Hello, I am new to the forums and fairly new to PF as well. As far as I have understood, in 2e I can create a globin character with elven ancestors. I have some questions regarding this.
How much would the physical appearance of the goblin change? From the description:
You have elves, or possibly other aiuvarins, in your family tree. You have pointed ears and other telltale signs of elf heritage.
Apart from the ears, could that goblin be taller and slimer, for example?
And also, in PF world, how could a goblin have an elf as an ancestor? I thought goblins could reproduce only with a restricted number of other ancestries. Is there anywhere in the online rules (I'm using archive of nethys for now) where I can check "reproduction" rules?
Please excuse my english as it's not my native language.
The whole mixed ancestry thing is pretty new and only emerged with the remaster about 4 months ago. Before that, half-elves were strictly limited to humans for their "other half".
So there's really no information on how any of these newly possible combinations look or work.
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How much would the physical appearance of the goblin change? From the description:
You have elves, or possibly other aiuvarins, in your family tree. You have pointed ears and other telltale signs of elf heritage.
As you like. In general like as multi ethnicity humans mix doesn't give a default appearance (due how the meiosis randomly mixes the genes) IMO the same would happen for non-human ancestries.
IMO it's perfectly fine to choose your appearance as you like. With the exception of size. IMO due mechanical reasons you take the size of your main ancestry not from heritage just like happens to other versatile heritages. So Goblin Ancestry With Aiuvarin Heritage would be a small size creature.
Ok thank you all for the answers :)
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If you wanted to do the reverse you could with custom mixed heritage starting with elf as the ancestry.
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Your coloration tends toward a mix of Goblin green and your Elven parent's skin tone. So you are more a lighter or darker green depending on the elf's skin tone.
your ears instead of being floppy are more rigged and swept back than most other goblins. You also tower over them at 3'10. and instead of the bright glittering irises that most of your people have, your eyes are almost all black, like your elven parent.
As far as non-phsyical ways you can illustrate this. Maybe given them a phobia of fire, which is bizarre as most Goblins have a facination with it.
Or make it so that dogs and horses actually like them.
Oh, maybe they can't eat some of the more heavily fermented goblin foods. (It's my head cannon that goblins don' tlike "rotten" foods, they like fermented foods. A lot of cultures do stuff like this. Goblins, because they're a fantasy race, take this to extremes other cultures can't tolerate)
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Mind that natural goblin colouration ranges from grey to blue as well as green. Really, goblins have almost as diverse skin tone possibilities as elves themselves. If they are forest goblins (rather than the more common rasp goblin ethnicity) they are more likely to have darker green or green-brown skin, which is worth noting purely because forests are also quite popular with elves.
