Elf -S

Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie

light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Elves love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry.

## **Elf Traits**

* **Age:** Elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf typically claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.

* **Darkvison:** Can see in the dark.

* **Trance:** Elves do not sleep. Instead they meditate deeply, remaining semi-conscious, for 4 hours a day. After resting in this way, they gain the same benefit a human would from 8 hours of sleep.

* **Keen Senses:** Proficiency in the Perception skill. This is done by rolling twice fore Perception, making the highest of the rolls your perception. score.

## **Sub Races**

These are paired with the Base Race traits.

### **Dark Elf**

* **Sunlight Sensitivity: D**isadvantage on attack rolls and Perception checks that rely on sight when they, the target of the attack, or whatever they are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. This is done by roll these saves twice the lowest roll will be your score.

* **Drow Magic:** Sorcery +5

* **Drow Weapon Training**: Proficiency with rapiers, shortswords, and hand crossbows. Damage is at +20 when using these weapons.

### **High Elf**

* **Elf Weapon Training:** Proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Damage is at +20 when using these weapons.

### **Sea Elf**

Sea elves fell in love with the wild beauty of the ocean in the earliest days of the multiverse. While other elves traveled from realm to realm, the sea elves navigated the deepest currents and explored the waters across a hundred worlds. Today, they live in small, hidden communities in the ocean shallows and on the Elemental Plane of Water.

* **Sea Elf Training:** Proficiency with the spear, trident, light crossbow, and net. Damage is at +20 when using these weapons.

* **Child of the Sea:** Can breathe air and water.

### **Shadar-Kai**

Sworn to the Raven Queen's service, the mysterious shadar-kai venture into the Material Plane from the Shadowfell to advance her will. Once they were fey like the rest of their elven kin, and now they exist in a strange state between life and death. Eladrin and shadar-kai are like reflections of each other: one bursting with emotion, the other nearly devoid of it.

* **Necrotic Resistance:** You have resistance to necrotic damage. This is done by rolling save rolls twice and using the highest roll as your save.

### **Wood Elf**

* **Elf Weapon Training:** Proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. damage is at +20 when using these weapons.

* **Mask of the Wild:** Can attempt to hide even when they are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.

### **Astral Elf**

Because nothing ages in the Astral Plane, astral elves from that plane are thousands of years old, and their longevity gives them an unusual perspective on time. Some are prone to melancholy, while others display an absence of feeling. Many look for creative ways to occupy themselves. Whether they choose to live in quiet contemplation or strike out to explore the reaches of the multiverse, they tend to see things through the lens of time as having little or no meaning to them.

* **Astral Fire:** Can cast Arcane blast

* **Fey Ancestry:** Advantage on saving throws they make to avoid or end the charmed condition on themself. This is done by rolling twice on your save throws for charm the highest save is your score.

* **Keen Senses:** Proficiency in the Perception skill. Done by rolling twice in Perception highest of the rolls is your score.

## **Appearance**

* **Average height:** 5'0″‒5'5". In game this is 0.80-0.90 Height.
* **Skin color(s):** Same range as humans plus shades of copper, bronze, and bluish-white
* **Hair color(s):** Same as humans plus green and blue
* **Eye color(s):** Same as humans plus gold and silver
* **Typical build:** Slender
* **Distinctions:** Little to no body hair

### **Dark Elf Appearance**

* **Average height:** 5'0″‒5'5". In game this is 0.80-0.90 Height.
* **Skin color(s):** Black, dark blue, gray
* **Hair color(s):** White
* **Eye color(s):** Red, lavender, blue, purple, amber
* **Typical build:** Slender
* **Distinctions:** Pointed ears, slim but athletic build, beautiful, affinity to darkness, able to enter fully aware sleep state.

### **High Elf Appearance**

* **Average height:** 5'0″‒5'5". In game this is 0.80-0.90 Height.
* **Skin color(s):** Same range as humans plus shades of copper, bronze, and bluish-white
* **Hair color(s):** Same as humans plus green and blue
* **Eye color(s):** Same as humans plus gold and silver
* **Typical build:** Slender
* **Distinctions:** Little to no body hair

### **Sea Elf Appearance**

* **Average height:** 5'0″‒5'5". In game this is 0.80-0.90 Height.
* **Skin color(s):** Deep green with brown stripes and patches, shades of blue with white stripes and patches, pale silver green
* **Hair color(s):** Black, blue, silver-white, red, blue-green, emerald green
* **Eye color(s):** White, black, blue, green, silver, turquoise
* **Typical build:** Slender
* **Distinctions:** Gills, Webbed hands and feet

### **Shadar-Kai Appearance**

* **Average height:** 5'0″‒5'5". In game this is 0.80-0.90 Height.
* **Skin color(s):** Greys
* **Hair color(s):** Same as humans plus green and blue
* **Eye color(s):** Dark
* **Typical build:** Slender
* **Distinctions:** hairless

### **Wood Elf Appearance**

* **Average height:** 5'0″‒5'5". In game this is 0.80-0.90 Height.
* **Skin color(s):** Copper, tan
* **Hair color(s):** Black, blond, brown, copper red
* **Eye color(s):** Green, brown, hazel
* **Typical build:** Slender
* **Distinctions:** Little to no body hair, Physically strong, frail

### **Astral Elf Appearance**

* **Average height:** 5'0″‒5'5". In game this is 0.80-0.90 Height.
* **Skin color(s):** Same range as humans plus shades of copper, bronze, and bluish-white
* **Hair color(s):** Gold, red, silver
* **Eye color(s):** Gray or violet with golden flecks
* **Typical build:** Slender
* **Distinctions:** Aloof, beautiful, frail, affinity for starlight