What is the difference between elves and humans?
Elves tend to be shorter than humans. Elven bodies are more slender than humans and they weigh lower than the human norm for their height. However their muscles are still strong and they are not fragile as they seem. Elves do not have bodily hair.
What are elves in fantasy?
Post-Tolkien fantasy elves (popularized by the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game) tend to be immortal or long-lived in comparison to humans, more beautiful and wiser, with sharper senses and perceptions, and abilities or crafts that seem alien or magical.
How do elves look different from humans DND?
Depending on on the setting, elves tend to be shorter and much more slender than humans. They can also have wildly different skin tones, large slanted eyes, sharper features in general etc.
Is an elf a race?
The elf is a humanoid race in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, one of the primary races available for player characters, and play a central role in the narratives of many setting worlds of the game. Elves are renowned for their grace and mastery of magic and weapons such as the bow and sword.
What gender are elves?
During the Old English period, separate forms were used for female elves (such as ælfen , putatively from Common Germanic *ɑlβ(i)innjō), but during the Middle English period the word elf came routinely to include female beings.
Is an elf male or female?
An elf is called an elf, whether it is male or female. Gender doesn’t matter.
What abilities do elves have?
Powers and Abilities
- Magic: Elves can control certain abilities through will and to many it is considered “Magic”.
- Photokinesis: A High Elf’s ability to manipulate Light without using magic.
- Umbrakinesis: A Dark Elf’s ability to manipulate Darkness without using magic.
- Enhanced Attributes: Have all attributes enhanced.
What’s the difference between elf and half elf?
Half-elves are a subrace unto themselves, blending the features of human and elf. Half-elves look like elves to humans and like humans to elves (hence their elven description as “half-human”). Their skin is paler than human skin and they are taller and bigger than elves. Half-Elves have long ears like elves.
What do Elves call humans?
I know it’s more from Warhammer but they Elves call humans “Mayflies” in that universe as their lives are just so much shorter in comparison. Probably have something in Sperethiel. Muggle, Mohn-Kee (you need to drrraaaaggg out the pronunciation). Also hit them in the lifespan.