Half-Elves

If a child results from an encounter between an elf and a humanoid, the child will be a half-elf. Half-elves are not common in Pettylin - wood elves do not interact all that much with outsiders and most residents of the Drow city-states do not venture into the sunlands all that often. However, given that half-elves can typically pass for human except to a knowledgeable and perceptive observer, half-elves do not typically attract much attention in Pettylin due to their race.

Half-elves are a race in that they can breed true with one another, but there are no known communities of half-elves in Pettylin.

Half-elves can not be born as a result of a union between an elf and a halfling, gnome, or dwarf, but they can be born from an encounter between elves and most humanoid races that were born from humans as a result of the War of the Worlds - such races include, but are not limited to, aasimar, tieflings, and orcs. However, half-elves are most commonly born as a result of union between elves and humans.

Half-elves are typically children of two worlds - familiar with both, but truly belonging to neither. To their elven parent, a half-elf child will often look like the non-elven parent, and to the non-elven parent, a half-elf child will often look elven. They tend to have the eyes of their elven parents. They tend to be attractive, slender, and somewhere in height between their two parents. Most have a natural charisma and grace, and are often quite likeable.

They age more slowly than their non-elven parents, although not as slowly as true elves.

Many turn to wandering or adventuring, possessed as they are of a hunger to see new places, an adventurous spirit, and a need to find someplace to belong.

Ildan is a half-elf, having been born of a Drow father and a human mother.