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Sovereign Court

Bloodlines seem far too essential to the characters who have them for them to ever be optional. You either choose a class or archetype that gives you one, or you don't.

Sovereign Court

Pathfinder Society 1E had some vanity boons and chronicle boons that allowed characters to acquire noble titles, and in some cases, increase their noble rank (to earl or margrave at best, IIRC?). The mechanical benefits varied, from bonuses to influence NPCs in your home kingdom, to small bonuses to skills such as Knowledge (nobility), to owning land that allowed you to use Knowledge (nobility) or Diplomacy for day job checks.

Sovereign Court

My PFS sorcerer is a nagaji with the serpentine bloodline. The choice was originally just for flavor--super-snaky snake! He's 10th level but very ill-suited to melee combat, so has only ever manifested his 1st-level fangs ability a handful of times (and has never actually bitten anyone, just threatened to). On the other hand, speaking with reptiles and expanding the creature types on which he can use his mind-affecting spells have both proved very useful over his career.

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Speaking from my own experience, each title is its own discreet thing, but the details of the title are largely irrelevant except for flavor (and to give your Herald follower vanity something to do).

I think I recognize one of the boons you alluded to:

Spoiler:
Rising Star from #9-08 Birthright Betrayed.
This makes a Sovereign Court PC into a baronet (a landless title) immediately, and they can eventually earn enough boxes to become a landgrave or viscount (a landed title). If they already have or acquire another noble title (which you can get from a few other scenarios, or buy with Prestige using the PFS Field Guide), you check several boxes for free. When I earned this boon for my Sovereign Court character, I don't think I bothered using his baronet title in introductions until he acquired enough Fame that I could buy a Noble Title with Prestige. Then I simply chose "lord," because that was the easiest honorific to attach to his name. OTOH, when he completed the boon, I did take some time to choose a name for his viscounty, because having land was a much bigger deal.

As for a spreadsheet to track all the PC nobility in PFS? None of the OP staff have that kind of free time, sirrah! I think the best you can hope for there is asking for players to self-report their titles by chiming in on a thread like this one. (I know there's a thread like that for PCs who have achieved Jeweled Sage status.)

Here are mine:

Lord Mahesh, Viscount A'zun (nagaji sorcerer from Nagajor, now a landed Taldan noble).

Silver Crusader Raudabjorn Kjallaksson (dwarf paladin); also a knight of Taldor, but far better known as a multiply-decorated hero of the Fifth Crusade [Silver Crusader title and multiple Mendevian Commendations].

Cassilda Tillinghast (human magus), knight of Taldor. (As a part-Sczarni Varisian, and a member of Liberty's Edge, she's actually somewhat embarrassed by this title, so never uses it.)

Neferanu, Jeweled Sage (oread brawler/living monolith).

Trade Princess Mariko Snowtop (undine witch).

Sovereign Court

My single Sovereign Court character in PFS is a nagaji serpentine sorcerer, because that's I felt like building at the time. He has no notable non-Charisma skills except Knowledge (nobility) and Spellcraft, but that's what other PCs are for. He has two jobs: schmoozing and battle magic. (The former is also his day job, now that he's a landed noble.)