Half-Elves

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Half-Elves

Total population
c. 702,040
Regions with significant populations
	c. 440,000
	c. 85,000
	c. 66,000
	c. 51,200
	c. 25,000
	c. 17,000
	c. 14,000
	c. 3,840
Languages
various Mainly Wood Elven in Artaburro Local languages elsewhere: High Elven in Froturn, Wood Elven in Dragoc, Etrandish in Etrand, etc.
Religion
various Mainly Church of Titanius in Artaburro Local religions elsewhere: Church of Titanius in Froturn and Etrand, Cult of Nature in Dragoc, etc.

Half-Elves are products of interbreeding and subsequent hybridization between the various Elven races (High Elves, Wood Elves, Dark Elves) and Humans or Orcs (overlapping with Half-Orcs).

Half-Elves have a long lifespan (albeit not as long as that of true Elves), ageing roughly at fifth of the speed of humans after the age of eighteen, meaning that a 50 year old Dark Elf is biologically equivalent of a 24 year-old Human, a 100 years old Elf is essentially 33 years old, and so on. This extended lifespan however can be spent in agony and ostracism for many Half-Elves, as while attitudes towards mixed-species individuals may have grown more relaxed compared to the last six centuries, they still can't quite fit in within either Human or Elven societies - hence why they founded the Principality of Artaburro in the aftermath of the Exodus of the Half-Breeds.

Humans and elves sometimes marry and crossbreed - a human is typicaly attracted by the elf's beauty, while the elf may be attracted by the energeticism and eagerness of the human. Tragically, these marriages are always short-lived by elven standards, due to the obvious differences in lifespan: however, the fruit of the marriage, the Half-Elven offspring still remains. Prior to the foundation of Artaburro, the childhoods of half-Elves tend to be sad and tragic: unable to fit in within either Human or Elven society - too isolated, emotional and sensitive for humans; too energetic, impatient and hyperactive for elves. Prior to the Exodus of the Half-Breeds, the best they could do was to keep their heads down. In fact, this problem with integration still exists today, as there are still a large number of Half-Elves who insist on living in the Human Etrand, the High Elven Froturn or the Wood Elven Dragoc rather than the Half-Elven Artaburro.

It is also important to know that the intermediary state between an Elf and a Human/Orc is an unstable one, hence when Half-Elves breed with other races, the other race tends to dominate the offspring's genetical expressions:

• When two Half-Elves breed, the end result tends to be another Half-Elf, albeit (due to the fact that the intermediary state is unstable) two Half-Elves somehow breeding a full elf or human isn't unheard of either.
• When a Half-Elf and a full-Elf breed, the end result is always, without exceptions, an Elf.
• When a Half-Elf and a Human breed, the end result is always, without exceptions, a Human (although some elven traits may still surface, such as slightly pointier ears and tendency towards old-age depression).
• When an Orc-Elf hybrid breed, the end result is always, without exception an Orc.

Native populations

Human-Elf hybrids

Elf-Orc hybrids

Artaburro

See also: Demographics of Artaburro#Race

Half-Elven diaspora

Dragoc

See also: Demographics of Dragoc#Race

Etrand

See also: Demographics of Etrand#Race

Etrancoast

See also: Demographics of Etrancoast#Race

Neressa

See also: Demographics of Neressa#Race

Froturn

See also: Demographics of Froturn#Race

Gabyr and Keldorn

See also: Demographics of Gabyr#Race

See also: Demographics of Keldorn#Race

Attributes (FRPG)

Enabled aligment: any

	Minimum	Maximum
Strength	8	18
Agility	8	18
Intelligence	8	18
Wisdom	8	18
Endurance	8	18
Charisma	8	18