Elf
Elves are a magical people of otherworldly gspecies, 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.
Source: Player's Handbook
Basic Traits
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 | Elves love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly towards the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others' freedom as well as their own, and are good more often than not. Drow are an exception; their exile into the Underdark has made them vicious and dangerous. Drow are more often evil than not. |
| Size | Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium. |
| Speed | Your base walking speed is 30 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. |
Ability scores
Your Dexterity score increases by 2.Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Elven.
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.
Subspecies
| Name | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Dark Elf | Descended from an earlier subspecies of dark-skinned elves, the drow were banished from the surface world for following the goddess Lolth down the path to evil and corruption. | Player's Handbook |
| High Elf | As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. | 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. | Player's Handbook |
| Bishtahar Elf | Elves who dwell in the forest and countryside are known as the Bishtahar. | Plane Shift: Kaladesh |
| Tirahar Elf | Elves who forsake technology entirely are called the Tirahar. | Plane Shift: Kaladesh |
| Pallid Elf | The pallid elves are a mystical and insightful people with skin as pale as the surface of Exandria's largest moon. | Explorer's Guide to Wildemount |
| Mark of Shadow Elf | The Mark of Shadows is a dragonmark that grants various magical benefits. | Eberron: Rising from the Last War |
| Vahadar Elf | The Vahadar are elves who dwell in the cities of Kaladesh. They are comfortable with technology, and work as planners, architects, aether-seers, or inventors. | Plane Shift: Kaladesh |
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