New name for the "half-elf?"

[Frostmarrow]

Hm. How about Shafted?

 

[Nifft]

Hm. How about Shafted?

"Can you dig it? Right on!"

-- N

 

[the Jester]

In my low-magic campaign experiment they are referred to as "elfblooded," since all the elves are long gone and the elfbloods are of mixed (very rarely actually half and half) heritage.

 

[A'koss]

Something norse perhaps...

Alfar
Losalfar

 

[blargney the second]

I rather like peresti.
-blarg

 

[Sejs]

Errant.

Seconded.

Errant.

 

[Shoon]

How about half-humans?

 

[Nifft]

Errant.

Holy Cow! That was awesome!

-- N

 

[Aelryinth]

Halvyr.

Means alternately, 'Children of Unity' or 'Children of Beauty', depending on your accent.

==Aelryinth

 

[William Ronald]

The Sindarin word for "half" is apparently "per-" as a prefix or "perin" as an adjective, but unfortunately "halfling" is "perian".

Maybe something like "perellon". Or in Quenya, "perequende" or something.

Man, who knows. I don't like Tolkien.

Using the Elven phrasebook in Races of the Wild, "-ess" or "-esti" is a suffix meaning elves or elven, so you could bastardise a word and say "peress" or "peresti", maybe.

I seem to recall that Elrond and his brother Elros were called the Peredhel, Half-elven.

I did not know that Races of the Wild has an Elven phrasebook. I am somewhat surprised that they are using -esti as a suffix for elves or elven. This was used in some places in the Dragonlance setting (Silvanesti, Qualinesti), but the Elves of Krynn follow a completely different pantheon than the elves of most of the other published settings. I think language and words have to depend on the setting. In some worlds, a Norse style name might work. In others, it might not. In assigning names to characters and creatures, what works for a setting is what matters most. (It also helps if a word is something that the players and DMs can pronounce. Xitxachitl has produced some pronuciation arguments, as has the word drow.)