Ancestries

27 ancestries

• AureliosAurelion-descended humanoids, pale to white-skinned, drawn from the Aurelion Ascendancy and its diaspora across the Prime Plane.

  HumanoidCelestial
• AxiomPost-biological people governed by a single central consciousness, made when the organic Axiom moved into an artificial substrate instead of evacuating and spreading their plague off-world.

  Construct
• ChangelingA small lineage of natural shapechangers who alter facial structure, coloring and voice within a limited humanoid range and live among many cultures.

  Humanoid
• ChimeraeThirteen hybrid peoples, most made in the Second and Third Continuum Crises when Rift Energy from the Continuum Crystal fused humanoid stock with animals, and in a few lines with spirits.

  HumanoidBeast13 Sublineages▾
• CreedNeural remnants of any sentient ancestry, set into cybernetic bodies of no fixed shape by a mortuary faith that took reverence for death as a mandate to deliver it.

  ConstructUndead
• DragonbornDescendants of dragons who chose to live among the elves they had made and of the elves who accepted them, whose first generation was called abominations and driven into the wildlands.

  DraconianHumanoid
• DwarfShort, broad-shouldered smiths and stoneworkers whose holds stand on every continent and many orbital habitats, known across the galaxy for their craft and their grudges.

  DwarfHumanoid5 Sublineages▾
• ElfThe elder elemental lineage, shaped by dragons who later went into hiding, each branch from a different fallen titan.

  HumanoidElemental6 Sublineages▾
• FaeSlow-aging humanoids whose lineage runs through the Ether, whose presence bends ambient Rift energy and who are often regarded warily even in cosmopolitan ports.

  Fae8 Sublineages▾
• FiendlingA lineage traced to the lower planes by blood or by an unpaid bargain, whose mark can surface generations later in a person who had no part in the arrangement.

  HumanoidFiend
• 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 line tied to its Titan's element.

  Giantkin2 Sublineages▾
• GnomeSmall tinkerers whose workshops cluster wherever there is machinery to take apart, and who are over-represented in tinkerer's guilds and engineering corps.

  GnomeHumanoid1 Sublineages▾
• HalcyionCybernetically augmented humanoids of the Halcyion Federation, who treat faith and machinery as expressions of the same purpose.

  CyberneticHumanoid
• HalflingSmall, hardy people with enclaves across the frontier and the inner systems, valued as cooks and pilots.

  HalflingHumanoid
• HumanThe most varied and most widely distributed ancestry of the Prime Plane.

  Humanoid
• IstryxianDual-natured humanoid people united by a shared ancestral memory, with a second sense that reads emotional and Rift frequencies, in three sublineages: D'horvakk, Zaelyth, and Keth'rassa.

  IstryxianHumanoid3 Sublineages▾
• MycelaiWalking fungus folk whose colonies grow in the dark corners of the world, judge a visitor by how softly they arrive, and stay peaceful until a colony is threatened.

  Plant
• Myr'KhruulInsectoid humanoids with chitinous exoskeletons and a kin-telepathy short of a true hivemind, in which each Myr'Khruul remains a sovereign individual.

  InsectoidAberration
• MytharRare Rift-touched descendants of the Mythar, first mortal people of the Prime Plane, made by Helios and bonded to the Hosts of Helion, whose archmage Valekith shattered the Continuum Crystal in the First Continuum Crisis.

  HumanoidCelestial2 Sublineages▾
• OrcStrong, clan-bonded warriors with a long martial tradition, found today as frontier raiders, chartered mercenary houses and professional citizens of every major power.

  OrcHumanoid4 Sublineages▾
• Qy'reenEngineered aquatic beings native to the Prime Plane, bred in fish, crustacean and cephalopod forms and reproduced by cloning, with eyes that see beyond the visible spectrum and kin-pods that read the Rift.

  Humanoid
• RiftworkCrafted synthetic humanoids with mechanical bodies and crystalline cognition, whose awakened members increasingly demand to be treated as persons.

  ConstructHumanoid
• ShadeHumanoids who merged with the Netherveil, a change that took the citizens of Lirathym thousands of years and later Shades far less, and who are stronger in darkness.

  HumanoidAberration
• TherianthropeCursed lineages that share a body with a beast, begun by a curse of Nyx, the Night Mother, that still spreads by a bite or by blood, saliva, or other bodily fluid entering a living person.

  HumanoidBeast5 Sublineages▾
• ThuulFour-armed humanoids who speak without sound, caste-bound on Thuul Prime under their Matriarchs, with those released to the frontier running the deep trade routes the chartered lines will not touch.

  InsectoidHumanoid
• UndeadRare reanimated humanoids who kept their identity after death through ritual, accident, a Rift incident, or inheritance.

  UndeadHumanoid4 Sublineages▾
• ZyrrakChitin-plated predatory humanoids with no homeworld, whose clans were scattered generations ago.

  ReptilianHumanoid