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 and can live to be years old.
Alignment : Elves love freedom, variety, and self- expression, so they lean strongly toward the gentler aspects of chaos. 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. Keen Senses : You have proficiency in the Perception skill. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining semiconscious, for 4 hours a day. 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.
Elves rarely feel that they're ready to settle down and begin families before they're at least years old, and most stop having children soon after reaching the age of Elf children are not as numerous as one might expect, given the length of an elf's child-rearing years, because elves are less fertile than humans and other shorter-lived races.
A typical human couple might have one to four children over the course of a decade, but an elf couple might take fifty years to have the same number of children. In a sidebar, that page goes on to say that while elves are physically mature by age 25, they aren't considered adults until around , and most elves do not have families until that age. Elves can live well over years, giving them a broad perspective on events that might trouble the shorter-lived races more deeply. The latest official publication on 5e elves is Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes , which has an entire chapter chock-full of lore on elves, including elven life cycles.
It indicates:. It does not explicitly state when, in relation to those life-cycle milestones, elves tend to procreate. However, one can reason from the authors' very use of humanocentric life-cycle terms.
In humans, "adolescence" is a period preceding a person's child-bearing years; "adulthood" is the period encompassing the person's child-bearing years; and middle-age is a period when child-bearing becomes increasingly difficult and unlikely, though not strictly impossible. Applying the same concepts to the long elven lifespan, their child-bearing years would begin at the end of their first century and taper off beginning in their third century.
The 3. The last time we got any kind of firm statement on the subject was two editions, and thirteen years, ago. There is room here to do things differently. This jives with the toyear-old physical maturity, followed by to years of Until someone comes up with some interesting sources for this, we can have a look at the PHB. It says that they live up to years, become physically mature around the same time as humans let's call it 20 and claim adulthood around We cannot infer how many kids they might have, but it tells us that their generation is probably around and a bit years long or 20, but starting family should follow after starting adulthood, not before, I think.
We'll note that's considerably greater than the minimum possible generational gap in a given family, as humans are usually reproductively capable from their mid-teens - but on average, people have kids at about 30 years old. Humans are described as rarely living for longer than a century; elves may live up to years. Proportionately, elves live about 7.
If we extrapolate and assume that elves probably decide to have children at about the same stages in their lives as humans do, that'd make an elven generation about years. However, given that elves will be mature and reproductively capable for significantly longer time periods than humans are, it would be safe to assume much greater variation in individual cases than is seen in humans.
In a bloodline which consistently has children young for an elf, at around a hundred years old and the start of their claimed "adulthood" , a living great-great-great-great-grandparent would be entirely possible.
Most elves loved simple joys such as dancing, singing, footraces, or contests of skill. They had a natural aversion to that which they saw as uninteresting tasks and were fun-loving by nature. However, despite how unpleasant some things such as war could be, elves became grimly serious if a threat to their friends, family, or livelihood made such actions necessary.
Elves were usually found in small tribes throughout the forests of Toril, as well as on windswept plains and in mountain vales. The elves, as a whole, preferred these secluded places of nature to the cities and nations of the civilized world, living in harmony with their natural surroundings. Cautious and cunning warriors, particularly of the bow, elves secured these homelands through guile and tactics. From left to right: a human , sun elf , wood elf , moon elf , drow , and wild elf.
There were at least nine different sub-races of elves: [9]. The elves branched away from the eladrin in a long forgotten age, and no one was exactly sure which race came first, though most scholars believed the eladrin did. The green elves suffered many defeats in the Crown Wars and by the end of the conflict had lost all of their former territory.
This change caused the elves to gradually lose their talent for the arcane and grow even closer in their connections to the wilderness, becoming as much a part of the landscape as the wild beasts with whom they shared it. The green elves who remained in isolation became the wild elves and lost their taste for civilization and nation-building, becoming nomadic wanderers.
It was also around this time that the first of the wood elves or Or-tel-quessir emerged, [18] when some of the wild elves migrated into the lands of the eladrin and bred with their kin race, creating a new hybrid culture. The wood elves, unlike the wild elves, continued to build civilizations, though on a smaller scale than the eladrin.
In the eastern High Forest , the wood elves founded the kingdom of Earlann , a contemporary and ally of Netheril. Elves as a whole ignored the Retreat to Evermeet , though some followed their eladrin brethren to the land across the Trackless Sea. Disclaimer: The views expressed in the following links do not necessarily represent the views of the editors of this wiki, nor does any lore presented necessarily adhere to established canon.
Elf article at the Dragonlance Wiki , a wiki for the Dragonlance campaign setting. Elf article at the Eberron Wiki , a wiki for the Eberron campaign setting. Elves article at the Greyhawk Wiki , a wiki for the Greyhawk campaign setting. Elf article at the Spelljammer Wiki , a wiki for the Spelljammer campaign setting. Forgotten Realms Wiki Explore.
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