Racial Heritage and Races with Human Blood


Rules Questions


I have two questions here.

Is a Fetchling still human?

Also can a Fetchling take the Racial Heritage Feat because they are a descendant of humans and still have human blood running through their veins?

Silver Crusade Contributor

Officially, no; you need a racial trait such as Elf Blood or the human subtype. Fetchlings (and other native outsiders) are half-human-flavored, but aren't officially human.

Silver Crusade Contributor

That said, there is a precedent. Consider working with your GM to develop a fetchling equivalent of the aasimar alternate racial trait Scion of Humanity.


Fetchling wrote:
Native Outsider: Fetchlings are outsiders with the native subtype.

The human heritage is so distant that they are no longer human. To be human you need the (human) subtype or something like elf-blooded or orc-blooded racial trait


Okay but can other races take the feat because they have human blood like half elf, half orc, and others?

Silver Crusade Contributor

Those races can, because they have specific mechanics saying that they count as human for things like feat prerequisites.

The Concordance

Gaius_13 wrote:
Okay but can other races take the feat because they have human blood like half elf, half orc, and others?

Yes. As long as the race counts as humanoid (human), they can take the feat. Half Elves and Half Orcs do by default unless you trade those traits out.


Tieflings and Aasimar both have alternate racial traits to count as human as well.

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