Bleachling Gnomes

[Daemosa]

So I've been reading through the character creation and basic guide for PFS characters, and I have an idea for my character, but I can't find anything that'd be yay or nay on the matter.

I haven't started getting into the nitty gritty of the stats or anything, but I have an idea for a bleachling dread gnome mesmerist. Everything seems to be copacetic with most of the concept, except I can't find anything about bleachlings.

For those who don't quite know what I'm talking about: they're gnomes that have succumbed to a process called "The Bleaching" and are one of the rare survivors. The Bleaching is the process in which all the color in a gnome's body slowly leeches out due to lack of new and exciting stimuli in their lives. This process is normally fatal, but some gnomes survive, known as Bleachlings. Their features are blanched as the condition has ravaged them, but they become more attuned to the natural world and basically lose their whimsical ways because they see it as "immature".

All of this is in the "Gnomes of Golarion" book, so it'd be legal to play, except I can't find any restriction on the speak with animals at will ability that is gained. Would I have to contact the GM of the particular campaign I'd like to play this character in, or just forgo that particular ability?

[Muser]

Here, it's under "Restricted but Unique". Basically, there's been a charity auction boon and no other bleachlings are possible at the moment.

[Daemosa]

Well that's kind of disappointing....I wonder why the ban and not a modification? Its mostly just a story thing without the SLA and the PFS defunct age modifiers?

Thanks for the reply, I'll just have to make a regular dread gnome then.

[Quandary]

Well, you never have to use an at-will ability, so if you rule it out from use, no different than not having it.
Gnomes are extremely divergent in colloration/appearance, so you could always just say you extremely white.
It's not like you have to announce you are a Bleachling Gnome to everybody anyways.
Or let's say you are not "completely" Bleached, but just very advanced... what exactly is the difference anyways?
As long as you aren't fixated on mechancal effect, I don't see anything stopping you,
nor anything stopping you from role-playing in character "What? Never seen a Bleachling before?", acting "non-whimsical", etc.

[Tamec]

Be advised that Dread Gnomes do not get access to poisons unless you pick a class with poison use.

[FLite]

Daemosa wrote:

Well that's kind of disappointing....I wonder why the ban and not a modification? Its mostly just a story thing without the SLA and the PFS defunct age modifiers?

Thanks for the reply, I'll just have to make a regular dread gnome then.

Things are banned for one of 4 reasons in pfs typically.

1. Too powerful (not the case here probably, but you do get immune to aging.)
2. Too disruptive (again, probably not, but there is the issue that you are playing an emotional trauma survivor, and some people will be disruptive with that.)
3. Does not fit the campaign (Does it make sense that a bleachling would be involved with a career as full of novelty and discovery as a pathfinder agent? This is a bit of an issue.)
4. The item is supposed to be rare and cool, and is being saved to show up on a chronicle. The rarer, and the cooler, the harder the chronicle is to get. Since it has shown up as a unique chronicle, auctioned off for charity, that is pretty clearly the case here.

That said, you could certainly play a gnome on the verge of bleaching, trying desperately to struggle back.

[Quandary]

Or on the verge of bleaching and having "given up"/given into the process, considering themselves bleached already.
Just without any mechanical repurcussions.
But I agree, the point of the ban is simply the extreme rarity in-world, and the limitation to auction boon reflects that,
changing that now would sabotage the understanding behind the auction boon as well as the experienced rarity of bleachlings in-game.