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====== Darfellans ======
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Darfellan

The Darfellans were once a peaceful race of hunter-gatherers who lived among the surf and sea stacks of foreboding coastlines. Then the sahuagin discovered them, beginning a century-long struggle that almost ended in the extinction of the darfellan race. The remaining darfellans are brooding wanderers who crave the chance to exact a final measure of vengeance against the sahuagin who wiped out their kin.

A Darfellan has a hulking muscular build with a broad back, powerful arms, and a wide neck and head. A Darfellan stands around 6 feet tall and weighs over 200 pounds.

A Darfellan's most striking feature is his or her jet black skin, glossy and hairless, broken by varied white markings. The size, shape and areas of the white areas distinguish family groups and and quickly identify an individual's heritage to other darfellans and those who know how to read darfellan markings. Occasionally, individuals are born who are entirely black or, much more rarely, wholly white. Such births are always seen as portentous, and the children are destined to hold positions of importance among the people- whether they are so inclined or not. The appearance of an entirely white darfellan is taken as a sign of great events, and the people's history is filled with stories of the upheavals that followed such births.
-Stormwrack by Richard Baker

===== Ancestry Features =====

HIT POINTS\\
10\\
SIZE\\
Large\\
SPEED\\
20 feet\\
Swim 20 feet\\

**Attribute Boosts**\\
Strength \\
Wisdom\\
Free\\

**Attribute Flaw**\\
Dexterity\\

LANGUAGES
Common, Darfellan

**Low-Light Vision**

**Hold Breath**
A darfellan can hold his or her breath for a number of rounds equal to 8 x their constitution score before they risk drowning. For a typical Darfellan this is 96 rounds, or ten minutes. 

===== Darfellan Heritages =====
==== Bloodthirsty Darfellan ====
A darfellan usually exudes a brooding calm, but the mere presence of a saghuagin is enough to send you into a blood-mad fury. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and a +2 bonus to damage rolls when fighting sahuagins. 

==== Seadancer Darfellan ====
You gain the breach special ability. \\
**Breach** [two-actions] The darfellan Strides up to its swim Speed, then Leaps vertically out of the water up to 15 feet in the air, making a Strike against a creature at any point during the jump (this lets it attack a creature within 30 feet of the water's surface). After the Strike, the darfellan splashes back down into the water. At level 5 the distance leaped increases to 25. 

==== Sharptooth Darfellan ====
You have spent your youth sharpening your teeth for underwater combat. You gain a Jaws unarmed attack that deals 1d8 piercing damage and is in the brawling group. 

==== Wavestalker Darfellan ====
Your tribe favored lying in wait for their foes, and you know how to use the darkness of the depths to set up cunning ambushes. You become trained in stealth. If you would become trained in stealth from another source, you become trained in a different skill. Additionally, when you make a stealth check underwater, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to the roll. 

===== Darfellan Ancestry Feats =====

==== Darfellan Lore ====
You gain the trained proficiency rank in Nature and Athletics. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice. You also become trained in Darfellan Lore.

==== Darfellan Magic ====
You can cast spout as an innate primal cantrip. You become trained in primal spellcasting.

==== Darfellan Weapon Familiarity ====
You are trained with composite longbows, composite shortbows, harpoons, longbows, nets, and shortbows. In addition, you gain access to all uncommon Darfellan weapons. For the purpose of determining your proficiency, martial darfellan weapons are simple weapons and advanced darfellan weapons are martial weapons.