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Really it's anything you like, PC creation is largely left up to player creativity but as a GM I'd be fine with a player spinning it however they please.
It from some inherited "corruption" in the life-giving magic from whatever force or creature that created them, the leshy being grown out of a Blessed/Cursed location, born from a seedling that was nearly destroyed in a fire prior to its awakening, or that was fertilized with decaying Dragon Scales and hide at the mouth of an ominous cave before being harvested.
You can even have a Dhampir Angelic Bloodline Leshy Sorcerer and it doesn't step on any toes, canon wise, as far as I can tell.
So remember that Leshies are a nature spirit inhabiting a plant body that was prepared for it. So while it's unlikely a nature spirit has any sort of infernal influence in its background, a given plant might. So your bloodline comes from the circumstances in the history of the plant that you inhabit not from your animating spirit.
What exactly defines a nature spirit?
Here's an article that talks a bit about nature spirits and how they don't necessarily conform to one type. There are quite a few mentions in it that can be tied to one of the sorcerer bloodlines: angels, demons, ghosts, elementals, Pan (fey), etc. So a Leshy's sorcerer bloodline could easily come from the spirit itself.
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One of my favorite sorcerer ideas is an air elemental leshy that's a dandelion puff. I always figured the plant she was made out of was just infused with elemental air as she was being created, or they were just a wind-related nature spirit if that's a thing.
I vote for Aberration tainted Leshy!
Blood sucking tentacled fungus,ftw!
Seriously, Day of the Triffids anyone?
Lovecraftian stuff has often skirted the lines between animal, vegetable and inconceivable.
Now I'm thinking about a leshy bard playing hauntingly beautiful otherworldly music, dazing their prey and drinking the fluids...
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Some ideas:
Sacred, even Angelic trees exist on hallowed ground; a sacred sapling could be called upon by nature just as any other, perhaps with the enthusiastic support of its god. The same can go for unhallowed ground, of course, whether Abyssal, Demonic, or Diabolical. Speaking of magic dirt, the ancient site of an Imperial archmage's failed experiment could have left an arcane taint in a forest's fertile soil, as could the Shadow-rites of some forgotten cult. Substitute "Draconic" and "Aberrant" for cultists of Tiamat and the Great Old Ones respectively, while "Elemental" magic tends to be more of a planar mishap. Air-Elemental ground, for instance, would probably be so pissed-off at existing that it'd just have to produce a couple of Leaf Leshies.
As for the Undead and Psychopomp bloodlines? There are many ways, similar to those above, but bear also in mind that every tree is a necromancer, drinking in the self-destructive waste of a star and devouring the bodies of its fellows in order to reverse the natural order, spitting in the face of entropy... At least, until it too must pay the price. But the cycle begins anew, as it always must, and the passing of every great tree is always punctuated by the opportunistic climb of many others. Perhaps "up" is not the only way...
In a more personal fashion, the Nymph Bloodline is almost self-writing: the Leshy's druidic "mother" may be a nymph herself, sending her seedling out of the forest to find a cure for the forest's blight. Or perhaps the pumpkin-head of your Gourd Leshy was animated by a changeling druid, unknowing of the Hag's venom that suffuses even her kindest act of creation.
Otherwise, Genies have the [Plot Device] trait and Fey are capricious nature spirits already, so those bloodlines don't need too much justification. Something like foolish mortal meddling/a planar boozefest/ineffable boredom should do the trick.
Hope these ideas were helpful!
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I vote for Aberration tainted Leshy!
Blood sucking tentacled fungus,ftw!
Seriously, Day of the Triffids anyone?
Lovecraftian stuff has often skirted the lines between animal, vegetable and inconceivable.
Aberrant bloodline is the most appropriate choice for a Fungus Leshy sorcerer, honestly. Most of the deities and things in that power level which are concerned with fungus tend to be in the "eldritch abomination" category.
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Aberrant bloodline is the most appropriate choice for a Fungus Leshy sorcerer, honestly. Most of the deities and things in that power level which are concerned with fungus tend to be in the "eldritch abomination" category.I vote for Aberration tainted Leshy!
Blood sucking tentacled fungus,ftw!
Seriously, Day of the Triffids anyone?
Lovecraftian stuff has often skirted the lines between animal, vegetable and inconceivable.
Never heard of Angel Cap Mushrooms? ;)