New name for the "half-elf?"

[Driddle]

Know anyone who's of mixed Asian/Pacific Islander and European caucasian heritage? You might have heard the term, "hapa." It's a slangish self-descriptor that sounds a bit more elegant than "half-white" or half ... something.

Then we take a jump to fantasy Eberron where we find that half-elves can actually mate/breed true and consider themselves a people unto themselves. Delightful! Good for them!

And yet they're still calling themselves "half-elves?"

Gimme a better name for a people who are whole.

 

[d'Anconia]

I'm pretty sure that somewhere in the ECS or the dragonshard's on WotC's website, it's been mentioned that half-elves are referred to as the Korvaire in Eberron. I'll check and see if I can find a referrence online somewhere.

Later,
d'Anconia

edit: Ha! I knew I had seen it some place! I was wrong about the name - it's Khoravar, a derivative of Khorvaire. Here's the link: Khoravar

 

[Tonguez]

Know anyone who's of mixed Asian/Pacific Islander and European caucasian heritage? You might have heard the term, "hapa." It's a slangish self-descriptor that sounds a bit more elegant than "half-white" or half ... something.

And yet they're still calling themselves "half-elves?".

you do realise that the word hapa is just a transliteration of half - so whats the elf word for half? - use that

 

[Teemu]

The half-elves of Eberron call themselves 'Khoravar'.

 

[Nifft]

What's wrong with "Helf"?

-- N

 

[mhacdebhandia]

The Sindarin word for "half" is apparently "per-" as a prefix or "perin" as an adjective, but unfortunately "halfling" is "perian".

Maybe something like "perellon". Or in Quenya, "perequende" or something.

Man, who knows. I don't like Tolkien.

Using the Elven phrasebook in Races of the Wild, "-ess" or "-esti" is a suffix meaning elves or elven, so you could bastardise a word and say "peress" or "peresti", maybe.

 

[galaga88]

When I run, humans call half-elves half-elves. Elves call them either men or elves, depending on who they most resemble. Half-elves refer to themselves as elves or men, depending on what they view themselves as.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Errant.

 

[Steverooo]

The old legends call elven children, foisted off upon humans as their own, "Changelings".

"Periquende" works for me.

"Elladan" (Elf-Man) was the name of one of Elrond's "Half-Elven" sons, so "Elladani" might also work, or "Elladannath", for "host of the Elf-Men".

Any of those strike yer fancy?

 

[ForceUser]

Aelfborn.