Spirit Elf Positives and Negatives

Spirit Elves are able to lose physical form and travel like spirits among the veil. This allows the spirit elf to go into places that others could not and to be able to escape certain death more easily than others. In spirit form, they can only be harmed by magic or energy weapons, with physical weapons only dealing a quarter of the damage to them. Given this, Spirit Elves make great rogues and mages.

However losing one's body, even if only temporary, comes with its own penalties. It is taxing on the spirit elf to maintain a connection with the physical realm while in spirit form. Should they lose this connection, they would lose themselves and no longer exist among the living. Many believe that a large amount of hauntings could simply be spirit elves who have gotten themselves trapped in the veil. Another problem for the spirit elf is that they cannot bring or keep on them any physical thing, be it weapons, armor, packs, or even clothes, if those things are not magically enchanted and bear the same connection  to their runic element. This could make playing as a spirit elf very challenging. The player would need to hope for a lot of money or very good friends.

Spirit Elf Skills

Spirit 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
Affect Form	2 Soul	self	self	until used again, minimum 1 round or minute		Become spirit or phyiscal	Arcana +1; +1 per level
Affect Reality	1 Soul	self	self	instant		Able to affect, use, touch, move, etc physical things when in spirit form; gain this skill at level 3	Focus +1; +1 per level after Level 3
Keep Self	N/A	self	self	instant		+2 to Endure for check to exist	Endure +2; +1 per level

Appearance

Spirit elves are slightly shorter than humans. They have ears that are 2" long that stick out horizontally instead of at an angle like other elves, pale and slender faces, and pointed noses. Spirit elves tend to keep their hair long, and it comes in shades of gray, white, silver, or steel blue. Spirit elf eyes are very cat-like in appearance and are gray.

Living Habitat

Spirit elves tend to seclude themselves from the outside world. Instead they typically live in mountain ravines, caves, or in small shacks atop steep mountain peeks. Those that travel do their best to not draw attention to themselves.

Spirit Elf Culture

Spirit elves are very spiritual  and secretive. Often used to being blamed for crimes they'd never think of committing, they tend to keep to themselves. Spirit elves don't tend to worship gods or goddesses. Instead, they respect them, and honor spirits while worshiping the very power of magic and spiritual energy. Spirit elf shamans often hold retreats for spiritual cleanings and spirit elves often take part in seances. Spirit elves are also one of the only elf type that will and do give surnames, using surnames as a way to honor and give worship to their departed ancestors.

Spirit Elf Racial Relations

Spirit elves suffer from forms of paranoia which causes them great difficulty in dealing with other races other than elves and faes. They are the only elf type that will get along with dark elves, simply because of their spiritual beliefs. In fact, if they could get past their paranoia, they'd easily get along with anyone regardless of race. They just have to learn to trust that person first, and trust from a spirit elf is hard to obtain.