Can a half-elf look human?

To elves, they look like humans - indeed, elves call them half-humans. Half-elf height ranges from under 5 feet to about 6 feet tall, and weight usually ranges from 100 to 180 pounds. Half-elf men are taller and heavier than half-elf women, but the difference is less pronounced then that found among humans.

Does a half-elf have to be human?

Half-elves (also called Cha'Tel'Quessir in elven) were humanoids born through the union of an elf and a human. Whether a half-elf was raised by their human parent or their elven parent, they often felt isolated and alone.

Can half-elves have human names?

Since half-elves are usually the offspring of humans and elves they often don't have a surname as their parents often abandon them, but in some cases they will inherit a human or elvish surname of their parents or make up their own.

How do half-elves look?

To humans, half-elves look like elves, and to elves, they look human. In height, they're on par with both parents, though they're neither as slender as elves nor as broad as humans. They range from under 5 feet to about 6 feet tall, and from 100 to 180 pounds, with men only slightly taller and heavier than women.

Are half-elves beautiful?

They are often depicted as very beautiful and endowed with magical powers; they may be presented as torn between the two worlds that they inhabit. Half-elves became known in modern times mainly through J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings but have origins in Norse mythology.

Half-elves, and how they could be entertainingly different

How tall is a half-elf?

Size: Half-Elves are about the same size as Humans, ranging from 5 to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium. Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Can a human turn into an elf?

As a human, you can turn into any other Humanoid. Bears are type Animals. Yes, bears can walk on two feet and use their claws, but their type is specified as Animal. Elves on the other hand are humanoid so you can turn yourself into an elf.

Are half-elves rare?

Half-elves are uncommon in most worlds, where humans and elves tend to live apart. An exception is the world of Eberron, where on the continent of Khorvaire they have been considered a distinct race for centuries.

What color is half-elf skin?

Such elves are almost unfailingly marked with the white or silver hair of the drow parent, and more often than not have dusky gray skin that takes on a purplish or bluish tinge in the right light, while their eye color usually favors that of the human parent.

Can half-elves be not half human?

In the PHB, it talks about how they appear to elves as humans, and to humans as elves.

How long do half-elves live?

Half-Elves have curiosity and ambitions like humans but they have sense for magic and love for nature like their elven parents. Their skin is paler than human skin and they are taller and bigger than elves. Half-Elves have long ears like elves. They live about 180 years.

How are half-elves named?

Half-elves do not have a naming convention unique to their own culture. Instead, they generally take either human or elven names. Most often, half-elves receive a name that is opposite of the culture that raised them.

What are good names for half-elves?

What happens if a half-elf has a child?

Half-elves may mate and breed, but will always produce the off-spring of the other parent (a half-elf elf pairing will produce elven children, while a half-elf human pairing will result in human children).

Are half-elves infertile?

For elves and humans to be different species they must not produce fertile offspring. We know that half-elves are quite common but they can be interperated as hybrids, similar to mules or ligers, which are infertile.

What is a half-elf half human called?

In Dungeons & Dragons and other fantasy role-playing games, there is a race of Half-elves (singular half-elf). Elsewhere, beings who are half-human and half-[another race] are sometimes called Halflings; the term "Halfling" in Tolkien's legendarium pertains only to hobbits.

Can half-elves be black?

Elves tend to have a fairly narrow range of skin tones, and the Thalassians are pale. San'layn, in true vampire fashion, are somehow even more pale than their already pale base race, so that's also a no. I suppose a half-elf could have whatever skin tone their human parent might have, but there are no examples of that.

Are elves real?

From a scientific viewpoint, elves are not considered objectively real. However, elves have in many times and places been believed to be real beings.

Can elves be tan?

They are generally dark-haired and green-eyed, with very pale complexions the color of new cream. They simply do not tan, no matter how much time they spend under Oerth's sun. High elves prefer to wear light pastels, blues and greens and violets, and often dwell in homes built into living wood, high in the trees.

How old can elves get?

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.

Can Baby elves grow up?

Eventually your Elf baby might grow up. For example, you have a baby Elf for one year and the next year that Elf baby arrives as a second Elf. Follow these Elf on the Shelf Ideas for Multiple Elves if your baby grows up.

Do elves get periods?

((EDIT: Although ti's very possible - even likely, that menstruation wasn't actually a monthly cycle. Elves rarely even counted in years (preferring centuries), let alone months.)) So, long story short, I'm pretty confident that elves do menstruate.

What do elves call humans?

Because they awoke at the start of the Years of the Sun, long after the Elves, the elves called them the "afterborn", or in Quenya the Atani, the "Second People". Like Elves, Men first awoke in the East of Middle-earth, spreading all over the continent and developing a variety of cultures and ethnicities.

Do half-elves trance or sleep?

The Half Elves' entry in the PHB(p. 39) does not give them the Trance trait. Thus, they sleep as normal for most races.

Are half-elves short?

The Player's Handbook's weight descriptions for Half-Elves are inconsistent. The Half-Elf section in Chapter 2 (pg. 38) says: They range from under 5 feet to about 6 feet tall, and from 100 to 180 pounds, with men only slightly taller and heavier than women.