Elf Stat Block

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Elf

Overview

The Maelstrom Isles are rife with ancient magic, and where there is ancient magic, there are high elven refugees studying it. Always searching for ways to reclaim their homeland of Elarellion and free it from the chaotic magic that taints it.

Subraces

Cinder Elves

Elves that live in the black fortresses of Kovik’zarnum and patrol the Ebony Wall.

Cinder Elves are not the same as Drow in D&D Beyond, though their appearance is similar.

Wood Elves

High Elves

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: Elves love freedom, variety, and self- expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not.

Size: Medium

speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Languages: 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.

sub races:
Cinder Elf
High Elf
Wood Elf

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.

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.

Description

Build

Most often slender and tall, many elves prefer grace to strength.

Hair

High elven hair has a similar spectrum of colors to humans: blonde, red, black, gray, white and brown. However Elven hair has a shimmer to it, blonde is more like glistening gold, gray like shining silver, brown like a deep polished bronze, black like reflective obsidian, white like radiant pearls and red that sparkles like dark rubies. Before The Fall of Elarellion, pure hair color was a symbol of status among the high elves and it was looked down upon if you “dirtied” your hair color with another. However that tradition died when Elarellion fell. Mixed hair colors still shimmer but not as brightly as an elf with a pure color.

Facial Hair

Facial hair grows lightly on male elven faces, if it grows at all. The legend is that a powerful elven mage, who hated dwarves quite passionately, couldn't abide that his people shared something that the dwarves loved so much and so he cast a great spell upon the whole elven race to eradicate the growth of facial hair, but only succeeded in diminishing it.

Skin

Elvish skin ranges from a tan to olive to near pure white. Cinder Elves have descended from those who were marked with charcoal colored skin to signify their vigil against the dragon hordes.

Eye Color

Elvish eye colors are usually on the lighter end of the spectrum and very bright. They vary from brilliant blues and greens and purples to light tans and grays. Cinder Elves eyes may also be a burning orange and red color.

Homelands in Western Rodain

The elvish homeland of Elarellion was ground zero for an Arcane Apocalypse nearly three centuries ago. The cataclysm ravaged the world and Elarellion itself is now a chaotic and dangerous place filled with uncontrolled magic and mutated creatures. Those who have entered there have either died or gone mad. Currently there is no cure in sight for the cursed land. Vol’drũin is the largest new elven settlement. Though it is a beautiful city with lush surrounding land, the grief of the elves that live there gives it a very somber tone. A deep depression hangs over those who live there and only few have been able to move on. Elven refugees have been happily accepted by human nobles, under the guise of charity, as they desperately attempt to grab as much land in the Maelstrom Isles as they can get their hands on, and the law requires that land to be populated. So now many elves call the Isles their home, living among other settlers.

Homelands in the Rest of the Known World

Kovik’zarnum is a dark region to the south, where the sun never shines through the dense, dark cloud cover. It includes the black sand shores of the Purged Gulf and is mostly filled by the Scorched Maw, a cracked and barren landscape with black jagged mountains and plains of craters and shattered black rock. The Cinder Elf of Kovik’zarnum are the only permanent residents, the dwarves left long ago, after constructing the great black fortresses and the Ebony Wall which the Cinder Elf now patrol. They remain on constant vigil for dragon raids, keeping the north safe. Elves have been seen traveling in Dou-chei caravans; they claim there was a once mighty elven kingdom in the far northeast. However this kingdom was destroyed by a demon empress and her people and all elves that lived there are now slaves. The realms of Tela’es’tien, Koa’vynn’zal, and Slydarin in The Northern Realms are all elven lands and while many elves left long ago to live in Elarellion there are those that stayed, they have integrated themselves into the culture of the people that are now the majority, namely humans, dwarves, and halflings.

Religion

High elves are believed by other races to be a godless people who killed their Gods by denying them in favor of their own powers, before the destruction of Elarellion. Now some seek the religions and Gods of other races while others believe they are set in their fate. The religious scholars in the Elven city of Ty’aloré claim that the Ancient Elven Gods, thought to be dead, still live and are attempting to bring them back to their majesty through their worship. As an elf you have the following features. Your subrace, Cinder Elf, Wood Elf, or High Elf will grant you additional features.

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