Elf
Elves are a long living race with ancient and poweful ancesstry, often tied to other planes such as the Feywild. They often had powerful and swift changes ion passion and emotion, and many believe they could not take some things as seriously as other species due to their long lives, but an elf, just as any other race could be a powerful and loving ally, or a long-term and devious enemy.
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Player's Handbook
Elf
Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Elves love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry.
ability score increase:
Your Dexterity score increases by 2
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.
alignment:
Varying
Size:
Medium
speed:
30ft
Languages:
Common, Elven
race features:
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. Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep. Trance. Elves do not sleep. Instead they meditate deeply, remaining semi-conscious, for 4 hours a day. The Common word for this meditation is "trance." While meditating, you dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive after years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit a human would from 8 hours of sleep. Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
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. Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put you to sleep. Trance. Elves do not sleep. Instead they meditate deeply, remaining semi-conscious, for 4 hours a day. The Common word for this meditation is "trance." While meditating, you dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that have become reflexive after years of practice. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit a human would from 8 hours of sleep. Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
Player's Handbook
Drow
Descended from an earlier subrace of dark-skinned elves, the drow were banished from the surface world for following the goddess Lolth down the path to evil and corruption. Now they have built their own civilization in the depths of the Underdark, patterned after the Way of Lolth. Also called dark elves. The drow have black skin that resembles polished obsidian and stark white or pale yellow hair. They commonly have very pale eyes (so pale as to be mistaken for white) in shades of lilac, silver, pink, red, and blue. They lend to be smaller and thinner than most elves.
Drow adventurers are rare, and the race does not exist in all worlds. Check with your Dungeon Master to see if you can play a drow character.
ability score increase:
Your Charisma score increases by 1
age:
Size:
Medium
speed:
30ft
Languages:
parent race:
Elf
race features:
Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a range of 120 feet, instead of 60. Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of the attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. Drow Magic. You know the Dancing Lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Faerie Fire spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Darkness spell once and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells. Drow Weapon Training. You have proficiency with rapiers, shortswords, and hand crossbows.
Superior Darkvision. Your darkvision has a range of 120 feet, instead of 60. Sunlight Sensitivity. You have disadvantage on attack rolls and Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of the attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight. Drow Magic. You know the Dancing Lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the Faerie Fire spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the Darkness spell once and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells. Drow Weapon Training. You have proficiency with rapiers, shortswords, and hand crossbows.
Player's Handbook
High Elf
As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. In many of the worlds of D&D, there are two kinds of high elves. One type (which includes the gray elves and valley elves of Greyhawk, the Silvanesti of Dragonlance, and the sun elves of the Forgotten Realms) is haughty and reclusive, believing themselves to be superior to non-elves and even other elves. The other type (including the high elves of Greyhawk. the Qualinesti of Dragonlance, and the moon elves of the Forgotten Realms) are more common and more friendly, and often encountered among humans and other races.
The sun elves of Faerun (also called gold elves or sunrise elves) have bronze skin and hair of copper, black, or golden blood. Their eyes are golden, silver, or black. Moon elves (also called silver elves or gray elves) are much paler, with alabaster skin sometimes tinged with blue. They often have hair of silver-while, black, or blue, but various shades of blond, brown, and red are not uncommon. Their eyes are blue or green and flecked with gold.
ability score increase:
Your Intelligence Increases by 1
age:
Size:
Medium
speed:
Languages:
parent race:
Elf
race features:
Cantrip. You know one cantrip of your choice from the Wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it. Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Extra Language. You can read, speak, and write one additional language of your choice.
Cantrip. You know one cantrip of your choice from the Wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it. Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Extra Language. You can read, speak, and write one additional language of your choice.
Player's Handbook
Wood Elf
As a wood elf, you have keen senses and intuition, and your fleet feet carry you quickly and stealthily through your native forests. This category includes the wild elves (grugach) of Greyhawk and the Kagonesti of Dragonlance, as well as the races called wood elves in Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms. In Faerun, wood elves (also called wild elves. green elves, or forest elves) are reclusive and distrusting of non-elves.
Wood elves' skin tends to be copperish in hue, sometimes with traces of green. Their hair tends toward browns and blacks, but it is occasionally blond or copper-colored. Their eyes are green, brown, or hazel.
ability score increase:
Your Wisdom Increases by 1
age:
Size:
Medium
speed:
35ft
Languages:
parent race:
Elf
race features:
Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Fleet of Foot. Your base walking speed increases to 35 feet. Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.
Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Fleet of Foot. Your base walking speed increases to 35 feet. Mask of the Wild. You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena.
Moon Elf
Often mistaken for drow by the uninformed, moon elves are a secretive subrace of elvenkind that dwell deep within the forests, hidden out of sight from all but the most perceptive and brave explorers. Moon elves live in carefully hidden villages, usually in deeply shaded parts of the forest, though their temples and other religious sites typically are built in clearings where they can be bathed in the open moonlight.
Moon elves have more purple skin than their other kin, ranging from light lavender to dark violet, though light shades of blue are not uncommon. Their hair typically ranges from a multitude of strange colors, with the most common being aqua, white, green and dark blue.
As part of their culture, moon elves often tattoo their face with simple patterns, and pierce their ears with intricate silver jewelry.
ability score increase:
Your Charisma score increases by 1
age:
Size:
Medium
speed:
Languages:
parent race:
Elf
race features:
Bathed in Moonlight. You are proficient in the Stealth skill. In addition, you can attempt to hide while you are only obscured by dim light. Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow and longbow. Lunar Magic. You know the minor illusion cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast sleep as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the moonbeam spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Bathed in Moonlight. You are proficient in the Stealth skill. In addition, you can attempt to hide while you are only obscured by dim light. Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow and longbow. Lunar Magic. You know the minor illusion cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast sleep as a 2nd-level spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the moonbeam spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
Sun Elf
ability score increase:
Your Constitution Increases by 1
age:
Size:
Medium
speed:
Languages:
parent race:
Elf
race features:
Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Sun’s Protection. You have resistance to radiant damage. Noble Lineage. You have proficiency with the History skill.
Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow. Sun’s Protection. You have resistance to radiant damage. Noble Lineage. You have proficiency with the History skill.
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Sea Elf
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, sea elves navigated the currents and explored the waters of many worlds. Today these elves can be found wherever oceans exist, as well as in the Elemental Plane of Water.
ability score increase:
Increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. You can't raise any of your scores above 20.
age:
Size:
Medium
speed:
30ft, swimming 30ft
Languages:
parent race:
Elf
race features:
Child of the Sea. You can breathe air and water, and you have resistance to cold damage. Darkvision. 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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray. Friend of the Sea. Aquatic animals have an extraordinary affinity with your people. You can communicate simple ideas to any Beast that has a swimming speed. It can understand your words, though you have no special ability to understand it in return. Sea Elf Training. You have proficiency with the spear, trident, light crossbow, and net.
Child of the Sea. You can breathe air and water, and you have resistance to cold damage. Darkvision. 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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray. Friend of the Sea. Aquatic animals have an extraordinary affinity with your people. You can communicate simple ideas to any Beast that has a swimming speed. It can understand your words, though you have no special ability to understand it in return. Sea Elf Training. You have proficiency with the spear, trident, light crossbow, and net.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Elves vary in nearly every physical aspects and can have verying skin tones, hair colours, and phenotypal quirks. However, nearly all elves tend to be fair, with pointed ears, and are absurdly beautiful by human standards. They usually have lean and light figures, fine features, and an athletic yet frail build. They averaged heights from 5'4"-6'0" and were lighter, their weight starting at 120lbs-170lbs. They often cannot grow hair on their body beyond the heair on their head, and eyebrows. Of course, there is so much variation in the species that their usual features can vary and be diverse.
Drow have dark complextions, their skin often grey, black, or purple, or perhaps a mix of all three. Their eyes tend to lack pupils, wholely black or white, tailored to the dark. They tend to have agile bodies, tailored to violence and agaility. Their hair is usually grey or white.
High Elves often have exaggeraed feaures whether it be longer ears, longer and more beautiful hair, slender fingers, and defined facial structures. They usually have flawless skin, never pale or sickly. They lean towards brightly coloured ees such as golden or lightt blue.
Wood eleves tend to have coppery, or pale skin. They usually adopted natural hair tonnes, such as brown, copper red, or blond. Their eyes, often hazel or emerald green.
Moon Elves are often confused for drow with their grey skin tones, but tend to have white eyes, and regularly freckles skin that shines in the moonlight. Their hair is usually black, blue, white, or purple. They exhibit many of the physical traits of high elves in their structure and build.
Sun Elves have flawless complecxions and are said to be the most radiant and beautiful of the elves.their eye and hair colour tends to lean toward sunn colours such as red, cgold, orange, and yellow. They exhibit many of the physical traits of high elves in their structure and build.
Genetics and Reproduction
Elves can reproduce with all kind of other species, but some elves such as high elves have much harder times reproducing.
Growth Rate & Stages
Elves live long lives, and while they phsically mature at the same rate as huimans, they are not perceived as maturew in the eyes of other elves until they are at least 100 years old. They could live up to 750 years.
Ecology and Habitats
Besides the high elves and suberannean sub - species, Elves tended to favor woodlands over other terrains, though exceptions existed. Most elven communities were relatively small in size, around a few hundred in number, and blended easily into the natural landscape. These communities were usually very well isolated and as a result contact between elves and outsiders was usually a matter of deliberate contact rather than accidental.
High Elves and Drow tend to buil eleaborate, and intricate kingdoms and architecture, intended to be both beautiful and durable.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Elves were typically omnivorous, like humans, but tended to eat very little meat. This was not so much out of concern for the animal as an effort to make as little of an impact on the natural world as possible, with elves believing that the consumption of vegetation had a lesser impact on natural harmony. Additionally, this partially came from many elven cultures' traditions of nomadic life, which required food to be easily preservable.
Behaviour
Elves who lived among humans, of whom there were many, tended to take on roles that favored the arts, such as minstrels, artists, or sages. Many were also valued as martial instructors, given the elven races' well-known skills with both the bow and the sword.
Additional Information
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
Elves often have eyes that adjust well in the dark, whether it be their ancient and magical bloodlines, or the fact that some sub-species such as drow have lived most of their life in caves and caacombs entombed in darkness. They tend to be more keen of heir surroundings han the humans, their sight far more potent.
Elves often tend to be dexterous and agile creatures, their bodies hones for combat and nibleness. They move lightly and swiftly through all kinds of terrain.
Additionally, many elves tend to lean towards magic, it innately flowing through their blood. The drow tend to be able to spur to life, apowerful magic that illuminates things in the dark or that are invisible, in a similar way to moon elves. Sun elves are immune to the effects of radiant light and so on. Many elves did not sleep, instead finding their rest in a meditative state called reverie or "trance", which was as restful as true sleep but left them aware of their surroundings. In this state, they achieved the same results as a human might through sleeping in roughly two thirds the time. Elves able to trance were also often resistant to the effects of supernatural powers such as sleep, since they did not themselves sleep but instead rested in a semi-aware state.
Geographic Distribution
