Homebrew Endless Elf Species Details
Legendary amongst their kin, the endless elves are unfazed by the passage of time, remaining eternally constant in an ever-changing world. Thousands of years of consciousness endow the endless elves with minds like no other. Although eternity is considered a gift for some, to endless elves it's a barrier between them and the rest of the revolving world. Empathy becomes a word seldom used, as does longing. It's not that they don't feel these emotions, but they learn the necessity of repressing them. Love dies before a single regret, grief can outlast kingdoms, and an eternity of apathy may be suited to contest a millennium of pain.
Behaviors. Endless elves are tuned with long term goals and actions in mind. They set themselves towards sights far out of their current reach and work to make consistent pace towards them through decades of time. Rather than finding expedited solutions or holding off on less dire projects, endless elves prioritize plans that expend less effort yet cost substantially more time. In a similar vein, endless elves tend to avoid inebriating substances, romance, or short term pleasures; They find far more enjoyment in endlessly submerging themselves with busywork that won't conclude for decades. Due to their low interest in starting families, the endless elf population continues to decline and makes them an endangered and nearly forgotten subspecies.
Endless Elf Traits
Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.Ability Score Increase
Choose the ability score to increase
Endless
Endless elves grow slowly even by elven standards, achieving maturity at the age of 150. Although no species has successfully recorded an endless elf dying of old age, they can unknowingly last to be ten thousand. Death amongst these elves is always due to social conflicts and physical traumas. Their life span means they rarely keep track of measurements of time shorter than years, and possess near unrivaled levels of patience. Even if an endless elf were to know they would die in a month, they'd be incapable of deciding how to spend that time before passing away.
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 30 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.
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.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write two extra languages of your choice.
Elusive mind
You have advantage on saving throws against divination magic.
Gift of eternity.
This gift of eternity possessed by endless elves originates from a bond between an elder high elf and the oldest known entity of the realm. Their descendants were given the gift of near-immortality, a power envied by the other elvish subspecies and hand waived by the endless elves themselves.
Comments