Homebrew Blood Elf Species Details
The Blood Elves of Alevaste are a secluded race of elves, often found deep in murky swamplands, mountain ranges or in dark places. Their skin is frail, pale and cracked looking throughout all stages of their lives and their eyes are varying shades of red. The blood elves are often looked at by other elves as impure, as they have descended to what is looked at as much darker state of being. Blood elves are, however, not very different from the other elves beyond the fact that they have different customs - particularly around death. Blood elves are known to perform what is looked at as a cruel burial practice by other races. A priest among them consumes a piece of their flesh, gaining flashes of their memories and beseeching a council of their deeds. Based on their status as a citizen they will be buried at a closer proximity to the council room. The body is burned in the hole, until nothing but ash remains. Then the ash is covered in dirt and a tombstone is planted in that spot for them. Often blood elves do not go on adventures due to how society treats them, but the few who do are often doing so with a specific goal in mind.
Blood Elf Traits
Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.Ability Score Increase
Your Intelligence and wisdom score increases by 2 and your Charisma score is reduced by 2.
Age
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.
Alignment
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.
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.
Inklings of Memory
Upon eating a piece of flesh that came from a living creature, you can recall memories that creature had prior to the removal of that piece of flesh or prior to its death if it died before that moment. The larger a piece is consumed the more you get.
Magical Affinity
Whether or not you take a magical class, you will have spell slots. You gain cantrips equal to 1/5th of your level rounded up. Following the information below (so long as you haven't taken a magic class) you gain access to certain level spell slots. You take your spells from the list of Warlock spells, and your Spellcasting Ability for spells learned this way is Memory. When you learn a spell, you permanently know that spell. You cannot exchange spells in any way or form through the level up process.
Languages
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.
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