Here's my toned down half-efreet template, it's 17 RP.
Half-Efreeti
Standard Racial Traits
Ability Score Racial Traits: Half-efreeti gain -2 Str, +4 Int, and -2 Wis.
Type: Half-efreeti are outsiders with the native subtype.
Size: Half-efreeti are Medium creatures and thus receive no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Speed: Half-efreeti have a base speed of 30 feet.
Languages: Half-efreeti begin play speaking Common and Ignan.
Defense Racial Traits
Energy Resistance: Half-efreeti have fire resistance 10.
Fire in the Blood: Half-efreeti gain fast healing 2 for 1 round anytime they take fire damage (whether or not this fire damage overcomes their fire resistance, if any). A Half-efreeti can heal up to 2 hit points per level per day with this ability, after which it ceases to function.
Feat and Skill Racial Traits
Magical Racial Traits
Spell-like abilities: Half-efreeti have the following spell-like abilities:
1/day — enlarge person, fire shield, light
The caster level for this ability equals the half-efreet's class level.
Senses Racial Traits
Darkvision: Half-efreeti can see in the dark up to 60 feet.
Weakness Racial Traits
Elemental Vulnerability: Half-efreet have vulnerability to cold.
Other Racial Traits
I found someone who had created a Half-Efreet template : here
Though, I'd be giving up two class levels, I'm sure as written it's way to OP and you'd nerf it appropriately.
That said, if you'd rather not deal with analyzing and nerfing, I'll give some thought to an advanced ifrit race build, bringing the standard from 6RP up to 10RP.
My assumption was the best to use would be 7th, which I think is the latest? That’s the one I have access to, anyway, though I do need to actually learn how to play it. That’s part of why I want to do this, I’ve heard great things about the system.
Race: half-orc (human half would be Tian)
I thought about ninja....but then thought of another angle.
Perhaps a more esoteric, mystical branch of the ninja....the shadow dancer.
I'd start with the Skulking Slayer rogue archetype, then transition into the shadow dancer prestige class
and maybe a dip into the Dirty Fighter archetype later, maybe, for some more combat maneuver hijinks.
I'd understand if you wanted to nix the shadowdancer part....can be a bit tricky managing the shadow hopping, light levels etc.
Background:
He/She ( haven't decided on gender yet) would of course hail from the common half-orc loveless assault based conception.
But their mother would be no stranger to hardship, having travelled with family across the top of the world as a child herself, raising him/her despite their parentage.
Perhaps they're retainers to Kaijitsu family, but either way they'll have carried a secret with them. A tradition frowned upon
in their homeland, even among those who traditionally work in the shadows. An esoteric 'worship' of the shadow, culminating in
the discipline of shadowdancing.
I see him/her going forth with the caravan as a guard for Sandru, probably to escape some situation with the Szarni, for whom he/she's been working, hence the initial class.
Though having pursued a bit of a underworld career in Sandpoint, he/she still felt a calling to his/her Tian heritage, instilled of course by their mother.
I see her subtly exposing him/her to his/her heritage over the years, especially the dancing part, despite his/her embarrassed complaints!
When ready to set off with the caravan to Tian, the mother would hand over a number of scrolls for him/her to read on the journey, with exercises and concepts to meditate on etc.
As the journey would progress, eventually he/she would reach the end of the scrolls, revealing the final ritual to undertake to become a true shadowdancer,
coincidentally occurring when he/she turns 6th level!! :)
About Me:
Much the same as you! Also in IT! But I'm in EST.
Cut my teeth on AD&D and Gamma World back in the early 80s.
Been on the Paizo boards since 2014, with a couple of extended absences.