Cloud Elf
The Arrogant but Good-Natured Elves that live in the skies above
Ability Scores: (+2 Intelligence, +4 Charisma, -2 Strength, -2 Constitution): Cloud Elves are supernaturally beautiful and highly intelligent, but lack strength or endurance. Type: Cloud Elves are Humanoids with the Elf and Air subtypes. Size: Cloud Elves are Medium Sized Creatures. Speed: Cloud Elves have a base land speed of 30 feet, and a fly speed of 30ft. Senses: Cloud Elves can see twice as far as humans in conditions of low-light. Languages: Cloud Elves begin play speaking Elven and Giant. A Cloud Elf with high INT can choose from the following languages:(Auran, Aquan, Aklo, High Human, Old Druidic, Common, and Necril) Elven Immunities: Cloud Elves are immune to magic sleep effects and gain a +2 racial saving throw bonus against enchantment spells and effects. Keen Senses: Cloud Elves receive a +2 racial bonus on Perception and Sense Motive checks, and one is always a class skill for you. Innate Flight: Because of their connection to the clouds and skies, Cloud Elves can control the winds as naturally as breathing. They gain a fly speed of 30ft with perfect maneuverability, and fly is always a class skill for them. Oligarch's Aura: Cloud Elves have an innate superiority over all other races that they believe gives them the right to rule them, and this tangible aura of superiority is enough to force others into servitude to their whims. All creatures within 30ft of them that they wish to be affected lose all immunity and bonuses on saving throws versus charm and compulsion effects(Creatures immune to mind affecting retain all immunities to non-charm and non-compulsion effects) so long as they remain inside your aura. If they would be immune normally but are affected by such an effect while inside your aura, they automatically break free the next time they would normally be afforded a save once outside the aura. Peerless Epicure: None are more discerning with their palette than Cloud Elves, and food and drink are almost second nature to them. They automatically know if food or drink they are holding is poisonous by studying it as a full-round action, and they always have a Profession and Craft skill as class skills with a +2 bonus. They may cast Purify Food and Drink as an at-will spell-like ability. Force of Personality: Cloud Elves are so charming, personable, and possessing such innate nobility and elegance that they can convince their body to perform better with their charisma alone. They may use CHA instead of STR for all STR-Based Skills as well as any 2 DEX-Based Skills of their choice, and 1/day, they can reroll a failed Fortitude Save but with CHA as the main attribute. Eyes of the Sky: Cloud Elves are always as having the Mistsight Universal Monster Rule, and can see perfectly through all magical and non-magical fog, mist, and murky water as if they were perfectly clear, ignoring the miss chance for these obstructions up to their normal range of vision. Cloud Elven Magic: Cloud Elves add +2 to the DCs of all spells or effects with the [Air] or [Electricity] Descriptor/Subschool, and cast such spells at +1 caster level. Blood of the Clouds: Cloud Elves with the Elemental or Stormborn bloodline treat their Charisma score as 2 points higher for all Sorcerer spells and class abilities. Cloud Elven Spellcasters with the Air domain use their domain powers and spells at +1 caster level. Perfect Physique: Cloud Elves are so bodily and mentally perfect that their beauty is not simply skin-deep, it is their entire being, body, and soul. Cloud Elves always appear as the closest ideal of beauty possible to all who view them, and gain a racial +4 on Diplomacy and a +2 on Bluff Checks against other creatures. All creatures are capable of being attracted to them even if they would not normally or would not normally have such urges.
Basic Information
Anatomy
Cloud Elven anatomy is a truly strange thing, as while they have two legs, two arms, and a head located atop their torso like other humanoids, their entire anatomy is designed around aesthetic and pleasures of all kinds...though none know how, Cloud Elves have seemingly adapted to back up their haughty, arrogant belief in their own perfection biologically...their bodies digest food and all they consume at a highly efficient rate to such a degree that it is biologically impossible for a Cloud Elf to become obese or overweight.
Their blood is almost gaseous within their veins, and on top of that they have a unique organ they have so arrogantly referred to as "Ingsungr's Heart", named after the creator of Giants who they believed favors them so heavily he blessed them with a fragment of Giant's Strength and beauty...this organ allows them to manipulate clouds and air, and gives them their ability to fly.
Biological Traits
Cloud Elves' skin ranges in color from milky white to powder blue. Adult males are about 8 feet tall and weigh around 230 pounds. Females are slightly lighter, and around the same height. Some cloud elves can even reach heights of up to 9 or 10 feet thanks to the influence of their Cloud Giant companions, and with their lavish garb and jewelry weigh up to 320 pounds—they are sometimes so bedecked in ornaments that they must rely on their powers of flight to get around more easily. They tend toward muted coloration, with skin of milky white, pale gray, or powder blue. They have fair hair—white, gray, or pale blonde—but richly colored eyes, which are usually gray, violet or blue.
Genetics and Reproduction
Cloud Elves, like most all Elves, are incredibly asexual beings and while they are capable of feeling pleasure and the emotions that are normally associated with reproduction and sex in other races like humans, they almost never have sex and reproduce for the mere act of doing so. They have almost no sex drive and care little about such things, and generally only reproduce when they feel the need to continue their species, not for any simple act of pleasure or emotion.
Adding onto their low sex drives, Cloud Elves, like most all elves, simply do not conceive in the same way as other races do - for a Cloud Elf to come down with child, they have to make a conscious decision to do so and ingest a special natural and herbal remedial concoction designed to stimulate their bodies to allow for reliable conception. So when the times demand it or when they feel the need, Elves gather together with their chosen mates and decide to have children, but otherwise they are mostly incapable of having children otherwise...however, this also explains the origins of Half-Elves, as many Elves often fancy relationships with humans but rarely stop to consider the consequences of an unplanned spontaneous pregnancy without the influence of their herbal concoctions...without them, a full elf cannot be born and a half-elf is the result.
When Elven Females come down with children, they carry the children inside of them for between a year to a year and a half, after which the child is born shortly thereafter.
Growth Rate & Stages
Once they are born, Cloud Elves grow incredibly slowly, and do not come of age into adulthood until they are 175 years old, meaning more than 3 human lifetimes often pass before Cloud Elves become adults. They hit middle age at 1000 years old, become old at 1500, and reach venerable at 2000 and die several decades later.
Ecology and Habitats
Cloud Elves dwell exclusively in the highest environments of the world, and typically not only subjugate their environments but begin demanding tribute from the nearby settlements of civilized races...if they do not receive their tribute and are not offered gifts and offerings, they are wont to obliterate or humiliate those who refuse them.
Dietary Needs and Habits
Cloud Elves are capable of eating anything they can fit inside their mouths, but are such picky eaters and such haughty epicures that they will only let the finest food and drink touch their beautiful lips.
Biological Cycle
Cloud Elves are so beautiful and believing in their own beauty that they do not show any outward signs of aging.
Additional Information
Social Structure
All Cloud Elves bend to the rule of the wealthiest and most powerful of their kind, leaders known as oligarchs. Cloud Elves go through a lengthy diplomatic process to determine the tribe’s oligarch. Every 50 years, each family selects a speaker to represent them. All the speakers of the tribe take part in a voting process in which each speaker can cast a number of votes proportional to the value of her family holdings. In the end, the speaker who receives the most votes becomes oligarch of the tribe for that half-century, and has the greatest influence in matters that regard the tribe. When a particularly dire situation affects a whole region, the oligarchs of neighboring like-minded communities gather together to make joint decisions. Oftentimes, these matters relate to declaring war against morally opposed cloud Elves, though particularly drastic circumstances may bring such feuding tribes together to combat a greater foe.
Facial characteristics
Cloud Elves facial features are chiseled, sculpted, and mathematically perfect to all who view them. They are beauty and purity incarnate.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Cloud Elves are often exclusively found in their mythical cloudtop citadels and in fortresses atop the tallest mountains in the world.
Average Intelligence
Cloud Elves are naturally very intelligent beings, much moreso than the standard Human. Their minds are capable of amazing feats of logic and intelligence such that mortal minds would be astounded at the sight of it.
Perception and Sensory Capabilities
Cloud Elves have eyes specially adapted to life at high altitudes, and they can not only see perfectly in conditions of low-light, but can also see through mist and fog as if it weren't even there.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
Cloud Elves follow the naming traditions of the Forest Elves, though they lean towards even more flowery and beautiful names.
Beauty Ideals
Cloud Elves find beauty in and love luxury and overt displays of wealth. To a Cloud Elf, nothing is more beauty than gaudy opulence, and the more beautifully opulent a thing is, the better...as for creatures, Cloud Elves are creature that find beauty in nothing but both the exterior of one's physical body as well as the mental prowess of those who possess that beauty. Only these things together are beautiful to a Cloud Elf; One must be both unfathomably beautiful and unbelievably intelligent to attract the attention of a Cloud Elf...as a result, their only mates are often others of their kind.
Courtship Ideals
Cloud Elven courtship is a thing of opulence, decadence, and debauchery. Courtship to a cloud elf often involves reveling in the finest food and drink while admiring the finest and most beautiful artwork and mastercrafted gear...as well as admiring each other's mutual beauty and games of intellectual and philosophical challenge, putting each others minds and bodies to the test against the other to prove they are worthy of one another.
Relationship Ideals
The ideal Cloud Elven relationship is one that is born from and revels in both extraordinary beauty and bottomless opulence and decadence.
Common Dress Code
Cloud Elves of high station wear fine clothing and exquisite jewelry appropriate to their status, while less influential ones don the best they can afford. Many cultivate an appreciation for fine art and adorn their halls with paintings, sculptures, and tapestries, works usually crafted by lesser species. They wear things for the beauty of them, and favor light armor that gives them full range of motion, especially mithral armor when they can obtain it.
They prefer to wear loose fitting and revealing clothing to better display their perfect bodies, and while they will don armor as needed, they often try to keep as much of themselves exposed as possible to give others the privilege of gazing upon them.
Common Taboos
Nothing is more taboo in Cloud Elven culture than modesty or humility. Admitting one's sameness with lesser races or lowering oneself to their level is extremely taboo, and Cloud Elves see any of their kind not as haughty and arrogant as they are somewhat defective.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Cloud Elves often give all they encounter they opportunity to serve them and their Cloud Giant companions as well-cared for and treasured workers and slaves, or instead letting them keep their lives so long as they keep tribute flowing into their castles and settlements.
Alternate Racial Trait List: Cloud Elf Alternate Racial Traits
Racial Feat List: Cloud Elf Racial Feats
Genetic Ancestor(s)
Lifespan
2000 Years
Conservation Status
Cloud Elves are rare due to their tendency to make their homes in the clouds or on the tallest mountaintops, but they are by no means endangered.
Average Height
2.1 - 2.8 Meters
Average Weight
175 - 270 pounds (80kg - 122kg)
Average Physique
Cloud Elves are not simply beautiful; They are perfection itself. Not simply in body or in appearance, but in their entire being...their souls, minds, and bodies alike are so utterly and amazingly beautiful that all mortal creatures cannot help but feel attraction to them, even on some subconscious level...whether it be attraction towards their body, mind, or other things, all can find something beautiful in Cloud Elves. However, they are physically quite weak and frail, lacking in both muscle mass and durability.
Body Tint, Colouring and Marking
They tend toward muted coloration, with skin of milky white, pale gray, or powder blue. They have fair hair—white, gray, or pale blonde—but richly colored eyes, which are usually gray, violet or blue.
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