Description
Your character’s ancestry determines which people they call their own, whether it’s diverse and ambitious humans, insular but vivacious elves, traditionalist and family-focused dwarves, or any of the other folk who call Golarion home. A character’s ancestry and their experiences prior to their life as an adventurer - represented by a background - might be key parts of their identity, shape how they see the world, and help them find their place in it.
Pathfinder Player Core introduces a variety of ancestries, each with their own heritage subgroups. These ancestries and heritages express a character’s culture and influence their attributes and abilities.
You can get special attribute boosts and flaws for your ancestry, such as a goblin getting better Dexterity and Charisma and worse Wisdom, or you can freely customize your attributes for any ancestry to play exactly the character you want.
The ancestries included in Pathfinder Player Core are: dwarf, elf, gnome, goblin, halfling, human, leshy, and orc.
