Homebrew Startouched Elf Species Details
Startouch Elves are rare and few others have ever come across them. They can live for more than 5000 years and they experience "a time scale that is more like the stars than other elves", which gives them a detached, "big picture" perspective of the world. Startouch Elf mages are extremely rare, with only one star mage being born in generations.
Startouch Elves commonly appear with skin that ranges in colors from midnight tones of indigo and blue, to a soft pearl gold, as well as tones of silver. Their hair comes in white to stark black extremes, as varied as starlight. They are usually depicted with horns that are much grander and elaborate than those of other elf races. Clothing worn by Startouch Elves has been shown to include open chest tunics, as well as overlapping, layered robes. All known robe designs incorporate a dark color scheme with accents reminiscent of constellations, planetary orbits, and other celestial phenomena. The only known Startouch Elf, A, wears an elegant dark blue tunic with golden ornaments, decorated with the symbol of the Star Arcanum. His physical features include dark blue-tinted skin with hair of a light blue hue. He also has yellow eyes.
Startouched Elf Traits
Startouched ElfStarry Insight
You know the guidance cantrip. When you reach 3rd level, you can cast the detect magic spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. When you reach 5th level, you can cast the detect thoughts spell once with this trait and regain the ability to do so when you finish a long rest. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells
Ability Score Increase
Your intelligence score increases by 2, and one other ability score increases by 1.
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 120 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.