Homebrew Experiment gone wrong Species Details

 

Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it. They live in places of ethereal beauty, in the midst of ancient forests or in silvery spires glittering with faerie light, where soft music drifts through the air and gentle fragrances waft on the breeze. Elves love nature and magic, art and artistry, music and poetry, and the good things of the world. Your parents deviated from this path, and in doing experiments on you, created a monster of an elf. 

Slender,  Graceful, and Powerful

With their unearthly grace and fine features, elves appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members of many other races. They are slightly shorter than humans on average, ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. You're not. You have Dire Wolf ears and tail, although the rest of you looks elven. Stockier than elves but lighter than humans, you carry the power of a Dire Wolf with the grace of an Elf. 

Elves’ coloration encompasses the normal human range and also includes skin in shades of copper, bronze, and almost bluish-white, hair of green or blue, and eyes like pools of liquid gold or silver. Your skin, the eyes, and the and hair encompass these ranges, and but you can have gray skin, silver hair, and amber eyes. 

 

Elves have no facial and little body hair. Not you. You can have a beard to rival a dwarf's, long body hair, or the typical elven style. You favor animal skins or simple leather armor. 

Alpha

Your superior intelligence marks you special among wolves, and they often obey you based on your scent. They know you to be valuable in a pinch, and you tend to follow suit. 

Hidden Woodland Realms

Most elves dwell in small forest villages hidden among the trees. You live in the wilds, no home to speak of. Elves hunt game, gather food, and grow vegetables, but you likely hunt in a pack.

Elves encountered outside their own lands are commonly traveling minstrels, artists, or sages. You do your best to stay in your pack's boundaries.

Exploration and Adventure

Elves take up adventuring out of wanderlust. You most likely take it up out of your pack's nesesity. 

Experiment gone wrong Traits

You have select traits, because of elven refinement and wolf DNA.

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.

Size

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

Speed

Your base walking speed is 35 feet.

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.

You have advantage in the Perception skill if it involves hearing or smell. 

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.

Wolf friendship

You can cast the Animal Friendship on canines at will. 

Unarmed strike

Due to claws, I your unarmed strike deals extra damage. 

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Draconic.  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 repertoire. Draconic is growly and grated.