作为混血种族中最著名的种族，半精灵可以在整个费伦被发现，但是很少有土地可以称为他们自己的。无论是在庞大的人类帝国中，还是在神秘的精灵打撤退中，他们都能感到宾至如归，他们站在精灵和人类文化之间，但真正来说都不属于两者。他们是一个英俊的，甚至是脾气暴躁的种族，他们以优雅和保守的态度来处理他们混血儿的挑战。
The most prominent of the races of mixed heritage, half-elves can be found throughout Faerun, but have few lands to call their own. They feel at home both in the sprawling human empires and the secretive elven retreats, standing between elf and human culture but truly belonging to neither. They are a handsome and even-tempered race who handle the challenges of their mixed heritage with grace and reserve.
费伦有三个半精灵的主要亚种：普通半精灵、半卓尔精灵和半水生精灵。普通的半精灵是那些他们的精灵父母来自月精灵、日精灵、野精灵和木精灵民族的精灵。当有人提到半精灵时，他们几乎肯定是指这种血统的半精灵。半卓尔精灵的血管里有卓尔精灵的血液，除了在费伦最南端的土地上，这种血迹极其罕见。最后，半水生精灵可以在费伦海岸线的任何一条上被找到，它们是被夹在人类和水生精灵之间的混血儿。
There are three major subraces of half-elves in Faerun: common half-elves, half-drow, and half-aquatic elves. The common half-elves are those whose elven parents hail from the moon elf, sun elf, wild elf, and wood elf peoples. When someone refers to a half-elf, they are almost certainly referring to a half-elf of this descent. The half-drow have drow blood in their veins, and are extremely rare except in the most southerly lands of Faerun. Finally, the half-aquatic elves can be found in small numbers along any of Faerun’s coastlines, caught between their human and their sea-elf heritages.
费伦没有真正的半精灵王国，但是半精灵在某些地方比在其他地方更普遍。在遥不可及的东方，在遥远的阿格拉隆德的攸木林，野精灵、月精灵和达玛拉人类殖民者共同的后裔半精灵文化在攸木林的绿色树枝下蓬勃发展。在南方与世隔绝的丹布雷斯，半卓尔精灵统治着他们的人类邻居。半精灵在人类和精灵和平共处的地方也很常见，比如北部的银月城地区或南部的一些山谷。
No true half-elven realms exist in Faerun, but half-elves are far more prevalent in some lands than in others. In the Unapproachable East, in the Yuirwood of distant Aglarond, a culture of common half-elves descended from wild elves, moon elves, and Damaran human settlers thrives beneath the Yuirwood’s green boughs. In isolated Dambrath in the south, half-drow rule over their human neighbors. Half-elves are also common in places where humans and elves have lived alongside each other peacefully, such as the domain of Silverymoon in the North or some of the southerly Dales.
半个精灵至少有一个精灵父母或祖父母，或两个半精灵父母。换言之，半精灵和人类的孩子将是人类，除非半精灵的父母是一个纯血精灵的孩子。除非半精灵家系与其他精灵或半精灵家族结婚，否则他们的精灵特征会在一两代人中消失。有时，精灵的特征可以在几代人之后出生的人类孩子身上重现，但这种隔代血统的半精灵却非常罕见。
Half-elves have at least one elven parent or grandparent, or two half-elven parents. To put it another way, the child of a half-elf and a human will be human, unless the half-elf parent was the child of a full-blooded elf. Unless a half-elven line marries into other elven or half-elven families, their elf characteristics fade in a generation or two. On occasion elven traits can reappear in otherwise human children born several generations later, but half-elves of such remote descent are very rare.
种族历史Racial History
半精灵几乎没有种族史。半精灵数量稀少，广泛分布在费伦，几乎没有留下什么来纪念他们的存在。真正的半精灵文化只在少数时间和地点出现。
Half-elves have little racial history. Scarce in number and widely dispersed across the face of Faerun, half-elves have left little to mark their presence. True half-elven cultures have arisen in only a handful of times and places.
人类和精灵共享费伦已有数千年的历史，自从精灵王冠战争以来或之前，精灵和人类后裔的罕见个体就一直存在。然而，只有在过去的十几个世纪里，伟大的旧精灵王国的衰落和人类文明的兴起才允许这两个种族在任何数量上融合。古老的精灵王国伊尔法兰和科曼索在最后的日子里庇护了大量的半精灵，这两个国家在立石升起后的几个世纪里，都在精灵王冠下与正在崛起的人类混居了。714 DR卓诺·迷锁的消亡结束了第一个混合的王国，但在那时，银月城已经成为北地第二个卓诺·迷锁。
Humans and elves have shared Faerun for many thousands of years, and rare individuals of both elven and human descent have been around since the time of the Elven Crown Wars or before. However, it is only within the last dozen centuries that the decline of the great old elven kingdoms and the rise of human civilization have allowed the two races to blend in any numbers. The ancient elven kingdoms of Illefarn and Cormanthyr sheltered large numbers of half-elves in their final days, as both incorporated rising human lands beneath elven crowns in the centuries following the raising of the Standing Stone. The fall of Myth Drannor in 714 DR brought an end to the first of these blended realms, but by that time Silverymoon was already rising as a second Myth Drannor in the North.
在阿格拉隆德，人类在8世纪和9世纪对攸木林的定居导致了半精灵的兴起，他们至今仍在繁衍。尽管阿格拉隆德沿海城市的商人和隐藏森林深处的游侠的王国并不总是相处融洽，但阿格拉隆德仍然是当今费伦半精灵王国的最好例子。另一方面，丹布雷斯给出了一个完全不同的例子。七百年前，野蛮的丹布雷斯王国被来自一个强大城市的卓尔精灵征服。那些血统可以追溯到伟大卓尔家族的人类臣民们的领主在他们的祖国称王称霸。半精灵血统在其他国家是种族和谐（至少是商业）的标志，在丹布雷斯，它是征服和压迫的遗产。
In Aglarond, the settlement of the Yuirwood by humans in the 8th and 9th centuries led to the rise of a half-elven folk who still thrive today. Although the mercantile humans of Aglarond’s coastal cities and the forest-wise rangers of the kingdom’s hidden depths do not always get along, Aglarond stands as the best example of a half-elven realm in Faerun today. Dambrath, on the other hand, presents an entirely different example. Seven hundred years ago, the barbaric human kingdom of Dambrath was conquered by drow from a powerful city. Those who can trace their descent to the great drow families who ruled as suzerains over their human subjects govern their homeland as proud overlords. Where half-elven blood is a sign of racial harmony (or commerce, at least) in other lands, in Dambrath it is the legacy of conquest and oppression.