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The Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook has 46,690 possible combinations of Ancestry, Heritage, Background, Class, and Class Path—and that's before you add archetypes to the mix! If you add an archetype to your build parameters, you're up to 560,280 possible character options. That's ... a lot!!**
So what on earth should you build? Ask my character-suggestion spreadsheet! It'll give you new suggestions all day long. And if you prefer to roll physically, you can always pull 100 suggestions at once from the "d100" page to make a chart to roll on.
Enjoy!!
** And if you count the Wizard's Thesis as a "Class Path" choice, you bring the Wizard's number of choices up from 9 to 36 (= 9 schools * 4 theses), which bumps the overall numbers to 74,095 characters (without archetypes) or 889,140 characters (with archetypes) in the CRB. I haven't added in the theses yet, though, so I kept those out of my initial count.
P.S. The spreadsheet is coded so that it is very easy to expand as PF2 adds more content (including the ability to easily filter for the specific sources you want to draw on). I've already put in some options that we know are coming in the next few months in the world guides, and I'll keep adding to this for a while at least.
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Worth noting for people trying this out if there are specific options you want to remove/add you can manually edit the relevant checkbox cell to true/false.
Handy if you want to look at CRB classes but know you definitely don't want to play a Wizard or Gnome or something like that.
How do you have access to the Lost Omens books already? And what is an "Iruxi"? It has given me that as an Ancestry twice now.
I threw those names in there along with a few options we know from previews to build and test the ability to add sources in the future.
Right now the only related data from those are the 3 Ancestries in the Character Guide (known from the product page and conventions) and 9 out of the 10 World Guide archetypes (known from the blogs, we'll get the 10th on Monday).
And yes, "Iruxi" is the new name for Lizardfolk, as part of Paizo's worldbuilding effort to give different groups their own names rather than the names that might be applied to them by humans/outsiders in-world.