Elf

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Once enslaved by humans, most elves have all but lost their culture, scrounging an impoverished living in the slums of human cities. Only the nomadic Dalish tribes still cling to their traditions, living by the bow and the rule of their old gods as they roam the ancient forests, welcome nowhere else. Elves can be warriors, rogues or mages.

Racial benefits: +2 Willpower, +2 magic

City Elves

“Alienages have existed for as long as humans have claimed elven lands, the shems taking the best for themselves and leaving us little. They say that Val Royeaux has ten thousand elves in a space no bigger than the market of Denerim, the walls so high that daylight doesn’t reach the vhenadahl until midday.

But even if we wait for the sun, we accept that the alienage can protect as much as it separates. We don’t have to live here, da’len. Sometimes a family thinks to stand among the shems. Perhaps they even find someone willing to sell them a house in the docks or the outskirts. They soon learn that money does not grant kinship, and many have lost everything to brigands while neighbors turned their backs. They return with eyes opened, or their shame dies in the paupers’ field.

Here we help each other to better the world we have, not try to reclaim shadows of Arlathan, if it ever existed. The flat-ears looking for more—or worse, what used to be—they’re stuck. They’ll never be human, and they’ve gone and thrown away being elven, too. So where does that leave them? Nowhere.”

---- Sarethia, Elder of the Gwaren Alienage.

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