I would be inclined to rule against it but RAW I am not sure. It would however make the character eligible for the feat, Fast Learner, +1 to HP and +1 to skill points. Hope I got the name correct.
the favoured class bonus is a racial trait that is tied to the race specifically as opposed to the race traits that can be chosen with the trait optional rule.
In other words, you cant have that quality, but you could have fast learner, as posted above. You would also be able to take any other human only feat.
A curious combination would be to take the scion of humanity trait on your aasimar and then take racial heritage orc or something.... talk about Heinz 57.
Favored Class Bonuses are not an effect, so no.
Yea, it's weird.
Are the small aasimar and tiefling in the "Blood of" books?
Blood of Angels, page 4:
Non-human aasimars have the same statistics as human aasimars with the exception of size. Thus a halfling aasimar is Small but otherwise possesses the same statistics and abilities as a human aasimar—the difference is purely cosmetic. Non-human aasimars do not possess any of the racial abilities of their base race. However, they are usually raised in the same cultural context as other members of their base race, and thus generally adopt the same fighting style as their peers, use the same types of weapons and armor, and study the same skills.
So... you can have a small aasimar that doesn't get a penalty to str?
Based on that text... yes. You can even end up with a +2 to strength from an alternate racial ability.
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Half-Elf or Half-Orc: Can a character of either of these races select human racial favored class options?
Yes. Half-elves and half-orcs may select racial favored class options, archetypes, traits, and so on, as if they were a full member of both races (a half-elf can select elf and human rules elements, a half-orc can select human and orc rules elements).
Edit 9/26/13: This is a reversal of an earlier ruling. This resolves a discrepancy between this FAQ, another APG FAQ, and a Core Rulebook FAQ.
—Pathfinder Design Team, 09/26/13
So, by the new ruling, I would assume the same would be said for an Aasimar with Scion of Humanity. They are BOTH races, same as a half-elf or half-orc.
So you could be an Aasimar Sorcerer taking the human favored class bonus, then the human feat Racial Heritage: Half Elf, and then cast Paragon Surge picking up the feat Expanded Arcana. Nice.
So you could be an Aasimar Sorcerer taking the human favored class bonus, then the human feat Racial Heritage: Half Elf, and then cast Paragon Surge picking up the feat Expanded Arcana. Nice.
Yep, although you would take Racial Heritage: Elf heh. Kind of redundant to take Half-Elf or Half-Orc as racial heritages lol.
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So you could be an Aasimar Sorcerer taking the human favored class bonus, then the human feat Racial Heritage: Half Elf, and then cast Paragon Surge picking up the feat Expanded Arcana. Nice.Yep, although you would take Racial Heritage: Elf heh. Kind of redundant to take Half-Elf or Half-Orc as racial heritages lol.
Paragon Surge is half-elf only, so you would indeed select Half-Elf as your Racial Heritage feat.
Yep, although you would take Racial Heritage: Elf heh. Kind of redundant to take Half-Elf or Half-Orc as racial heritages lol.
Paragon Surge is Half-Elf only, so that probably wouldn't work (which is hilarious considering the description of the spell).
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Except you can't take Half-Elf as a racial heritage technically, plus you have human ancestry, you have elf ancestry, I would honestly rule that you meet the prerequisites of the spell.
aasimar is not a half-blood race, however. Aasimar are aasimar. half-elves and half-orcs are hybrid races.
I'd rule, no.
==Aelryinth
I think if a Human or Aasimar took Racial Heritage and chose Half-Elf they would qualify for any feat/trait/spell/favored class option that required them to be Half-Elf but they would not have the half elven racial trait "Elf Blood" that allows them to count as elves/humans.
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Racial Heritage doesnt use the term elf blood but does say they count as half elf for all effects related to race... if being a half-elf means you count as an elf... but that is a racial trait and not witin the currently understood scope of the feat... Oww, my head!
It seems counter intuitive, but from what I can see, "being a half-elf means you count as an elf" is an untrue statement. Just being a half-elf doesn't cause this, it is a specific racial trait that grants you this boon/curse. If you qualify as a half-elf and for some reason don't have that trait, you wouldn't get those benefits.
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Elf Blood doesn't exist.
The core rulebook and Paizo stat blocks disagree. I'm looking at a published stat block for a half-elf. It's a humanoid (elf, human) and has the SQ elf blood.
A half-elf has both the elf and human subtypes as a separate quality of the monster race "half-elf", besides having the Elf Blood racial trait. In theory a half-elf could swap out Elf Blood, if someone were to publish a half-elf alternate racial trait that did so, and would still have both subtypes but count as neither elf nor human for certain game effects (it seems pointlessly hypothetical to speculate what those would be and no doubt the debate would be lengthy). Other game elements that allow a character to count as an elf, specifically Racial Heritage, don't give the character the elf subtype.
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But if the elf sub type is an effect of being a half elf than racial heritage doesn't grant you that but you do "count as" having the elf sub type. In another thread we have been talking about the feat racial heritage giving you an invisible sub type because of that wording.
Racial Heritage doesn't say you count as having any subtype, it says you count as that race. A character could, for example, have Racial Heritage (drow). He would count as both a human and a drow and could take feats with Prerequisite: Drow. He would not have the elf subtype and would not meet Prerequisite: Elf.
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But there was another ruling about racial heritage making you subject to favored enemy which only looks at types and subtype. So it has to make you count as a new subtype of humanoid for that to work.But if the elf sub type is an effect of being a half elf than racial heritage doesn't grant you that but you do "count as" having the elf sub type. In another thread we have been talking about the feat racial heritage giving you an invisible sub type because of that wording.Racial Heritage doesn't say you count as having any subtype, it says you count as a member of that race. A character could, for example, have Racial Heritage (drow). He would count as both a human and a drow and could take feats with Prerequisite: Drow. He would not have the elf subtype and would not meet Prerequisite: Elf.
I'm comfortable saying that favored enemy interacts with Racial Heritage, as the FAQ specifically says it does, by looking at the subtypes the character would have if he was of the race that he counts as being. It doesn't have to extend further.
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Tell me, Starglim, if I wanted to use the Race Builder to make a race that had the Elf Blood racial trait, which list is it on? When you look at the Sample Races which break down how each of the Core races would be re-created using the Race Builder, is Elf-Blood listed under Half-Elves?
I haven't used the published version of the Race Builder. However, when I look at the sample build for half-elves, indeed it doesn't have Elf Blood. Nor can I see anything there that acts as Elf Blood. The sample is therefore imperfect: the Race Builder hasn't replicated the CRB half-elf exactly, nor must it, since the core half-elf wasn't designed and doesn't run using this optional system.
You may be comfortable with saying that favored enemy interacts with Racial Heritage just because the FAQ says so, but for the rest of us, we need something a little more intellectual and self-consistent.
I think that's achievable. I need not to be addressed in the tone of this paragraph, so I'll leave it there.