I am playing around with the samsaran race and trying to develop more racial options for it. I wanted to know if this optional racial trait looked balanced.
Martial Past Life (Ex): You choose one weapon when you select this racial trait. You gain proficiency with your chosen weapon. If you are already proficient with your chosen weapon or later become proficient from another source, you gain a +1 insight bonus on attack rolls with the weapon. You can use your character level to qualify for feats with a fighter level prerequisite when those feats are applied to your chosen weapon. This racial trait replaces shards of the past.
I was also thinking this could replace Samsaran Magic, but I think it fits better with Shards of the Past and Mystic Past Life (which is one of the most potentially broken racial traits I have ever seen).
Also for your consideration:
Roots of Humanity (Ex): You are among the rare samsaran whose human ancestry manifests itself as a dominate trait in your current incarnation; possessed of fair skin, pupiled eyes with pale blue irises, and dark hair. You possess the human subtype as well as the samsaran subtype and count as a human for any effect related to race, including feat prerequisites. You can pass for human without using the Disguise skill. This racial trait replaces samsaran magic and alters your humanoid subtype.