Nashi
Known for their ingenuity and innovative approach to problem-solving, nashi are often a welcome sight in the eyes of most species. Whether master engineers or skilled spellcasters, nashi have cultivated a reputation for excellence that makes their goods welcome in nearly every port. They are a quick-thinking and hardy folk who value hard work and creativity, but they also have a reputation for overcomplicating simple matters and they’re prone to wasting countless hours recreating the wheel if left unchecked.
Languages
Common Nashi Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if its positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Nashi are short, stocky plantigrade humanoids whose body is covered in thick fur that often makes them appear stouter then they are. Although viewed as a disparaging remark by the nashi, the term “raccoon folk” does aptly summarize a typical nashi’s appearance, as they possess furred bodies, long tails, mask-and-ring fur patterns, and nailed digits. Nashi fur patterns come in a variety of colors that resembles those of both raccoons and manguts, including shades of gray, black, brown, and tan. Nashi cannot grow hair on their heads aside from their fur coat, but often grow out and style the fur on their heads in ways not unlike those used by humans on their hair.
Nashi have extremely sensitive hands and paws, a trait that is more pronounced when submerged in water. Nashi are capable of effortlessly distinguishing physical features and properties by touch, and are known to be able to accurately judge all manner of information regarding a creature’s appearance save for color with nothing but a brief grazing of their fingertips. Their small bodies and dexterous fingers also make nashi adept at a number of tasks involving physical coordination and manipulation, but their true marvel is the size of their brains, which are slightly (but noticeably) larger in proportion to the rest of their bodies compared to many other humanoid species, including humans. This has led to a stereotype that all nashi are extraordinarily intelligent, and while they are certainly fast learners and quick thinkers they aren’t so much so that they outshine other objectively intelligent species, such as elves or gnomes.
LIFE CYCLE Nashi children are born live after a gestation period of nine months, with twins being almost twice as common significantly more acute, especially on their palms and the bottom of their feet. Nashi are able to canvas an extremely detailed mental picture of the ground simply by walking over it with their bare feet, and can accurately identify most stimuli that are in direct contact with their hands by size, weight, and shape using only their sense of touch. In addition to being more precise than a human’s sense of touch, a nashi’s sense of touch can accurately detect stimuli as small as a single grain of pollen. As a result nashi are extremely insistent about proper hygiene, as they can sense irritants on their hands and feet that most humans wouldn’t have even known existed, let alone were present on their bodies.
CULTURE Nashi culture emphasizes personal agency, creativity, and hard work, and most nashi strive to include all three of these tenants in everything they do. Nashi society often places strenuous pressure on its individuals to build a lasting legacy for themselves before they die, and these demands tend to become more and more exuberant with each passing generation, as nashi society tends to look down on those who can’t surpass the accomplishments of their forbearers. As a result, those who partake in nashi culture often seem frantic and constantly stressed for success.
LIFE Curiosity defines nashi from the moment they open their eyes for the first time, and that same curiosity is a driving force throughout their lives. Compared to other species, nashi enroll their children in school at a young age and their curriculums focused on giving the youngling the skills they need to answer life’s questions for themselves rather than rote memorization. Nashi are encouraged to dabble in a variety of topics in youth until they find a field that calls to them, be it mathematics or martial arts. Shortly after their 10th birthday, young nashi formally choose their area of study at a large social gathering known as a Celebration of Calling. Once decided, these young nashi are expected to seek out part-time apprenticeships and focus their schooling on topics related to their chosen field. While it isn’t impossible for nashi to change their calling once they’ve formally announced it, changing one’s calling is something of a social stigma among nashi and stereotypes the individual as being flaky or unable to sound judgments regarding their personal skills and expertise.
While nashi have family units, they tend to be less pronounced than those of other species. While nashi families love and support one another, their culture is one of fierce independence and stiff competition and those less than ideal traits sometimes rear their ugly heads in family life too. Nashi meritocracy encourages individuals to vie for social status at any cost, and this unfortunately includes family. It is depressingly common for otherwise loving nashi families to tear themselves apart over matters of business and personal legacy should multiple family members engage in similar professions independently, so many nashi logically choose fields of study that overlap very little with those of their family members to avoid rivalry and infighting. When nashi families do focus on a shared field of study, they often do so by banding together into a literal family business or research unit with the head of the family acting as lead. While this often negates any chance of the family imploding under its own quest for social status, families that work together in this capacity often struggle to keep their work separate from their home life, which is a major reason that so many nashi prefer to walk separate paths from their families in the first place.
ARCHITECTURE Nashi architecture is ornate and intricate in appearance, often featuring a dazzling combination of metal and glass supplemented by sturdy stone foundations covered with glazed clay mosiacs. Distinctive archways cradle door frames and stained glass windows, which are typically arranged in fanciful patterns, and both interior and exterior walls are often painted in bright, striking color combinations. Nashi architects are famous for building using a variety of geographic shapes with plenty of angles in their room design; and hexagonal towers with bell-shaped or conical roofs are staples of their style. Nashi often construct their buildings with ceilings that are high by human standards, and every building is expected to have at least one resource center stocked with dozens of books and whatever reference materials that the building’s owner can afford. Most buildings are outfitted with accommodations for the latest feats of nashi engineering, and renovations to make accommodations for the latest mechanical trend is commonplace among nashi with the means to do so.
CLOTHING Nashi clothing appears incredibly piecemeal in terms of style and stitch work, and in most cases such eventually are accurate. As a race of innovators motivated almost entirely by the discovery of the “next, greatest thing”, nashi fashion goes through fads not from season by season, but week to week, and fads consist of anything from colors and patterns to fundamental styles of stitch work and clothing type.
Because fashion changes so quickly in nashi society, only the wealthiest nashi can truly afford to stay up to date on the latest styles and trends while the rest are left with dozens of garments that simply don’t match should they try to keep up. As a result, many nashi end up trying to find specific garments that they find comfortable and pleasing, working to create individual outfits from whatever parts they happen across and combining disparate elements into an aesthetic whole. Of course, should such a style become trendy as often is the case, the parts of that piecemeal outfits could lead to the next baffling nashi fashion trend.
COMMUNITIES & NATIONS To outsiders, nashi society is often seen as rushed and volatile due to its constituents’ obsession with unrelenting progress. A meritocracy at its core, nashi strive to advance and perfect everything from technology to policy to social justice, and while this often proves a blessing to those seeking freedom from oppression or creative freedom, a distinct lack of conservative voices challenging nashi progressivism on whether proposed innovations are necessary or practical occasionally causes nashi progressives to circle backwards on policy, especially regarding issues like taxation, immigration, and foreign policy. While nashi governments are fairly persistent, individual regimes collapse regularly, with the past four generations experiencing an average of 100 government shut downs and 32 collapses during their lifetime due to overspending and political quagmires. Nashi meritocracy is similarly susceptible to political strongmen who successfully convince the public that their brand of tyranny is the most pragmatic path for the community, and their society often sees at least one such tyrant every generation or so. Recently nashi leaders have begun incorporating a council of members of other species into their cabinets as advisors, and data suggests that governments who have made this switch have record-low tumultuousness spanning decades, but fascism remains an ever-constant threat for their political future.
CUISINE Nashi cuisine reflects its culture’s insistence upon innovation as opposed to invention, blending the culinary styles of dozens of different species and their ethnic groups into fusion distinctly their own. As a result, nashi communities tend to have dramatically different cooking styles from one another, as each community’s cooking is informed by neighboring species. If nashi food has one defining feature, its that many of the foodstuffs that nashi use in their cooking are developed using food processing techniques that they’ve innovated and engineered using numerous techniques, with some dishes becoming completely lost to time as the machines once used to create them fall into obsolescence. Much as how nashi clothing styles fall into and out of fashion at a rapid pace, so too do various cooking styles and dishes. One particular dish that has persisted for nearly a century despite this is ringtail pie, a dish similar to shepherd’s pie save that five different “rings” of meats and vegetables are arranged like rings on a tree from the pie’s center to its exterior, making every bite a delightful surprise.
RELATIONS WITH OTHERS Although they get along well with members of most other races, nashi tend to internalize erroneous conclusions about other cultures and species based on information gained from first- or even second-hand contact. This tendency is of no insult among nashi, as they hold little qualm about revising previously held facts with new information. This often isn’t true for members of other species, however, and as a result nashi are prone to accidentally offending others through incorrectly drawn conclusions regarding others that range from simple mistakes to offensive slights or bizarre claims. As a result, nashi tend to get along poorly with people who offend easily.
TRADE Although nashi society boasts more scientific researchers and applied scientists than any other species’ society, the majority of their population occupies more traditional trades such as carpentry and metallurgy. Whatever field they choose to enter, nashi are famous for using state of the art technologies in their field. Sometimes these innovations prove a boon and result in highly valued products. For example, nashi carpenters are noteworthy for their ergonomic designs that make many of their furniture more comfortable compared to those of other species. In other cases, nashi innovation seems different for the sake of being different. For example, nashi blacksmiths often practice their trade using electrically-charged furnaces, but since these devices don’t melt or set metal any quicker than a traditional forge they’re largely considered a novelty by other crafters.
ETHNIC GROUPS Several notable ethnic groups exist among nashi, as noted below.
Culo: Sometimes called monochrome nashi because they predominately have fur coats in shades of gray and black, culo nashi are an adaptive people that make their home all across the world. Where other nashi ethnic groups have firmly rooted cultural identities and traditions, culo nashi tend to blend in with the cultures of their neighbors, often going out of their way to bring members of other species into their settlements in order to study their culture, traditions, and technologies, adapting what they like and discarding what they don’t. Syanni: Compared to the muted, earthy tones of other nashi, the bright reds and oranges of a syanni nashi’s fur stands in stark contrast to that of other nashi. Preferring to live away from large urban centers in quiet, rural areas, other nashi unfairly stereotype syanni as bumpkins for choosing to abstain from other ethnic group’s work-centric values, instead valuing self-care and personal fulfillment. Tanukun: Possessing fur coats peppered in shades of brown, fulvous, and gray, tanukun nashi are named after tanuki, a type of magical shapeshifter. According to legend, the tanukun nashi descend from a nashi hero who saved a dying tanuki and nursed them back to health. As payment, the tanuki swore to protect the hero and their family. In doing so, the hero and their family developed physical features resembling those of tanuki, such as speckled fur in shades of brown, fulvous, and brown. Zumei: Known for their seafaring culture, the zumei are best known for the sharp band of black fur that encircles their necks and for fur coats, which are flecked with golden yellow fur that culminates in a predominately golden yellow tail. Zumei culture places high importance on the sea and its bounty, and many zumei are skilled sailors for fish or transport goods for a living. Their engineers focus on improving sailing technology, making it faster and safer however possible. ORIGINS Nashi origin myths are somewhat uninspired when compared to those of other species, as they are far more interested in societal advancement than mythology and seeing as no culture’s origin mythology has ever been confirmed or denied by the gods, they consider such tales to be a waste of time.
NASHI ADVENTURERS Nashi are most often driven to adventure by their natural curiosity, which inspires them to go out into the world and learn all they can so they can improve upon their work and the work of others. Nashi can be cold, seemingly obsessed with their own thoughts and theorems, but few would argue that their presence is without benefit.
Typical backgrounds for nashi include artisan, artist, bounty hunter, criminal, farmhand, sailor, scholar, scout, street urchin, and tinker. Nashi make great alchemists and wizards, but many also become rangers or rogues.
Nashi Heritages Diverse in their values and innovative muses, nashi traverse many different walks of life. Choose one of the following nashi heritages at 1st level.
FILCHER NASHI Whether you grew up in a nashi mafia, joined a thieves’ guild in youth, or simply have idle hands that always seem to find their way into places they shouldn’t, you have a knack for filching. You become trained in Thievery. At 5th level, you become an expert in Thievery.
If your class grants you the trained proficiency rank in Thievery at 1st level, you instead gain the a bonus skill feat that requires trained in Thievery as a prerequisite.
LATERISE NASHI Your people have traditionally worked late nights, be it in a nashi metropolis or out beneath the starry skies. You gain low-light vision. You also gain a +2 circumstance bonus to locate concealed, hidden, or undetected creatures in dim light or darkness within 30 feet with a Seek action.
MAGEBORN NASHI You have a natural understanding of arcane magic and can use these talents to cast spells of your own. You gain one cantrip from the arcane tradition’s spell list. You can cast this spell as an innate arcane spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up.
RURAL NASHI You hail from pastoral lands, and are accustomed to working hard and playing harder. If you roll a success on a saving throw against an effect that would cause you to become fatigued, you get a critical success instead.
SALTPAW NASHI Your people weren’t meant to stay planted firmly on the ground like trees, you were born and raised upon the open waves. You become trained in Sailing Lore and gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Acrobatics checks to Balance aboard a ship, to Athletics checks to Climb a ship’s rigging, and to Athletics checks to Swim.
SOCIALITE NASHI Some nashi choose to eschew their traditional lands and cities in favor of those of other people, often learning from and innovating upon those peoples’ discoveries and traditions. You gain the Adopted Ancestry general feat at 1st level. In addition, you can gain this feat multiple times, choosing a different ancestry each time you gain Adopted Ancestry.
SWAMPRAT NASHI Generations of marshland dwelling has given your people a surprising ability to navigate wetlands unimpeded. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks to Swim, and treat all undergrowth as if it were one step lighter when determining whether the area counts as difficult terrain for you (heavy undergrowth counts as light undergrowth, and light undergrowth doesn’t impede you). You also gain resistance equal to your level against damage dealt by bogs or undergrowth that qualify as hazardous terrain.
TANUKI-BORN NASHI Few nashi actually possess tanuki heritage, as tanuki are powerful magical tricksters that seldom court mortals. However, unions between tanuki and nashi aren’t completely unheard of, and the resulting nashi often possess a bit of the trickster’s shapechanging powers. You gain the Change Shape action.
Languages
Common Nashi Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if its positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent in your region).
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION Nashi are short, stocky plantigrade humanoids whose body is covered in thick fur that often makes them appear stouter then they are. Although viewed as a disparaging remark by the nashi, the term “raccoon folk” does aptly summarize a typical nashi’s appearance, as they possess furred bodies, long tails, mask-and-ring fur patterns, and nailed digits. Nashi fur patterns come in a variety of colors that resembles those of both raccoons and manguts, including shades of gray, black, brown, and tan. Nashi cannot grow hair on their heads aside from their fur coat, but often grow out and style the fur on their heads in ways not unlike those used by humans on their hair.
Nashi have extremely sensitive hands and paws, a trait that is more pronounced when submerged in water. Nashi are capable of effortlessly distinguishing physical features and properties by touch, and are known to be able to accurately judge all manner of information regarding a creature’s appearance save for color with nothing but a brief grazing of their fingertips. Their small bodies and dexterous fingers also make nashi adept at a number of tasks involving physical coordination and manipulation, but their true marvel is the size of their brains, which are slightly (but noticeably) larger in proportion to the rest of their bodies compared to many other humanoid species, including humans. This has led to a stereotype that all nashi are extraordinarily intelligent, and while they are certainly fast learners and quick thinkers they aren’t so much so that they outshine other objectively intelligent species, such as elves or gnomes.
LIFE CYCLE Nashi children are born live after a gestation period of nine months, with twins being almost twice as common significantly more acute, especially on their palms and the bottom of their feet. Nashi are able to canvas an extremely detailed mental picture of the ground simply by walking over it with their bare feet, and can accurately identify most stimuli that are in direct contact with their hands by size, weight, and shape using only their sense of touch. In addition to being more precise than a human’s sense of touch, a nashi’s sense of touch can accurately detect stimuli as small as a single grain of pollen. As a result nashi are extremely insistent about proper hygiene, as they can sense irritants on their hands and feet that most humans wouldn’t have even known existed, let alone were present on their bodies.
CULTURE Nashi culture emphasizes personal agency, creativity, and hard work, and most nashi strive to include all three of these tenants in everything they do. Nashi society often places strenuous pressure on its individuals to build a lasting legacy for themselves before they die, and these demands tend to become more and more exuberant with each passing generation, as nashi society tends to look down on those who can’t surpass the accomplishments of their forbearers. As a result, those who partake in nashi culture often seem frantic and constantly stressed for success.
LIFE Curiosity defines nashi from the moment they open their eyes for the first time, and that same curiosity is a driving force throughout their lives. Compared to other species, nashi enroll their children in school at a young age and their curriculums focused on giving the youngling the skills they need to answer life’s questions for themselves rather than rote memorization. Nashi are encouraged to dabble in a variety of topics in youth until they find a field that calls to them, be it mathematics or martial arts. Shortly after their 10th birthday, young nashi formally choose their area of study at a large social gathering known as a Celebration of Calling. Once decided, these young nashi are expected to seek out part-time apprenticeships and focus their schooling on topics related to their chosen field. While it isn’t impossible for nashi to change their calling once they’ve formally announced it, changing one’s calling is something of a social stigma among nashi and stereotypes the individual as being flaky or unable to sound judgments regarding their personal skills and expertise.
While nashi have family units, they tend to be less pronounced than those of other species. While nashi families love and support one another, their culture is one of fierce independence and stiff competition and those less than ideal traits sometimes rear their ugly heads in family life too. Nashi meritocracy encourages individuals to vie for social status at any cost, and this unfortunately includes family. It is depressingly common for otherwise loving nashi families to tear themselves apart over matters of business and personal legacy should multiple family members engage in similar professions independently, so many nashi logically choose fields of study that overlap very little with those of their family members to avoid rivalry and infighting. When nashi families do focus on a shared field of study, they often do so by banding together into a literal family business or research unit with the head of the family acting as lead. While this often negates any chance of the family imploding under its own quest for social status, families that work together in this capacity often struggle to keep their work separate from their home life, which is a major reason that so many nashi prefer to walk separate paths from their families in the first place.
ARCHITECTURE Nashi architecture is ornate and intricate in appearance, often featuring a dazzling combination of metal and glass supplemented by sturdy stone foundations covered with glazed clay mosiacs. Distinctive archways cradle door frames and stained glass windows, which are typically arranged in fanciful patterns, and both interior and exterior walls are often painted in bright, striking color combinations. Nashi architects are famous for building using a variety of geographic shapes with plenty of angles in their room design; and hexagonal towers with bell-shaped or conical roofs are staples of their style. Nashi often construct their buildings with ceilings that are high by human standards, and every building is expected to have at least one resource center stocked with dozens of books and whatever reference materials that the building’s owner can afford. Most buildings are outfitted with accommodations for the latest feats of nashi engineering, and renovations to make accommodations for the latest mechanical trend is commonplace among nashi with the means to do so.
CLOTHING Nashi clothing appears incredibly piecemeal in terms of style and stitch work, and in most cases such eventually are accurate. As a race of innovators motivated almost entirely by the discovery of the “next, greatest thing”, nashi fashion goes through fads not from season by season, but week to week, and fads consist of anything from colors and patterns to fundamental styles of stitch work and clothing type.
Because fashion changes so quickly in nashi society, only the wealthiest nashi can truly afford to stay up to date on the latest styles and trends while the rest are left with dozens of garments that simply don’t match should they try to keep up. As a result, many nashi end up trying to find specific garments that they find comfortable and pleasing, working to create individual outfits from whatever parts they happen across and combining disparate elements into an aesthetic whole. Of course, should such a style become trendy as often is the case, the parts of that piecemeal outfits could lead to the next baffling nashi fashion trend.
COMMUNITIES & NATIONS To outsiders, nashi society is often seen as rushed and volatile due to its constituents’ obsession with unrelenting progress. A meritocracy at its core, nashi strive to advance and perfect everything from technology to policy to social justice, and while this often proves a blessing to those seeking freedom from oppression or creative freedom, a distinct lack of conservative voices challenging nashi progressivism on whether proposed innovations are necessary or practical occasionally causes nashi progressives to circle backwards on policy, especially regarding issues like taxation, immigration, and foreign policy. While nashi governments are fairly persistent, individual regimes collapse regularly, with the past four generations experiencing an average of 100 government shut downs and 32 collapses during their lifetime due to overspending and political quagmires. Nashi meritocracy is similarly susceptible to political strongmen who successfully convince the public that their brand of tyranny is the most pragmatic path for the community, and their society often sees at least one such tyrant every generation or so. Recently nashi leaders have begun incorporating a council of members of other species into their cabinets as advisors, and data suggests that governments who have made this switch have record-low tumultuousness spanning decades, but fascism remains an ever-constant threat for their political future.
CUISINE Nashi cuisine reflects its culture’s insistence upon innovation as opposed to invention, blending the culinary styles of dozens of different species and their ethnic groups into fusion distinctly their own. As a result, nashi communities tend to have dramatically different cooking styles from one another, as each community’s cooking is informed by neighboring species. If nashi food has one defining feature, its that many of the foodstuffs that nashi use in their cooking are developed using food processing techniques that they’ve innovated and engineered using numerous techniques, with some dishes becoming completely lost to time as the machines once used to create them fall into obsolescence. Much as how nashi clothing styles fall into and out of fashion at a rapid pace, so too do various cooking styles and dishes. One particular dish that has persisted for nearly a century despite this is ringtail pie, a dish similar to shepherd’s pie save that five different “rings” of meats and vegetables are arranged like rings on a tree from the pie’s center to its exterior, making every bite a delightful surprise.
RELATIONS WITH OTHERS Although they get along well with members of most other races, nashi tend to internalize erroneous conclusions about other cultures and species based on information gained from first- or even second-hand contact. This tendency is of no insult among nashi, as they hold little qualm about revising previously held facts with new information. This often isn’t true for members of other species, however, and as a result nashi are prone to accidentally offending others through incorrectly drawn conclusions regarding others that range from simple mistakes to offensive slights or bizarre claims. As a result, nashi tend to get along poorly with people who offend easily.
TRADE Although nashi society boasts more scientific researchers and applied scientists than any other species’ society, the majority of their population occupies more traditional trades such as carpentry and metallurgy. Whatever field they choose to enter, nashi are famous for using state of the art technologies in their field. Sometimes these innovations prove a boon and result in highly valued products. For example, nashi carpenters are noteworthy for their ergonomic designs that make many of their furniture more comfortable compared to those of other species. In other cases, nashi innovation seems different for the sake of being different. For example, nashi blacksmiths often practice their trade using electrically-charged furnaces, but since these devices don’t melt or set metal any quicker than a traditional forge they’re largely considered a novelty by other crafters.
ETHNIC GROUPS Several notable ethnic groups exist among nashi, as noted below.
Culo: Sometimes called monochrome nashi because they predominately have fur coats in shades of gray and black, culo nashi are an adaptive people that make their home all across the world. Where other nashi ethnic groups have firmly rooted cultural identities and traditions, culo nashi tend to blend in with the cultures of their neighbors, often going out of their way to bring members of other species into their settlements in order to study their culture, traditions, and technologies, adapting what they like and discarding what they don’t. Syanni: Compared to the muted, earthy tones of other nashi, the bright reds and oranges of a syanni nashi’s fur stands in stark contrast to that of other nashi. Preferring to live away from large urban centers in quiet, rural areas, other nashi unfairly stereotype syanni as bumpkins for choosing to abstain from other ethnic group’s work-centric values, instead valuing self-care and personal fulfillment. Tanukun: Possessing fur coats peppered in shades of brown, fulvous, and gray, tanukun nashi are named after tanuki, a type of magical shapeshifter. According to legend, the tanukun nashi descend from a nashi hero who saved a dying tanuki and nursed them back to health. As payment, the tanuki swore to protect the hero and their family. In doing so, the hero and their family developed physical features resembling those of tanuki, such as speckled fur in shades of brown, fulvous, and brown. Zumei: Known for their seafaring culture, the zumei are best known for the sharp band of black fur that encircles their necks and for fur coats, which are flecked with golden yellow fur that culminates in a predominately golden yellow tail. Zumei culture places high importance on the sea and its bounty, and many zumei are skilled sailors for fish or transport goods for a living. Their engineers focus on improving sailing technology, making it faster and safer however possible. ORIGINS Nashi origin myths are somewhat uninspired when compared to those of other species, as they are far more interested in societal advancement than mythology and seeing as no culture’s origin mythology has ever been confirmed or denied by the gods, they consider such tales to be a waste of time.
NASHI ADVENTURERS Nashi are most often driven to adventure by their natural curiosity, which inspires them to go out into the world and learn all they can so they can improve upon their work and the work of others. Nashi can be cold, seemingly obsessed with their own thoughts and theorems, but few would argue that their presence is without benefit.
Typical backgrounds for nashi include artisan, artist, bounty hunter, criminal, farmhand, sailor, scholar, scout, street urchin, and tinker. Nashi make great alchemists and wizards, but many also become rangers or rogues.
Nashi Heritages Diverse in their values and innovative muses, nashi traverse many different walks of life. Choose one of the following nashi heritages at 1st level.
FILCHER NASHI Whether you grew up in a nashi mafia, joined a thieves’ guild in youth, or simply have idle hands that always seem to find their way into places they shouldn’t, you have a knack for filching. You become trained in Thievery. At 5th level, you become an expert in Thievery.
If your class grants you the trained proficiency rank in Thievery at 1st level, you instead gain the a bonus skill feat that requires trained in Thievery as a prerequisite.
LATERISE NASHI Your people have traditionally worked late nights, be it in a nashi metropolis or out beneath the starry skies. You gain low-light vision. You also gain a +2 circumstance bonus to locate concealed, hidden, or undetected creatures in dim light or darkness within 30 feet with a Seek action.
MAGEBORN NASHI You have a natural understanding of arcane magic and can use these talents to cast spells of your own. You gain one cantrip from the arcane tradition’s spell list. You can cast this spell as an innate arcane spell at will. A cantrip is heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up.
RURAL NASHI You hail from pastoral lands, and are accustomed to working hard and playing harder. If you roll a success on a saving throw against an effect that would cause you to become fatigued, you get a critical success instead.
SALTPAW NASHI Your people weren’t meant to stay planted firmly on the ground like trees, you were born and raised upon the open waves. You become trained in Sailing Lore and gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Acrobatics checks to Balance aboard a ship, to Athletics checks to Climb a ship’s rigging, and to Athletics checks to Swim.
SOCIALITE NASHI Some nashi choose to eschew their traditional lands and cities in favor of those of other people, often learning from and innovating upon those peoples’ discoveries and traditions. You gain the Adopted Ancestry general feat at 1st level. In addition, you can gain this feat multiple times, choosing a different ancestry each time you gain Adopted Ancestry.
SWAMPRAT NASHI Generations of marshland dwelling has given your people a surprising ability to navigate wetlands unimpeded. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Athletics checks to Swim, and treat all undergrowth as if it were one step lighter when determining whether the area counts as difficult terrain for you (heavy undergrowth counts as light undergrowth, and light undergrowth doesn’t impede you). You also gain resistance equal to your level against damage dealt by bogs or undergrowth that qualify as hazardous terrain.
TANUKI-BORN NASHI Few nashi actually possess tanuki heritage, as tanuki are powerful magical tricksters that seldom court mortals. However, unions between tanuki and nashi aren’t completely unheard of, and the resulting nashi often possess a bit of the trickster’s shapechanging powers. You gain the Change Shape action.
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