Bloodlines

There is a taint in your blood that is both alien and bizarre. When you bloodrage, this manifests in peculiar and terrifying ways.

Generations ago, a demon spread its filth into the essence of your bloodline. While it doesn’t manifest in all of your kin, in those moments when you’re bloodraging, you embody its terrifying presence.

The anger in your blood rises from the ocean depths, seeded by descent from undersea empires, creeping ichthyic infiltrators into remote seaside villages, or something deeper still.

While others of your kin may be powerful wizards and sorcerers, the eldritch nature of the blood coursing through your veins transforms you into a spell-breaking terror.

Contact with the mystical black blood—by you or one of your ancestors—transformed your bloodline. This necromantic taint in your blood mutates you into something peculiar.

By way of a celestial ancestor or divine intervention, the blood of angels fills your body with a holy potency, granting you a majestic visage and angelic powers when you enter your bloodrage.

Your bloodline is destined for great things. When you bloodrage, you exude a greatness that makes all but the most legendary creatures seem lesser.

At some point in your family’s history, a dragon interbred with your bloodline. Now, the sublime monster’s ancient power fuels your bloodrage.

The power of the elements resides in you, and at times you can hardly control its fury.

One of your ancestors was fey, or the fey realm somehow intermixed with your bloodline. It affects your bloodrage in tricky and surprising ways.

Hags interbreed with other races frequently, and those children who escape their grasp may pass their heritage on to later generations before it reemerges.

The Pit lives in your blood. Maybe one of your ancestors was seduced by the powers of Hell or made a deal with a devil. Either way, its corruption seethes within your lineage.

The influence of the kytons has been released from deep within you.

One of your ancestors paid the ultimate price for her beliefs.

No magical creature is more iconic than the medusa.

One of your ancestors may have witnessed the fiery resurrection of a phoenix or been healed by the grace of this legendary bird.

Salamanders are fierce warriors and master smiths, and you wield their might and mastery of metal by birthright.

Because of your heritage, you can move and see through shadows as if you are part of them. Your fury absorbs light, warmth, and strength.

The blood of doppelgangers, faceless stalkers, lycanthropes, or other shapechangers courses through your veins.

Those who successfully traded riddles with sphinxes sometimes find themselves or their descendants exhibiting both arcane power and violent fury.