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Player > Races > Ramiyel
Starfinder Adventure Path #21: Huskworld (Attack of the Swarm! 3 of 6) p.52
Ramiyels are Medium monstrous humanoids.
Ramiyels have a climb speed of 15 feet.
A ramiyel can use her serpentine lower body to grapple foes, allowing her to grapple without needing a free hand.
Ramiyels have darkvision with a range of 60 feet.
Ramiyels have an innate knack for understanding life-forms and their function. They have a +2 racial bonus to Life Science and Medicine skills.
Each ramiyel has a personal focus. This inclination not only manifests as a talent that grants an extra class skill, but it also affects the ramiyel’s relationship with her environment and other beings. Commonly, a ramiyel is born as what her culture calls a creator, and her extra class skill is a Profession skill. Some ramiyels have a nurturer focus, and can choose Diplomacy or Sense Motive as her extra class skill. A ramiyel who has a huntress focus can choose Perception or Survival as her extra class skill.
Ramiyels, which are half-ophidian, half-mammalian humanoids,
are Ramiya’s sole sapient species. All ramiyels are female.
A ramiyel has an upper body like that of a female human,
with brightly or darkly hued hair and eyes, and a muscular,
colorfully scaled serpent body below the waist. Scales also
mark a ramiyel’s upper body and face. When deeply connected
emotionally, ramiyels can also psychically bond, causing any
willing participant to conceive if she so wishes. The mother
then gives birth about 7 months later.
Ramiyel culture is communal. Individual ramiyels specialize
in tasks for the betterment of the community, pooling
resources and efforts to accomplish great feats. Ramiyels are
deeply in tune with their surroundings, and their adaptation
to their communal culture causes them to struggle to develop
more diverse skill sets. Most are more comfortable focusing
on personal interests. Whether settled or nomadic, ramiyel
communities remain small by other cultures’ standards, as
they rely on Ramiya’s abundant resources for their needs and
sunlight for power. However, multiple such groups work in
concert, as with Yaillan or the reseeding of Ramiya.
The defining trait of ramiyel culture is their great reverence
for life and nature. Ramiyels seek to live in harmony with the life
around them, abhorring pollution, waste, and wanton disregard
for other living beings. This preference does not equate to
pacifism—predation is integral in ramiyel understanding of
nature’s cycle. Huntresses are a vital element of their culture,
which is rooted in a hunter-gatherer past. This respect for life
extends beyond Ramiya. Even the most hardened
ramiyel operative might spend a few moments
after a pitched firefight to honor fallen foes
and respect loss of life. Despite their spiritual
proclivities, from which their mystical
traditions arise, ramiyels worship
no deities. They have deep cultural
taboos against even trusting, much
less revering, such entities. If another
reason for this tradition ever existed, it
was lost to the Gap.
Individual ramiyels are most often good-aligned,
with a focus on balance between the personal
and communal. Even ramiyels who grow up
outside their culture retain an innate sense of
communalism and an understanding of and
respect for life. Xenoanthropologists debate
the cause of these traits, which would
normally be attributed to nurture
rather than nature. While ramiyels
can find it difficult to break
away from their communities,
their curiosity can drive
them to strike out among the stars. An adventurous ramiyel
adopts her companions, whether the crew of her starship or
a cadre of fellow explorers, as her community. She does her
best to fulfill her duties within this group, although greedy
or aggressively individualistic associates might clash with a
ramiyel’s communal tendencies.
Typically a ramiyel is about 5 feet tall, from top of the
head to where the tail meets the ground, but the tail extends
another 5–15 feet. Therefore, a ramiyel weighs upwards of 220
pounds. A ramiyel can also raise her body up another foot or so,
shortening her tail, but doing so is uncomfortable for extended
periods of time. When at rest or pausing in movement, a
ramiyel typically coils her tail under her. Ramiyels live about
as long as humans.
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