Homebrew Fey Half-Elf Species Details

 

Fey Half-Elves, or Fey-Elves, are - as you would expect - not quite accepted among Elves nor Fairies, so almost always they aren't in groups. Well, even if there were groups. Fey-Elves happen to be very rare, and almost all of their births are accidents. A female fairy and a male elf cannot have a baby, it's impossible, and faries getting pregnant from most races result in their death of them and the fetus since their size cannot host a child that have the size genetics of another race. Only male fairies and female elves can produce offspring. 

Just like Elves, Fey-Elves are beautiful compared to humans despite their likeness. They are slightly taller than Elves on average - that height being added due to their legs - still ranging from well under 5 feet tall to just over 6 feet. They are more slender than humans, weighing only 100 to 145 pounds. Rather than having a more defined face such as regular Elves, Fey-Elves are able to have a more round body.

Fey-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. Elves have no facial and little body hair. If their maternal parent is a water related Fairy and their ears have a likeness of an aquatic race, they will inherit those ears from them. Depending on the nature of the Fey-Elf, they do not always wear human clothes like Elves frequently do, and often cover themselves in leaves and vines such as regular Fairies do.

Fey-Elves follow the same routine as Elves when it comes to names - considering their life span is no different despite the blood of the Fey coursing through them - and is given a child name until their 100th birthday.

 

Fey-Elves have more magic capacity than regular Elves and are more easily to be able to learn magic if they are not gifted with it at birth - which is very unlikely - and are usually blessed with the ability to use magic but don't always have to harness it. 

Most Fey-Elves, despite not being accepted in either race, live among Elves and are usually very good at concealing their wings. Yes, the most striking thing that makes a Fey-Elf different from a regular Elf is their beautiful bug-like or, Fairy-like, wings that can come in nearly every color pattern and shape. Fairies are usually blessed with the gift of knowing how to fly at birth, but flying is not in an Elves nature and most often they would have to learn how to fly using their wings. Reasoning for this would be that, despite their size, the thiness of Fairy wings aren't meant to hold up the weight of an Elf straight away and must be trained to hold it.

Fey-Elves don't have an exact solid opinion on other races. Never are two belonging to this race are the same, and either you are more Fairy than Elf or you are more Elf than Fairy.  Though if you fall under the category of being of Fey, then that means you have been accepted by the Feywild, which almost never happens. When growing up somewhere like that, you are raised as a Fairy rather than an Elf.

 

Fey Half-Elf Traits

Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.

Ability Score Increase

Your Dexterity score increases by 2.

Age

Although Fey-Elves reach physical maturity at about the same age as Elves, if they do not grow up within an Elven village they will not get an adult name. They live around about the same time as Elves though.

Alignment

Fey-Elves, like Elves, love freedom, variety, and self-expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. They value and protect others’ freedom as well as their own, and they are more often good than not. Though however if the Fairy genetic gene is more dominant they will often lead towards the more Chaotic side.

Size

Elves range from under 5 to over 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Your size is Medium. Fairies usually never get past the height of 1 foot, that's why Fey-Elves are such a race that is hard to fathom is to why they exist.

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 due to the fact you have direct Fey acecstry to your paternal parent.

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 Common and Elvish and/or Sylvan. Depending on which race you were raised by if any, you will be fluid in both or either of the non-common languages.