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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8250763" data-attributes="member: 87792">Once more this appears to be something you have imported from Pathfinder. The fluff for the Aberrant Mind sorcerer states "An alien influence has wrapped its tendrils around your mind, giving you psionic power. You can now touch other minds with that power and alter the world around you by using it to control the magical energy of the multiverse." Not even a single word of how that has to do with lineage and it explicitly was not a birthright or passed down from your parents and it is explicitly about something that happened to you.The "Draconic Bloodline" is the only sorcerer subtype that is explicitly about lineage. Most of the others can be if you want them to be with fluff like "You might trace your lineage to an entity from that place, or perhaps you were exposed to its fell energy and transformed by it." for the shadow sorcerer but do not have to be. When it says "perhaps" it doesn't mean "this is the only possibility and please ignore the others we're presenting".Spellcasters that are about lineage are included under the heading of the 5e sorcerer - but not all 5e sorcerers have anything to do with lineage.To look at the actual 5e fluff for the Storm Sorcerer "Your innate magic comes from the power of elemental air. Many with this power can trace their magic back to a near-death experience caused by the Great Rain, but perhaps you were born during a howling gale so powerful that folk still tell stories of it, or your lineage might include the influence of potent air creatures such as vaati or djinn."As ever except for the sorcerer type literally named after a bloodline and the one mentioning the mind lineage is one but only one option. And near-death experiences and major weather events are explicitly sorcerous origin stories. Your fluff appears to be the Pathfinder (1e) Stormborn bloodline from the APG which states "You trace your heritage to fierce and proud spirits of storm and sky, and living lightning sings in your veins." but once again this is Pathfinder and not D&D 5e.Indeed. Other than the draconic bloodline there isn't a canonical Birthright necessary for 5e's sorcerers. Birthrights are merely one of the possible options presented for sorcerers. You can't change what doesn't exist.There is one for Pathfinder sorcerers. But Pathfinder isn't 5e.You mean the way they actually did with the sorcerer class in the 5e PHB? Something like the way they said for the Wild Sorcerer's sorcerous origin in the PHB:"Your innate magic comes from the wild forces of chaos that underlie the order of creation. You might have endured exposure to some form of raw magic, perhaps through a planar portal leading to Limbo, the Elemental Planes, or the mysterious Far Realm. Perhaps you were blessed by a powerful fey creature or marked by a demon. Or your magic could be a fluke of your birth, with no apparent cause or reason. "So that's (a) a portal to Limbo, (b) a portal to the Elemental planes, (c) a portal to the Far Realm, (d) blessed by a fey creature, (e) marked by a demon, or (f) a fluke of your birth. That's between three and six different examples of different ways to get power as a sorcerer with the Wild Magic origin in one single paragraph in the PHB depending on how you count, precisely zero of which are bloodlines.So the 5e PHB did literally exactly what you say they should have to demonstrate the "Wider Storyline for Sorcerers". That's because this is 5e canon - and the idea that sorcerers are based on bloodlines is something from Pathfinder - or possibly from the SRD only having the single sorcerous origin that's explicitly about your bloodline.</blockquote>

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