Homebrew Fairy Elf Species Details
An enchanted winged race born of fae magic and elf magic (wink wink). This entanglement has gifted them with the ability to harness the power of fairies 1 hour a day, meaning they are tiny and gain greater abilities in magic. These childlike half breeds are curious and carefree; they enjoy the beauty in life. They often are immature and chaotic, but it is all in good fun.
Fairy Elves can shift between two forms: Normal and Fairy.
When in the Normal form, Fairy Elves are typically between 5 and 6 feet tall. They have large, beautiful, flowing wings. They tend to not use the wings as much while in Normal form because they can only fly at a speed of 10 feet given the weight. They have pointed ears, and their skin tones tend to be very light shades of orange, pink, purple, or green. Sometimes they are born with fluffy, feathery antennae. Sometimes they are also born with a light fuzz around their necks and wrists like jewelry. They love to wear brightly colored clothing.
1 hour a day, Fairy Elves can shift into their Fairy form. When in this tiny form, they shrink to half a foot tall. Their wings become fluttering butterfly wings that leave a fine loose powder trailing behind them in the same color as their wings. Their walking speed decreased to 10 feet; but their flying speed increases to 30 feet. All of their energy being condensed into such a tiny size causes them to give off a bright orange or fuchsia aura.
Fairy Elves love to make their homes among willow trees or mushrooms in the feywild.
Fairy Elf Traits
Fairy Elves have many traits; some only available to them when in certain form.Alignment
Fairy Elves can be of any alignment but tend to lean more towards chaotic because of their playful nature. The vast majority are chaotic, but almost never evil. They 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. They value fun and fair play highly, though their definition of these values often differ from the norm.
Size
Fairy Elves range from 5 to 6 feet tall and have slender builds. Their size is Medium. When they shift to Fairy form, they range from half a foot to a foot tall. Their size is Tiny in Fairy form.
Speed
Fairy Elves base walking speed is 30 feet. Their flying speed is 10 feet at a max height of 10 feet. When in Fairy form, their walking speed decreases to 10 feet and their flying speed increases to 30 feet.
Darkvision
Accustomed to twilight 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.
Fey Ancestry
You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
Fairy Magic
You know the Dancing Lights cantrip. At level 3, you can cast Confusion once per day. At level 5, you can cast the Polymorph spell once per day.
Dancing Lights - You create up to four torch-sized lights within range, making them appear as torches, lanterns, or glowing orbs that hover in the air for the duration. You can also combine the four lights into one glowing vaguely humanoid form of Medium size. Whichever form you choose, each light sheds dim light in a 10-foot radius. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the lights up to 60 feet to a new spot within range. A light must be within 20 feet of another light created by this spell, and a light winks out if it exceeds the spell's range.
Confusion - This spell assaults and twists creatures' minds, spawning delusions and provoking uncontrolled action. Each creature in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw when you cast this spell or be affected by it. An affected target can't take reactions and must roll a d10 at the start of each of its turns to determine its behavior for that turn.
At the end of each of its turns, an affected target can make a Wisdom saving throw. If it succeeds, this effect ends for that target. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the radius of the sphere increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 4th.
Polymorph - This spell transforms a creature that you can see within range into a new form. An unwilling creature must make a Wisdom saving throw to avoid the effect. The spell has no effect on a shapechanger or a creature with 0 hit points.
The transformation lasts for the duration, or until the target drops to 0 hit points or dies. The new form can be any beast whose challenge rating is equal to or less than the target's (or the target's level, if it doesn't have a challenge rating). The target's game statistics, including mental ability scores, are replaced by the statistics of the chosen beast. It retains its alignment and personality.
The target assumes the hit points of its new form. When it reverts to its normal form, the creature returns to the number of hit points it had before it transformed. If it reverts as a result of dropping to 0 hit points, any excess damage carries over to its normal form. As long as the excess damage doesn't reduce the creature's normal form to 0 hit points, it isn't knocked unconscious.
The creature is limited in the actions it can perform by the nature of its new form, and it can't speak, cast spells, or take any other action that requires hands or speech.
The target's gear melds into the new form. The creature can't activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment.
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