Your Dexterity score increases by 2 and your Intelligence score increases by 1.

An average Dunmer will live to 200 years old, but many wizards of House Telvanni live far longer through the use of powerful magic. For example, Divayth Fyr is about 4000 years old.

Between their close ties to Daedra and being spurned by other races, Dark Elves will more often turn to evil (though there are still many good Dunmer). They have a love of family and tradition, and thus tend towards lawful alignments.

Dummer range from 5 to 6 feet tall and have slim, naturally muscular physiques. Your size is Medium.

You have strong ties to your ancestors, and at 5th level, they recognise you and protect you from harm. Once per day, when a creature makes an attack roll against you, you may impose disadvantage on their roll, or, when you are forced to make a saving throw, you may gain advantage on the saving throw. You gain an additional use of this feature at 11th level and 17th level. When you reach 17th level, other creatures may no longer score critical hits against you.

You have resistance to fire damage. You know the produce flame cantrip. At 3rd level, you learn the burning hands spell and you may cast it at 1st level without expending a spell slot. At 5th level, you learn the scorching ray spell, and you may cast it at 2nd level without expending a spell slot. Once you have cast a spell using this trait, you must finish a long rest to cast that spell again with this trait. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells. Your almost Daedric appearance leads outlanders to be distrustful of you.

You are proficient with longswords, shortswords, longbows, and shortbows.

You can speak, read, and write Tamrielic and Dunmeris.