Sorcerer Bloodlines

Each sorcerer has a source of magic somewhere in her heritage that grants her spells, bonus feats, an additional class skill, and other special abilities. This source can represent a blood relation or an extreme event involving a creature somewhere in the family’s past. For example, a sorcerer might have a dragon as a distant relative or her grandfather might have signed a terrible contract with a devil.

Regardless of the source, this influence manifests in a number of ways as the sorcerer gains levels. A sorcerer must pick one bloodline upon taking her first level of sorcerer. Once made, this choice cannot be changed.

Below is a list of all of the bloodlines I will accept without question. Note that these may be 3rd party or official Paizo, but if regardless of that, if they're here then it's allowed. If there is a bloodline that you want that you do not see here, let me know and we can work something out.

### Being

* **Aberrant:** There is a taint in your blood, one that is alien and bizarre. You tend to think in odd ways, approaching problems from an angle that most would not expect. Over time, this taint manifests itself in your physical form.
* **Abyssal:** Generations ago, a demon spread its filth into your heritage. While it does not manifest in all of your kin, for you it is particularly strong. You might sometimes have urges to chaos or evil, but your destiny (and alignment) is up to you.
* **Accursed:** Misfortune, pestilence, and nightmares follow your family like vermin drawn to carrion. Somewhere in your family history, a hag’s foul influence entered your bloodline. You may actually be related to the hag, or you may still be suffering the effects of a curse that a hag laid upon your kin in generations past. Now the hag’s powers are part of your heritage.
* **Boreal:** Descended from inhabitants of the lands of ice and snow, you count among your ancestors giant-kin, troll-born, and frost-rimed spirits. Their savage and raw energies flow down through generations to infuse you to the marrow with the chill of the polar wind, crackling auroras, and the long winter’s night.
* **Celestial:** Your bloodline is blessed by a celestial power, either from a celestial ancestor or through divine intervention. Although this power drives you along the path of good, your fate (and alignment) is your own to determine.
* **Daemon:** A daemon lurks somewhere along your family tree. Your powers derive from these soul-devouring fiends, who take pleasure and gain power from manipulating mortal frailties like aging, pestilence, famine, and the horrors of war. Your lineage gives you great insight into how to exploit the weaknesses of living beings and how to use leeched soul energy to enhance your wicked abilities.
* **Deep One:** One of your ancestors was a deep one. While many of your family have disappeared mysteriously in their old age, your fate might yet be different.
* **Div:** You can trace your ancestry to one of the foul, corrupted genies known as divs.
* **Djinni:** You were born with the power of air genies, and the magic of the djinn is strong in you.
* **Draconic:** At some point in your family’s history, a dragon interbred with your bloodline, and now its ancient power flows through your veins.
* **Drake:** Although you have a lesser dragon’s blood, your power does not pale beside true dragon-blooded sorcerers. Your versatility lets you react to any situation with ease.
* **Efreeti:** You were born with the power of fire genies, and the magic of the efreet is strong in you.
* **Elemental:** The power of the elements resides in you, and at times you can hardly control its fury. This influence comes from an elemental outsider in your family history or a time when you or your relatives were exposed to a powerful elemental force.
* **Feather:** Your magic comes from brave feathered fliers — eagles, hippogriffs, griffons, sphinxs, rocs and other free-flying creatures.
* **Fey:** The capricious nature of the fey runs in your family due to some intermingling of fey blood or magic. You are more emotional than most, prone to bouts of joy and rage.
* **Ghoul:** Your connection to the hungering undead shapes your magic.
* **Giant:** In the days of yore, eldritch giants strode the earth. These ancient giants possessed enormous strength and commanded powerful magic. Today’s giants pale in comparison, but even brutish ogres and hill giants retain some magical vestiges.
* **Infernal:** Somewhere in your family’s history, a relative made a deal with a devil, and that pact has influenced your family line ever since. In you, it manifests in direct and obvious ways, granting you powers and abilities. While your fate is still your own, you can’t help but wonder if your ultimate reward is bound to the Pit.
* **Kappa:** Many kappa sorcerers have an elemental bloodline (typically water) but as often kappa sorcerers possess the following unique racial bloodline which emphasizes a combination of defensive strength, water and yokai tricks.
* **Kitsune:** One of your ancestors was a kitsune who achieved the apex of their race’s mystical powers. Your sorcerous abilities stem from the same font of mystic power, allowing you to effortlessly dominate the minds of your enemies with powerful enchantments and illusions.
* **Marid:** You were born with the power of water genies, and the magic of the marids is strong in you.
* **Oni:** As slaves of capricious oni lords, your ancestors were forced to yield to their masters’ hedonistic desires, inevitably tainting their descendants with oni blood. Now, you wield the powers of the oni thanks to your vile heritage.
* **Ooze:** There is something else in your blood. Something that moves more slowly through your veins. Using strange techniques perhaps best left lost in the sands of time, an ancestor became imbued with the essence of an ooze. The strange effects of this slimy taint are hard to ignore.
* **Orc:** The rage of your ancestors burns within you, and the taint of savage orc blood flows through your veins. Your anger is never far from the surface, giving you strength and driving you to seek greater power.
* **Phoenix:** One of your ancestors bore witness to a phoenix’s resurrection and formed a bond with the magical creature. The resurrecting flames still course through your veins, surging with power.
* **Protean:** You have in your veins the ever-changing wildness of primal chaos, the raw essence of unbound creation. Your mind and spirit burst with the constant inspiration of consummate freedom, though you have difficulty following through on a task when another, new and exciting, catches your interest.
* **Rakshasa:** At some point in your family’s history, one of your ancestors was tainted by the influence of a rakshasa. Though most of your family seem entirely normal, you have always felt your own skin is a prison from which magic allows you to escape. Your birthright is a secret you may be forced to keep from societies that would never deal with you if your heritage were known.
* **Salamander:** You are descended from the elemental outsiders known as salamanders. You wield flame as a weapon and a tool, and your smithing skills are unrivaled.
* **Scorpion:** Whether your ancestors served a scorpion goddess or simply worked closely with more mundane members of the species, the venom from these arachnids has seeped down through generations into your blood.
* **Serpentine:** Your bloodline carries the lingering stain of ancient serpent races that ruled when the world was young; your forebears were likely favored slaves anointed by their reptilian masters and gifted with their cold cunning and subtle manipulation. While deception and a mesmeric charm are your birthright, you may struggle for truth in spite of your heritage.
* **Shapechanger:** Channeling the power of your shapeshifting ancestors that you carry in your blood, you gain powers that allow you to change your shape and alter your appearance and physical abilities.
* **Undead:** The taint of the grave runs through your family. Perhaps one of your ancestors became a powerful lich or vampire, or maybe you were born dead before suddenly returning to life. Either way, the forces of death move through you and touch your every action.
* **Unicorn:** Deep forests are a haven for unicorns. Deeply empathetic and fiercely protective, unicorns on occasion form close bonds with humans, often young and noble-hearted women. When the two have a particularly strong bond, the unicorn’s magic can become a part of the bonded human, and sometimes is even passed on to her children. These children, blessed by their parent’s connection to that force of true good, grow up to become sorcerers of the unicorn bloodline.
* **Wendigo:** The stain of the wendigo’s evil plagues your lineage. One of these monstrous spirits slew a family member, drove him or her insane, or even worse. You feel drawn to the creature’s vile power or are committed to righting its countless wrongs.
* **Vermin:** The underground teems with verminous monsters, and many creatures consort with these creatures. Even honor them. Somehow, the essence of these chitinous horrors found its way into your family line.

### Concept

* **Arcane:** Your family has always been skilled in the eldritch art of magic. While many of your relatives were accomplished wizards, your powers developed without the need for study and practice.
* **Destined:** Your family is destined for greatness in some way. Your birth could have been foretold in prophecy, or perhaps it occurred during an especially auspicious event, such as a solar eclipse. Regardless of your bloodline’s origin, you have a great future ahead.
* **Dreamspun:** Your family is a long line of dreamers, who dream not as ordinary mortals do but rather as those who reach through and touch the supernal realm of dreams and the farthest shores of night. Whether it is a gift or curse is not always clear, but your visions of the past and future call you ineluctably to a life of adventure.
* **Harrow:** Just as knowledge of the harrow (tarot) has passed from generation to generation since time immemorial, so too has a deep spiritual connection to the otherworldly forces bound by the harrow passed through the ages. Your connection to the mysterious deck grants you magical power over the cards of the harrow, visions of the future, and the ability to call down ephemeral forces.
* **Imperious:** Human only. A scion of forgotten kings, with a lineage rich with the dust of ancient empires spanning every golden age of humanity’s history, an imperious embodies the apex of human potential, as well as human temerity and uninhibited hubris.
* **Impossible:** You can see beyond the mundane, and are capable of visualizing the improbable, and even the impossible. If this expanded perception doesn’t drive you mad, you may learn to make the impossible into reality.
* **Maestro:** The spiritual power of art and song runs strongly through your family line. This may be the result of ancient pacts made with azata patrons, or even an inheritance from a lillend or trumpet archon ancestor. It could also be the lingering taint of a less savory heritage, such as from a harpy or a forefather driven to madness by the disquieting gibbering of a shoggoth. However it came to be, your family’s artistic bent shows itself strongly in your magic.
* **Martyred:** One of your ancestors paid the ultimate price for her beliefs. This distant relative martyred herself out of her devout belief in a cause, and that sacrifice echoed down to her descendants, infusing them with arcane power. Your bloodline confers abilities that allow you to endure pain, resist torture, and inspire others.
* **Possessed:** Possessed sorcerers channel their magic potential through a unique bond with a possessing spirit rather than through blood alone.
* **Psychic:** Psychic power runs thorough your blood, whether it be from a familial predisposition to psychic power or exposure to a powerful psychic phenomenon. Whatever the source of this power, your mind is a dangerous weapon.
* **Vestige:** You trace your ancestry to a bygone civilization and can call upon its forgotten people or places for power.

### Nature

* **Aquatic:** Your family traces its heritage back to the ocean depths, whether scions of undersea empires left in the wake of nomadic sea-tribes, or the spawn of creeping ichthyic infiltrators into remote seaside villages. The song of the sea hums in your blood, calling the waves and all those within to your command.
* **Deep Earth:** The echoing cave-songs and the rumble and creak of primal spirits deep below the ground thrum in your soul and in all your family line. You are likely slow, steady, and stable in your thinking, little prone to wandering and preferring to instead find depth in contemplation.
* **Frost:** Your family has ties to supernatural forces of the frozen north. Perhaps you come from a tribe of barbarians who are descended from frost giants, or maybe you were been born with the mark of an ice linnorm on your skin.
* **Geomagnetic:** You are one with the planet’s magnetic field. You feel its fluctuations and sense its strength. You may have been born during an aurora or an intense solar flare creating a bond between yourself and the geomagnetic poles.
* **Ocean:** Your blood runs with the primordial, chaotic power of the sea. One of your ancestors may have been an oceanic demigod or otherwise able to channel the power of the waves themselves.
* **Skyborne:** The skyborne bloodline represents those who are descended from djinn or follow ancient religions that venerate spirits of air and sky.
* **Stone:** You have ties to supernatural forces of earth, rock, and mountain. Perhaps you are descended from barbarians who mingled with stone giants, or your ancestors may have worshiped greater earth elementals as gods.
* **Stormborn:** You trace your heritage to fierce and proud spirits of storm and sky, and living lightning sings in your veins.
* **Verdant:** Your progenitors infused themselves with raw plant life, binding it into their own tissue and passing it down to their literal seed, giving you innate communion with nature.

### Planar

* **Astral:** Whether you were raised on the Astral Plane, had an ancestor with a strong connection to the Astral, or simply had a freak brush with an astral conduit in your youth, you have an unusual connection to both time and space.
* **Ectoplasm:** Your family has a connection with the ethereal substance known as ectoplasm, whether from communing with the spirits or battling the spiritual undead. The power of the Ethereal Plane thrums in your mind and pulls at your flesh.
* **Forgeborn:** Your bloodline has been imparted with the fires of creation. Perhaps your ancestors were blessed by a god of artifice, or you were exposed to the animating forces used to power constructs. You often feel more at home at a forge or among a priceless collection than among other people.
* **Pestilence:** You were born during the height of a great magical plague, to a mother suffering from an eldritch disease, or you suffered an eldritch pox as a child, such that your very soul now carries a blight of pestilence within it.
* **Mystic Woodland:** The ancient power of the forest courses through your veins. A distant ancestor may have been a legendary druid, a hedge witch, a dryad, or even a daughter of Baba Lysaga.
* **Shadow:** Spirits from the shadow plane dally at times in the world of light, and such as these lay with your ancestors once upon a time, imparting the mystery of shadow-stuff into your lineage. You are often sullen and withdrawn, preferring to skulk at the fringes of social circles and keep to yourself, cultivating an air of mystery and majesty that is all your own.
* **Shaitan:** You were born with the power of the plane of elemental earth, and the magic of the shaitans is strong in you.
* **Solar:** These sorcerers display powers infused with the glory of the sun itself.
* **Starsoul:** You come from a line of stargazers and explorers who delved deeply into the darkness beyond the stars. In touching the void, the void touched them, and your mind, spirit, and body yearn to span the gulf between worlds.