Rockseer race

Race rockseer

• Alignment: neutral
• Stats: -2 to str, +3 to int, +4 to wis, +1 to dex
• Size: medium
• Classes: any, except anti-paladin, necromancer, druid, vampire, paladin
• Resistant: to charm
• Vulnerable: to wood
• Effects: infrared, sneak, pass_door

Rockseers are a race of elves living underground in stone caves. Their hair and skin have long lost all pigment, turning pale or grey like the surrounding rock. Over centuries of dwelling among stone, the cave elves developed interesting traits -- they learned to seep through rock and closed doors, or conversely to merge with the stone, gaining protection from piercing and slashing strikes, though at the cost of greatly slowing down and losing agility.

Over long centuries of seclusion they forgot Quenya, the tongue of the High Elves, and resolved to stay neutral in the elves' quarrels with Evil. In return they preserved resistance to charm and further sharpened infravision in the cave darkness. Rockseers despise tree roots that gnaw and crumble their beloved rocks, and they are vulnerable to anything made of wood -- except magical staves, which they wield to perfection.

• Unique abilities: meld into stone
• Bonus skills: infravision, pass door, sneak, wands
• Ancient languages: ahenn up to 75%

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