Ysoki
Source Player Core pg. 78
Once known as ratfolk, ysoki are clever and flexible. With roots on countless worlds, ysoki work alongside larger species, helping to establish communities and accomplish tough tasks. From the largest of crowds to the tightest of tunnels, a ysoki always knows how to find their way.
Ysoki populations thrived on Akiton, lost Golarion, and several other worlds for millennia before spaceflight accelerated cultural exchange in the Pact System. The question of whether these ethnicities share common ancestors or were examples of convergent evolution isn't important to most ysoki. Often gregarious, ysoki embrace far-flung “cousins” regardless of differences in appearance and heredity.
Most ysoki love technology and travel, even gravitating toward professions that others find unpleasant. Ysoki often work as junkers, long-haul starship crew members, or mechanics squeezing through cramped station corridors, so sure of their own worth that living and working in subpar conditions is often a source of pride rather than shame.
If you want a character who's adventurous, confident, and curious, you should play a ysoki.
Most ysoki love technology and travel, even gravitating toward professions that others find unpleasant. Ysoki often work as junkers, long-haul starship crew members, or mechanics squeezing through cramped station corridors, so sure of their own worth that living and working in subpar conditions is often a source of pride rather than shame.
If you want a character who's adventurous, confident, and curious, you should play a ysoki.
You Might…
- Keep in touch with a large extended family scattered throughout the stars, with a cousin to visit in every port.
- Collect and tinker with gadgets encountered in your travels, even your own cybernetic augmentations.
- Adopt your coworkers and friends into your family.
Others Probably…
- Assume you're disorganized and messy until they learn your habits.
- Value your skills with technology but wish you reassembled things as often as you took them apart.
- Depend on you to stick up for others and always get the job done.
Physical Description
Ysoki have whiskered snouts, large ears, and hairless tails, with red or black eyes and fur colors typically in shades of black, brown, gray, and white. Ysoki appearances vary considerably, even within a family unit. Many ysoki have prehensile tails that help balance and maneuvering in zero gravity as well as keen noses that can identify complex chemicals by smell.
Ysoki instinctually maintain cleanliness through personal grooming and reinforce these habits throughout their strong social structures. Many ysoki use cosmetics to spice up their looks and favor cybernetic augmentations, often installed at a cousin's bustling street clinic. Ysoki enjoy expressing their personality through fashion, layering clothing items and accessories into a jumbled fusion. Regardless of attire or profession, ysoki value preparedness and ingenuity, rarely leaving home without a few useful tools and supplies stuffed into a backpack, purse, tool belt, or cheek pouch.
Ysoki instinctually maintain cleanliness through personal grooming and reinforce these habits throughout their strong social structures. Many ysoki use cosmetics to spice up their looks and favor cybernetic augmentations, often installed at a cousin's bustling street clinic. Ysoki enjoy expressing their personality through fashion, layering clothing items and accessories into a jumbled fusion. Regardless of attire or profession, ysoki value preparedness and ingenuity, rarely leaving home without a few useful tools and supplies stuffed into a backpack, purse, tool belt, or cheek pouch.
Society
Ysoki culture values life over credits, framing work as another communal activity to enjoy. Ysoki communities are tight-knit and welcoming, always eager to share a meal or swap spare parts with strangers who don't look down on them. Many ysoki adults enjoy distance correspondences with dozens of friends and relatives, reuniting for rowdy celebrations whenever circumstance brings them back together. Others never leave their homes, serving as pillars of their community and curating collections of junk and stories for generations of grandchildren.
Beliefs
Ysoki care more about their family than abstract moral concepts, and most ysoki follow their community's strict social codes even if they break civil laws. Community is important to all ysoki, and they're likely to respect other cultures' social expectations even when they don't agree.
Popular Edicts maintain good personal hygiene, put your community's needs above your own, stay in touch with friends, take care of your family
Popular Anathema throw away something that might be useful later
Popular Edicts maintain good personal hygiene, put your community's needs above your own, stay in touch with friends, take care of your family
Popular Anathema throw away something that might be useful later
Sample Names
Bena, Coponisa, Cors, Datch, Fitch, Goba, Kib, Lolo, Niknak, Quig, Resk, Sim, Twik
Ysoki Mechanics
Hit Points
6
Size
Small
Speed
25 feet
Attribute Boosts
Dexterity, Intelligence, Free
Attribute Flaw
Strength
Languages
Akitonian
Common
Ysoki
Additional languages equal to your Intelligence modifier (if it's positive). Choose from the list of common languages and any other languages to which you have access (such as the languages prevalent on your home world).
Low-Light Vision
You can see in dim light as though it were bright light, and you ignore the concealed condition due to dim light.