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===Relations===

Selkies are not well known outside of coastal communities in colder climates, but in those environments, selkies have a mixed reputation. The mere fact that they are shapeshifters colors the responses of many outsiders, especially those who mistake them for another kind of lycanthrope. While most selkies use their shifting powers to hide their pods from outsiders, some instead behave as raiders on lone ships or isolated communities, stealing supplies and hunting residents for sport and food. While definitely the exception, these selkies have an understandable, if disproportionate, effect on selkie reputation.

Humans and selkies have a love and hate relationship, as most humans find selkies to be very attractive (and vice versa), but selkies also have a reputation for being deceitful and predatory, while humans often kill selkies while hunting seals. There are many tragic stories of humans and selkies who have fallen in love, and even raised families, before the selkie is drawn back into the ocean, and others where selkies have saved or even adopted shipwrecked or drowning humans. Selkies often do reciprocate human affection, and even though they are ocean creatures, may sacrifice that life to be with a human partner. A child born of such a union is usually human, albeit with a love for the ocean, but sometimes yields a true selkie.

Selkies have few relations with other humanoid races, and for unknown reasons, cannot interbreed with any other humanoid race. Elves share a love of nature with selkies, but find them as crude as humans, while selkies generally find elves too arrogant to be likable. Halflings, gnomes, orcs, goblinoids, and dwarfs rarely encounter selkies, and treat them as they would any animal shapeshifter. Selkies do get along well with half-orcs and half-elves, sharing the feeling of not quite fitting into any species or environment. 

As a coastal people, the selkies rarely encounter other marine peoples, but have no real conflicts with most of them. Two notable exceptions exist: the locathah and the sahuagin. Locathah occasionally fall victim to selkie attacks, and are unfriendly at best even to peaceful pods. The sahuagin are greatly feared by selkies, as the former's dominance of most oceanic regions and predatory xenophobia makes them a formidable threat, and their love of sharks only cements them as a threat to a selkie. It has been proposed by some scholars that the selkies make a point of their masquerade as common seals initially to avoid sahuagin attention, and then extended it to land dwellers.
Author	Paleomancer +
Effective Character Level	1 +
Favored Class	Any +
Identifier	3.5e Race +
Level Adjustment	0 +
Racial Ability Adjustments	None +
Rating	Unrated +
Size	Medium +
Subtype	Shapechanger +
Summary	A oceanic people who can transform between human and seal forms. +
Title	Selkie +
Type	Humanoid +