What They Don't Tell You About Half-Elves - D&D 

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Honestly, learning that gnomes are rarer than gnolls in the Forgotten Realms was the real twist of this video.

"There are no cities, no settlements of this kind at all" Brb, making an entirely Half-Sea Elf pirate ship plundering the deep b/c father issues.

The second part of this video should be coming out, hopefully, by Tuesday or so. The rest of the Forgotten Realms timeline series are already scripted, so they should be coming out pretty fast as well. Then I am thinking we should go back to doing dragons! Thinking about doing Themberchaud :O

For those half-elf numbers to make scene I think you would have to consider anyone with both elven and human blood a half-elf. Like second generations, or the unions between two half elves. That or those blended families are pumping out a crap ton of kids

I can't get enough of your deep dive videos! Knowing ALL the lore between editions makes it so much easier to weave a tale and have fun moments you couldn't if you just went by 5th edition lore.

I always thought it would be interesting to have a campaign where you discover a dingy town where the people are strangely taller and weirder as its revealed the town used to be an old meeting place for human and elf traders and theyre so intermixed its almost nonexistent except for ancient customs

I kept expecting you to mention Eberron. I know you focus on Forgotten Realms, but Eberron has some cool lore about Half Elves. There they're recognized as their own people, and most half elves have to go back multiple generations before you get to their non-half-elven ancestors. Half Elves on Eberron have their own culture and are called Khoravar, after the main continent of Khorvaire.

Dang. Hope you get better soon. I was really hoping to get some lore about the afterlife of Half-elves, due to humanoids and Elves having entirely different instances after death, with elves essentially being reincarnated, and humans moving on to the outer planes, the official rulings as far as I had heard was that the ruling elvish councils were suppressing the information of what actually happens to them after death. (Although an old spell cast by a Jergalli cleric would be able to immediately tell the location of a soul's final resting place). Sadly the spell never made it to 5e, and Jergal has slowly sunk into obscurity

I make half elves as infertile in my games. It adds drama, gives lore for why everyone's not elf-human mutts and nerfs them in a way. I also cut dark vision from elves. I basically give it to only subterranean races.

Hope you feel better soon, man. I always look forward to hearing more of your contents.

My first character that I created in D&D was a half-elf of the sea elf variant. At first I had only planned for it to be a normal half-elf. But my DM did allow it to be a half sea-elf. Seeing how my character did come from a tribe of pearl divers. That spend lot of time diving and being underwater

8:21 This art reminds me of a half sea elf character I once had in 3.5 that was a sorcerer with her octopus familiar, Urgl'Gurgl.

You make amazing content that has brought me many hours of joy. You creativity and curiosity is absolutely inspiring. Thank you Mr. Rexx.

14:49 Nice. Also fitting for (due to human propensity for producing hybrid offspring with other humanoids) what one commentor suggested humanity be called in such settings, Slutfolk.

I always love your videos! Learning more about the forgotten realms is fun, and itès enjoyable to see the level of detail that appeared after years of development! It's inspiring

Great video as always, sorry to hear you're sick. I hope you get well soon and I can't wait to see the next part. It's definitely interesting to see how each race fits in, numbers wise. Definitely gives you something to add in when creating a character in D&D. Keep up the good work and get well soon

Get better soon! Love the content. Excited for the sands of doom!

Take all the time you need, hope you feel better soon. Thank you for introducing me to D&D

All the best for your recovery and thank you for still putting out the video

Wizards of the Coast is gonna send Pinkerton thugs to bully Mr Rhexx sooner or later

Deepingdale could be considered a homeland for Half Elves too I think. After the retreat and before the re-founding of Myth Dranor many thousands of elves lived in Deepingdale and the most recent canon leaders of Deepingdale were almost all half elven. After the Shade War a lot of Myth Dranor elves ended up in Deepingdale again as refugeess and settlers.

Thanks for the video!! I love playing different races especially the spicy half drow. Please take your time getting better! Thanks again!

They also don't tell you that anything can mate with an elf and produce a half elf. From dragons and orcs to giants and pixies. everything goes. They mainly don't tell you this for game balance though, because having everything from the half-orc and everything from the half-elf in one character would be seriously broken...it would be biologically sound and very fun though.

Hope you feel better soon! Thank you for the video!

Get better soon Master Rhexx !!! Blessings! Keep up the great work. Regards from Tabasco, México [Land of The Olmecs]!

👍👍 really enjoyed this one and hearing all the population numbers! Rest and heal, dude 👍😊

The problem with the Gnome population is that, their "main" homeland is Lantan (I don't know if you counted that). And their are mostly below 1% but everywhere, so there are more gnomes out there, but they are very sparsely settled. And, a trivia about Dambrath - the Crinti (their half drows) were not just "Half Drows". They were descendants of half elven clergy of Loviatar, that were betrayed by human barbarians and formed the alliance with drows of the Underdark. After the years of intermingling with drows, they became the matriarchial Lawful Neutral/Lawful Evil theocracy with the church of Loviatar integrated into the structures of power. And they liked mingling with their human underlings so much, that you were considered "Crinti" if you were 1/16 drow, which meant that you could have looked just as typical human but still be considered a Crinti noble.

Feel better brother, we love your work, and it is worth the wait.

Hey MrRhexx, Thank you again for that video, it's always a pleasure to hear about the DND lore. I hope you will recover fast :) Can't wait to see the next video ! Bye !

Get well, we can always wait for your amazing videos.

Get better soon brother, your videos make DnD comes to life.

Great video, hope you're feeling better soon.

My favorite in the , , "RPG" sub genre of Fantasy /Isekai is Spider , It has a very interesting explanation as to WHY the world works with RPG logic , and how it got to where it is . (though , its also both a survival AND MYSTERY story , so i wont go into detail for the sake of the latter .) But i will say , it becomes more Politics / Mystery as it progresses

Always happy for a new video. You're the only RU-vidr I have notifications turned on.

Feel better! I love these videos!

Get better soon man. Thanks for the video

Keep up the amazing work my friend love your channel and all the videos I know it’s only forgotten realms I would love to see any lore on dark sun you would have

Take care Rhexx. You are my bible in Forgotten realm content and I'll be waiting for the 2nd part of the half elf, as well as the 3rd part of the Faerun history for as long as it take. Be well.

Loving your vids as always

Great thx and take care of you, good luck on returning to health.

Damn, I hope this doesn't come off as insensitive at all-and I really do hope you heal up-but your sick voice sounds kind of awesome 😅

Take care of yourself! Rest up for as long as you need. We'll be here when you're feeling better!

Huh, aasimar ranger sounds fun to try~ Oh, actually I have a backup character that is, mechanically, a half drow from a loving union. This because the character they are backing up is the olderest brother, a full drow born on the surface world. The story there is that the full drow mother, while pregnant, escaped the underdark for whatever reason (she’s never revealed this to her children at least). She gave birth to her son, my current character and raised him as a single mother for a time before she met a half moon-elf ranger man. The two fell in love and eventually married. This man became my character’s step father and his father of his heart. It’s a very loving father-son bond between them and my character even took up ranger skills from what his step-father taught him. Anyway, this union is obviously a loving one so my character has three younger siblings, all at least half drow and a quarter moon elf and quarter human. I figured half elf drow is the best route mechanically for these characters. So yeah, my main character is a full drow, but the backup characters are his three sisters who are half drow. As for why I made back up characters…uh well, the campaign is supposed to be a deadly one so I kinda was told to have one. I have updated their reason for joining the party in the event of their elder brother’s death with each session and combat to accommodate. So yeah, half drow from a loving union might be rare, but in the case of mine, I feel it makes sense because they are an isolated family and have been well established in existence for the canon of my particular table I play at. That’s my story at least. I’d love to hear other people’s on their half drow from a loving union. As for why my drow and half drow don’t have to fight to be nice, it’s because it’s well established that my drow is a worshiper of Eilistraee and is taught to be by his family, meaning his mother. So, with her protection his family has little need for it.

That’s so much math! Thanks for doing it for me!! Big fan of the channel! 15:02

Thanks for the lore and demographics! ^^

condolences to you . Hope you heal quickly

Hope you feel better ASAP!

Hope you get well soon! Thank you for all the awesome videos! Always looking forward to your releases!

Love your content!!! Get well soon!!!

Rhexx… Let me say, I very much enjoy not just your video, but the subtle nose thumb at the villainous rights holders. Ty

Kinda surprised you left out the Avariel, or Winged Elves. Especially since you covered Drow and Sea Elves. In any case, hope you feel better.

Feel better soon!

Hope you feel better soon. Take care of yourself.

Back when the Forgotten Realms Boxed Set (AD&D 2ND Edition) came out in the 1990's, Aglarond was considered the "Land of the Half-Elves" as that region had the highest number of H-E at the time. As those sections were left open to players to develop (at the time), I had made it the "Official" Home of all Half-Elves in my campaign. But, things change.

Thank you for talking about this with reasonable sensitivity, frankness, and good research. You do good work, mate.

Didn't know a lich can get sick. Joke aside, rest well Mr Rhexx, and thanks for yet another great video.

Thank you soo much I love your videos

I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you for the audiobook recommendation. I would love it if you recommend it more RPG like audiobooks finding good quality ones are really hard to fine. I’ve listen to so many of them and a lot of them just aren’t good but I listen anyway so if anyone can recommend any, please do so

get well bro amazing video

get well soon. take care bro. looking forward to the new videos

Great video, not many people give so much information with a consistently high production value. Good luck in the future but I can't have anything to do with D&D as long as it is owned by WOTC/Hasbro.

Love your content! They’ve been helping me greatly as I try to write my own campaign. Any chance you’ll be willing to do the mighty phoenix?

Get well! Great video

Surprised about the gnome numbers. They have been a favorite lineage since reading "Races of Stone" 3.5 book

I'd love for you to do a video on the lore of Ehlonna, there doesn't seem to be much covering her online

Get better soon! ❤

ALWAYS AMAZING!!

The only D&D novel series I have finished reading took a trip to the Sildëyuir. Interesting place.

On Half Drow, I am not sure why Eilistraee doesn’t seem to have sizable worshippers-especially born among them since Eilistraee Drows would marry humans to prove coexistence between Drows and surface people.

Get well soon!!!

Get well soon, bro!

Love the video!

I' was surprised one DND has gotten rid of half elves as a distinctive race. But now after hearing how popular the race is with the player base I just can't understand what they are thinking.

Feel better soon bro

Thanks for this.

Get well soon!

Feel better!

get well soon!

Get well soon! You sound like you got some gifts of nurgle!

Feel better soon king

I got a Half-Elven Ranger that looks like Tanis. He's got a twin that's a fighter.

No worries about being ill brother, get some rest, and get well soon!

Get well soon bro 🙏

Get well soon! 🧝‍♂️🧝🏾‍♀️

Man missed this..now to watch

Best DnD content in RU-vid.

Overlord? On your channel? Thank you sir!

I guess it's not canonical for any official setting, but in our game world humans and wood elves are in a historically complicated relationship, and there is no strict line between humans and elves; half-elf is just one who happened to be born as not really a human and not really an elf. I don't know if somebody ever did this, but by how it is explained, I assume among the group of full-blood siblings, some may be considered humans, some - half-elves, and some elves, while they all will probably have a comparable life expectancy. But half-high elves are just kids of humans and high elves, and they are pretty rare because high elf needs to remove a stick from a certain part of their body to engage with somebody who isn't from their country (-and then they wonder why they are all relatives and suffer from genetic diseases outbreak-). Other elves aren't a thing (DM continues claiming that drows exist, but there is no information about them, and nobody has ever seen them; Youan-ti are elves for whatever reason, but there are not enough of them to talk about half-elves).

Rest well; no worries for the part 2 delay.

Art looks good Truly

Note that we don't have numbers for Lantan wich is mainly populated by gnomes and a race of humans called Lantanna. The first sundering killed alot of them when they were sent to Abeir, but sources state that after the Second Sundering, they came back and their steamships started to roam de seas again... As for half-elves on Evermett, the Last Mythal novel trilogy has one of the High Mages being a half-elf, but his presence seems to be an exception.

18:20 This makes me so happy!

great video, most modern fantasy tend to ignore how important to story telling race is to creating a wider world instead of what they tend to do and every village is diverse as every other place.

Get well soon mate.

Get better m8, God bless you for your video. Plz do magic schools/types, gem dragons, Seldior and Bahamut, and the Wisards of Thai

Damm one of my favorite races lets goooo

Get well soon, mr

Half-orcs have interesting settlement in First or seccond Sellswords book if i recall.