Elvaan

The race that benefited most from the end of tarutaru monopoly of magic was the elvaan of San d'ria. Having
formed two incredibly fearless orders of knights, the elvaans subjugated just about the whole of the Quon
continent. They destroyed beastmen strongholds, and tarutaru villages were no match for the San d'ria knights
anyhow. Sadly for them, the flood of victories came to an end when the hume and the galka of Bastok combined
their strength and technology against them in the second battle of Konschtat. Defeated, the proud Elvaan
kingdom was unable to not bear the humiliation in peace. The result was internal turmoil and civil war.
Gradually, the conquered lands slipped away from their rule as well, and the elvaans retreated to San d'ria. A
strong sense of faith and pride means that the elvaans are essentially an aristocratic race. The elvaan trait of firm
belief makes them admirable models of faith. Not only do they stay clear of questionable activities, they take
great pride in their race as well. Both male and female elvaans are known to be swordsmen of the highest order
because of their strength of mind and vitality. Close to the hume in their looks, the elvaans usually shun the
world of commerce preferring to live by the sword. Physically and mentally, the elvaans are suited to for
combat roles.

Elvaan Racial Traits

• Ability Score Racial Traits: Elvaan are very wise and physically strong, but aren't very graceful
compared to other races. They gain +2 Wisdom, +2 Strength, and -2 Dexterity.
• Size: Elvaans are Medium creatures and thus receive no bonuses or penalties due to their size.
• Type: Elvaans are Humanoids with the elvaan subtype.
• Base Speed: Elvaans have a base speed of 30 feet.
• Languages: Elvaans begin play speaking Common and Elvaan. Elvaans with high Intelligence scores
can choose from the following: Celestial, Draconic, Galkan, Goblin, Lalafellan, Mithran, and Orc. See
the Linguistics skill page for more information about these languages.

Defense Racial Traits

• Fearless: Elvaans gain a +2 racial bonus on all saving throws against fear effects.

Feat and Skill Racial Traits

• Keen Senses: Elvaans receive a +2 racial bonus on Perception checks.

• Martial Background: Elvaans receives the Weapon Focus feat for free at first level, and may apply it to
any single weapon he is proficient in.
• Noble Upbringing: Elvaans take great pride in their history, culture, and government. They receive a +2
bonus on Knowledge (nobility) and Knowledge (history) checks and treat these skills as class skills.

Offense Racial Traits

• Gatecrasher: Elvaans gain a +2 racial bonus on Strength checks to break objects and a +2 racial bonus
on combat maneuver checks to sunder.
• Hatred: Elvaans receive a +1 bonus on attack rolls against humanoid creatures of the orc and goblin
subtypes due to special training against these hated foes.
• Weapon Familiarity: Elvaans are proficient with longbows (including composite longbows),
longswords, rapiers, and shortbows (including composite shortbows).

Senses Racial Traits

 • Low-light Vision: An elvaan can see twice as far as a hume in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and
similar conditions of poor illumination. He retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these
conditions.

Alternate Racial Traits

The following alternate racial traits may be selected in place of one or more of the standard racial traits above.
Consult your GM before selecting any of these new options.

• Arcane Focus: Some elvaan families have such long traditions of producing mages (and other
spellcasters) that they raise their children with the assumption each is destined to be a powerful magic-
user, with little need for mundane concerns such as skill with weapons. Elvaans with this racial trait gain
a +2 racial bonus on concentration checks made to cast spells defensively. This racial trait replaces
weapon familiarity.
• Darkvision: Though uncommon, some groups of elvaans are born with darkvision, rather than low-light
vision. Elvaans with this racial trait gain darkvision with a range of 60 feet, but also gain sensitivity to
light and are dazzled in areas of bright light or within the radius of a daylight spell. This racial trait
replaces low-light vision.
• Desert Runner: Some elvaans thrive in the deepest deserts, forever roaming across burned and parched
lands. Elvaans with this racial trait receive a +4 racial bonus on Constitution checks and Fortitude saves
to avoid fatigue, exhaustion, or ill effects from running, forced marches, starvation, thirst, or hot or cold
environments. This racial trait replaces noble upbringing.
• Elemental Resistance: Elvaans who dwell in the most extreme environments, from arctic wastelands to
volcanic plains, develop natural resistance to the dangers of their homelands over the course of a few
generations. Elvaans with this racial trait gain elemental resistance 5 to earth, fire, ice, lighting, water, or
wind. This choice is made at character creation, and once made it cannot be changed. This racial trait
replaces martial background.
• Fleet-Footed: While all elvaans are naturally lithe and agile, some also are naturally speedy and have a
strong desire to rush into situations rather than worrying about looking ahead. Elvaans with this racial
trait receive Run as a bonus feat and a +2 racial bonus on initiative checks. This racial trait replaces
noble upbringing and martial background.
• Illusion Resistance: Elvaans are normally fearless in battle, though some of their kind train specifically
against the effects of illusionists. Elvaans gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws against illusion spells
or effects. This racial trait replaces fearless.
• Long-Limbed: Elvaans with this racial trait have a base move speed of 35 feet. This racial trait replaces
weapon familiarity.
• Resistant: Spending years training their mind against the invasion of other’s influences, an elvaan
protects all aspects of themselves during combat. Elvaans gain a +2 racial bonus on saving throws
against mind-affecting effects and poison. This racial trait replaces gatecrasher.
• Slender: Elvaans often appear unnaturally thin by other races’ standards. Elvaans with this trait gain a
+2 racial bonus on Escape Artist checks, on combat maneuver checks to escape a grapple, and to CMD
against grapples. This racial trait replaces weapon familiarity.
• Spirit of the Waters: Some elvaans have adapted to life in tune with the sea or along the reedy depths
of wild rivers and lakes. They gain a +4 racial bonus on Swim checks, can always take 10 while
swimming, and may choose Aquan as a bonus language. They are proficient with longspear, trident, and
net. This racial trait replaces noble upbringing and weapon familiarity.
• Urbanite: Elvaans who live in cities for more than a century can grow to know the ebb and flow of
social situations just as their forest-dwelling cousins know the rules of the wild. Elvaans with this racial
trait gain a +2 racial bonus on Diplomacy checks made to gather information and Sense Motive checks
made to get a hunch about a social situation. This racial trait replaces keen senses.
Variant Elvaan Heritages

Although many elvaans follow the general model of the standard elvaan, many more do not. Those of different
lineages may evince dramatically different manifestations of their heritage, both in appearance and in ability.
Here are 4 different potential heritages for elvaan PCs. If you choose to use a specific bloodline instead of the
general rules for creating an elvaan, you should work with your GM to ensure that your character’s appearance
reflects that bloodline.

• Alternate Ability: While most elvaans focuses their hatred for orcs and goblins, those of the variant
heritages listed below gain a different ability.

Table 2-1: Variant Elvaan Heritages

Ability
Heritage Alternate Ability Description
Modifiers
+2 Str, +2 Whenever characters with this trait Duskwight Elvaan have spent decades
Int, -2 Cha benefit from concealment or full in the peace and seclusion of various
concealment due to darkness or dim caves and caverns, resulting in acute
Duskwight
light, they gain a +2 racial bonus on senses one would expect from living in
Intimidate, Perception, and Stealth the darkness.
checks.
+2 Str, +2 +1 bonus on attack rolls against As a result of long decades of ceaseless
Cha, -2 Wis humanoid creatures of the elvaan warfare with the Dravanian Horde, the
and draconic subtypes due to special intensity of the faith of the Church of
Ishgardian training against these hated foes. Halone, and years of bitter cold and
snow, Ishgardian Elvaans tend to be
much more intense compared to their
brethren, and much more devoted.
+2 Str, +2 Once per day, when an elvaan is San d'Orian Elvaan developed an
Wis, -2 Int brought below 0 hit points but not unrivaled order of knights, powerful
killed, he can fight on for 1 more enough to conquer various lands before
San d'Orian round as if disabled. At the end of them.
his next turn, unless brought to
above 0 hit points, he immediately
falls unconscious and begins dying.
+2 Dex, +2 +1 racial bonus to Knowledge Wildwood Elvaan have lived in the
Int, -2 Str (Nature) and Survival checks. safety of vast lush forests, and as such,
Wildwood
have an instinctive knowledge of the
greenery that surrounds them.

Racial Feats

The following feats are available to an elvaan character who meets the prerequisites.

• Discerning Eye
• Elvaan Battle Training
• Shared Insight
• Shared Manipulation
• Sociable

Racial Archetypes
The following racial archetypes are available to elvaans:

• Keeper (Astrologian; Elvaan)

• Spell Dancer (Red Mage; Elvaan)
• Treesinger (Druid; Elvaan)

Favored Class Options

The following favored class options are available to all characters of this race who have the listed favored class,
and unless otherwise stated, the bonus applies each time you select the favored class reward.

• Archer: Add +1/3 bonus to the archer’s Aim bonus for attack and damage rolls.
• Astrologian: Add +1/6 to the bonus of the astrologian’s draw ability.
• Bard: Add +1 to the bard's CMD when resisting a disarm or sunder attempt.
• Beastmaster: Add +1 to the beastmaster's base speed. In combat this option has no effect unless the
beastmaster has selected it five times (or another increment of five). This bonus stacks with the
beastmaster's movement increases.
• Berserker: Add +1 to the berserker’s base speed. In combat this option has no effect unless the
berserker has selected it five times (or another increment of five). This bonus stacks with the berserker’s
movement increases.
• Black Belt: Add 1 foot to the black belt's base speed. In combat, this has an effect only for every five
increases in the black belt's base speed.
• Black Mage: Add +1/2 point of earth damage to spells that deal earth damage cast by the black mage.
• Blue Mage: Add +1/6 bonus to Knowledge (all) skill checks.
• Chemist: Add +1 foot to the range increment of the chemist’s thrown splash weapons (including the
chemist’s bombs). This option has no effect unless the chemist has selected it 5 times (or another
increment of 5); a range increment of 24 feet is effectively the same as a range increment of 20 feet, for
example.
• Chocobo Knight: Add +1 hit point to the chocobo knight's mount. If the chocobo knight ever replaces
his mount, the new mount gains these bonus hit points.
• Cleric: Add one spell known from the cleric’s spell list. This spell must be at least one level below the
highest-level spell the cleric can cast.
• Dancer: Add +1/6 to the bonus granted by the AC bonus class feature.
• Dark Knight: Add +1/4 to the number of defiles the dark knight can inflict.
• Dragoon: Add +1/2 bonus to Acrobatic skill checks for jumping.
• Druid: Add +1/3 to the druid’s natural armor bonus when using wild shape.
• Engineer: Add +1/2 bonus to Craft skill checks.
• Fencer: Increase the total number of points in the fencer’s panache pool by 1/4.
• Fighter: Add +1 to the fighter's CMD when resisting a disarm or sunder attempt.
• Freelancer: Add +1 JP to the freelancer's JP pool. This has no effect unless the freelancer has selected
this reward ten times.
• Gambler: Add +1/4 to the gambler’s luck pool.
• Geomancer: Add +1/2 bonus on Knowledge (nature) skill checks.
• Gunbreaker: Add +1/4 to the number of uses for the aurora ability.
• Gunner: Add +1/3 on critical hit confirmation rolls made with firearms (maximum bonus of +5). This
bonus does not stack with Critical Focus feat.
• Holy Knight: Add +1/2 hit point to the holy knight's lay on hands ability (whether using it to heal or
harm).
• Illusionist: Add +1/2 bonus on Bluff skill checks.
• Knight: Add +1/6 shield bonus to armor class while the knight uses any shield.
• Medic: Gain +1-foot bonus to movement speed when using triage. In combat, this option has no effect
unless the medic has selected it five times (or another increment of five).
• Monk: Add +1 to the monk's CMD when resisting a grapple and +1/2 to the number of stunning fists he
can attempt per day.
• Necromancer: Add +1 hit point or +1 skill rank to the necromancer's bone commander. If the
necromancer ever replaces his bone commander, the new bone commander gains these bonus hit points
or skill ranks.
• Ninja: Gain +1/3 on all Acrobatics, Climb, and Stealth checks in forested areas.
• Red Mage: The red mage gains 1/6 of a new ruby arcana.
• Samurai: Add +1/6 to the DC of Bushidos.
• Scholar: Increase total number of points in the scholar's arcane reservoir by 1.
• Summoner: The amount of time the summoner must spend to summon his avatar is reduced by 1 round,
to a minimum of 1 round.
• Sword Saint: The sword saint gains 1/6 of a new swordskill.
• Thief: Add +1/3 on critical hit confirmation rolls made while using sneak attack (maximum bonus of
+5). This does not stack with the Critical Focus feat.
• Time Mage: Add +1/2 mote per day. (One additional mote for every two times you select this option.)
• White Mage: Add +1/2 hit point to the white mage's lay on hands ability (whether using it to heal or
harm).