In the Starfall Galaxy, where the raw energies of the cosmos manifest in countless forms—from the searing heat of nebulae to the crushing gravity of black holes, the swirling currents of gas giants, and the unyielding core of planets—some individuals embody a harmonious mixture of these fundamental forces. These are the Sulis, cosmic elemental scions who often descend from ancient Cosmic Wanderers or unique Aether-Dragons that embody multiple elemental aspects. Their very being is a testament to the dynamic interplay of the universe's raw power.
At birth, a Suli resembles their mortal ancestry, not manifesting their otherworldly heritage until adolescence, when they awaken into their elemental power. Strong in body and will, Sulis are dynamic and ever-changing, and most feel they embody either all the cosmic elements together at once or the traits of different elements at different times. Some see themselves as having multiple aspects or faces to their personalities—one for each elemental force—that they cycle through over the course of days or weeks.
YOU MIGHT...
Relate your personal identity with the mixture of cosmic elements within you, believing you have sides that befit each fundamental force.
Work to harmonize or broker peace and understanding in the world around you, seeking balance amidst chaos.
Be prone to bragging, both about your own accomplishments and those of your family or allies, showcasing your unique power.
OTHERS PROBABLY...
Rely on you for your elemental abilities and expertise, especially in volatile environments.
Think you must be descended from a powerful Cosmic Wanderer or a multi-elemental Aether-Dragon, if they recognize your heritage at all.
Assume your position at the nexus of opposing elements means you are a neutral diplomat, capable of bridging divides.
Physical Description
Of all cosmic elemental scions, Sulis most closely resemble their mortal ancestries, and many could be easily mistaken for a non-Suli. As children, they appear wholly mortal; a Suli's otherworldly characteristics only begin to develop when they awaken into their power in adulthood, which some refer to as a second cosmic puberty. Most adult Sulis have eyes that glow with a supernatural light or shift color depending on the element they are attuned to at that moment. Adult Sulis are also prone to asymmetry, where physical traits manifest only on one side of their bodies, such as developing heterochromia, beauty marks, or freckles on one side of the face but not the other, or vitiligo on half of the body. Their skin often takes on a Bronze sheen after their awakening, as well, reflecting their elemental composition.
Most Sulis choose utilitarian clothes, expressing themselves through jewelry that highlights their glowing eyes or metallic skin, or with tattoos that symbolize their life's journey and their connection to the cosmic elements.
Society
Most Sulis can conform to the societies they're born into. They tend to be highly social and gravitate toward jobs or societal roles where they will be seen by or interact with the public, whether working in bustling starport restaurants or performing on a grand stage. Sulis often prize fame and recognition, wanting themselves or the people close to them to be known and remembered, and many take up artistic hobbies like songwriting, poetry, or painting to memorialize people and places they hold dear, often with an elemental flair.
Some Suli try to seek out their immortal ancestors, but the nomadic Cosmic Wanderers rarely invite Sulis to live among them. Instead, they encourage Sulis to enter mortal societies, with the hope of influencing the galaxy from within and ending oppression or chaotic imbalance. Many Sulis become drawn into cosmic conflicts; some do so to impress their immortal ancestors, but most simply abhor injustice and imbalance.
Beliefs
Most Sulis are intense but adaptable people, valuing inner strength and truth over conformity or peace, often respecting others for living their personal truths more than for sharing common values. Sulis usually have a neutral component to their alignment; true neutral is the most common alignment among them, with lawful neutral, chaotic neutral, neutral good, and neutral evil suiting most other Sulis.
Sulis are typically only religious if raised in a religious society, but those who heavily invest in their faiths or become clerics tend to follow cosmic entities or philosophies of duality, such as the balance of the Aether Synapse and the Rift, the gods of creation and alchemy, or concepts of travel and exploration. A philosophy that identifies with the process of artistic creation, seeing themselves as a beautiful whole made of disparate parts, is also popular among Sulis.
Popular Edicts: Seek balance, embrace your multifaceted nature, express your inner truth.
Popular Anathema: Allow one element to dominate completely, suppress your individuality, cause unnecessary imbalance.
Suli Mechanics
Suli Heritage
You are descended from a Cosmic Wanderer, a multi-elemental Aether-Dragon, or otherwise embody a dichotomy of opposing elemental cosmic forces. You gain the suli trait, in addition to the traits from your ancestry. You also gain low-light vision, or you gain darkvision if your ancestry already has low-light vision. You can choose from suli feats and feats from your ancestry whenever you gain an ancestry feat.
Suli Lineages
Sulis can select any of the following lineages at 1st level.
Dual-Attuned (Feat 1)
Lineage, Suli
Your Suli heritage can be traced back to two elemental ancestors of opposing elements, or to an elemental ancestor that embodied two combined elements. Choose two elemental damage types (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic). You gain resistance 1 to both chosen damage types.
Cosmic Elemental Assault (Feat 1)
Arcane, Concentrate, Evocation, Suli
You shroud your arms and held weapons in elemental magic. As a 1-action activity, you can choose one elemental damage type (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic). Your unarmed Strikes and Strikes with held weapons deal 1d4 additional damage of that type for 1 minute. You can use this once per day.
Elemental Embellish (Feat 1)
Suli
You can summon a harmless but impressive elemental display. As a 1-action activity, you can create a minor visual or auditory elemental effect (e.g., a small gust of wind, a shower of sparks, a shimmering mist). This effect is purely cosmetic and lasts for 1 round.
Cosmic Elemental Eyes (Feat 1)
Ardande, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Undine, Low-Light Vision
You can see in the darkness as easily as a cosmic elemental. You gain low-light vision. If your ancestry already has low-light vision, you gain darkvision instead.
Cosmic Elemental Lore (Feat 1)
Ardande, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Undine
You've devoted yourself to researching the secrets of the elemental cosmic planes and their influence. You become trained in Occultism and Cosmic Lore. If you would automatically become trained in one of those skills (from your background or class, for example), you instead become trained in a skill of your choice.
You also gain the Additional Lore general feat for Cosmic Elemental Lore.
Elemental Weapon Familiarity (Feat 1)
Ardande, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Undine
You've trained with weapons used by your elemental ancestors. You are trained with the elemental blade (a martial weapon that deals 1d6 slashing damage, has the versatile A, C, E, F, S traits, and is in the sword group) and the mana-staff (a simple weapon that deals 1d4 bludgeoning damage, has the nonlethal and magical traits, and is in the club group). For the purpose of determining your proficiency, these are simple weapons. Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in certain weapons, you also gain that proficiency in these weapons.
Scholar's Inheritance (Feat 1)
Suli
Your parents devoted themselves to alchemical experiments involving elemental energy. You become trained in Crafting (Alchemy) and a +1 circumstance bonus to Crafting checks to create alchemical items with the elemental trait.
Cosmic Wanderer's Kin (Feat 1)
Lineage, Suli
Your elemental ancestor was a Cosmic Wanderer, a being that embodies the connection and interaction between all cosmic elements. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Diplomacy checks when dealing with creatures from different elemental planes or diverse ancestries.
Suli Ancestry Feats (5th Level)
Elemental Bulwark (Feat 5)
Suli
You call upon the corresponding elements of your Suli heritage to resist the effect. When you are targeted by an elemental spell or effect (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic), you gain resistance 5 to that damage type against the triggering effect. You can use this once per round.
Elemental Weapon Flourish (Feat 5)
Ardande, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Undine
Prerequisites: Elemental Weapon Familiarity
Whenever you critically hit using an elemental blade, mana-staff, or another elemental weapon in which you are trained, you apply the weapon's critical specialization effect.
Cosmic Resolve (Feat 5)
Ardande, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Undine
Once, elementals ruled vast kingdoms, and a remnant of that confidence and power is reflected in your strong will. You gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Will saves against mental effects.
Suli Ancestry Feats (9th Level)
Cosmic Hospitality (Feat 9)
Suli
You can use magic to show others cosmic hospitality. You gain create food and create water as 2nd-rank innate divine spells. You can cast each of these spells once per day.
Cosmic Elemental Magic (Feat 9)
Suli
The magic of Cosmic Wanderers (or multi-elemental Aether-Dragons) flows through your blood. You gain elemental blast and gust of wind as 2nd-rank innate primal spells. You can cast each of these spells once per day.
Miraculous Repair (Feat 9)
Arcane, Ardande, Concentrate, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Transmutation, Undine
Elemental scions can't grant magical wishes, but some echo of power lingers within you. As a 2-action activity, you can touch an adjacent object or construct. That object or construct regains 3d6 Hit Points. You can use this once per day.
Tetraelemental Assault (Feat 9)
Suli
Prerequisites: Cosmic Elemental Assault
Your Cosmic Elemental Assault cycles through all four elements. When you use Cosmic Elemental Assault, you can choose to have your Strikes deal 1d4 additional damage of all four elemental types (acid, cold, electricity, and fire) for the duration. The duration is reduced to 3 rounds.
Suli Ancestry Feats (13th Level)
Continuous Assault (Feat 13)
Suli
Prerequisites: Cosmic Elemental Assault
You can use Cosmic Elemental Assault once per hour instead of once per day.
Elemental Weapon Expertise (Feat 13)
Ardande, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Undine
Prerequisites: Elemental Weapon Familiarity
Whenever you gain a class feature that grants you expert or greater proficiency in certain weapons, you also gain that proficiency in elemental blades, mana-staves, and all elemental weapons in which you are trained.
Improved Elemental Bulwark (Feat 13)
Suli
Prerequisites: Elemental Bulwark
You gain resistance 10 from Elemental Bulwark instead of 5.
Planar Sidestep (Feat 13)
Arcane, Ardande, Concentrate, Conjuration, Ifrit, Oread, Sylph, Undine
You shift your body briefly between elemental planes, reducing the damage from your foe's attack. As a reaction when you are the target of a Strike, you can gain resistance 5 to all damage from that Strike. You can use this once per encounter.
Suli Amir (Feat 13)
Suli, Uncommon
You have power connected to the powerful Cosmic Wanderer leaders. You gain command as a 3rd-rank innate divine spell. You can cast this spell once per day.
Suli Ancestry Feats (17th Level)
Suli Overlord (Feat 17)
Suli, Uncommon
Prerequisites: Suli Amir
You have gained a significant portion of the power of a Cosmic Wanderer leader. Once per day, as a 3-action activity, you can unleash a powerful elemental burst in a 30-foot emanation. Creatures in the emanation take 8d6 damage of a single elemental type (acid, cold, electricity, or fire, your choice) and are slowed 1 for 1 round (basic Fortitude save). This ability gains the elemental and evocation traits.
Here are a few adventure hooks tailored to appeal specifically to a Suli player character, leveraging their intrinsic connection to multiple cosmic elements, their dynamic nature, and their drive for balance and harmony within the Starfall Galaxy.
Adventure Hooks for Suli Player Characters
1. The Elemental Core of the Rogue Planetoid
Hook: A newly discovered, rogue planetoid drifting through the Outer Sphere is exhibiting highly unstable elemental activity. Its core, instead of being a stable mix, is a chaotic maelstrom of raw, clashing elemental Mana – searing fire, crushing earth, swirling gases, and volatile liquids. This instability is causing unpredictable weather patterns, localized elemental surges, and even affecting the minds of nearby explorers, driving them to extreme emotional states. The Suli PC, whose own essence embodies a mixture of elements, feels an intense, almost painful resonance with this planetoid – a reflection of their own inner elemental balance being tested. A Geodan scientist, concerned about the planetoid's destructive potential, or an Ifrit drawn by the raw fire, seeks the PC's unique ability to harmonize conflicting elemental forces. The mission: venture into the planetoid's volatile core, understand the source of the elemental discord (perhaps an ancient Aether-Dragon trapped within, or a Rift-Entity attempting to weaponize elemental Mana), and find a way to stabilize its core, a task that will require the Suli to master their own elemental powers to bring balance to a cosmic scale.
Suli Appeal: This hook directly challenges the Suli's core identity as a harmonizer of elements. The rogue planetoid is a magnified version of their own inner struggle for balance. It offers opportunities to utilize all their elemental resistances and offensive abilities, and to prove their capacity for mediation and control over powerful forces.
2. The Great Elemental Migration of the Cosmic Wanderers
Hook: A rare, galaxy-spanning migration of Cosmic Wanderers – ancient, multi-elemental entities who embody different aspects of the cosmos – has begun, but it's being disrupted. Instead of their usual harmonious passage, they are clashing violently, their elemental forms erupting in destructive battles that threaten to destabilize entire sectors. The Suli PC, especially if they have a Cosmic Wanderer's Kin lineage, feels a deep, almost spiritual distress from this conflict, sensing the disharmony among their ancestral kin. Investigations suggest a subtle, external influence is deliberately provoking the conflicts, perhaps a manipulative Changeling faction or a rogue A.I. Construct seeking to harvest their raw elemental energy. A Nephilim who senses the disruption in cosmic order, or an Ardande concerned about the collateral damage to nascent ecosystems, seeks the PC's diplomatic and elemental abilities. The mission: intercept the clashing Cosmic Wanderers, uncover the source of the manipulation, and act as a mediator to restore their harmonious migration, a task that will test the Suli's social skills, their ability to understand diverse elemental perspectives, and their power to quell elemental rage.
Suli Appeal: This hook appeals to the Suli's desire for harmony and their pride in their multifaceted heritage. It offers a chance to act as a diplomat and peacekeeper on a grand scale, using their understanding of multiple elemental forces to bridge divides. The personal connection to the Cosmic Wanderers would make the quest deeply significant.
3. The Grand Galactic Elemental Arts Festival
Hook: A prestigious "Grand Galactic Elemental Arts Festival" is being held on a vibrant, multi-climate world, bringing together artisans and performers who channel cosmic elemental energies into their creations. The festival features breathtaking displays of Mana-sculpted ice, gravity-defying earth architecture, living flame dancers, and sonic crystal orchestras. The Suli PC, with their love for artistry and their ability to embody multiple elements, is invited as a special guest or a competitor. However, a series of "accidents" are plaguing the festival – elemental displays are going haywire, sculptures are collapsing, and performances are turning dangerous, seemingly caused by a rival faction (perhaps a group of Ganzi who believe art should be purely chaotic, or a rigid Oread collective who despise unpredictable expression). The mission: uncover the saboteurs, protect the festival's integrity, and perhaps even participate in the grand finale, showcasing the Suli's mastery of elemental harmony and proving the beauty of balanced power in a high-stakes, artistic setting.
Suli Appeal: This hook leans into the Suli's cultural lore about art, dance, and elemental expression. It offers a fun, high-stakes scenario that is not purely combat-focused but still utilizes their elemental connection, adaptability, and social skills. The dramatic setting and the chance to showcase their unique talents would be highly appealing.
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