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Races of Faerun wrote:
Common Half-Elves

Common half-elves are descended from humans and moon elves, sun elves, wild elves, or wood elves. While these people can be found all over Faerun, this section describes the half-elf culture of Aglarond, the land where the largest number of common half-elves live.
Common half-elves blend human and elven features, influenced by the subrace of their elven parent and the ethnicity of their human parent. Moon half-elves have pale skin tinged bluish around the ears and chin, framing their lower faces. Sun half-elves have bronzed skin, and hair of gold. Wild half-elves have brown skin. Wood half-elves have coppery skin tinged with green highlights.
Most common half-elves are a bit distant, used to being cast in the role of outsiders. In the Yuirwood, this isn't so: The half-elves make up the majority and have a long and proud history. Many half-elves come to the Yuirwood once they are old enough to leave home. Here, at last, is a place in which they can hope to be accepted.
Half-elves are more slender than humans, and more heavily built than elves. Since the elves of Faerun are taller and more sturdily built than the elves of other wolds, Faerunian half-elves are very close to human size and weight. Use the following random size and weight characteristics instead of the default half-elf values described on Table 6-6 of the Player's Handbook:

Half-elf, male 4'10" +2d10 110 lb. X(2d4) lb.
Half-elf, female 4'5" +2d10 80 lb. X(2d4) lb.

Races of Faerun wrote:
Half-Aquatic Elves

Regions: Aglarond, Dragon Coast, Impiltur, Sembia, Vilhon Reach.
Racial Feats: Water Adaptation.

Half-aquatic elves have no real society of their own. Born of human and sea elf blood, they are extremely rare, since sea elves rarely venture into human lands. Normally they live alone or in small groups along the shore, or they simply take up life in a human coastal community.
Half-aquatic elves have pale green skin. Their hair can be any human color, but it usually has a faint green or blue cast to it. As they age, their hair becomes blue-silver. They have slight webbing between their fingers and toes, making them excellent swimmers.
Although they cannot breath water like their aquatic elf ancestors, half-aquatic elves feel drawn to the sea. If they seem distant or aloof, it's not because they're ignoring someone on purpose. They're always listening to the roar of the nearby surf, or imagining its sound if they travel far from the sea.
Half aquatic-elves reach the age of maturity at 20 years old and can live to be over 180 years in age. Since aquatic elves are larger and heavier than most elves, half-aquatic elves have the same height and weight characteristics as a full-blooded human.

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Half-Drow

Regions: Dambrath, Elf (drow), Half-drow, the North.
Racial Feats: Drow Eyes.

In most lands, half-drow are rare. Since so many drow are irredeemably evil, they only mate with humans by way of rape or slavery. The only exception are the half-drow of the land of Dambrath in the Shining South, who arise from the centuries-old drow subjugation of the human folk of that land.
Half-drow have dusky skin, silver or white hair, and a broad range of eye colors. They are often just as dark-hearted as their elven parents, but with a bitter resentment that comes from knowing that they are considered second-class members of drow society. In human society, half-drow are distrusted nearly as much as their full-blooded cousins. Despite this, good half-drow are much less rare than good drow. Whether this has to do with the influence of their human blood, or the desire to rebel against the drow who treat them so poorly, is difficult to tell.
Half-drow use the same age categories as other half-elves. They use the standard half-elven height and weight entries from Table 6-6 in the Player's Handbook.