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You descend from a line of Kitsune who have lived for a long time with people of another ancestry, far longer than most other Kitsunes and have lost some powers as a result.
Choose a common, Medium humanoid ancestry. Your alternate form is a form that matches this choice called a tailless form. You also gain the Adopted Ancestry feat for your chosen humanoid ancestry.
Your true Kitsune form is equivalent in appearance to the 5th level feat Hybrid Form Kitsune (think the white kimono woman used in the official 2e Kitsune art)
Due to how distant you've become, even in your true form, you can't use unarmed attacks from a Kitsune ancestry feat, and you can't use an ability that requires your tails, and you only gain half the amount of tails as you level that other Kitsune would normally get, you can use these abilities again in your true form if you take the Hybrid Form feat at level 5
I'm basing this of the Adaptive Anadi Heritage, sure their a rare Ancestry but would giving adopted ancestry and loosing some Kitsune abilities in return make it balanced?
Sould also loosing the ability to use tails and unarmed attack make this hertiage bad? I mean it doesn't seem bad right now, you just lose Foxfire and Retractable Claws, but seeing as the Tian Xia books for 2e are coming up and they might add more Kitsune feats, this could be extremely debilitating, but well remains to be seen, but if I remove this restriction, it makes Hybrid Form useless, so it's either I invalidate currently 2 feats right now with this, or just 1
But other than that pretty much all other feats still work, so you can still cast spells from Kitsune feats just as well as other heritages
I think its weird to me based on Kitsune lore that Kitsune cant get Adopted Ancestry until level 3 but the Anadi who they share some similarities with, can through the Adaptive Anadi heritage
The lore similarities I'm talking about are (on the Archive of Nethys 2e page)
"Though all-kitsune settlements exist, most live among people of other ancestries, granting them a degree of external insight into social rules or dynamics that others process only subconsciously. Kitsune enjoy subverting expectations as much as they do going along with them. Their fondness for jokes, stories, and wordplay, especially when the twist of a riddle hinges on the listener's assumptions, reinforces their reputation as tricksters."
"As a communal and peaceful people, anadi ancestors endeavored to establish trade with the neighbors of their homeland. However, these anadi soon learned that most others found their appearance to be extremely objectionable. Wishing to avoid conflict, ancient anadi retreated into isolation until they could find a solution. The answer came when their greatest scholars innovated a fusion of transmutation and illusion magic that allowed them to assume a humanoid form. The technique was developed, perfected, and eventually taught to the overwhelming majority of anadi."
It's weird to me that Anadi have a heritage that's because their lineage wanted to explicitly blend into Common Medium size Humanoid ancestries, but not also Kitsune
Sure the Kitsune are prolly more distant in a sense to the people they mingle with than the Anadi but, idk like wouldn't it be sensible that you would also find a Heritage type of Kitsune who are like the Adaptive Anadi more, they found that they love being apart of X ancestry and want to become closer to it? They want to not just trick anymore, but actually be almost one with their chosen ancestry?
Maybe can be interesting for you but there's also Kitsune of Golarion and Kitsune of Golarion: Foxfire Adepts both them add many more options and variant rules for Kistune characters.