Homebrew Gíransi(Earthessence) Species Details
They are the most connected to the land of Thylea. They communicate and live in reverence to the earth. Ranging from forest to mountain communities these elves tend to keep to their communities and defend their lands fiercely. Not quite as reclusive or rare as the Astéri. They often trade with surrounding cities when needed.
Physical Description: As changing as the land itself. They are the most diverse in appearance. Skin, hair, and eyes are and colors found in nature. They tend to have deer antler or pronghorn like horns.
Gíransi(Earthessence) Traits
Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.Gíini Gnósi(earth knowledge):
You have proficiency in either the Nature or Survival skill.
Gíini Evlogía(earth blessing)
You can cast the pass without trace spell once with this trait, requiring no material components, and you regain the ability to cast it this way when you finish a long rest. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for this spell.
Dóro tis Gis(gift of the earth)
You can move across difficult terrain made of earth or stone without expending extra movement.
Ability Score Increase
Your Dexterity score increases 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.
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.
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. 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.