Mongrelfolk

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Mongrelfolk
Mongrelfolk
(Creature)

Type
CR
1
Environment
Any ruins or underground
Alignment
Source: Bestiary 2, pg(s). 191

Mongrelfolk1 are peculiar patchwork humanoids who live in the tunnels of Nar-Voth. They can mate with nearly any type of humanoid creature, but the offspring of such unions takes on characteristics of both parents. There is thus very little conformity in appearance among mongrelfolk.2

Description

There is no simple way to describe the way a mongrelfolk might look. Their appearances vary greatly based on that particular individual's lineage. They have a multitude of features from many humanoid ancestries. Most mongrelfolk resemble deformed humanoids bearing collections of traits that do not belong together.2

History

Mongrelfolk are one of the groups of descendants of the Azlanti who hid underground to escape the destruction of Earthfall.3 Their ability to breed with almost any humanoid creature, adding new mutations with every generation, has led them to quickly adapt and survive the dangers of Nar-Voth.2

Habitat and society

Among the inhabitants of Nar-Voth, mongrelfolk are the most friendly and hospitable to surface dwellers, sometimes trading with them or providing shelter. This benevolence to outsiders is an attribute that has not garnered them many friends in those darkened tunnels.24

Religion

The mongrelfolk pantheon is culled from a wide range of other pantheons, with the most commonly worshiped deities being Gozreh, Pharasma, and Sivanah.2

On other worlds

These hybrids also live on the other planets of the solar system wherever inter-species cross-breeding occurs.5

References

For additional as-yet unincorporated sources about this subject, see the Meta page.

  1. Paizo sources variously use the terms mongrelmen and mongrelfolk interchangeably. Per James Jacobs, Paizo prefers the term "mongrelfolk". See Meta:Mongrelfolk.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 James Jacobs & Greg A. Vaughan. Nar-Voth” in Into the Darklands, 25. Paizo Inc., 2008
  3. James Jacobs & Greg A. Vaughan. Nar-Voth” in Into the Darklands, 19. Paizo Inc., 2008
  4. Robert Brookes, et al. “Rules Index” in Heroes of the Darklands, 3. Paizo Inc., 2017
  5. James L. Sutter. “Chapter 3: Aliens” in Distant Worlds, 57. Paizo Inc., 2012