The Player's Guide is out, and Subscriber Day is very soon indeed. What sort of characters are you planning on bringing into Bastardhall? What sort of relationship were you thinking you'd have with Florin Kindler? There's certainly a lot of options.
She Who Speaks With Rocks and Senses Lingering Spirits (Linger). Hardshell surki (occult magiphage; Surki Weapon Familiarity [Earthbreaker] and Vestigial Magicsense) Stone order druid with the ostilli host archetype.
No previous relationship with Florin Kindler (Friend of a Friend background), but drawn in by her appeal(s) to others (and a chance to help "cleanse" part of Ustalav).
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Sort of cross-posting with the Runesmith Ideas thread, but a Once-Posessed human scholar who delved into Thassilonian sin-runes to better understand the Envy Demon he spent months or years posessed by.
The Blooded by the Dead background fits pretty well with a character I've had in mind for a while, an oddly-proportioned Dhampir Mutagenist who eventually reveals he's not the son of a Vampire, he's a cured one. He was turned as a small child and has no idea how long he was an undead horror before a master alchemist/necromancer captured him and experimented to restore him. Unfortunately the process only works if you were turned as a child and only results in this half-way state, plus he was dead so long that his body forgot how to grow properly and now his limbs are all different sizes. The Mutagenist specialty is mainly focussed on maintaining his own body.
And a very silly one that just now occured to me glancing through the backgrounds, from Friend of a Friend's focus on weird foods, a Sweet Hag Changeling Summoner with Candy Lore whose Construct Eidolon is a big ol' gingerbread man. Would you like a cookie?
I'm kinda torn between two options, myself. Option one, make a thinly-veiled metroidvania protagonist, because we are in Golarion Castlevania here, and the Belmonts shouldn't get to have all the fun, or to take the opportunity to bring back a character I made in a different system for a different horror campaign.
For option one, let's do... Bo (based on Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus), a leaf leshy kineticist, running water/wood/fire, with the Friend of a Friend background, and a focus on tea rather than food in general (yes, the lotus leshy heritage exists, but metroidvania protags don't take fall damage, and Bo notably can't water walk).
Option two, I'd do a Human Beastkin Justice Champion, with the Curse-Marked background. Marrok "Dogtooth" of Taldor, a young knight who was born human. He was cursed at a wedding (the entire wedding party was cursed into monstrous forms, and most of them ate each other). Marrok fled, and managed to get uncursed (mostly) by the efforts of a hedgewitch on the edge of the Verduran Forest. Some of the wolfish nature of the monster-shape stuck however, and he's now quite an odd-looking beastkin indeed. Not sure what deity to go for, though.
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Once-possessed Aasimar Summoner.
His Eidolon is his Celestial ancestor whom he chained to his will to be able to fight back against the fiend who possessed him.
He might have had some help/inspiration from Hellknights to do this.
He looks forward to piercing the mysteries of Bastardhall and becoming the new master of the place, eldritch energies included.