Homebrew Verem Sun Elf Species Details
When the elves came to Verem forgotten eons ago, most treasured the moon and stars -- but some relished the heat and life of the burning sun. The Sun Elves are joyful, robust, and sometimes warlike. Their amphitheaters ring with loud song and golden horns.
They are sturdy people who tend to dress in white and yellow garments, the warriors with golden armor and red-crested helms. They often live in warm homes of wood or sandstone, carved in some cases into great cliffs and canyons.
Verem Sun Elf Traits
Your elf character has a variety of natural abilities, the result of thousands of years of elven refinement.Ability Score Increase
Instead of +2 to Dexterity and +1 to another ability like most elves, as a Sun Elf, you get +1 each to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution.
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.
Bright-eyed
You do not have darkvision like most elves, but you cannot be blinded by bright light, including by such spells.
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.
Sun Elf Training
You have proficiency with the longsword, shortsword, glaive, and shield, and at driving land vehicles.
Golden Tongue
Your joy is infectious! Once per short rest, you can re-roll one charisma ability check of your choice. This feature cannot be used if you have not seen the sun in over twenty-four hours.
Robust
It takes a lot to wear you down. Once per day, you can avoid one level of exhaustion you would otherwise gain.
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