| K-kun the Insane |
I'm making a half-elf character with the True Breed feat and a hatred for all things Elven, and then a thought occured tome:
If he hates all things elven, he would never refer to himself as a half-elf, so what does he call himself? If he ever meets other true bred half-elves, what would he call them as a people?
I'm looking for ideas as all that's coming to me is Half-Human, and that term could also be applied to half-orcs, asimars, tieflings, etc. I'd like something unique that he could take pride in.
Please help me name this extremely rare race!
| Dave Justus |
He could of course call himself anything he wanted. What he is is a half-elf though, and having the true breed feat wouldn't change that (he could just as easily not have the true breed feat, still hate elves, and still choose not to call himself a half-elf.) I would expect most other half-elves, whether they have the true breed feat or not, would call themselves half elves and might not appreciate being called something else.
I wouldn't expect a character to 'know' in character that he has the 'true breed' feat, it wouldn't be something you could define easily from an in character perspective. For the most part, it would be just that a few magic items keyed to the parent races wouldn't work for him. Things like an enemy rangers favored enemy or a bane attack not working would be hard to perceive.
If he didn't want to call himself a human, or obviously couldn't pass as one, I could see him referring to himself as raceless or peopleless or something similar.
| Kazaan |
First correction, Aasimar, Tieflings, and other "planetouched" native outsiders aren't halfbreeds. By default, they are born a pair of completely normal Human parents. Halfbreeds of this type are accomplished through templates like Half-Celestial or Half-Fiend. But when you have a planar ancestor, it leaves an epigenetic "marker" that sort of rides, inert, along the genome and, without warning, spontaneously activates to cause what would have otherwise been a Human child to undergo a radical genetic change resulting in a native outsider born to a pair of Humans (or other pair of Humanoids).
Secondly, he could easily just identify himself as Human if he's actively denouncing his Elven heritage in particular. Sure, the True Breed feat means he doesn't mechanically count as Human either, but his personal view, affected by his repulsion of all things Elven, might have him claiming to be Human; maybe even more than Human if he sees himself as a Human that isn't vulnerable to things that normally target Humans specifically (eg. bane, favored enemy, etc). Humans, themselves, have enough morphological variance that physical differences might be easier to pass off; maybe take Pass For Human to emphasize this quality.