Greenwood Elf (Race)

Greenwood Elf

## Greenwood Elves

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## **Description**

Greenwood elves, like all elves, have fine facial features and long ears. Their hair is often meshed with the wood from the tree in which they were birthed and is always a shade of green. Most greenwood elves also have green eyes and a very athletic build naturally, standing between 6ft and 6f5 for most of these elves. Most greenwood elves tend to adopt western clothing and weaponry to honour their ancestor’s origins.

## **Character Creation**

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**Ability Scores**

Your Strength score increases by 2 and your Constitution score increases by 1.

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**Size**

Greenwood Elves stand between 6 feet to over 6 feet 5 and have very athletic builds. Your size is Medium.

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**Speed**

Greenwood Elves have a walking speed of 30 ft.

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**Age**

Although 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.

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**Creature Type**

Humanoid

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**Languages**

You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. Elvish is fluid, with subtle intonations and intricate grammar. Elven literature is rich and varied, and their songs and poems are famous among other races. Many bards learn their language so they can add Elvish ballads to their repertoires.

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### **Traits**

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**Darkvision**

Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

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**Keen Senses**

You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

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**Fey Ancestry**

You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep.

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**Trance**

Elves don't need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. (The Common word for such meditation is "trance.") While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive through years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.

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**Powerful Build**

You count as one size larger for the sake of how much you can push, lift, drag and carry.

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**Natural Athlete**

You have proficiency with the athletics and acrobatics skills.

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**Only The Strongest Can Survive**

When you are below 50% of your total HP, increase your strength and dexterity scores by 2.

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## **Society**

Greenwood elves adopt a vision of perfection that is deeply rooted in one of the oldest rules of the world: “Survival of the fittest”. To strive for perfection is to be the strongest physically that you can be and to see your own body become a weapon. Greenwood elves have a ritual when a tree dies to hollow a part of its trunk and turn it into a birthing place. This is said to give the tree’s might to the child rather than letting it go to waste. All greenwood children are born in this way and the tree’s might takes shapes into their hair and body as some of them look like the tree that they were born in.

### **Religion**

The Greenwood Elves follow the God of Perfection, Infin, and strive to follow in his footsteps and become an image of perfection themselves. They are of the firm belief that the natural order and survival of the fittest are the best way to approach perfection themselves.