Sea Elves

Protectors of the waters

Sea elves were water-breathing cousins to land-dwelling elves. They lived amid the waves and the ocean depths with allies such as dolphins and whales. Sea elves typically fought underwater with tridents, spears, and nets.

Description

Sea elves had blue skin with white stripes and patches, and were robust and tall with long limbs, and long, thickly webbed digits. Their hair was usually thick and somewhat stringy, and could be blue, black, silver, or even occasionally red. The most unusual feature was the gills visible in their necks and over their ribs.
Sea elves were either lightly clad or wore no clothes at all. Their clothes were formed from underwater plants, in blacks, browns, and greens. Warriors clipped their hair, but other sea elves wore it long and flowing.
A certain type of mutated sahuagin, called a malenti, looked like a sea elf. These occasionally infiltrate sea elven society.

Psychology

Aquatic elves were isolationist by their physical nature, and by choice, though they were not quite as reclusive as wood elves. They trusted only themselves, their clan, and no others. They couldn't understand why the surface elves did not understand that community and alliances meant survival, whereas rivalry and factionalism meant death. Their alliances with other elves were not based on racial affinity but on gain. A clear example of this was the alliance between the sea elves of Lake Ember and the land elves of Emberholme. The aquatic elves merely wanted to maintain their colony in Lake Ember and protected Emberholme only as part of the deal. However, this caution was tempered with curiosity and sea elves could spend much time secretly observing the land-bound races.

Sea Elf

Ability Score Increase +1 Con

Size Medium

Speed 30ft

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You have all features from the Elf race, as well as the following:
Sea Elf Training. You have proficiency with the spear, trident, light crossbow, and net.
Child of the Sea. You have a swimming speed of 30 feet, and you can breathe air and water.
Friend of the Sea. Using gestures and sounds, you can communicate simple ideas with any beast that has an innate swimming speed.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Aquan.