Half - eladrin Half - eladrin are generally considered to be the progeny of unions between human s and eladrin , though technically all half - breeds with eladrin ancestry are half - eladrin . Most half - eladrin are descended from moon elves and face the same prejudices and cultural alienation that half - elves do . Ecology . Physical characteristics . Half - eladrin appear in many ways similar to half - elves , and like the latter race , are commonly mistaken for one side of their ancestry by the other half , with eladrin seeing them as humans and humans seeing them as eladrin . In fact , while half - eladrin or half - elves is the common term used by humans , eladrin more commonly refer to half - eladrin as “ half - humans . ” Height wise , half - eladrin stand somewhere between their parents and they usually weigh in about the same . Half - eladrin are typically fairer and smoother - skinned than their human counterparts and most half - eladrin possess green eyes . However , most other physical features , such as hair color or skin tone , are determined by an individual ’ s human half . Typically , half - moon elves exhibit a pale , bluish tint around the ears and chin , while half - sun elves have a color more reminiscent of bronze , with hair of gold . Most half - eladrin are the children of humans and eladrin . A few , however , are themselves the children of other half - breeds . Half - eladrin who are the children of noble eladrin , however , are generally celadrin rather than true half - eladrin , taking after the celestial aspect of their eladrin parent rather than the fey one . Half - eladrin live roughly 180 years and achieve full maturity around the time they turn twenty . Abilities . Like their eladrin parents , half - eladrin are typically immune to the effects of the enchantment school of magic . Likewise , half - eladrin also inherit the ability to see keenly in low - light conditions , with little or no ill effect and have enhanced senses of sight and hearing compared to their human brethren . Psychology . Like eladrin , half - eladrin are curious and inventive creatures , though this is coupled with the powerful ambition of their human parents . Half - eladrin also share a love of the natural world and art with their fey parents . Half - eladrin , like their fey parents , are free - spirited and chaotic , with a distaste for overbearing rules and regulations . However , like humans , half - eladrin lean neither towards good nor evil , and while they value creativity and liberty like the Tel - quessir , half - eladrin lack the virtuous bent that moderates these tendencies in eladrin . As a result , half - eladrin can prove unreliable and unpredictable allies at times . Culture . Half - eladrin have no true culture to call their own , like most half - breeds , though many can be found throughout Toril . Most half - eladrin exhibit the cultural characteristics of whichever side of their ancestry they were raised amongst , though in either place they are outsiders , if often welcome ones . Many half - eladrin are inexplicably drawn to the life of an adventurer , possessed by a sense of wanderlust and alienation that drives them into unusual careers . Magic and religion . Half - eladrin often partake in both the magical traditions of humans and eladrin , for which they are equally suited . Half - eladrin have no true magical traditions of their own , however although many from Aglarond take on specialization in the schools of evocation and transmutation , much as the nation ’ s founder the Simbul did . Many half - eladrin worship the Seldarine in much the same way as do their eladrin parents , but others favor human deities such as Sune , whose gifts they may see as responsible for their birth . Other human deities that half - eladrin often feel drawn to include Chauntea , Selûne , or Valkur . Prior to the goddess ’ death , many half - eladrin dwelling in Aglarond also took up the worship of Eilistraee , in spite of her affiliation with the drow , a practice common in particular amongst half - eladrin bard s . Relations with other races . Half - eladrin typically get along well with eladrin and humans who are understanding of their heritage . Half - eladrin also enjoy the company of dwarves , gnome s , and halfling s . Half - eladrin benefit in these relations from the fact they have the grace of an eladrin but without the arrogance and the enthusiasm of a human without the latter race ’ s common coarseness . Half - eladrin are less than entirely trusting , however , of half - orc s , with whom they share a human heritage but whose orc ish ancestry is historically opposed to the fey heritage of a half - eladrin . Half - eladrin , like half - elves , often make excellent intermediaries between their two parent races , though often both sides suspect the half - eladrin of favoring one or the other . Where humans and eladrin are not on good terms , half - eladrin often find themselves caught in the middle . In particular , humans can come to view both half - eladrin and their parents with a degree of envy and fear , mistreating half - eladrin in places where contact between the two races are rare , an attitude which half - eladrin often react to by leaving civilization to take on a solitary existence in the wild . By contrast , in places such as Silverymoon , where racial relations are more amiable , a half - eladrin is rarely seen as an enemy or outsider . History . As long as humans and eladrin have interacted , there have been cases of half - eladrin being born between the two races . In spite of this , the race typically remains rare enough that , except in rare circumstances , half - eladrin have not congregated together in large enough numbers to form true communities . Historically , half - eladrin have flourished when eladrin societies , such as the ancient empire of Cormanthyr , begin to decline , as they lose their territorial integrity and come into contact with human settlers . In more benign cases , half - eladrin are common where humans and eladrin have learned to live in harmony rather than in opposition , such as the nations of Luruar or Aglarond .