Half-Elf
When an elf and a human interbreed, they can produce a viable offspring - a half-elf. These folk share the traits of both their parent species. They are longer lived than humans, though significantly shorter lived than elves. They are broader of body than elves, but rarely as broadly proportioned as humans.
Basic Information
Biological Traits
Magic resistance and immunity to charms.
Genetics and Reproduction
Half-elves are genetically stable, and thus breed true. That is, regardless of whether they breed with an elf, a human, or another half-elf, their offspring will be a half-elf.
Growth Rate & Stages
Half-elves mature at around twenty years, and can produce offspring any time thereafter, though the prime childbearing age range for females tends to be be from about 40 to 120 years of age. They will usually die at 180 years of age or after.
Additional Information
Facial characteristics
Half-elves nearly always possess the elven almondine eyes. Unlike elves, the males grow facial hair. Their ears vary from rounded like a human's (rare) to slightly pointed, though less so than an elf (common). A very rare few have ears with points as pronounced as those of an elf.
Average Intelligence
Elves possess similar intelligence to humans and elves.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
Darkvision
Civilization and Culture
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Half-elves tend to be seen as inferior in elven society (except among some tribes of wood elves) and are distrusted in human society because of their fey background.
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