Ember Elves

Hidden from everyone's eyes, the ember elves, or Arsorians, live in caverns underneath Mount Hotenow. It is located in the north-east of the city of Neverwinter. Their people are made up of crafters that equal dwarves in skill. The ember elves have no relations with other elves due to their reclusive nature.

Ember elves look similar to the drow, but do not share their affinity to evil, and don fiery red hair instead of the pale white shades of their underdark cousins. Ember elves tend toward the neutral alignment, not sharing interest in the world and focusing on their work instead. They do not feel emotions, and give off a very distant impression for those who never heard of these rare elven master crafters.

They are the descendants of Darahl Tilvenar and worship him as well as Correlon. They wield a resistance to the furnace's fires and are master crafters of weapons, armor, potions and jewellery.

Ember Elf Traits

Your ember elf character has certain traits in common with all other ember elves.

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Ignatious Resistance. You have resistance to fire damage.

Tool Proficiency. You have proficiency with the artisan's tools of your choice: smith's tools, glassblower' tools or jeweler's tools

Languages. You can speak, read and write Ignan.

Arsorian Crafter:

The ember elves are not well known in any regard, largely keeping to themselves. To them, measure in skill is what makes you stand out. For years, you laboured under your master of the craft, enduring long hours and unaffectionate treatment in order to gain the fine skills you possess today. What made you leave your home is concerning, however, seeing as ember elves almost never leave the tunnels they are born, live and die in. You might seem unappeasable and unlikeable, but given time, you may just learn to understand the emotions of those around you, and learn to find interest in things outside of crafting a perfect sword.

Restriction: Ember Elves Only

Skill Proficiencies: History, Performance

History, Performance Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan's tools

One type of artisan's tools Languages: Ignan

Ignan Equipment: A set of artisan's tools with which you are proficient, a maker's mark chisel used to mark your handiwork with the symbol of the clan of Arsorians you learned your skill from, a set of elven blacksmith's clothing and an apron, scrap metal (20lbs), a pouch containting 5gp and a gem worth 10gp

Feature: Arsorian Mastery

You have mastered your craft, and not without effort. You know your way around the furnace's tools, and have practised many years to learn how to make artifacts of great skill. You may repair and craft elven weapons and armor at half the time it would normally take.

Suggested Characteristics

Use the tables for the guild artisan background in the Player's Handbook as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifiying the entries when appropriate to suit your identity as an Arsorian Crafter. Your bond is almost certainly related to the master or the clan that taught you, or else to the work that you produce. Your ideal might have something to do with maintaining the high qualitiy of your work or preserving the Arsorian traditions of craftsmanship.