Half-Elf: Air-Touched

Lithe, graceful, and free-willed, it is said the Air-Touched are distant descendents of the firstmen, born only among those of human ancestry. Such births are rare, often skipping many generations, but they are always seen as signs of great import. Some societies treat the Touched with holy reverence while others consider them beasts to be hunted and feared. Whatever the case, they are almost always set apart from the rest of their kith and kin.

Favored Class: Rogue

Properties:
-2 Str
+2 Dex
+2 Int
-2 Wis
+2 AC vs Law
10% Immune to Cold
10% Immune to Electricity
25% Vulnerable to Magical Damage

Half-Elf: Nomad

The rugged, pale-eyed Elves known to the world as Nomads are said to never lay their heads in the same place twice. Calling themselves 'The Forgotten Ones' or 'Those Left Behind,' they pace restlessly across the lands in ones or twos in search of vengeance. Quick to anger and slow to heal, ill talk tends to follow in their wake.

Favored Class: Fighter

Properties:
+2 Str
-2 Dex
+2 Con
-2 Wis
-2 Cha
+1 Save vs Disease
+1 Save vs Death Magic
+1 Save vs Poison
75% Immune to Negative Energy
50% Vulnerable to Divine Damage
50% Vulnerable to Positive Energy
-1 Reflex Save
Immune to Cure Spells

Half-Elf: Peregrine

Surrounded by a nimbus of light wherever they go, Peregrines are often considered to be somehow either Angelic in origin or Angelic by nature. All the same, the jails of the land are often full of them, each one imprisoned for some crime of treason or passion or despair. It is said they love too fully, too impulsively, rarely able to see the wider consequences of their actions.

Favored Class: Paladin

Properties:
-2 Con
-2 Int
+2 Wis
+2 Cha
+2 AC vs Evil
25% Immune to Positive Energy
25% Vulnerable to Negative Energy
10% Vulnerable to Fire
Light: Dim (White)

Half-Elf: Shadow

The so-called Elves of the Shadow have come to dominate much of Elven society, especially in its urban centers. Quick-witted and decadent, they play out their countless intrigues against each other in the Elven courts, the other races serving as unwitting pawns in their endless gambit for power.

Favored Class: Wizard

Properties:
+2 Int
-2 Cha
+1 AC vs Good
25% Vulnerable to Positive Energy
10% Immune to Negative Energy
Darkvision
+2 Hide
+2 Move Silently

Half-Elf: Sylvan

Some Elves still linger in the ancient forests, holding fast to the old ways and the teachings of the firstmen. They are few in number, however, and the forests are but a ghost of their former selves. Leaders among the Sylvan Elves claim that the world is ending and that they will be there when it does.

Favored Class: Bard

Properties:
-2 Int
+2 Cha
+2 AC vs Elementals
50% Vulnerable to Fire
+4 Animal Empathy
Tracking

Half-Elf: Tainted

Considered sullen and devious by some, resourceful and far-thinking by others, few seem to agree on the nature and origins of the Tainted. Given the aura of red light that seems to follow them, some argue that they must be devilspawn or agents of Stygia. More rational voices, however, insist that they must be lingering vestiges from the time of the firstmen, much like their elemental brethren, the Touched.

Favored Class: Wizard

Properties:
+1 Str
-2 Con
+2 Int
-2 Cha
+2 AC vs Good
25% Immune to Negative Energy
25% Vulnerable to Positive Energy
10% Vulnerable to Cold
Light: Dim (Red)

Half-Elf: Water-Touched

Mysterious, enduring, and mercurial, it is said the Water-Touched are distant descendents of the firstmen, born only among those of human ancestry. Such births are rare, often skipping many generations, but they are always seen as signs of great import. Some societies treat the Touched with holy reverence while others consider them beasts to be hunted and feared. Whatever the case, they are almost always set apart from the rest of their kith and kin.

Favored Class: Paladin

Properties:
-2 Dex
+2 Con
-2 Int
+2 Cha
+2 AC vs Chaos
10% Immune to Acid
10% Immune to Fire
25% Vulnerable to Cold