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So, are 4E FR's half-elves most commonly half-eladrin?

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#1
Saerain
May 04, 2012 13:01:09 The word on half-elves in the Realms was previously that most common were the children of a human and a moon elf. Now that moon elves are eladrin, are most of FR's half-elves more correctly half-eladrin, called ‘half-elves’ just because other races tend not to care about the distinction, or have moon elves lost the gold medal of human-buggering to wood elves?
#2
crzyhawk
May 04, 2012 13:05:49 I think Half-Eladrin is still probably the most proper description. In my mind, I consider the answer to be "half-fey". A human + Eladrin/Woodelf/Drow = half-elf. I don't think the Canon has clarified that, and I don't think there is really a fair distinction.
#3
Saerain
May 04, 2012 13:11:22 I've been running with the same definition, I just became curious today as to whether I'd missed a clarification somewhere outside the PHBs. It's been known to happen.
#4
crzyhawk
May 04, 2012 13:13:45 IMO they should have just called the Eladrin "High Elves" and saved themselves a lot of trouble.
#5
Iluvrien
May 04, 2012 17:07:20 We tried to thrash an answer out to this one a while ago in this thread (which actually refers to an even earlier thread here). We even had Erik Scott de Bie's help (in both threads), and there seemed to be arguments both ways.

Nothing canonically stated though, as far as I know.

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#1 Saerain May 04, 2012 13:01:09	The word on half-elves in the Realms was previously that most common were the children of a human and a moon elf. Now that moon elves are eladrin, are most of FR's half-elves more correctly half-eladrin, called ‘half-elves’ just because other races tend not to care about the distinction, or have moon elves lost the gold medal of human-buggering to wood elves?
#2 crzyhawk May 04, 2012 13:05:49	I think Half-Eladrin is still probably the most proper description. In my mind, I consider the answer to be "half-fey". A human + Eladrin/Woodelf/Drow = half-elf. I don't think the Canon has clarified that, and I don't think there is really a fair distinction.
#3 Saerain May 04, 2012 13:11:22	I've been running with the same definition, I just became curious today as to whether I'd missed a clarification somewhere outside the PHBs. It's been known to happen.
#4 crzyhawk May 04, 2012 13:13:45	IMO they should have just called the Eladrin "High Elves" and saved themselves a lot of trouble.
#5 Iluvrien May 04, 2012 17:07:20	We tried to thrash an answer out to this one a while ago in this thread (which actually refers to an even earlier thread here). We even had Erik Scott de Bie's help (in both threads), and there seemed to be arguments both ways. Nothing canonically stated though, as far as I know.