Elf

Height: N/A

Weight: N/A

Environment: Dreamwilds

Population: Majority

Base Features (12 FP)

Magic (6 FP): Elves are born with an innate understanding of mana, allowing them to cast from hatching. They define what they want to happen and how long it will take to make it happen. The Game Master determines the DC, which they must beat with a Casting Check (1d12 + Smart Ass). The DC can be lowered by increasing the casting time or reducing the power of the effect. This is treated as a Magic Feature.

Eldritch Justice (2 FP): As creatures crafted from the subjective substance of the Dreamwilds, Elves have the innate ability to weave between the lines that separate the real from the conceptual, coaxing one into the other. They can use bargains, offers and even otherwise meaningless turns of phrase to exchange things that would normally be impossible to deal in.

For example, they might bargain with another creature for ten years of that creature’s life, gaining those ten years to their own life despite otherwise having no way to take parts of another creature’s lifespan. This is an ability that can be guided, but not controlled. Although they may intend a certain outcome, reality may find another more appropriate. The effects of this ability are at Game Master discretion.

Glamour (2 FP): Elves can innately weave dream mana into their magic, empowering their spellcasting with glamour. The results of Casting Checks to create dream mana or shape it into glamours are increased by 2.

Any creature interacting with a glamour, including looking at it, may make a Bullshit Check (1d12 + Smart Ass). If the Bullshit Check equals or exceeds the amount the Casting Check exceeded its DC, that creature functions as if the glamour doesn’t exist.

For 1 additional FP, the results of Casting Checks to create dream mana or shape it into glamours are increased by 1 more.

Unseen Nightmare (2 FP): Fully matured Elves lack any kind of physical form that could be called such in any recognizable reality. However, they can pretend to have one in order to interact like something that fits in anywhere.

As an action, they can form a glamour, taking on the appearance of any creature. They take on the form, Height and Weight of anything they change into, but does not gain any Features or other mechanical changes. They can independently use the Magic Feature to apply mechanical changes to themselves, but are subject to the limitations of the Feature.

Elven Maturation (0 FP): Unlike creatures native to the Mortal Realm, Elves do not grow based on their age. Instead, they mature based on their personal power and development.

After hatching, an Elf has 12 FP and possesses a true form that resembles a male humanoid. At this stage, they have all base Features of the Elf clan. As they gain FP, they physically mature.

Once they have a total of 18 FP, they reach adulthood and are capable of siring offspring. Although they can use Unseen Nightmare to take on any form, their true form is male and they cannot bear offspring without other effects altering them.

Once they have a total of 24 FP, their true form becomes female and they gain the ability to bear offspring. They lose the ability to sire offspring and cannot without other effects altering them.

A female Elf can choose to be fertile or infertile as an action and lays an egg one month after being fertilized. Female Elves feel sexual gratification from becoming fertilized, but will not allow themselves to become fertile unless they favor the sire.

An elf egg can survive at moderate temperatures and will hatch five months after being lain.

Once they have a total of 42 FP, their true form becomes something incapable of existing within known reality, functionally resulting in them having no true form.

They become capable of any form of reproduction, including siring and bearing offspring, as well as more exotic forms such as parthenogenesis, pollination or spores.

Timeless (0 FP): Elves do not age no matter how much time passes.

Optional Features

Archfey (20 FP): At the pinnacle of their power, some Elves manage to bind themselves to a territory within the Dreamwilds. An hour after being slain, they can reform within their territory. This also applies when they are slain in their territory itself. Having a territory allows them to move between there territory and the last place they were on the Mortal Realm as twelve actions.

For 1 additional FP, they can make Chosen Ones to enforce their will as a God would. They can create a new Chosen One by using Magic to create an entirely new creature, which has the Fey Sycophant Feature and Champion Features of their choice. The DC to create the new Chosen One should be determined by the Game Master and incorporate the total FP the Chosen One is being created with.

Alternatively, a preexisting creature that pledges its will to them can be made into a Chosen One without the need for a Casting Check. They gain all knowledge known by such a creature, and an insight into its identity, at the time of its pledge.

If they choose, the creature becomes a Chosen One and gains the Fey Sycophant Feature and Champion Features of their choice. However, the creature must have sufficient FP.

Elven Vitality (8 FP): Most Elves develop an innate vitality that keeps them from any lasting harm, almost all Elves developing it before reaching full maturity.

As twelve actions, they can remove all Damage Conditions only affecting their physical body.

In addition, they lose the ability to feel physical pain, as a result of their injuries no longer having meaningful consequence.

Half Elf (-2 FP): Some Elves have a non-elven parent, resulting in weaker elven traits, although this is often compensated for by Features from their non-elven parent. They do not gain the effects of the Eldritch Justice and Elven Maturation Features.

Instead, they mature in the manner of their non-elven parent’s species, but at half the speed. The Elf is treated as if it was not an Elf for the purpose of producing offspring, their offspring not gaining the Elf clan if the other parent is not an Elf and gaining the Elf clan with this Feature if the other parent is an Elf.

Some Elves with non-elven parents manage to awaken their full elven heritage, becoming a true Elf by buying back this Weakness. If they buy back this Weakness, they become effected by the effects of the Elven Maturation Feature regardless of their age, gaining the true form that correlates to their total FP.