Homebrew Adverseric Elf Race Details

Adverseric Elves are a magical people being decedents from The Adversary living between the worlds but not entirely part of it. They live in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of floating islands in glittering with faerie light, gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Adverseric Elves love magic and destruction, art and artistry, music and grace, and the chaotic things of the world.

Standards and Ranges

With their gods like grace and fine features, Adverseric Elves appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. They are slightly taller than humans on average, ranging from well under 5' 6" tall to just over 6' 6". They are around the same size as humans, weighing around 100 to 300 pounds. Males and females are about the same height, and males are only marginally heavier than females.

Adverseric Elves’ coloration encompasses the normal human range and also includes skin in shades of purple, pinks, and bluish-white, hair of green or blue, and eyes like pools of liquid etherium in the coloration of cyan's, green's, blue's, and purple's. Elves have little to no facial or body hair. They favor elegant clothing in dark colors, and they enjoy extravagant jewelry.

A Timeless Advance 

Adverseric Elves can live well nearly forever, giving them a broader perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. They are more often excited, and more likely to be greedy. They tend to remain unfazed by small happenstance. When pursuing a goal, however, whether adventuring on a mission or learning a new skill or art, Adverseric Elves can be focused and relentless. After reaching their stage of adulthood aging slows to almost nothing.  

Hidden Realms

Most Adverseric Elves dwell through spatial rifts of Etherium living inside the voidless space. Highly advanced magic users create floating islands out of pure etherium. Adverseric Elves hunt creatures, gather food and grow vegetable on these floating islands. Their skills with etheric magic allow them to support themselves without the need for outer realm imports. They are talented artisans, crafting fanciful clothes and other extravagant details to suit their fanciful lifestyle. Their contact with outsiders is usually limited, though a few Adverseric Elves make a good living by trading through the black markets in the outer realms.

Adverseric Elves encountered outside their own lands are commonly dealing among the black markets, doing illegal activities, or harvesting of other races and capturing them to bring back to their rifts as slaves.

Exploration

Adverseric Elves take up adventuring out of necessity in order to spread their cause of domination and criminal activities. They revile the pace of human society, which is regimented from day to day but constantly changing over the decades. Adverseric Elves also enjoy exercising their martial prowess or gaining greater magical power, and adventuring allows them to do so. Some might disown their family joins with rebels fighting against oppression, and others might become champions for their own moral causes.

Naming Conventions 

Names: Any is fine as long as the DM allows it.

Family Names (Common Translations): Cox (Cataclysm) 

Subraces

Direct descendants of The Adversary are just considered Adverseric Elves, but if elves are raised by drinking the blood of The Adversary they become Fresh-Bloods. If the newly created Fresh-Bloods breed those children become know as Full-Bloods, if then they breed outside of the family their children will become Half-Bloods, gaining traits depending on their mother.

Adverseric Elf Traits

Your relation to The Adversary gives your character a variety of abilities, the result of that faithful Cataclysmic Experiment.

Stat Increase

Starting at level 1 your dexterity can increase by 1 point, then at level 3 your dexterity score can increase by 1 more point, and finally, at level 7 your Deception stat can increase by 1 point as well.

Adverseric Elf lifespan

Although Adverseric Elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as humans, the Adverseric understanding of adulthood goes beyond physical growth to encompass experience. An Adverseric Elf typically claims adulthood around the age of 100 and can live for nearly forever.

Chaotic Alignment

Adverseric Elves love seldom, vanity, and expression, so they lean strongly toward the aspects of chaos. They value and protect their freedom over anyone else, and they are more often evil than not.

Adverseric Build

Elves range from under 5' 6" to over 6' 6" feet tall and have standard builds. Your size is Medium.

Movement

Your base walking speed is 10 Ft.

Etheric Vision

Accustomed to the void and Etheric Rifts, you have a superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were a bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can discern color in darkness, only being shades of cyan, green, blue, and purple.

Adversaric Senses

You have proficiency in the Insight & Deception skills.

Adversaric Bloodline

You have the advantage on saves against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You are resistant to Psychic, Immune to Charmed and Frightened, and Vulnerable to fire.

Meditative State

Adverseric Elves don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. While meditating, you can dream; 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.

Adversaric Tongue

You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, Abyssal, Celestial, and Infernal. Adverseric literature is limited but rich with their songs and poetry.

Shadowy Movement

You gain the ability to move through the shadows with a special feat called Shadow Step.