Your Dexterity, Constitution, and Intelligence scores each increase by 1.

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.

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. The drow are an exception; their exile into the Underdark has made them vicious and dangerous. Drow are more often evil than not.

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

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish. 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 repertoires.

When allies are within 5 feet of you, each of them gain Stalwart.

When above half health, the first melee attack targeting you each turn has disadvantage.

You can study books in half the time and you have proficiency in Arcana and History checks.

When enemies disengage from you in melee, they cannot leave your reach from behind you.

You gain proficiency with Shields and Polearms.