The World of Abadonya

Born Where Land Meets Water

Undine families are found across Oriander's warmer islands, especially near lagoons, river mouths, reef-protected bays, freshwater springs, and tidal villages.

Some communities trace their ancestry to old elemental encounters, while others believe generations of life beside unusually powerful waters slowly changed their bloodlines.

Most Undines are equally comfortable living among other Oriander peoples, but many prefer settlements where swimming, boating, fishing, and water travel are part of everyday life.

Water Made Visible

Undines are humanoid in build, but their skin commonly appears in shades of turquoise, sea green, deep blue, or other colors reminiscent of clear water.

Their hair is often slightly darker than their skin and tends to be thick and straight. Many possess fin-like ears, webbed fingers, or webbed toes.

Oriander Undines usually favor practical clothing that does not hinder swimming. Light wraps, fitted garments, waterproof pouches, and simple jewelry are common, while heavy layered clothing is generally avoided.

Homes Built with the Tide

Undine communities often form near reliable water and adapt their structures to changing tides and currents. Raised homes, floating platforms, low docks, and sheltered swimming channels are common.

Children learn to swim early, and adults often navigate between nearby settlements by water rather than road.

Community decisions are usually practical and focused on access to water, fishing grounds, storm protection, freshwater supply, and safe passage between islands.

Emotion with Control

Undines often appear reserved around strangers but can be highly expressive among family and close friends.

They tend to value emotional self-control rather than emotional silence. Anger, affection, grief, and excitement are considered natural, but allowing those feelings to dominate every decision is viewed as poor judgment.

Loyalty to friends and family can be intense. An Undine who accepts someone into a close circle may become fiercely protective of that person.

A People of Warm Water

Oriander is the principal homeland of the Undines in Abadonya. Their communities are especially common where freshwater and saltwater meet, including estuaries, lagoons, and river-fed island settlements.

Some live near major trade routes and work as pilots, divers, fishers, healers, messengers, or guides. Others remain in secluded water villages hidden among reefs or mangroves.

Their swim speed and comfort in water make them particularly useful wherever ordinary travelers must cross channels, flooded ruins, submerged passages, or dangerous coastal terrain.

The Current Continues

Undine traditions often treat water as more than a resource. Rivers, tides, rain, springs, and the sea are symbols of continuity, movement, memory, and adaptation.

In Abadonya, Rivera is the most natural divine patron for many Undines, especially those whose communities depend on tides, storms, rivers, and sea travel.

Others follow Trentula through reverence for aquatic ecosystems or Rashtala through study of elemental magic.

Undines may follow any alignment or deity. Their elemental heritage shapes ability and culture, not morality.

Standard Pathfinder 1e Racial Traits

Ability Score Modifiers: Undines gain +2 Dexterity, +2 Wisdom, and –2 Strength.

Type: Undines are outsiders with the native subtype.

Size: Undines are Medium creatures and have no bonuses or penalties due to size.

Base Speed: Undines have a base speed of 30 feet on land and a swim speed of 30 feet. They can move through water without making Swim checks and always treat Swim as a class skill.

Languages: Undines begin play speaking Common and Aquan. Undines with high Intelligence scores can choose Auran, Dwarven, Elven, Gnome, Halfling, Ignan, and Terran as bonus languages.

Energy Resistance: Undines have cold resistance 5.

Spell-Like Ability: Undines can use hydraulic push once per day. Caster level equals the Undine's level.

Water Affinity: Undine sorcerers with the elemental (water) bloodline treat their Charisma score as 2 points higher for all sorcerer spells and class abilities. Undine clerics with the Water domain cast their Water domain powers and spells at +1 caster level.

Darkvision: Undines have darkvision 60 feet.

Race Points: 7 RP.

These are the Pathfinder 1e racial mechanics used for Undine characters in Abadonya.

Selected Alternate Racial Traits

Acid Breath: Gain a 5-foot cone breath weapon of acidic water usable once per day, dealing 1d8 acid damage per two character levels, maximum 5d8. A Reflex save halves the damage. This replaces the standard spell-like ability.

Amphibious: Gain the aquatic subtype and amphibious special quality, allowing the Undine to breathe both air and water. This replaces the standard spell-like ability.

Deepsight: Gain darkvision 120 feet while underwater but no darkvision outside water. This replaces darkvision.

Flesh Chameleon: Change natural coloration to a normal human skin tone, gaining +4 on Disguise checks to appear human. This replaces Energy Resistance.

Hydrated Vitality: Gain fast healing 2 for 1 round after fully submerging in natural water, healing up to 2 hit points per level per day. This replaces Water Affinity.

Nereid Fascination: Once per day create a short-lived 20-foot aura capable of fascinating humanoids. This replaces the standard spell-like ability.

Ooze Breath: Gain a 5-foot cone of slime usable once per day, dealing acid damage and potentially sickening creatures. This replaces the standard spell-like ability.

Terrain Chameleon: Change coloration to blend with underwater terrain, gaining +4 on Stealth checks underwater. This replaces Energy Resistance.

Triton Magic: Use summon nature's ally I once per day, but only to summon a dolphin. This replaces the standard spell-like ability.

Water Sense: Gain blindsense 30 feet against creatures in contact with the same body of water. This replaces Energy Resistance.

These options use the normal Pathfinder 1e alternate racial trait replacement rules.

Alternate Elemental Heritages

Mistsoul: A vapor-aspected Undine heritage emphasizing resilience, insight, mist magic, and a different elemental affinity.

Rimesoul: A frost-aspected Undine heritage emphasizing agility, intellect, cold magic, and ice affinity.

These heritage options replace the appropriate default Undine racial elements according to their Pathfinder 1e rules.

In Abadonya, these heritages can represent different expressions of Oriander's waters, from mist-heavy jungle basins to unusually cold springs and sea caves.

Those Who Move Beyond Home Waters

Undine adventurers often leave home because of curiosity, exile, trade, elemental calling, or the simple desire to see where distant rivers and seas lead.

Druids and sorcerers are especially common because of the race's natural connection to water and elemental magic, while rangers, bards, clerics, rogues, and other mobile or socially adept classes are also frequent.

An Oriander Undine adventurer might investigate a poisoned lagoon, seek the source of an unnatural current, escort travelers through submerged ruins, or follow a recurring dream of a place beneath the sea.

Return to the Races of Abadonya index to browse other ancestries.