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Five_X
Acolyte
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 Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 16:39:01
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I'm doing research for a novel I want to write, and I was wondering, what would a planetouched that was part moon elf instead of human be called? This has been bugging me for a while!
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 17:51:31
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Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
Feytouched, I'd say.
That's a Prestige Class in the book Faeries. 
Me, I'd say what our planetouched moon elf would be called would depend on what the planar race was. |
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Knight of the Gate
Senior Scribe
USA
624 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 18:09:56
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Hawkins
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 18:36:38
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| I would stick with "Planetouched." Since both Moon Elves and Humans have the Humanoid type. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 18:45:51
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Originally posted by Knight of the Gate
Aren't they called Celadrin?
Celadrin are a particular breed, indeed. They are elf/eladrin crossbreeds. They typically live among gold elves, though, and resemble them. In the Realms, they are considered gold elves for what they can play with.
They are detailed in "Legacies of Ancient Empires" in Dragon 350, an article written by Eric L. Boyd.
Many years before Eric's article, Sean K Reynolds did something similar on his website: the Eladree template.
Anyway, though, we're looking at a moon elf, here, and we don't know what the celestial parent was. So I don't think celadrin are an appropriate choice.
There's a 3rd-party book called Children of the Planes that presents a lot of variant planetouched. They also did the elf/bralani thing SKR did in his template, but took it in a slightly different direction.
The same book also has a succubus/elf crossbreed, but I'm thinking they'd serve better as NPCs than PCs.
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 20:22:43
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| Just wanted to say originally, in Planescape, aasimar and tieflings didn't have to be descended from humans. Any human/demihuman blood still made you an aasimar or tiefling. Why Wizards decided to change that to human only, mostly, in 3e I never understood. |
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Five_X
Acolyte
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Posted - 27 Mar 2009 : 22:23:49
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| Thanks! I'll probably just classify the character as an aasimar to make things simpler. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 28 Mar 2009 : 02:05:59
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Celadrin is the proper term.
When Eladrin were still Outsiders (not High Elves), a mix of them and Elf would have been Celadrin, ergo that should still be the term for such a Celestial/Elf crossbreed, even though Eladrin themselves have been retconned.
Until we have lore that says otherwise..... |
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Calmar
Acolyte
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 00:11:59
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| I guess it would be a bit easier if you wanted that character for an actual game. In that case I'd suggest simply using the aasimar traits as a template and apply them to an elf... |
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Shemmy
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 02:01:56
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| I'd go with aasimar. In fact I specifically recall there being an aasimar of largely elven descent back in Planescape. |
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 02:05:36
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Originally posted by Shemmy
I'd go with aasimar. In fact I specifically recall there being an aasimar of largely elven descent back in Planescape.
Echo. :) Thought someone said that earlier... cough. Grin. |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
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Posted - 31 Mar 2009 : 16:29:15
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| Even without the prior knowledge about planescape, I have used both aasimar and tieflings stats as elves of celestial and fiendish descent (respectively). |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 05 Apr 2009 : 15:40:13
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| I like eladree over celadrin (but wish there were more such articles) |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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Posted - 05 Apr 2009 : 16:56:58
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| A Celadrin would simply be a sub-group of aasimar, just as a Cambion is a sub-type of Tiefling (direct lineage as opposed to 'Fiend-blooded'). |
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