Half-Elves
Humans adore half-elven children. To them, it is not only a
great honor for a family to join their bloodline with that of
an elf, but it is also a point of patriotic pride, demonstrating
the strength of the bond between Syngorn and Tal’Dorei.
Yet for as long as the humans of Tal’Dorei have loved
their mixed-race children, the elves of Syngorn have looked
on them with contempt. They are called half-breeds, halfbloods,
or “ill-born.” They carry the shame of impurity and
the mark of lessened potential by diluting their superior,
magical elven blood with that of humanity. That
a half-elf had no choice in the matter of their birth is
irrelevant; they are reviled all the same.
Few half-elves find prominence in Syngorn.
Many half-elven adventurers are wanderers
not by choice, but
because are driven out
from the forest by their
peers. These adventurers
are often untrusting
of others because of their
trauma, especially if they were
cast out at a young age.
Half-elf vagabonds typically find a
home within the cities of Tal’Dorei, where
acceptance and even praise for their nature
is much more common. A surprising number
make their home within the sunless depths
of Kraghammer, finding kinship with the
dwarves in their mutual dislike of elven
society. Others still settle in the free
lands of the Rifenmist Peninsula,
among wild folk who don’t
care what’s in your blood,
so long as you can heft
a hatchet.
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