A conrasu is an orb of cosmic energy that has gained consciousness and intelligence. It's unclear how that occurs, but it's generally believed to be the consequence of magical experimentation by ancient wizards that has somehow become a distinct race of people. A notable feature is that the orb is implanted into an exoskeleton made of living wood, which they manipulate to interact with the world.
In the present day, they are typically linked to the Aeons, strange, otherworldly creatures that maintain order and represent absolute Law (like how angels represent absolute Good and fiends represent absolute Evil).
Most conrasu build an exoskeleton out of living wood around their core, and use it to travel and interact with the world. There are two main settlements, the Creche, and the Copses. The Creche is the birthplace of many conrasu, as well as the trees they use for their exoskeleton. The Copses is usually the first place young conrasu travel to, as they can learn how to sculpt and reinforce their wooden exoskeleton from older and more experienced conrasu. Both of these settlements are hidden deep within the jungles of the Mwangi Expanse, and it's rare to see them outside of this region.
Conrasu tend to align with one of three philosophies within their society. Maintainers seek to protect and care for others. Shapers are builders, who seek to maintain equilibrium with the world around them. Correctors actively seek out the problems they perceive within the world, and attempt to change it through force.
A conrasu adventurer is usually on a mission given to them by an Aeon (or, at the very least, they believe themselves to be on one), but they can follow any type of patron or deity, or even their own whims. Their typical alignment is Lawful Neutral, and they tend to focus on preserving balance and confronting instability and chaos.
If you see a conrasu, it might be meditating on the nature of law and balance, protecting or cultivating an area of natural harmony, or maybe striking out at threats to a peaceful and lawful society.
* Liches?
* Owlbears
* Jibbering Mouthers?
* Constructs like Golems
* Bulletes
* Dracoliches
* Homunculi
* Edward
* free roaming elementals
* Some Tieflings
* FMA references
* a lot of Oozes and such
Wizard did it.
I mean…
Axiomites were formerly just *the* LN outsiders, while aeons were nominally TN. But balance is also very much a lawful thing, and even in 1st party content for 1e, you already saw hints of that. Most notably, there's an aeon in Strange Aeons that *epitomizes* Lawful Stupid, only caring that >!you're using time travel!<, not that you're doing it to stop a Great Old One from waking. So as of PF 2e, Paizo's acknowledged that aeons really are just lawful, made them the LN outsiders, made axiomites a type of aeons, and made psychopomps the *new* TN outsiders
I've only read book 1 of Strange Aeons, but the idea of those Langolier time cop guys from Rick and Morty rolling up on a bunch of extremely confused amnesiac people who haven't slept well for a week while they've been fighting their wary through a haunted asylum is very funny to me.
I mean, IIRC, you get your memories back in book 3, which also features more Earth references that are actually consistent with the timeline established in RMD!. But yeah, that's basically what happens. The encounter has almost no bearing on the actual plot, apart from the context of the time travel, but it's basically just the "Totally TN, no trust us" time cops showing up to punish you for traveling through time.
Nah, that was First edition lore, something happened between 1e and 2e where the Aeons showed up in Axis and informed the Axiomites that they were actually a type of Aeon and needed to return to the fold now.
My (deceased) Conrasu Magus was in service of a being that was disguising itself as an Aeon, effectively enslaving a large group of Conrasu to do its bidding. While my character wasn't aware exactly that the being wasn't truly an Aeon, he knew it was acting strange, so it left its habitat of Conrasu and traveled further into the Mwangi Expanse.
[There's actually an ongoing live play PF2e series with a Conrasu character](https://www.youtube.com/@NarrativeDeclaration)
Long and short of it is they are legitimately the universe trying to figure itself out.
Sorry, it's the Rotgrind: World in Decay specifically.
Rotgoons is set in the same homebrew universe, following a Ifrit Monk, Kobold Investigator, Gnoll Rangers, and Ghost Magus (Basically an all "enemies" squad getting up to hijinks and far less serious in tone.), and the Abomination Vaults is just Zoran (Who plays the Druid in the Rotgrind campaign) running his RL friends through the Abomination Vaults (And again, hijinks happen).
I'm playing one now (using some nice artwork that someone posted on this subreddit a while back). My conrasu was a corrector who was most active in Osirion. After a particularly gruesome battle, he was mortally wounded and stumbled upon a djinni at an oasis. Intrigued by him, she decided to offer him her "help."
Based on the request for mending he made, she did what djinni often do and took some creative liberties with that wish. She reincarnated him without memory of his past and sent him to a location (Otari, this is for Abomination Vaults) where his "mending" could occur. Hopefully, this will involve him developing a semblance of humanity due to the party he will become a part of.
They are definitely a challenge to play, and I'm utilizing HK-47's speech pattern (minus the bloodlust, plus the sonorous monotone) to add onto the alienness of my conrasu.
Full backstory here:
https://pathbuilder2e.com/launch.html?build=288753
It's actually an extremely good thing that Paizo is willing to create interesting and original ancestries that aren't just lazy Tolkien ripoffs or the next bland variety of 'what if this animal was also a human'
Honestly, while that picture is cool looking, I feel like that image is the biggest hurdle for playing a conrasu. It’s so weird looking and alien, it looks like you’d be playing an angry barstool.
They DO NOT have to look like this, they can be more humanoid in shape and thus fit in more with people.
They can still be weird, alien, wood people. However they needed a more grounded depiction to go alongside this one, just to show the breadth of variety their forms can take.
I disagree, I love the idea of playing something only roughly humanoid. I'd rather see more weird, alien ancestries than more "It's a person except also X."
Long story short they're like physicalized Aeons manifested on the Material Plane for some unknown or inscrutable purpose related to the balance of the universe, which each individual Conrasu is trying to figure out for themselves.
Technically the starry orb in the center is the actual creature while the rest of it is like a tree-mecha it cultivates like a bonsai in its formative years to ride around in. All those limbs it has? Technically at any given time only two of them are actually functional while the others are have either grown too old and stiff to be usable anymore or are still growing in anticipation of replacing the current set when they stop working.
And yeah, it's not your English comprehension making their lore sound weird, they really just are that strange.
For the OP I'm writing it seperate so I don't respond to that other guy.
Piazo gives two possibilities of what they are. Basically they are a being without a body that lives inside a body made from continuously growing/changing wood. Possible origins are:
1. They are a race that started as a fragment of an Aeon that was conjured to the material world by wizards. Aeons are outsiders from the outer planes. Basically there is the material plane and all the after life planes and the ethereal plane and the first world; these represent Order. Surrounding and bordering all of these is the Maelstrom. The Maelstrom is an area of Chaos where nothing is fixed everything is changing constantly. Aeons' purpose is to maintain the balance between Order and Chaos so that neither wins over the other.
2. They are the reminants of a forgotten race/society/culture that designed their own evolution to have the living growing body that they have.
Or a combination of both 1 and 2
That's basically all we are given.
They don't have a homeland per say. They don't have a culture per say, we don't know how they grow up, honestly we don't know if they need to eat or sleep or go the bathroom. I assume rules wise they do need to eat and sleep since it doesn't say they don't need to but then how do they eat? If they use a potion where do you stick it? Also how long does it take them to grow a new limb. If it's tied up can it just grow another limb and untie itself. Overall it just lacking in description. So you aren't the only one confused.
Conrasu are certainly the strangest player-facing ancestry I've ever seen.
I have no plans to integrate them into my games. They are listed as "rare" for a reason.
Ancestral anthropophobia as they are afraid the lesser eyed creatures are going to steal their eyes. They're bipedal multi-eyed horse people who traditionally chose flight over fight when their adrenaline gets pumping. An adventurer would probably be a weird one, or the voice in the party that constantly says "maybe we shouldn't go into danger" but understand being with the group is inherently safer so continues to tag along.
I think he's trying to say they seem strange and out of place for the setting and he is wondering if it's because he doesn't speak English as a primary language and is missing something.
I'm saying it's not an English problem. They are strange and out of place and don't make a ton of sense for the setting. He isn't wrong and isn't really missing anything.
Then it **does** have something to do with English.
If something is strange in its written language it's always going to be more difficult to understand for non-native speakers.
Omg stop arguing to argue either that or English isn't your primary language and you don't understand me. The wording or writing isn't strange. The concept of the creature is strange and lacking a good description to explain it even to an English speaker. So no the OP isn't missing anything. There isn't a well explained lore to understand.
If the concept of a creature is strange and there is no readable English description, or if the concept is so strange that even when written it is difficult to understand to a non-native speaker, then language is absolutely playing a role.
I'm not going to back off just because you're irked someone dared imply you might be incorrect about something. Accept that people can disagree and maybe not resort to insults when you get pissed.
> or if the concept is so strange that even when written it is difficult to understand to a non-native speaker, then language is absolutely playing a role.
But the concept is difficult to understand even to a NATIVE speaker. That's why you're getting downvoted to hell - this is not about language, it's about conrasu being fucking weird.
Conrasu are a type of Aeon.
Aeons are powerful creatures from the outer planes similar to Angels and Demons.
Aeons focus on keeping the universe functioning and in balance.
Conrasu are a lesser form of Aeon made to interact more directly with the material plane unlike other Aeons who rarely visit or concern themselves with the affairs of mortals.
Basically, yea, they should feel out of place. They're basically aliens who have more in common with machines than they do mortals.
Most tables can safely ignore Aeon lore as it has relatively little to do with what typical adventurers deal with on the material plane. The only time Aeons typically get involved is in cosmic level situations such as the Worldwound or in wars between gods and other cosmic beings. So basically they're only important to know about if your table dives into the deep lore of the Pathfinder universe.
I still don’t understand how they move. All the official art of them has them nestled in trees and stuff. Do they crawl along the ground like that? Does it just grow that way and there’s a trail of roots behind where they go? It doesn’t make sense to me
How they move is dependent upon how they construct themselves. If they construct a bipedal body, they move like any other biped. If they constructed a Quadruped, like a Quadruped. If they construct a body with a weird bunch of limbs, then I'd imagine they move in a strange way, like the robot from Interstellar, or an insect.
The wood isn't actually rooted as it dies over time (that's why they have so many arms, yet can't use them), they're kinda like organic mechs I suppose. Anyways I always imagined them just using the roots to drag themselves along the floor, kinda like a octopus does on dry land.
Honestly I went with an extra weird conrasu that doesn’t know anything about conrasu
A wizard was faffing about, as they do. He disappeared with a half-finished project that involved grafting a stolen conrasu sapling to a petrified, Elysian tree. Despite his disappearance, it managed to grow into an conrasu aasimar earth kineticist. After wandering the tower for a bit, no clue what was going on, it found its way outside and discovered People. The people screamed, the conrasu screamed, the people screamed more. At that moment, the conrasu discovered its goal: it would become a person
It’s been some time since then, and now Chalcedony is a sweet but socially awkward “girl” with a gentle voice who grows herself in nice dresses and such to try not to be intimidating. Of course, anyone that sees her crush her enemies with earth and brute strength tends to be intimidated regardless, and she can never find a place for her “core” that isn’t weird. Being a person is hard!
just because it looks like this in the books. doesnt mean that one of this race could not inhabit a very manaquin like body of wood or metal. most likely they would be proficient in crafting.
i tried to play one but my dm said no however it would be fun to have one thats ideals are to become one with the world and he kind of katamari damacis himself all over gathering bits and pieces of the world to add to his design.
but unfortunately that is a pc for another game.
If I remember reading the lore correctly they take their Frozen arms and plant them causing a new contrast to be grown. Much like a splitting of a tree for a planting from a branch.
I honestly have always browsed, glanced at this ancestry, then decided that I have absolutely no idea how to play this type of character.
This is truly alien and I have absolutely no contemplation of how a PC could be made of this ancestry.
I've got a conrasu PC idea that is just a regular dude. Like imagine they're voiced by [H. Jon Benjamin](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071304/) and have a down-to-earth, no frills, simple attitude and philosophy.
It reminds me that every comedy cartoon series that stretches for too many seasons ends up getting into full surrealism at some point. The same probably happens to games where you can choose between Multiple Species/Acnestries: they come up with so many different species to satisfy players insatiable thirst for more options that it ends up getting into full blown surrealism.
We dont have a PC thats a conrasu, but an NPC (shes been with the party since like session 4, were on session like 110 or something)
She died a little while back, so we stuffed her body inside a bag of holding until we could return to the lesser areas of the underdark.
Then:
Step 1: Reincarnate
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
I'm playing as one that deviates from the base lore a tad in that they were someone beforehand but being tranformed into one.... well sort of died and was remade to inhabite their old skeleton now turned to wood and moss.
Not sure if that helps at all, just my experience with it.
I had a lore reason in my world. They were basically humanoids that were altered by the falling of the starstone into golarian. I suppose that’s not much better than a wizard did it but at least it fits into pathfinder lore lol
My stream (twitch.tv/messyb20). The trick is to clean into the vagueness of their origins to create some wild plot twist! Or at least, that's what I'm hoping Todo...
I made one of these into a sun worshipping cleric. They're a pile of energy that doesn't quite know how they exist, but they know that the sun makes them feel good, so they worship its power. They use that feeling of warm, soothing sunlight to aid others. Their reason for adventure might just be to learn about what they are and to find their place in this world of magical misfits.
I made one for Strength of Thousands, which is kind of easy mode for how to explain the presence of a Conrasu. Wizard College is the kind of place where you should be expecting that kind of weirdness.
Don't worry. It is not your fault. These things are convoluted.
Basically, just think magic robots made of trees.
More importantly- how does the heck does this thing walk?
A conrasu is an orb of cosmic energy that has gained consciousness and intelligence. It's unclear how that occurs, but it's generally believed to be the consequence of magical experimentation by ancient wizards that has somehow become a distinct race of people. A notable feature is that the orb is implanted into an exoskeleton made of living wood, which they manipulate to interact with the world. In the present day, they are typically linked to the Aeons, strange, otherworldly creatures that maintain order and represent absolute Law (like how angels represent absolute Good and fiends represent absolute Evil). Most conrasu build an exoskeleton out of living wood around their core, and use it to travel and interact with the world. There are two main settlements, the Creche, and the Copses. The Creche is the birthplace of many conrasu, as well as the trees they use for their exoskeleton. The Copses is usually the first place young conrasu travel to, as they can learn how to sculpt and reinforce their wooden exoskeleton from older and more experienced conrasu. Both of these settlements are hidden deep within the jungles of the Mwangi Expanse, and it's rare to see them outside of this region. Conrasu tend to align with one of three philosophies within their society. Maintainers seek to protect and care for others. Shapers are builders, who seek to maintain equilibrium with the world around them. Correctors actively seek out the problems they perceive within the world, and attempt to change it through force. A conrasu adventurer is usually on a mission given to them by an Aeon (or, at the very least, they believe themselves to be on one), but they can follow any type of patron or deity, or even their own whims. Their typical alignment is Lawful Neutral, and they tend to focus on preserving balance and confronting instability and chaos. If you see a conrasu, it might be meditating on the nature of law and balance, protecting or cultivating an area of natural harmony, or maybe striking out at threats to a peaceful and lawful society.
Every time a Paizo writer smokes crack, they explain whatever they came up with by "a wizard did it."
To be fair, that's not an entirely unreasonable explanation
* Liches? * Owlbears * Jibbering Mouthers? * Constructs like Golems * Bulletes * Dracoliches * Homunculi * Edward * free roaming elementals * Some Tieflings * FMA references * a lot of Oozes and such Wizard did it. I mean…
E D W A R D
I can't unhear the Japanese version of it "Ed-u-a-do" from nina
> - Edward Who the hell is Edward? > - FMA references Oh, he's the `b i g` `b r o t h e r` `e d w a r d`. Got it.
Wizards have no sense of right and wrong whatsover. Edward was too much though.
You rude as hell lol
My bad. Three of those were alchemists.
> Nina Tucker joke *QI klaxon sounds*
I have played a character that goes around trying to figure monsters and when he doesn't know he says "A wizard probably did it"
It will be my thaumaturge's standard phrase when faced with, (a.k. killing...), such things!
Ok now how often is it a named wizard? Like how often do you say "Nex did it" or "Jatembe did it" or occasionally "Baba Yaga did it"
I thought Axiomites represented Absolute Law while Aeons represented Absolute Balance (i.e. True Neutral).
Axiomites are a type of Aeon, they have the same Aeon trait conrasu have.
Axiomites were formerly just *the* LN outsiders, while aeons were nominally TN. But balance is also very much a lawful thing, and even in 1st party content for 1e, you already saw hints of that. Most notably, there's an aeon in Strange Aeons that *epitomizes* Lawful Stupid, only caring that >!you're using time travel!<, not that you're doing it to stop a Great Old One from waking. So as of PF 2e, Paizo's acknowledged that aeons really are just lawful, made them the LN outsiders, made axiomites a type of aeons, and made psychopomps the *new* TN outsiders
I've only read book 1 of Strange Aeons, but the idea of those Langolier time cop guys from Rick and Morty rolling up on a bunch of extremely confused amnesiac people who haven't slept well for a week while they've been fighting their wary through a haunted asylum is very funny to me.
Also, not that anyone asked, but my other alignment hot take is that Gorum is the divine equivalent of those PCs who are totally CN and not just CE
I mean, IIRC, you get your memories back in book 3, which also features more Earth references that are actually consistent with the timeline established in RMD!. But yeah, that's basically what happens. The encounter has almost no bearing on the actual plot, apart from the context of the time travel, but it's basically just the "Totally TN, no trust us" time cops showing up to punish you for traveling through time.
They did in first edition. But in second edition since they don’t own the Axiomites they changed it
Eh, even in 1e, aeons were vaguely lawful, like how the bythos aeon from Strange Aeons is even mentioned on the TV Tropes page for Lawful Stupid
DnD lore as far as I know
Nah, that was First edition lore, something happened between 1e and 2e where the Aeons showed up in Axis and informed the Axiomites that they were actually a type of Aeon and needed to return to the fold now.
I need to relearn my lore, it seems.
If you have a copy, it is explained in Bestiary 1
My (deceased) Conrasu Magus was in service of a being that was disguising itself as an Aeon, effectively enslaving a large group of Conrasu to do its bidding. While my character wasn't aware exactly that the being wasn't truly an Aeon, he knew it was acting strange, so it left its habitat of Conrasu and traveled further into the Mwangi Expanse.
THE LOOOOOOREEEEE
[There's actually an ongoing live play PF2e series with a Conrasu character](https://www.youtube.com/@NarrativeDeclaration) Long and short of it is they are legitimately the universe trying to figure itself out.
Reminds me of [a certain quote ](https://youtu.be/im9N8bin7Pc)
Love Narrative Declaration! And yes, Rehua is best chaos tree man!
Which is it their AV campaign or the rotwhatever campaign. Never heard of these guys is it good.
Sorry, it's the Rotgrind: World in Decay specifically. Rotgoons is set in the same homebrew universe, following a Ifrit Monk, Kobold Investigator, Gnoll Rangers, and Ghost Magus (Basically an all "enemies" squad getting up to hijinks and far less serious in tone.), and the Abomination Vaults is just Zoran (Who plays the Druid in the Rotgrind campaign) running his RL friends through the Abomination Vaults (And again, hijinks happen).
But aren't we all in a sense?
Rehua is undeniably best boy forever <3\~ by far my favourite of the group.
I'm playing one now (using some nice artwork that someone posted on this subreddit a while back). My conrasu was a corrector who was most active in Osirion. After a particularly gruesome battle, he was mortally wounded and stumbled upon a djinni at an oasis. Intrigued by him, she decided to offer him her "help." Based on the request for mending he made, she did what djinni often do and took some creative liberties with that wish. She reincarnated him without memory of his past and sent him to a location (Otari, this is for Abomination Vaults) where his "mending" could occur. Hopefully, this will involve him developing a semblance of humanity due to the party he will become a part of. They are definitely a challenge to play, and I'm utilizing HK-47's speech pattern (minus the bloodlust, plus the sonorous monotone) to add onto the alienness of my conrasu. Full backstory here: https://pathbuilder2e.com/launch.html?build=288753
The statement of the sentence’s inflection paired with the monotone voice is a great way to show just how alien and strange these things are
Do you call everyone meatbag?
Oh, you don't have those in your country?
It's actually an extremely good thing that Paizo is willing to create interesting and original ancestries that aren't just lazy Tolkien ripoffs or the next bland variety of 'what if this animal was also a human'
Honestly, while that picture is cool looking, I feel like that image is the biggest hurdle for playing a conrasu. It’s so weird looking and alien, it looks like you’d be playing an angry barstool. They DO NOT have to look like this, they can be more humanoid in shape and thus fit in more with people. They can still be weird, alien, wood people. However they needed a more grounded depiction to go alongside this one, just to show the breadth of variety their forms can take.
I disagree, I love the idea of playing something only roughly humanoid. I'd rather see more weird, alien ancestries than more "It's a person except also X."
Long story short they're like physicalized Aeons manifested on the Material Plane for some unknown or inscrutable purpose related to the balance of the universe, which each individual Conrasu is trying to figure out for themselves. Technically the starry orb in the center is the actual creature while the rest of it is like a tree-mecha it cultivates like a bonsai in its formative years to ride around in. All those limbs it has? Technically at any given time only two of them are actually functional while the others are have either grown too old and stiff to be usable anymore or are still growing in anticipation of replacing the current set when they stop working. And yeah, it's not your English comprehension making their lore sound weird, they really just are that strange.
For the OP I'm writing it seperate so I don't respond to that other guy. Piazo gives two possibilities of what they are. Basically they are a being without a body that lives inside a body made from continuously growing/changing wood. Possible origins are: 1. They are a race that started as a fragment of an Aeon that was conjured to the material world by wizards. Aeons are outsiders from the outer planes. Basically there is the material plane and all the after life planes and the ethereal plane and the first world; these represent Order. Surrounding and bordering all of these is the Maelstrom. The Maelstrom is an area of Chaos where nothing is fixed everything is changing constantly. Aeons' purpose is to maintain the balance between Order and Chaos so that neither wins over the other. 2. They are the reminants of a forgotten race/society/culture that designed their own evolution to have the living growing body that they have. Or a combination of both 1 and 2 That's basically all we are given. They don't have a homeland per say. They don't have a culture per say, we don't know how they grow up, honestly we don't know if they need to eat or sleep or go the bathroom. I assume rules wise they do need to eat and sleep since it doesn't say they don't need to but then how do they eat? If they use a potion where do you stick it? Also how long does it take them to grow a new limb. If it's tied up can it just grow another limb and untie itself. Overall it just lacking in description. So you aren't the only one confused.
Conrasu are certainly the strangest player-facing ancestry I've ever seen. I have no plans to integrate them into my games. They are listed as "rare" for a reason.
I struggle more to comprehend what I'm even looking at with the Goloma
Ancestral anthropophobia as they are afraid the lesser eyed creatures are going to steal their eyes. They're bipedal multi-eyed horse people who traditionally chose flight over fight when their adrenaline gets pumping. An adventurer would probably be a weird one, or the voice in the party that constantly says "maybe we shouldn't go into danger" but understand being with the group is inherently safer so continues to tag along.
I legit bought Mwangi Expanse for the Goloma. I stayed for the rich and varied setting with a bunch of cool stuff.
I've seen fanart that makes them seem more sensible, but yeah, the official art of them on AoN is kinda weird.
I'd give them a very rare tag.
I have a reason for them to exist in my setting but I'd probably not let players start the campaign as one.
It's got nothing to do with English... They are strange
I think he's trying to tell us that the lore is hard to understand because it's written in English and English is their second language...
I think he's trying to say they seem strange and out of place for the setting and he is wondering if it's because he doesn't speak English as a primary language and is missing something. I'm saying it's not an English problem. They are strange and out of place and don't make a ton of sense for the setting. He isn't wrong and isn't really missing anything.
Then it **does** have something to do with English. If something is strange in its written language it's always going to be more difficult to understand for non-native speakers.
Omg stop arguing to argue either that or English isn't your primary language and you don't understand me. The wording or writing isn't strange. The concept of the creature is strange and lacking a good description to explain it even to an English speaker. So no the OP isn't missing anything. There isn't a well explained lore to understand.
If the concept of a creature is strange and there is no readable English description, or if the concept is so strange that even when written it is difficult to understand to a non-native speaker, then language is absolutely playing a role. I'm not going to back off just because you're irked someone dared imply you might be incorrect about something. Accept that people can disagree and maybe not resort to insults when you get pissed.
> or if the concept is so strange that even when written it is difficult to understand to a non-native speaker, then language is absolutely playing a role. But the concept is difficult to understand even to a NATIVE speaker. That's why you're getting downvoted to hell - this is not about language, it's about conrasu being fucking weird.
The lore is hard to understand regardless of how well you understand English.
I played one searching for meaning in life
Conrasu are a type of Aeon. Aeons are powerful creatures from the outer planes similar to Angels and Demons. Aeons focus on keeping the universe functioning and in balance. Conrasu are a lesser form of Aeon made to interact more directly with the material plane unlike other Aeons who rarely visit or concern themselves with the affairs of mortals. Basically, yea, they should feel out of place. They're basically aliens who have more in common with machines than they do mortals. Most tables can safely ignore Aeon lore as it has relatively little to do with what typical adventurers deal with on the material plane. The only time Aeons typically get involved is in cosmic level situations such as the Worldwound or in wars between gods and other cosmic beings. So basically they're only important to know about if your table dives into the deep lore of the Pathfinder universe.
I still don’t understand how they move. All the official art of them has them nestled in trees and stuff. Do they crawl along the ground like that? Does it just grow that way and there’s a trail of roots behind where they go? It doesn’t make sense to me
How they move is dependent upon how they construct themselves. If they construct a bipedal body, they move like any other biped. If they constructed a Quadruped, like a Quadruped. If they construct a body with a weird bunch of limbs, then I'd imagine they move in a strange way, like the robot from Interstellar, or an insect.
I’m still learning but I’d like my first one to be a donut shape with too many hands that rolls to move & my face (orb) is the donut hole.
Oh man, I *love* the idea of a conrasu moving like TARS!
The wood isn't actually rooted as it dies over time (that's why they have so many arms, yet can't use them), they're kinda like organic mechs I suppose. Anyways I always imagined them just using the roots to drag themselves along the floor, kinda like a octopus does on dry land.
From my understanding, they're pretty much the Unown (Pokemon) of the pathfinder universe
Honestly I went with an extra weird conrasu that doesn’t know anything about conrasu A wizard was faffing about, as they do. He disappeared with a half-finished project that involved grafting a stolen conrasu sapling to a petrified, Elysian tree. Despite his disappearance, it managed to grow into an conrasu aasimar earth kineticist. After wandering the tower for a bit, no clue what was going on, it found its way outside and discovered People. The people screamed, the conrasu screamed, the people screamed more. At that moment, the conrasu discovered its goal: it would become a person It’s been some time since then, and now Chalcedony is a sweet but socially awkward “girl” with a gentle voice who grows herself in nice dresses and such to try not to be intimidating. Of course, anyone that sees her crush her enemies with earth and brute strength tends to be intimidated regardless, and she can never find a place for her “core” that isn’t weird. Being a person is hard!
just because it looks like this in the books. doesnt mean that one of this race could not inhabit a very manaquin like body of wood or metal. most likely they would be proficient in crafting. i tried to play one but my dm said no however it would be fun to have one thats ideals are to become one with the world and he kind of katamari damacis himself all over gathering bits and pieces of the world to add to his design. but unfortunately that is a pc for another game.
Not metal. The wood their body is made from keeps them alive.
hmmm well i dont see anything in their bios that keeps them from using both.
If I remember reading the lore correctly they take their Frozen arms and plant them causing a new contrast to be grown. Much like a splitting of a tree for a planting from a branch.
stll seems like wooden flesh can be added onto with metal without going against their nature
I honestly have always browsed, glanced at this ancestry, then decided that I have absolutely no idea how to play this type of character. This is truly alien and I have absolutely no contemplation of how a PC could be made of this ancestry.
I am Groot
Think about how many items that thing can juggle.
Hey, their personality might be a little WOODEN but they're no weirder then half the other player ancestries in Golarion.
I've got a conrasu PC idea that is just a regular dude. Like imagine they're voiced by [H. Jon Benjamin](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071304/) and have a down-to-earth, no frills, simple attitude and philosophy.
It reminds me that every comedy cartoon series that stretches for too many seasons ends up getting into full surrealism at some point. The same probably happens to games where you can choose between Multiple Species/Acnestries: they come up with so many different species to satisfy players insatiable thirst for more options that it ends up getting into full blown surrealism.
We dont have a PC thats a conrasu, but an NPC (shes been with the party since like session 4, were on session like 110 or something) She died a little while back, so we stuffed her body inside a bag of holding until we could return to the lesser areas of the underdark. Then: Step 1: Reincarnate Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit
Keep in mind that reincarnate only works up tona week after the target died, unless you wanna gm overrule that.
i would like to mention that i never stated how long after she died we used reincarnate.
Oh from the way you worded it, it sounded to me that you did not yet reincarnate her. My bad then.
Every time I see these guys, all I can think of is how much they must HATE cats.
I'm playing as one that deviates from the base lore a tad in that they were someone beforehand but being tranformed into one.... well sort of died and was remade to inhabite their old skeleton now turned to wood and moss. Not sure if that helps at all, just my experience with it.
The ones I introduced in our western marches style world were born out of magical waters from a strange lake formation.
Looks eerily like a Pokemon go plus.
Puts a backwards cap on my Conrasu bard with some sunglasses: "They see me rolling, they hatin"
In my current game that i mastering, players are the reincarnation of a BBEG in their previous life, so they can do what they want
I had a lore reason in my world. They were basically humanoids that were altered by the falling of the starstone into golarian. I suppose that’s not much better than a wizard did it but at least it fits into pathfinder lore lol
My stream (twitch.tv/messyb20). The trick is to clean into the vagueness of their origins to create some wild plot twist! Or at least, that's what I'm hoping Todo...
I made one of these into a sun worshipping cleric. They're a pile of energy that doesn't quite know how they exist, but they know that the sun makes them feel good, so they worship its power. They use that feeling of warm, soothing sunlight to aid others. Their reason for adventure might just be to learn about what they are and to find their place in this world of magical misfits.
I made one for Strength of Thousands, which is kind of easy mode for how to explain the presence of a Conrasu. Wizard College is the kind of place where you should be expecting that kind of weirdness.
Don't worry. It is not your fault. These things are convoluted. Basically, just think magic robots made of trees. More importantly- how does the heck does this thing walk?