Wood Elf Positives and Negatives

Wood elves are excellent hunters bearing keen eyesight that allows them to see a mile away under good conditions, and keen hearing that allows them to hear the slightest whisper. Their disadvantages are more related to their customs and behavior. Wood Elves suffer from extreme xenophobia. Because of this, wood elves do not make great travel companions. Their stubbornness and prejudices will lead them to their death if they travel with any of another race. Wood elves can start with a small familiar.

Starting Familiar

A Wood Elf may start with one of the following familiars.

Familiar	Type	Special Skills or Attacks	Character Benefits	Cost
Black Fox	Small Mammal	Bite: +1d4 to attack, has 10% chance to kill target  Claw Slash: +1d6 to attack Hide: requires Perceive to find	+3 to Perceive Can send out to hunt using your luck score to bring back prey once a day 35% chance will counter attack for you if you are attacked	110.00
Hawk	Fowl	Fly: 2 X Move  Dive Bomb: + 1d6 to attack  Blinding Attack: +1d4 to attack but- 2 from total, blinds enemy (defense check) 1d6 rounds	+3 to Luck to receive food, -1 to Luck to receive treasure per day +2 to Perceive	90.00
Silver Ferret	rodent	Rabid Bite: target must make immunity check against 1d4 poison for 1d6 rounds Pick Pocket: +2 to your Luck score that ferret will bring back 1 item of 1d20 of target's shillings Hide: must make perceive check to find	Pick Pocket: +2 to your Luck score that ferret will bring back 1 item of 1d20 of target's shillings Retreive: can retrieve any item weighing 10 pounds or less thats in sight	60.00

Wood Elf Skills

Wood elves have the skills shared by all elf races as well as have the following core skills at level 1:

Skill	Stat Cost	Range	Area	Duration	Requirements	Effects	Success Roll
Animal Talk	1 Soul	1 animal near you	1 animal	1 minute	N/A	Talk to and understand animals	Nature +2; +1 per level

Wood Elf Abilites

Wood elves also start with the following abilities:

Ability	Effects
Projectile Proficiency	+1d4 to attack with projectile weapon
Tracking	+2 to perceive to find and follow tracks

Appearance

Wood elves are tall and skinny. Their skin is lightly tanned, and have ears that measure to be about 3” long. Their hair color is either blond or brown, and eye color is green.

Living Habitat

Wood elves live in forests and woodland areas and it is uncommon for a wood elf to travel.

Wood Elf Culture

Wood Elves typically keep to themselves and have the mentality of tribe over family, self, or nation. Most wood elf settlements are single clan settlements. They are also very fundamental with their believes. Wood elves celebrate the changes of the seasons, personal victories, birthdays, and tribal celebrations.

Wood Elves do not use last names. Instead, when referring to themselves, they will often give you their first name followed by “son of” and their father's name. First names typically reflect nature in some way or form.

Wood Elf Racial Relations

Wood Elves suffer from severe xenophobia, but notably their xenophobia is not as bad as that of their spirit elf brothers. For this reason, wood elves only get along with other elf races except the dark elf who they don't like, fae, and beast men for their similar love of nature, and races of lore.