Seprevoi)

* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Due to the scarcity of resources they have access to, they've become very proficient with archaic weapons and receive bonuses to them.
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: They have four legs, but rather than being arranged in a centaur-type configuration, it's more like if you had two legs coming out of either socket in your hip.
* TheExile: A whole race exiled from their homeworld by a virus that will kill them if they go back. Unfortunately for them this happened before the advent of drift travel, when they were confined to a single system. And perhaps more unfortunately, their homeworld is the only planet in their system that sustains life.
* FutureImperfect: Knowledge of exactly what it was that caused them to flee their planet has been lost to them and most believe that it was some crime against the gods for which they are being punished for all eternity.
* KillerSpaceMonkey: Well not especially killer given that they aren't particularly hostile or warlike, anymore so than anyone else. But they are a race of aliens who resemble simians, though with four legs.
* SinsOfOurFathers: Self-imposed by the Exilytes, a cult like organization that permeates every level of Seprevoi society. They believe that their race must pay eternal penance for some forgotten crime, and no technology or magic can ever bring them back to their homeworld.
* SpaceStation: They are confined to a series of them in orbit around their home planet, which they can no longer go to.
* TheVirus: They created a biological weapon that only targets their own race. Unfortunately it got loose and became air born, rendering their entire planet uninhabitable for their species, though other races are unaffected. The seprevoi themselves have forgotten this, and believe the virus to be a divine punishment.

[[folder:Shimreen]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Shimreen)
->'''Size:''' Medium

[[folder:Woioko]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Woioko)

A species from a watery world, the woiokos are separated into two subspecies. The Deepborn live deep in the oceans, while the Floatborn live in floating cities on the ocean's surface.
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* FishPeople: Eel people.
* HumanoidAliens: They look like humanoid eels.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Both subspecies can breathe in water as well as in air.

!!!Against the Aeon Throne
[[folder:Brakim]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Brakim)
->'''Size:''' Medium

Natives of Bortan II, a world reduced to an irradiated wasteland during the Gap. They were marginally conquered by the Azlanti Star Empire, with the only city on the planet arising around the empire's single outpost.
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[[folder:Endiffian]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Endiffian)

A race with highly malleable flesh they can reshape to look like other races.

[[folder:Gosclaw]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Gosclaw)

Natives of a volcanic continent on the planet Duren, glosclaws became experts at engineering to build safe subterranean homes. When the Azlanti Star Empire came to them they knew they could not resist and willingly submitted, becoming a citizen race.

[[folder:Neskinti]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Neskinti)
->'''Size:''' Medium

Natives of the jungle world Gjor III, their lack of technological development made it easy for the Azlanti Star Empire to conquer them. Technology continues to baffle them, but they are skilled ecologists even without such aids.

[[folder:Screedreep]]
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->'''Type:''' Humanoid (Screedreep)
->'''Size:''' Small

One of the first species ground under the heel of the Azlanti Star Empire. Their homeworld of Eostrillion was taken from them and the species was beaten down into a race of sycophants.
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* NumberTwo: They're the Star Empire's favored non-human species and hold the highest possible status for such a race, but they're still second class citizens.
* SycophanticServant: The responded to centuries of Azlanti oppression by becoming ''very good'' at being subservient.
* WhiteCollarCrime: Screedreep who go bad tend to gravitate to this. With their size and dispositions, they're not much for violence, but their managerial talents come in handy as mob consiglieres.

[[folder:Stellifera]]
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->'''Type:''' Magical Beast
->'''Size:''' Diminutive

Diminutive psychic creatures from the deep oceans of Parin. The Azlanti Star Empire nearly wiped them out through pollution, not realizing they were sentient, and they have since integrated with the Empire in order to disperse across colonized space and ensure their race can't be wiped out in one fell swoop.

* LittleGreenManInACan: Being aquatic cephalopods the size of small cats, they couldn't normally adventure on land or use vehicles and equipment made for humanoids. Stellifera who leave the seas use their MindOverMatter abilities to construct mobile aquariums/environment suits out of water.
* OctopoidAliens: They look more like cuttlefish than octopodes, but the same idea.
* PsychicPowers: They're telepathic and telekinetic.

[[folder:Vilderaro]]
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->'''Type:''' Monstrous Humanoid
->'''Size:''' Medium

Native to the superheated oceans of Oyojii, the vilderaros are recent additions to the Azlanti Star Empire. They might not remain so for long, as Azlanti monoculture is proving to be a difficult burden for them to accept.

!!Starfinder Society
[[folder:Copaxi]]
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->'''Type''': Humanoid

Inhabitants of a dying world, they applied for admission to the Pact Worlds through the Starfinder Society. Whether by fleeing their homeworld or by gaining admittance, they contribute to the galaxy at large.
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* StarfishAliens: They're a collection of papules inhabiting a coral-like body that's rough to the touch.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Their lifespans are relatively short at only 40 standard years.

[[folder:Morlamaw]]
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->'''Type:''' Monstrous Humanoid (Aquatic)

A sentient species resembling walruses with opposable claws on their side flippers, morlamaws are pre-spaceflight natives of the cold, watery planet Arniselle. While the majority of the race remains on their home world, a few adventurous souls have joined the crews of starships to see the universe.

* PapaWolf: In Pathfinder, trox could enter a pseudo-rage when they took damage. In Starfinder, trox go into a frenzy when their ''friends'' get hurt.

* AscendedExtra: They started out as a fairly minor, background playable race in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', but became one of the core races of ''Starfinder''.

* SpaceX: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Duh]].

* WingedHumanoid: Despite their avian natures they do look more like this, as they lack feathers anywhere but their wings, don't have beaks, and have humanoid hand and foot structure (though they do have non-functional claws instead of nails).