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AT: Acute Sense, Hearing
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Level 1 | As an animalistic form of atavism, your ears are quite sensitive.

AT: Acute Sense, Scent
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Level 1 | As an animalistic form of atavism, your nose is quite sensitive.

AT: Acute Sense, Sight
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Level 1 | You have a keen sense of sight that gives you unmatched aim.

AT: Adaptive Focus
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Level 5 | You’ve continued adapting your magic and/or fighting style, making you that much more effective at countering your foes.

AT: Adept of Fire
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Level 1 | Your Fire burns through anything that dares to resist it.

AT: Advanced General Training
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Level 11 | Over the long course of your adventuring life, your adaptability has let you pick up numerous useful abilities.

AT: Affinity for Junk
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For whatever reason, goblins seem to be able to take even the smallest pile of scrap and turn it into something usable.

AT: Ageless Patience
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Level 5 | You work at a pace born from an elf's longevity that enhances your thoroughness.

AT: Aggressive Advance
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Level 3 | You know that, in battle, the only way through is forward. Or the other way around.

AT: Alarming Disappearance
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Your ability to move unseen is so startling, you cause panic.
 

AT: Ancestral Lore, Amurran
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You eagerly absorbed the old stories and traditions of former generations, namely their love of adventuring.

AT: Ancestral Lore, Draconic
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Level 1 | You've at least spent enough time absorbed into the study to know what Dragons are like, and what they like.

AT: Ancestral Lore, Dwarf
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Level 1 | You eagerly absorbed the old stories and traditions of your ancestors, your gods, studying subjects and techniques passed down for generation upon generation.

AT: Ancestral Lore, Elf
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Level 1 | You've studied traditional elven arts, learning about arcane magic and the world around you.

AT: Ancestral Lore, Golarian Minotaur
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You eagerly absorbed the old stories and traditions of former generations, namely their ability to learn or hide.

AT: Artisanal Forger
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Level 1 | Your culture has lent you the ability to work with metals and ores

AT: Artisanal Hunter
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Your culture has lent you the ability to work with what you kill, giving you a Profession skill and a easing the workload of certain materials.

AT: Astrology in Action
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Level 1 | You recall the stars’ predictions about your current situation, influencing the fortune of those around you.

AT: Auspicious Opening
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Luck bends in your favour at the beginning of encountering a person, granting you a bonus dice.

AT: Cat Nap
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You can regain your energy quickly, gaining temp HP during small rests.

AT: Cat's Luck
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Level 1 | People assume your feline agility has some sort of supernatural luck to it. They may be right.

AT: Cave Climber
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Level 5 | After years of clambering through goblin-made caverns, you can climb easily anywhere you go.

AT: Child of the Wilds
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You are one of many folk that has adapted to live with the chaotic laws of the wilds, gaining access to magical abilities.

AT: Clever Improviser
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Level 3 | You’ve learned how to handle situations when you’re out of your depth.

AT: Climbing Claws
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AT: Cloven Agility
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For a creature without feet, you have a strange vertical balance that impresses your allies and confounds your foes.

AT: Colorful Comeback
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Level 1 | You grew up in a warrior society of humans that gave as much as it took when it came to using ones wit.

AT: Colorful Courtesy
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Level 1 | You grew up with strong, emotional intonations that have a powerful sting to them, be they poetic or crass.

AT: Commune with Critters
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Level 1 | You can understand animals fairly easily, gaining the ability to talk with them supernaturally.

AT: Cooperative Actions
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Level 5 | You're able to direct people very well, being a sort of tactician of tandem actions.

AT: Cooperative Nature
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Level 1 | Your people's adaptable lives and history lend perspective, teaching you the value of community.

AT: Cooperative Soul
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Level 7 | The human sense of community is powerful, and the willpower of a human is legendary.

AT: Critical Guard
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You're not privy to harm, and you can defy even the worst blows with enough willpower.

AT: Crunching Bite
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Level 1 | Your bite and jaws can crush bones, or go through lighter armor.

AT: Cunning Brashness
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Halflings are known for their audaciousness, and this talent grants them skills to match.

AT: Cunning of Stone
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Level 1 | It's in a dwarf's best interest to understand the rocks of the world, and the history written into them.

AT: Defy Death
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Level 1 | You are exceptionally difficult to kill, even when dying.

AT: Defying Darkvision
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Level 3 | You've grown used to the dark, having grown used to it to the point of adaptation and dismissal.

AT: Devil's Advocate
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Level 1 | For a Human, you know more about the forces of darkness than is entirely safe.

AT: Diamond-Tipped Claws
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You've made your claws so fine, they've become useful for jobs that other tools are made for. Mostly crime, really.

AT: Disarming Luck
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Level 1 | Amurran luck is legendary, often coming with timing that is beyond parody.

AT: Draconic Defiance
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AT: Draconic Fangs
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Level 3 | A slight bit of draconic influence resides within your jaws and teeth. As a result, they have become sharp, and possess a slight elemental affinity to them.

AT: Draconic Flow
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level 5 | You're able to channel your Affinity Core to ramp up your elemental capabilities, and your endurance.

AT: Draconic Pulverization
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Leve 5 Draconic strength ripples through you at the right times, making it so that when you trample or pierce your enemies, they REALLY feel it.

AT: Draconic Resistance
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Level 1 | You possess a strange, supernatural resistance to your draconic Affinity Core's element(s).

AT: Draconic Roar
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Level 3 | You're able to let out a piercing, power-filled roar from within.

AT: Draconic Scales
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level 3 | Beyond the usual Scaly Hide some have, you have dragon-like scales that provide additional, supernatural protection..

AT: Draconic Sight
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Level 3 | You have a fraction of the unerring sight of your draconic forebearers.

AT: Draconic Soaring
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Level 9 | You have the uncanny ability to dash into or in the air, flying like a true dragon would.

AT: Draconic Wings
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Level 3 | You've grown, or long since had, a pair of dragon wings that can be used to help you defy gravity or ride the wind.

AT: Dragon Spit
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AT: Dragon's Flight
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Level 5 | You may or may not already have Draconic Wings, but you know how to soar above and beyond the rest

AT: Dwarven Doughtiness
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Level 3 | Your bravery is somewhat heroic, going beyond your fellow dwarves and other folk.

AT: Dwarven Grit
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Level 5 | Your dwarven stubbornness makes you shrug off pain, making you the best at what you do

AT: Dwarven Reinforcement
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Level 5 | You can use your knowledge of dwarven metalwork and magic to temporarily strengthen you or your allies.

AT: Dwarven Resilience
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Level 3 | Your dwarven ancestry allows you to shrug off most wounds, given the opportunity.

AT: Echo of Ancestral Longevity
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Level 5 | To elves, their long life is a blessing or a curse, seeing tomorrow as a promise and the past as a well-worn library.

AT: Echoes In Stone
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Level 5 | Using a supernatural dwarven power deep within, you attune your senses to the stone around you.

AT: Elf Two-Step
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Level 7 | You move in a graceful elven dance, and even your steps are broad.

AT: Elusiveness
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Level 3 | While elves are durable, many are quite quick, avoiding otherwise fatal blows by a hair's breadth.

AT: Elven Eye-Teeth
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Level 3 | Either through an evolutionary link, ativism, or some other biological part of you; your elven heritage has granted you a pair of fearsome fangs.

AT: Elven Precision
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Level 3 | You have the uncanny aim of legendary elves and spellcasters, likely being one in the making yourself.

AT: Emotional Exploitation
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Level 1 | With kobold posturing, bravado or simple displays of something or another, you can open up your foe to getting seriously hurt.

AT: Eternal Hope
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Gnomes rarely lose hope, with this talent granting them temporary immunity to frightened effects.

AT: Everybody's Frenemy
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Level 3 | Short or Tall, Friend or Foe, your magnetic personality has its skillful benefits.

AT: Eye for Beholding
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As a Ratton, you have, you have an innate sense, or a mad obsession, for finding and making treasure; gaining skills and bonuses to item creation.

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AT: Family Secret Technique
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Level 1 | Humans are known for their familial lineages, and one particularly effective technique has saved many a family line.

AT: Favored Class, Barbarian
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Level 1 | Classically or culturally, you're able to obtain, retain, or maintain one of your ancestry's iconic classes.

AT: Favored Class, Cleric
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Level 1 | Classically or culturally, you're able to obtain, retain, or maintain one of your ancestry's iconic classes..

AT: Favored Class, Fighter
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Level 1 | Classically or culturally, you're able to obtain, retain, or maintain one of your ancestry's iconic classes.

AT: Favored Class, Paladin
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Level 1 | Classically or culturally, you're able to obtain, retain, or maintain one of your ancestry's iconic classes.

AT: Favored Class, Rogue
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Level 1 | Classically or culturally, you're able to obtain, retain, or maintain one of your ancestry's iconic classes.

AT: Favored Proficiency
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You've strived to perfect a talent or hone the weapon of a divine entity you're related to, gaining a bonus dice to such for your hard work.

AT: Fearless
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Level 1 | You are naturally calm and collected in the face of imminent danger.

AT: Feline Bodyblock
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Level 1 | You have a habit of always being in the way when other creatures attempt to move.

AT: Feline Sprint
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AT: Ferocious Charge
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Level 1 | You charge at your enemy with reckless, wild abandon.

AT: Ferocious Link
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Your allies have the same fierce spirit as you do, granting them fighting spirit.

AT: Fighting Spirit
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You don't go down in a fight so easily, stopping a lethal blow at 1 hp once in awhile.

AT: Flame Thrower
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AT: Flight of the Small
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Level 3 | Due to your squat size, you're very fast and dangerous over short distances.

AT: Forlorn Steadiness
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Level 1 | As an elf, watching your friends age and die fills you with moroseness that protects you against harmful emotions.

AT: Friendly Fling
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You can scoop up your friends with your horns to hurl them across the battlefield.

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AT: Sabered Teeth, Cutting Claws
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Level 3 | As an Amurran, you've heard stories of catfolk who use long, sharp teeth and knife-like claws to great effect.

AT: Scaly Hide
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Level 1 | You were born with a layer of scales across your entire body that resemble those of your draconic progenitor.

AT: Seer of the Shadowed
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Level 5 | Even if you've cursed their name, some god of darkness or fate has gifted you with the ability to see into the unknown.

AT: Sense Allies
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Level 3 | Like many humans raised in a close-knit community, you have always been strongly attuned to the presence of others.

AT: Serpent Sorcery
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Level 5 | You've inherited some of the magic of great draconic spirits that defy the metaphysical boundaries.

AT: Shove Off
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AT: Shroud of the Wild
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Level 1 | Your ability to blend into the environment is impeccable. Some may even say supernatural.

AT: Skilled
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Level 1 | You innately know a bit more than other folk. At least when it comes to skills.

AT: Solid Footing
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Level 7 | You're not so easily pushed around. Supernaturally so, as some dwarves tend to be.

AT: Spellturning Scales
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Level 5 | Due to something within, your scaled dermis dampens hostile magics.

AT: Spite of the Small
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Level 1 | Your tiny, diminutive, miniature, minute, petite, wee, minuscule, or teeny stature makes you (un)characteristically violent

AT: Stone Form
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Level 11 | You channel the might and defense of stone. Literally.

AT: Stonegate
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Level 9 | As one of the dwarviest of dwarves, earthen barriers no longer impede your progress.

AT: Stonemason's Eye
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Level 3 | You've been around enough dwarven sites to know of the beauty, and weak points, of stone and earth.

AT: Stonewalker
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Level 9 | You have a deep reverence for and connection to stone, able to become one with it with ease.

AT: Stonewall Spirit
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Level 11 | The rebellious spirit of your dwarven ancestors roils within, and you call it forth to resist anything and everything.

AT: Storied Glory
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Level 1 Elves are often filled with tales of past deeds or their deeds to come, able to captivate an audience with verbiage and motion alike.

AT: Stout Ingenuity
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Level 1 | You make up for your size with the ability to work your hands to do complex things.

AT: Stretching Reach
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You can leverage your size to extend your reach and attack more distant foes, giving your weapons more Reach.

AT: Strike with a Vengeance
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Level 11 | Though any elf knows they will eventually outlive your companions, seeing them at death's door brings clarity to your attacks.

AT: Stubborn Persistence
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Level 9 | Humans are renowned for their ability to persist through the most grueling of trials that would leave others ready to drop.

AT: Sturdy as a Stone
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Level 7 | Your stone-like hide lets you withstand more punishment and the rigors of death.

AT: Suspicion's Resilience
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Level 5 | Your people have seen or experienced civilizations rise and fall, often at the hands of outside forces. As such, they have developed a wariness of others who might seek to influence or control them.

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