Your Intelligence score increases by 1 and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Dromes mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 70. They can live for 550 years.

Dromes are most often good. Those who tend toward law are sages, engineers, researchers, scholars, investigators, or inventors. Those who tend toward chaos are minstrels, tricksters, wanderers, or fanciful jewelers. Dromes are good-hearted, and even the tricksters among them are more playful than vicious.

Dromes are between 4 and 5 feet tall and average about 55 pounds. Your size is Medium.

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.

Accustomed to life underground, 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.

You have disadvantage on ranged attack rolls and on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight when you, the target of your attack, or whatever you are trying to perceive is in direct sunlight.

You know the dancing lights cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the faerie fire spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.

You can speak, read, and write Common, Gnomish and Elvish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world. 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.