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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8085113" data-attributes="member: 6694221">[SPOILER="Elf traits"]Characters with the elf heritage share a variety of traits in common with one another.Age. Elf children mature at the same rate as human children, but elvish cultures do not consider them to be fully mentally developed (nor age of majority) until they acquire a century of life experience. Elves today can live to be 700 or older, and legends speak of elves who simply never die. Size. Elves have a slender and graceful build. Some stand as tall as average humans, although most are a head or so shorter. Your size is Medium.Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Darkvision. Having your ancestral origins in the twilight realms, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Fey Ancestry. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put you to sleep. Trance. Elves don’t need to sleep. Instead, they meditate deeply, remaining conscious. (The Common word for such meditation is “trance.”) While meditating, you can dream after a fashion; such dreams are actually mental exercises that became reflexive through years of practice. When you take a long rest, you spend 4 hours in your trance state (instead of sleeping for 6 hours). During the trance you suffer no penalty to Passive Perception. A long rest remains 8 hours for you as normal, and the remainder of the time must be filled only with light activity.[/SPOILER]Regarding Age, we discussed elven immortality.The text here says, elvish cultures dont consider 20 year olds to be "fully mentally developed", "nor age of majority".However, a 20 year old is fully developed, mentally. The challenge is, the 20 year old probably hasnt decided what to do with their life. This appears to be an especially severe challenge in the context of immortality. If you have to decide what to do with your life, forever, that takes some time for introspection.So, they are of the age of majority, and are responsible for their own actions. Just uncertain about their future.Essentially, the elf turns 20, and is equivalent to a 20 year old human. They have a high school equivalent education and even some higher school training, relating to their background and choice of class.From age 20 to age 100, the elf is going thru 80 years of college life. The college life can include accruing advanced learning, or years of travel and exploration.Are fully mentally developed, and age of majority being responsible for their own actions. But the cultures view these 80 years as a time of self-discovery.Year 100 is graduation from college life. A time when the elf declares what the rest of eternity will look like.</blockquote>

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