Sea Elf
Sea Elf Features
Source: Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes Ability Scores Dex +2; Con +1 Size Medium Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft. Size Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium. 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. Keen Senses You have proficiency in the Perception skill. Fey Ancestry You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep. 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. If you meditate during a long rest, you finish the rest after only 4 hours. You otherwise obey all the rules for a long rest; only the duration is changed. 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. 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. Extra Language You can speak, read, and write Aquan.Basic Information
Ecology and Habitats
Sea Elves live in small, hidden communities in the ocean shallows and on the Elemental Plane of Water.
Behaviour
Sea elves were isolationist by both their nature and the physical location of their settlements, although they were not quite as reclusive as the wild elves. Their trust did not extend far beyond their clan and others of their kind, and their communities were very tightly-knit. They couldn't understand why the surface elves did not realize that community and alliances meant survival, whereas rivalry, individualism, and factionalism meant death. However, despite being extremely cautious, they were also extremely curious, and aquatic elves near the shore would often spend a significant amount time secretly observing the land-bound races.
Additional Information
Facial characteristics
Sea elves could have eye colors including turquoise, white, black, blue, green, and rarely silver. Their hair was usually thick and somewhat stringy, and some sea elves had a rough hair texture. It could be blue-green, emerald green, blue, black, silver, or even occasionally red. Warriors clipped their hair short, but other sea elves wore it long and flowing. Females in particular sometimes grew their hair up to 4 feet long.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Elves are considered children until they declare themselves adults, some time after the hundredth birthday, and before this period they are called by child names.
On declaring adulthood, an elf selects an adult name, although those who knew him or her as a youngster might continue to use the child name. Each elf's adult name is a unique creation, though it might reflect the names of respected individuals or other family members. Little distinction exists between male names and female names; the groupings here reflect only general tendencies. In addition, every elf bears a family name, typically a combination of other Elvish words. Some elves traveling among humans translate their family names into Common, but others retain the Elvish version.
Major Language Groups and Dialects
Elvish, Aquan
Common Dress Code
Sea Elves dress in solid, but bright colours - especially blue, but also red, green and grey. They wear steel armour and their weapons are of keen, bright steel. Spear shafts and bows may be left natural wood or painted in a regimental colour, which will be reproduced in the helmet plumes and shields.[5b]
Shields may be elaborately embossed or brightly painted; blue predominating but also red, green, and parti-coloured. Spears and lances have pennons in the regimental colour and the Regimental Standard are very elaborate with intricate embroidery and careful needle-work, all executed in the fastidious manner of Elves.[5b]
History
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 a hundred worlds.
Notable Characters
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Genetic Ancestor(s)
Scientific Name
Humanoid
Origin/Ancestry
Elf
Lifespan
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 can live well over 700 years.
Average Height
They range from well over 5ft to just over 6ft.
Average Physique
They are robust and tall with long limbs. Their thick skin gave them protection from the cold of deep water, keeping them comfortable at just above freezing temperatures. Their fingers and toes were generally about twice as long as a human's and had thick webbing between them. Their most distinctive feature was the gills visible in their necks and over their ribs. Compared to other elves, sea elves had deep voices and were larger and heavier.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
Their skin can range in color from deep green skin, mottled and striped with brown, to blue skin with white stripes and patches. Some other sea elves had pale silver-green skin.
Geographic Distribution
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