
You can speak, read, and write Common and Celestial. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it. Once you use this trait, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest. As an action, you can touch a creature and cause it to regain a number of hit points equal to your level. You have resistance to necrotic damage and radiant damage. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.Ĭelestial Resistance. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. Blessed with a radiant soul, your vision can easily cut through darkness. Aasimar have the same range of height and weight as humans.ĭarkvision.

Outcast aasimar are most often neutral or even evil. Imbued with celestial power, most aasimar are good. Aasimar mature at the same rate as humans, but they can live up to 160 years.Īlignment. The bright elf is one of two new racial options that enable players to build non-aasimar characters with racial resistance to radiant damage.Age. The “Beyond” part of the compendium’s title refers to all the themes that aren’t included in the four elements, whether that’s styles of magic such as plant spells or shielding spells or damage types like acid or radiant damage, so the compendium includes a number of new races that focus on these themes. Most of these are focused on one element or pseudo-element. The upcoming compendium The Elements and Beyond contains a number of new races and subraces alike, including the Bright Elf.


Bright Elves were designed to fill a void that was defined by Tolkien himself: elves that are connected to the light and song of creation itself. While this matters for most worlds, for some, the distinction is largely immaterial. They are humanoids and celestials and they also are basically half-fey. Since they still have the elven Fey Ancestry trait and also the Celestial Nature trait, the bright elves have a complicated legacy. In many worlds, however, the bright elves simply have exacerbated the natural elven aloofness and now live in their golden towers and gleaming cities without any inferior races to dim the great light of their unified civilization. Bright elves are a new subrace for elves intended to give players an option for radiant damage resistance, an option for a more celestial and cosmic-feeling elf subrace, and an option to just feel like you’re in one of the lens-flare elf scenes from the Lord of the Rings movies! In some worlds, these elves are authoritarian and prejudiced, seeking to isolate themselves from the other elves and humanoids or even, sometimes, to dominate and command them as lessers.
