Elf

Elves are humanoids with fey ancestry. They are known for their pointed ears and exceedingly long lifespans. Elves love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry.

## Appearance

Elves are pretty similar to humans, but people apart them because of their pointed ears. Elves are know for their supernatural beauty, proof of their fey ancestry.

Most Elves have a skin tone similar to humans, often pale skin, especially *High Elves.* Some of their subraces, like *Wood Elves* have a little darker skin. *Drow* often have dark gray skin, though it can also range from deep blue to dark purple.

## Subraces

Despite the various differences in subraces, all elves have many traits in common. Elves are renowned for their dexterity and keen senses, capable of seeing within dim light and even darkness. Due to their fey ancestry, elves are resistant to being beguiled, and magic cannot put them to sleep. In fact, elves do not even require sleep, instead needing only to meditate in a trance for four hours.

### Dark elves

Dark elves, also known as drow, are often charismatic. Due to living in the Underdark, drow have superior darkvision compared to other elves. However, they are unused to the light of the sun, and have difficulty seeing outside on sunny days. Drow have some natural magic ability, being able to create dancing orbs of dim light that fly under their control. More powerful dark elves are able to unleash a spray of these lights at their enemies to mark them as targets, and can also create pockets of magical darkness.

### High elves

High elves tend to be studiously minded. Many high elves train themselves in the arcane, learning some basic wizardly magic.

### Wood elves

Wood elves tend to be some of the wisest of their kind. Elves of the wood are fleet of foot and train themselves to remain hidden in the natural environment.

### Eladrin elves

Eladrin are elves native to the Feywild, a realm of beauty, unpredictable emotion, and boundless magic. An eladrin is associated with one of the four seasons and has coloration reminiscent of that season, which can also affect the eladrin's mood:

* **Autumn** is the season of peace and goodwill, when summer's harvest is shared with all.
* **Winter** is the season of contemplation and dolor, when the vibrant energy of the world slumbers.
* **Spring** is the season of cheerfulness and celebration, marked by merriment as winter's sorrow passes.
* **Summer** is the season of boldness and aggression, a time of unfettered energy.

Some eladrin remain associated with a particular season for their entire lives, whereas other eladrin transform, adopting characteristics of a new season.

### Sea elves

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 Daxia. They are adept swimmers and capable of breathing underwater.

### 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.