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Felis are catfolk with varied builds, coats, and movement adaptations. Pride, alley, jungle, and snow identities can carry both inherited and learned meanings; this page uses Lineage only for physical or supernatural expressions. Hiraeth Context Earlier HAG ma...

Aasimar are mortals marked by celestial blood, sacred aftermath, prophecy, or direct divine attention. Their base ancestry describes their body; Aasimar describes the celestial influence. Choose one named Aasimar Lineage on this page as the versatile lineage t...

Tieflings are mortals marked by fiendish pacts, bloodlines, curses, or liminal forces. A lineage is an influence, not a moral alignment. Choose one named Tiefling Lineage on this page as the versatile lineage that replaces a lineage from your base ancestry. Re...

Mixed ancestry represents parentage or inherited influence from two or more base ancestries without requiring a unique rules package for every combination. Earlier HAG material gave Half-Elf and Half-Goliath dedicated packages. V4.0 preserves those familiar id...

Heritage describes the regional people and way of life that taught your character how ordinary life works. It includes language, manners, food, public memory, assumptions about privacy and hospitality, familiar architecture, shared survival systems, celebratio...

Hiraeth is a world made by settlement, catastrophe, trade, memory, divine aftermath, public works, migration, and player action. Heritage profiles should make those forces feel ordinary enough to live inside. Survival Is Collective Cold, sea, desert, height, r...

Background answers what your character did before adventuring. V4.0 does not create or replace backgrounds. Use the background rules already selected for the campaign. Choose One Native Background System Campaign Rules What You Gain 2014-style D&D 5e Th...

This book intentionally does not duplicate a background catalog. Hiraeth Backgrounds Use the existing live chapter: Hiraeth's Heritages and Feats — Backgrounds That chapter already contains general and setting-specific backgrounds. Examples include ordinary pr...

At level 1, you can choose an eligible Universal Ancestral Trait instead of a Trait from your ancestry or versatile lineage. At levels 5, 10, 15, and 20, you can make the same exchange for a Universal Ancestral Talent. Universal Traits and Talents serve three ...

Universal Traits and Talents are available to every character using v4.0. Choose one instead of an option from your ancestry or versatile lineage at the normal milestone. Level 1 Ancestral Traits Trait Rule Additional Training Gain one skill or tool pro...

V4.0 does not require a flaw and does not exchange flaws for permanent mechanical power. Choosing a Flaw You may choose one Flaw at character creation. A second Flaw requires GM approval. Write one sentence explaining how it appears in play and one boundary de...

A Flaw matters only when it creates a real decision, cost, exposure, or relationship problem. It never removes player agency or forces harmful behavior without the player's agreement. The older term complication remains a compatibility synonym. Flaw Story p...

Character Creation Step Choice Mechanical Result 1 Ancestry Chassis: size, Speed, senses, inherited traits 2 Lineage One physical or supernatural sub-race expression 3 Heritage One regional people; one language or dialect and two Heritage Expression...

Record feedback at levels 1, 5, 10, 15, and 20 when possible. Character Record Base ancestry and lineage. Ancestral Detail. Versatile or Mixed Lineage, if any. Heritage and background. Ancestral Trait and later talents. Class, subclass, and level. Expected pa...

V4.0 Structural Changes Replaced open Ancestry Point purchasing with bounded Ancestry, Lineage, Ancestral Detail, and Trait choices. Removed ancestry-based ability-score increases. Removed the draft v4.0 background catalog; use native D&D 5e and existing Hira...

A Heritage Expression is a narrow piece of learned social or regional fluency. Choose two expressions. Each profile suggests especially common choices, but you may take any catalog expression that fits your specific household or community and explain the conne...

People are often raised between households, languages, routes, nations, and generations. Use these procedures without stacking larger mechanical benefits. Blended Heritage Choose two Heritage profiles. Gain one language from either profile. Choose two Heritag...

Icebeach is not one culture wearing thirteen different coats. It is a northern confederation of settlements, routes, households, and seasonal communities whose people have answered the same cold in very different ways. The magical summer beneath Casgate’s Firm...