Are Wood Elves Always Green?

[Gaz O'D]

I want to create a Wood Elf, but i dont want the green skin, what other colours do Wood Elves come in, lore wise?

Cheers

[TrueWarlord真の武]

In Forgotten Realms, Wood Elves are "supposed" to have coppery skin. They're not supposed to be green at all.

[Lion-O, Lord of the Thundercats]

Sometimes there also emerald and lime coloured.

[Boink]

Without sounding like the many odd-balls that frequent these forums: Brown / Copper.

Nut brown with nice highlights. Canonically they have brown skin, not green. No, not black skin or central Asian features, or the various human melanin hues, they're brown. Like wood.

Literally this is their racial colour scheme.

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http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/ColorTables/Images/GMT_copper_labelbar.png

[Gaz O'D]

Cheers for all the answers.

Would the darker end of the Pallid colours be ok to use? Like a Pallid 6?

[TrueWarlord真の武]

Originally posted by Horris the Horrible:

Sometimes there also emerald and lime coloured.

I have never, ever, anywhere, ever heard of Wood Elves skin color being emerald. Do you have a source for this claim?

Wood Elves skin color in Forgotten Realms is copper or "tan" as written by Ed Greenwood in the Campaign Setting.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

If you do not put a check mark in the box for "all colors", then range of colors you are offered are intended to be the ones that are typical for wood elves (or, at least, Larian's interpretation of that range). Atypical colors are available for players who are not interested in coloring in the lines (so to speak), by putting a check mark in the "all colors" box.

Edit: That applies to the other races as well, and also the other color selections (hair, eyes, etc.).

[Gaz O'D]

Would this pass as a Wood Elf?

https://imgur.com/a/GrZW6iq

[RealDealBreaker]

Part of the wood elves being green thing may (I am not certain and I am too lazy to check lore) be that wood elf seems to parcel wood and wild elf into a single race in 5e where they have been separate races in the past. If I recall correctly, wild elves had more greenish skin colors. Again, could be wrong but it's just what came to mind.

[Gaz O'D]

Originally posted by Gaz O'D:

Would this pass as a Wood Elf?

https://imgur.com/a/GrZW6iq

Anybody? Would this cut it lore wise as a Wood Elf?

[Boink]

Originally posted by Gaz O'D:

Originally posted by Gaz O'D:

Would this pass as a Wood Elf?

https://imgur.com/a/GrZW6iq

Anybody? Would this cut it lore wise as a Wood Elf?

More than certainly. Translation: yes.

[TrueWarlord真の武]

Originally posted by Gaz O'D:

Originally posted by Gaz O'D:

Would this pass as a Wood Elf?

https://imgur.com/a/GrZW6iq

Anybody? Would this cut it lore wise as a Wood Elf?

Yes, I like it a lot.

[Gaz O'D]

Originally posted by Boink:

Originally posted by Gaz O'D:

Anybody? Would this cut it lore wise as a Wood Elf?

More than certainly. Translation: yes.

Cheers pal

[Boink]

Originally posted by Gaz O'D:

Originally posted by Boink:

More than certainly. Translation: yes.

Cheers pal

The biggest issue is that Larian haven't really made the non-human faces actually non-human and they're all (barring Gith) basically "humans with funny ears / beards". This is more a WotC / Hasbro issue than Larians, if we're being honest.

Elves have different nose structure / chin structure to humans so you'll get trolled by Kotaku claiming "Wood elves are just indigenous Americans1!!!1" for their next "culture war scoop" because they care about clicks, not honesty.

For the record: go find / look up the Zhent human NPCs - the engine is more than capable (in fact, the best I've seen so far) of making really good "non-Caucasian" faces, with some impressive diversity and genuinely realistic faces, it's just... not available in the character generator at the moment.

So: yeah, that's pretty much as good as the current char gen will get on Wood Elves.


For reference: check out the svirfneblin who gives you the boots of speed quest. She's basically a mini-elf-pin-up-human-clone.

[Ghost]

shades of green to brown basically... woodland colors

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by FoE Rosa:

erm... copper is green though

If I got a copper everytime people said that, I would have a silver coin by now