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.

Smokescreen. You know the minor illusion cantrip, and can cast it without requiring a material component. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the fog cloud spell with this trait.

Whenever you cast the fog cloud spell through this trait, you can choose to invoke your elemental ancestry to shape and concentrate the vapors it creates to an injurious degree, modifying it in the following ways:

• You may choose to give the cloud a radius of 5, 10, 15, or 20 feet.
• Each creature within the cloud's area when the cloud appears or which ends its turn within the cloud's area must make a Constitution saving throw or become unable to breathe while coughing uncontrollably. A creature affected in this way is incapacitated and suffocating until the start of its next turn. You and any creatures which do not need to breathe are immune to this effect.

Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the misty step and pyrotechnics spells with this trait. Once you cast fog cloud, misty step, or pyrotechnics with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast any of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race).

You can hold your breath indefinitely while you’re not incapacitated.

 When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.

You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language.

Paraelemental genasi typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight as the race(s) to which their non-elementally inclined ancestors belong.

 A typical paraelemental genasi has a life span of 120 years.

Your walking speed is 30 feet.