High Elf (Race)

High Elf

## High Elves (Mach'tiern)

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## **Description**

With bronze skin and hair of copper or gold, High Elves have a very noble appearance. Their hair is often very long with braids and striking eyes of silver, gold or amber. They are often of slim build and very tall stature with extremely graceful and fine facial features that can almost make them seem androgynous at times. Their clothing is ornate, noble and complex with accents of gold, deep green and dark red that only enhance their sun-touched complexion. Mach’Tiern are the epitome of what people consider traditionally when thinking of an elf.

## **Character Creation**

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**Ability Scores**

Your dexterity score increases by 2 and your intelligence score increases by 1.

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**Size**

Your size is Medium.

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**Speed**

High 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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**Noble Heritage**

You are proficient with one of the following skills: Arcane, History, Nature, Religion or Performances. Your proficiency is doubled for any check you make with that skill.

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**Elven Excellence**

You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. You can use dexterity for your attack rolls and damage rolls and you  gain +1 to attack rolls made with these weapons if you are using dexterity.

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**High Standing**

When making a persuasion check to persuade someone, you can instead choose to roll a performance check. If you can make a speech that is at least a minute long, you gain advantage on the check.

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## **Society**

High elves are often considered snobbish and arrogant for they value nobility, elegance and etiquette as the utmost values of perfection. Social standing is often more important than their own life and they take great pride in learning the ancestral elven ways of fighting and learning.