Elf (Ithilalfar)

As a moon elf, you have keen senses and intuition, and your fleet feet carry you quickly and stealthily through your native forests. Moon elves are reclusive and distrusting of non-elves.
Ability Scores: Choose one of: 

• (a) Choose any +2; choose any other +1 
• (b) Choose any +1; choose any other +1; choose any other +1

Size: Medium
Speed: 35 ft.
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.
Elf Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.
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.

Basic Information

Biological Traits

Moon elves' skin tends to be pale in complexion. Their hair tends toward browns and blacks, but it is occasionally amber in color. Their eyes are green, brown, or hazel.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Most elves dwell in small forest villages hidden among the trees. Elves hunt game, gather food, and grow vegetables, and their skill and magic allow them to support themselves without the need for clearing and plowing land. They are talented artisans, crafting finely worked clothes and art objects. Their contact with outsiders is usually limited, though a few elves make a good living by trading crafted items for metals

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.
Child Names: Ara, Bryn, Del, Eryn, Faen, Innil, Lael, Mella, Naill, Naeris, Phann, Rael, Rinn, Sai, Syllin, Thia, Vall
Male Adult Names: Adran, Aelar, Aramil, Arannis, Aust, Beiro, Berrian, Carric, Enialis, Erdan, Erevan, Galinndan, Hadarai, Heian, Himo, Immeral, Ivellios, Laucian, Mindartis, Paelias, Peren, Quarion, Riardon, Rolen, Soveliss, Thamior, Tharivol, Theren, Varis
Female Adult Names: Adrie, Althaea, Anastrianna, Andraste, Antinua, Bethrynna, Birel, Caelynn, Drusilia, Enna, Felosial, Ielenia, Jelenneth, Keyleth, Leshanna, Lia, Meriele, Mialee, Naivara, Quelenna, Quillathe, Sariel, Shanairra, Shava, Silaqui, Theirastra, Thia, Vadania, Valanthe, Xanaphia
Family Names (Common Translations): Amakiir (Gemflower), Amastacia (Starflower), Galanodel (Moonwhisper), Holimion (Diamonddew), Ilphelkiir (Gemblossom), Liadon (Silverfrond), Meliamne (Oakenheel), Nailo (Nightbreeze), Siannodel (Moonbrook), Xiloscient (Goldpetal)

Major Language Groups and Dialects

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.

Common Dress Code

Moon elves live off the land, even more so than their sun elf cousins. They are often dressed in hides and leathers, with accents of bone, leaves, and moss. Bone and antlers are used much in the same way a human would adorn themselves with jewelry.

Common Taboos

Hunting wild game is a way of life to the moon elves. To over hunt or hunt for sport is considered sacrilege, and is punishable by banishment or death.

History

When Vildoros Maladir, the first king of the elves died, his people turned to dark magic to bring him back to life. some of the elves were wary of this decision and chose to leave. These elves took to the woods, learning how to live as one with nature. They began to worship the goddess Ambrelune and renamed their race Ithilalfar (moon elves) in her honor.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Although they can be haughty, elves are generally gracious - even to those who fall short of their high expectations - which is most non-elves. Still, they can find good in just about anyone.

Genetic Descendants

• Half-Elf

Lifespan

Elves reach physical maturity at the same age as humans, the elven understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass worldly experience. An elf claims adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100 and can live to be 750 years old.

Average Height

Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall

Average Weight

They have slender builds.

Related Ethnicities

• Northern Aetrus