Ancestries

28 ancestries

• AureliosAurelion-descended humanoids, often gold-skinned, drawn from the Aurelion Ascendancy and its diaspora across the Prime Plane.

  HumanoidCelestial
• AxiomA post-biological species that chose extinction over contagion. The organic Axiom transferred what they could into an artificial substrate rather than evacuate and risk carrying their plague off-world. What walks around now is governed by a single central consciousness that considers itself the same species, one stage on.

  Construct
• ChangelingA small and rarely-acknowledged lineage of natural shapechangers. Changelings adjust facial structure, coloration, and voice within a limited humanoid range and pass through every culture they touch with practiced ease.

  Humanoid
• ClockworkA wholly synthetic humanoid lineage of mechanical bodies and crystalline cognition. Clockworks are crafted rather than born, but those who awaken to selfhood are persons in every meaningful sense and increasingly demand to be treated as such.

  ConstructHumanoid
• CreedNeural remnants set into cybernetic bodies by a mortuary faith that decided reverence for death was a mandate to deliver it. The Creed take no single shape and no single ancestry. They take only the sentient, on the grounds that nothing else is worth sanctifying.

  ConstructUndead
• DragonbornThe descendants of dragons who chose to live among the elves they had made, and of the elves who did not refuse them. The first Dragonborn were called abominations and driven to the wildlands for it. The name stuck; so did the grudge.

  DraconianHumanoid
• DwarfShort, broad-shouldered, mountain-rooted, and unrivaled as smiths and stoneworkers. Dwarven holds anchor every continent and many orbital habitats; the lineage's reputation for craft and grudge alike spans the galaxy.

  Humanoid3 Sublineages▾
• ElfThe elder elemental lineage. Each branch was shaped from the essence of a different fallen titan, and the differences held long after the dragons who made them went into hiding. Play an Elf when the branch matters less than the inheritance.

  HumanoidElemental6 Sublineages▾
• FaeOtherworldly humanoids whose lineage threads through the Ether and whose presence subtly bends ambient Rift energy. Fae are glamour-touched, slow-aging, and often regarded warily even in cosmopolitan ports.

  Fae7 Sublineages▾
• GenasiElemental-touched humanoids — born with the residue of one of the four primal Riftstreams in their blood, marked by skin, eyes, or carriage that the element will not allow them to forget.

  ElementalHumanoid
• GiantThe first and largest of the Titan-kin, made from the dispersed essence of the Titans that the dragons and the Pantheon put down in the Second Age. Each giant line carries the element of the Titan it came from, and each remembers being made from something greater.

  Giantkin2 Sublineages▾
• GnomeSmall, curious, and disproportionately responsible for the galaxy's better gadgetry. Gnomish workshops cluster wherever there is interesting machinery to take apart, and gnomes themselves are over-represented in tinkerer's guilds and engineering corps.

  Humanoid
• HalcyionCybernetically augmented humanoids from the Halcyion Federation. Faith and machinery treated as expressions of the same purpose.

  Humanoid
• HalflingSmall, hardy, cheerful, and improbably hard to kill. Halfling enclaves dot the frontier and the inner systems alike, valued for their cooks, their pilots, and a stubbornness that does not quite match their stature.

  Humanoid
• HumanThe most varied, most distributed ancestry of the Prime Plane. Adaptable, ambitious, ubiquitous.

  Humanoid
• IstryxianDual-natured humanoid lineage with shared ancestral memory and a second perceptual sense that reads emotional and Rift-resonant frequencies. Branches into three distinct sublineages: D'horvakk, Zaelyth, and Keth'rassa.

  HumanoidReptilian3 Sublineages▾
• KrootAvian-reptilian predator-hunters from frontier worlds, marked by quill-feathered crests, beaked faces, and a unique digestive biology that briefly imprints minor traits from consumed prey.

  AvianReptilian
• MyconidAmbulatory fungus folk who want very little and say less. Myconid colonies grow in the dark corners of the world and measure a visitor by how quietly they arrive. They are peaceful until a colony is threatened, at which point the spores stop being decorative.

  Fungus
• Myr'KhruulInsectoid, exoskeletal humanoids bound by a subtle kin-telepathy rather than a true hivemind. Each Myr'Khruul is a sovereign individual, but the whisper between them — half instinct, half deliberate communion — colors every encounter outsiders have with the lineage.

  InsectoidAberration
• MytharSurviving descendant of the ancient elven precursor civilization that shattered the Continuum Crystal during the First Continuum Crisis. Exceedingly rare; Rift-touched in constitution and burdened with partial dream-memories of an age the galaxy lost.

  HumanoidCelestial
• OrcStrong, ferocious, tribally bonded warriors with a long martial tradition and an equally long history of being misjudged by the cultures around them. Modern orcish clans range from frontier raiders to chartered mercenary houses to professional citizens of every major power.

  Humanoid2 Sublineages▾
• Qy'reenSlender, dual-pupiled humanoids native to the Prime Plane. Their eyes resolve frequencies beyond the visible spectrum and their kin-pods read the Rift the way other people read weather.

  HumanoidAmphibious
• SaurusReptilian, scaled humanoids of ancient lineage. Saurus clans trace their roots to civilizations that predate the modern powers, and many carry inherited fragments of that age in dreams and sun-warmed silences.

  HumanoidReptilian
• ShadeHumanoids who merged with the essence of the Netherveil and did not come back the same. Netheril's citizens took thousands of years to turn; most Shades since have taken considerably less. In darkness they are more than they are, and they know it.

  HumanoidAberration
• ThuulFour-armed humanoid lineage, native non-verbal communicators, deep traders across the galactic frontier.

  InsectoidHumanoid
• UndeadReanimated humanoids who retained selfhood through the transition. The Undead lineage covers the rare cases in which death did not end the person — through ritual, accident, Rift-incident, or inheritance — and the reanimated continued on as themselves.

  UndeadHumanoid3 Sublineages▾
• WarforgedSentient constructed humanoids — purpose-built bodies of plate, fibrebundle, and bound-channel cores, awakened to person-hood somewhere between the smelter and the battlefield.

  ConstructHumanoid
• ZyrrakChitin-plated predatory humanoids with no homeworld. Their clans were scattered generations ago; the survivors carry the hunt with them.

  HumanoidReptilian