Editing Golarion (section)

==Races of Golarion==
Being effectively [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3.75, Golarion is absolutely crawling with races. Your D&D standards are here, but there's also an ever-growing array of races, from monstrous humanoids to ones lifted from real-world mythology to even homebrewed races.

===The Standards===
'''[[Human]]:''' Bog-standard human, following in the best D&D traditions by having different nations with different hats to wear.

'''[[Dwarf]]:''' Originated in Golarion's [[Underdark]], migrated to the surface in the legendary "Quest for Sky" centuries ago. Had flying fortresses, but most of them are destroyed or in enemy hands now.

'''[[Elf]]:''' One of the planet's oldest races. Buggered off through magical gateways to another planet during the worst of the Starfall disaster, then came back a few centuries ago.

'''[[Halfling]]:''' Pretty much your standard stunties, barring the fact that they're very popular slaves throughout the Inner Sea region. No homeland has been given, not even one that no longer exists.

'''[[Gnome]]:''' Fey who migrated to Golarion from [[Feywild|The First World]], then found out that without regular stimulation, they undergo something called "The Bleaching" which drives them mad and painfully kills them. In other words, they can literally get bored to death!

'''[[Half-Elf]]:''' Pretty much your standard half-elves. Splat gave options for Half-Drow, but that's still not a radical change.

'''[[Half-Orc]]:''' Instead of (only) "you were probably born from rape!" backstory, Golarion's half-orcs are the result of orcs realizing they are indeed retarded and need non-retarded leaders/spellcasters. Also born of political marriage in places where orcs team up with humans to fight other orcs and other threats.

===Snowflake Races===
The races most of /tg/ mocks because they're seen as favored by people who want special snowflake or weeaboo type characters, even if these are all races with roots in traditional D&D.

'''[[Aasimar]]:''' The iconic D&D Goodly [[Planetouched]]. Because Pathfinder has a much bigger array of "angels", there's many different sub-varieties of aasimar. There's actually a country where these guys are really common, which makes them almost as normal in Golarion as a [[dragonborn]] or [[half-orc]] would be in standard 5e D&D.

'''[[Aphorite]]:''' [[Lawful Neutral|Lawful]] [[planetouched]] humanoids with skin and hair of a golden metallic luster, created by the [[Axiomites]] of [[Axis]].

'''[[Catfolk]]:''' Pretty bog-standard [[Chaotic Stupid]] cat-people. Infamous for their schizophrenic artwork, which has portrayed them as anything from "[[catgirl]]s with a fine layer of fur all over their body" to "full fledged [[furry]]" to [[Elder Scrolls|"why does this look exactly like a Khajiit?"]].

'''[[Changeling]]:''' Not to be confused with the [[Eberron]] changeling, which is a [[doppelganger]]'s half-human spawn, Golarion's changelings are the immature larval form of [[hag]]s. Essentially, an entire species of cute/hot witches - with heterochromia, no less! - who are supposed to beautiful, but at the same time, so creepy and spooky they get a Charisma penalty. This aspect is the main reason why /tg/ mocks them. They're not necessarily a bad race, though, especially if you want more dark fantasy or horror fantasy games.

'''[[Dhampyre|Dhampir]]:''' Half-human and half-vampire, but, like the changeling, they fit the Ustalav region just great - hell, it really is surprising that these guys never showed up in [[Ravenloft]].

'''[[Drow]]:''' When the elves fucked off to another planet to escape an apocalypse, some of the more arrogant assholes stayed behind. Ultimately turning to worship of various [[Demon Prince]]s to survive, and becoming psycho-evil arrogant assholes in the bargain. Most noted for their fucked-up love of fleshcrafting, which is basically manipulating living creatures and turning them into monsters.

'''[[Ganzi]]:''' The most obscure of the PF [[Planetouched]], these guys are essentially Chaotic Planetouched and may be connected to the Proteans, Golarion's equivalent to the [[Slaad]]i.

'''[[Genasi|Ifrit/Oread/Sylph/Undine]]:''' These guys are basically [[genasi]], but Pathfinder pretends to treat them as seperate races in order to make the comparison seem less obvious.

'''[[Ratfolk]]:''' Merchant-tinker rat-people. Smarter and more chill than the [[Skaven|usual rat-type races]]. [[Ysoki|May have come from space]].

'''[[Shifter|Skinwalker]]:''' As dhampirs are to vampires, these guys are to [[therianthrope]]s. Essentially [[Shifter]]s with less shitty artwork.

'''[[Suli]]:''' One of the stupider [[planetouched]] races in Pthfinder, these guys are [[genie]]-kin who trace their lineage to the oft-forgotten Janni, the mixed-elemental fifth genie race which is the weakest of them all.

'''[[Tengu]]:''' Humanoid flightless crow-people who love shinies. Essentially less-evil [[kenku]] outright using the mythological version's name. Tend to become rogues (or ninjas), samurai and pirates. Sometimes two at once.

'''[[Tiefling]]:''' When one of the countries has the theme "demonic invasion through gaping portals to the Abyss" and another is "Fantasy Nazis using a pact with Satan to stay in power", are you really surprised that these guys are everywhere? Especially considering Golarion has a huge list of fiends outside of the Devil/Daemon/Demon trinity and they ''all'' make tieflings.

===Monstrous Humanoids===
'''[[Goblin]]:''' Doubles down on the [[Chaotic Stupid]] aspects; love fire, really good singers, absolutely terrified of dogs, horses and writing. Made a core race in 2e which fits perfectly with the general kill-on-sight thing the more civilized races have for them in the lore.

'''[[Orc]]:''' Driven up from the Underdark by the dwarves, who they used to war with. Really double-down on the Always Chaotic Evil aspects.

'''[[Kobold]]:''' Pretty much the D&D iconic version.

'''[[Hobgoblin]]:''' A militaristic race descended from an experiment to magically mutate goblins into slave-soldiers to fight against the elf empire; their creators were killed, but the hobgoblins were complete, and now they don't have an off-switch.

===Foreigners===
Because Golarion has lots of "not!X" countries, there's both a "not!India" (Vudra) and a "not!Orient" (Dragon Empires), each of which has some fairly unique races native to it.

'''[[Kitsune]]:''' Your standard mischievous fun-loving shapeshifting fox-folk.

'''[[Nagaji]]:''' A race of [[serpentfolk]] bred as slaves by the [[naga]]s; they're quite content in their servitude.

'''[[Samsaran]]:''' Spiritually enlightened blue & white-colored humans who continuously reincarnate.

'''[[Vanara]]:''' Friendly, sage-like monkey-people.

===Sci-Fantasy Races===
Pathfinder's mapped out the star system that Golarion comes from, and in best pulp fantasy fashion, that means that you can play androids and aliens in this setting too. These races and more would be later expanded by the sister game line [[Starfinder]].

'''[[Android]]:''' Look like humans with pale, silver-tinted skin and circuitry that lights up like science-tattoos when they use their powers. Most common in Numeria, as they are born out of "creation forges" left behind when the starship crashed.

'''[[Kasatha]]:''' Four-armed humanoids who don't remember what world they came from. Favor dual-wielding bows.

'''[[Lashunta]]:''' The natives of Golarion's equivalent of Venus; antennaed humanoids with psionic powers and [[-4 Strength|extreme sexual dimorphism]] - men look more like dwarves, women look more like elves.

'''[[Triaxian]]:''' Pointy-eared aliens whose planet undergoes an extreme orbit, leading to centuries-long summers and winters, and thus the species is divided into "Summer Generation"(Baldy) and "Winter Generation"(Furry) subspecies.

===Real-Worlders===
The least common race group, so far, these are critters taken from non-D&D fantasy sources, including several Lovecraft races and cryptids.

'''[[Reptoid]]:''' Shapeshifting lizardfolk with [[psionics]] who hail from an unknown world or plane, based on a popular conspiracy theory.

'''[[Orang-Pendak]]:''' A cryptid that is basically a smaller, smarter sasquatch.

'''[[Deep One]] Hybrid:''' A human with [[Deep One]] ancestry, giving them amphibious abilities but cursing them to turn into a Deep One - which is death to their old personality - in their 50s.

'''[[Being of Ib]]:''' Amphibious, gnome-like frog-people from the Cthulhu Mythos; although their Dreamlands colony was famously annihilated by Sarnath in "The Doom That Came to Sarnath", it's possible other colonies exist elsewhere in the multiverse.

'''[[Yaddithian]]:''' Tapir-snouted insectile-looking people adept in sorcery who have scattered across the galaxy due to their homeworld being destroyed by bholes. Taken from the Lovecraft story "Through the Gates of the Silver Key".