High Elf Stat Block

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High Elf

Subrace: High Elf

As a high elf, you have a keen mind and a mastery of at least the basics of magic. In many of the worlds of D&D, there are two kinds of high elves. One type (which includes the gray elves and valley elves of Greyhawk, the Silvanesti of Dragonlance, and the sun elves of the Forgotten Realms) is haughty and reclusive, believing themselves to be superior to non-elves and even other elves. The other type (including the high elves of Greyhawk, the Qualinesti of Dragonlance, and the moon elves of the Forgotten Realms) are more common and more friendly, and often encountered among humans and other races.
The sun elves of Faerûn (also called gold elves or sunrise elves) have bronze skin and hair of copper, black, or golden blond. Their eyes are golden, silver, or black. Moon elves (also called silver elves or gray elves) are much paler, with alabaster skin sometimes tinged with blue. They often have hair of silver-white, black, or blue, but various shades of blond, brown, and red are not uncommon. Their eyes are blue or green and flecked with gold.
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.

ability score increase: Your Intelligence score increases by 1.

age: Same as Parent Race

alignment: Same as Parent Race

Size: Medium

speed: Same as Parent Race

Languages: You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.

parent race: Elf

race features:

Elf Weapon Training

You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, shortbow, and longbow.

Cantrip

You know one cantrip of your choice from the wizard spell list. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for it.

Extra Language

You can speak, read, and write one extra language of your choice.

Description

Appearance

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.

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.