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This article covers the Pathfinder Second Edition ancestry. For the Pathfinder First Edition magical beast, which has significantly different properties and canon information, see yaoguai (legacy creature).
See also: tsukumogami, leshy, poppet, and awakened animal

Yaoguai are an ancestry of objects or creatures who, through magic or other supernatural means, have cultivated their own transformation into a sapient humanoid form. Yaoguai can look wildly different from each other, but most have similar abilities.

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