Races of Golarion

While humans dominate the world, there are many races and ancestries of Golarion whose traits and lineages diverge past simple ethnic diversity to represent something closer to unique humanoid species.

Core races

The vast majority of Golarion's sentient life takes the form of one of several races, a group also known as the core races:¹

Dwarves
Elves and their half-human offspring, half-elves
Gnomes
Half-orcs, the half-human children of orcs
Halflings
Humans

Other humanoid races

A tiefling.

There's even more diversity among sentient humanoids outside of the norms, many of which are the results of human dalliances with supernatural beings or extreme adaptations to different environments:

Changelings, offspring of humans and hags
Cyclopes, one-eyed seers and remnants of a long-fallen empire
Darklands races:
- Derros, corrupted fey of Nar-Voth
- Drow, elves of the Darklands and their half-human offspring, half-drow
- Duergar, dwarves of the Darklands
- Svirfneblin, gnomes of the Darklands
- Urdefhan, translucent Orvian creations of oinodaemons
Dhampir, half-vampire humans
Giants
Gillmen, water-breathing humanoids who claim direct lineage to ancient humans
Goblins, hobgoblins, and other goblinoids
Orcs, brutal, warlike humanoids
Planar and planar-descended humans:
- Aasimar, humans with ancestry from good-aligned planes
- Fetchlings, humanoids from the Plane of Shadow
- Tieflings, humans with ancestry from evil-aligned planes
- Geniekin, humans with ancestry from elemental planar beings
  - Ifrit, humans with ancestry from the Plane of Fire
  - Oreads, humans with ancestry from the Plane of Earth
  - Sylphs, humans with ancestry from the Plane of Air
  - Undines, humans with ancestry from the Plane of Water
  - Half-jann, humans born from the mating of a human and janni²
  - Sulis, humans descended from half-jann or other jann heritages²
Strix, humanoids with bird-like wings who live in Devil's Perch
Tengu, bird-like humanoids most commonly found in Tian Xia

Partially humanoid and monstrous humanoid races

A centaur.

A few races combine human features or traits with animal or other non-human species:

Cecaelias, octopus-bodied humanoids³
Centaurs, driders, girtablilus, and other centauroids
Charau-ka, small ape-like humanoids
Derhii, winged intelligent gorillas⁴
Grippli, frog-like humanoids
Kobolds, relatives of dragons
Lizardfolk
Merfolk, fish-bodied humanoids
Minotaurs, bull-headed humanoids
Ratfolk, humanoids with rat-like traits
Thriae, bee-bodied humanoids

References

For a list of all races and racial variants described on PathfinderWiki, see the Races category. For a list of human ethnicities, see the Human category.

↑ James Jacobs et al. (2011). The Inner Sea World Guide, p. 10. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-269-2
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Brian Cortijo. (2009). Qadira, Gateway to the East, p. 26–27. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-180-0
↑ Adam Daigle, Patrick Renie, F. Wesley Schneider, and James L. Sutter. (2012). Oceans of Golarion. Raiders of the Fever Sea, p. 59. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-409-2
↑ Tim Hitchcock, Brandon Hodge, Michael Kortes, Jason Nelson, Russ Taylor. (2011). Lost Cities of Golarion, p. 23. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-272-2

[ISWG-10-1] James Jacobs et al. (2011). The Inner Sea World Guide, p. 10. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-269-2

[QGttE-26-27-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Brian Cortijo. (2009). Qadira, Gateway to the East, p. 26–27. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-180-0

[3] Adam Daigle, Patrick Renie, F. Wesley Schneider, and James L. Sutter. (2012). Oceans of Golarion. Raiders of the Fever Sea, p. 59. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-409-2

[4] Tim Hitchcock, Brandon Hodge, Michael Kortes, Jason Nelson, Russ Taylor. (2011). Lost Cities of Golarion, p. 23. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-272-2

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