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Heritage feats represent unlocking the latent potential in your mixed blood, or even differences, deliberate mutations, or divine gifts within creatures of pure blood. These capabilities might appear over time, as the result of exposure to magic that awakens the blood (even on accident) or deliberately, as the creature trains their capabilities. Heritage feats usually require a creature to have one or more creature types or subtypes in order to gain their benefits.

Heritage Feats

  • Aerial Wings: Your wings have strengthened to the point of allowing flight.
  • Altered Life: Your unusual nature affects your vitality, bolstering you in ways different from other mortals.
  • Ancestor’s Breath: You can tap into your ancestor’s elemental energy to breath that same energy upon your enemies.
  • Blood Affinity: Your nature enhances spells for which you have an affinity.
  • Blood Frenzy: The deaths of your enemies impel you to ever-greater acts of violence.
  • Bloodsong Adept: With the aid of subtle blood magics, you inspire your fellows more easily.
  • Champion’s Presence: You bolster those who share beliefs similar to your nature.
  • Feral Fighter: You were born with—or developed—claws or fangs that you can use in battle.
  • Grave’s Embrace: You enhance your deathly nature, granting you some measure of control.
  • Greater Sanguine Sorcery: You have honed the magic of your heritage to its peak.
  • Greater Spark of Divinity: Your divine blood reaches its peak of concentration and power.
  • Improved Sanguine Sorcery: Your blood-born sorcery intensifies, offering greater capabilities.
  • Improved Spark of Divinity: You hone your divine connection further, gaining additional capabilities.
  • Instinctive Grappler: Your instincts are to grab an enemy and crush and tear at them while they struggle against you.
  • Kinslayer: You have a talent for harming those like yourself.
  • Mighty Frame: You are extraordinarily strong for your size.
  • Mixed Blood: You come from a family with diverse heritage.
  • Overflowing Life: You have developed unusual amounts of life force in your body.
  • Resist Kindred: You know how to defend against those like yourself.
  • Sanguine Sorcery: Your magical heritage has bestowed limited magical power upon you.
  • Scrambler’s Gift: You know how to climb exceptionally well.
  • Small Stature: Unusually small and nimble for your race, you can squeeze into tight places.
  • Spark of Divinity: Your ancestral connection to divine energies permits you to cast certain spells.
  • Unnatural Resilience: Your unnatural nature infuses your body, letting you resist assaults against it in unusual ways.
  • Vestigial Wings: You were either born with or developed a pair of weak wings.
  • Woeful Stench: Your enemies recoil in disgust when they strike you.

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