- Creature Type Humanoid
- Size Medium
- Speed 30 feet
- Alignment Neutral
- Age Aging significantly longer than humans, living up to a thousand years.
- Racial Features
- 1+1 ASI Choose one ability score to increase by 1. Choose a different ability score to increase by 1.
- Trance. Elves don’t need to sleep. 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.
- Sorcerer Magic. You know one cantrip of your choice from the sorcerer spell list. Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it (choose when you select this race).
- Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.
- Arcane-Sighted. Origin of elves is intertwined with magic, for them arcane is a visible presence they have known all their lives. These elves have Detect Magic as a constant spell-like ability, with a caster level equal to their character level.
- Society and culture Ever since the dawn of men, elves got accustomed to the life in the cities, leaving their of nature behind. Their long lives foster patience, sometimes bordering on ignorance.
- Physiology Elves possess delicate features — high cheekbones, smooth skin, and slender frames. Their most defining feature are elongated, expressive ears.
Elven senses are finely tuned not only to the physical world but also to the currents of arcane power that flow around them. The very presence of magic is something they instinctively feel and see, much like others might notice a change in the wind.
- Religion The spiritual beliefs of elven race include large amount of rituals and practices, many times varied by individual.
Elves pay reverence to various forest spirits and souls that inhabit the Orynthia. Above such magic phenomena, elves revere ancestors and heroes of elven race, who became immortal to watch over their children.
Elves also possess a pantheon of demigods and gods, some of who originate in times before the race of men. Many elven gods are shrouded in mystery even between the members of the elven race (The Lady).
- Language Sylvian, melodic and song-like ancient language with its own script. Orynthian, with dialects often specific to the region.
- Relevant questlines The Broken Heart, Orbis Imperialis