水元素裔Water Genasi
区域：阿格拉隆德、查森塔、巨龙海湾、桑比亚、维洪海岸
种族专长：呼吸链接、元素血脉、快速游泳
等级调整：+1
Regions: Aglarond, Chessenta, Dragon Coast, Sembia, Vilhon Reach.
Racial Feats: Breathing Link, Elemental Bloodline, Rapid Swimming.
Level Adjustment: +1.
水元素裔是耐心而独立的，习惯于自己解决问题，并且不害怕花费过多的时间。有时，它们像可怕的风暴一样凶猛而具有破坏性，但更多的时候，它们呈现出一种宁静的外在，尽管平静的表面下隐藏着各种情绪。因为它们的元素祖先通常对它们不感兴趣，水元素裔经常被人类父母抛弃，被水生生物抚养长大，比如水生精灵、海豚、洛卡鱼人、人鱼、沙华鱼人，甚至是底栖魔鱼。水元素裔通常会在成年后离开父母（真正的或收养的），来到大海去探索、学习和发展自己的个性和在世界上的位置。
Water genasi are patient and independent, used to solving problems on their own and not afraid to take a lot of time doing so. At times they are fierce and destructive like terrible storms, but more often than not they present a tranquil appearance, despite whatever emotions run underneath that quiet surface. Because their elemental forebear usually has no interest in them, water genasi are often abandoned by their human parents and raised instead by aquatic creatures such as aquatic elves, dolphins, locathah, merfolk, sahuagin, or even aboleths. Water genasi usually leave their parents (real or adoptive) upon reaching maturity, taking to the open sea in order to explore, learn, and develop their own personality and place in the world.
大多数水元素裔都是水元素异界生物的后代，比如水巨灵或梭螺海人。少数是由邪恶的水女神安博里的异界生物仆人所生（尽管不知道为什么这些交配最终产生的是水元素裔而不是提夫林）。水生精灵讲述了一个失落的海洋精灵神魔裔的故事，它是深海·塞悉拉的军队后裔，但这些不是真正的水元素裔，缺少水元素裔的人类血统。
Most water genasi are descended from a water elemental outsider such as a marid (water genie) or triton. A rare few are born of outsider servants of the evil water goddess Umberlee (although it is not known why these matings eventually produce water genasi instead of tieflings). Aquatic elves tell of a lost line of sea-elf planetouched descended from minions of Deep Sashelas, but these are not true water genasi, lacking a genasi’s human heritage.
水元素裔看起来像人类，除了一个明显的特征与他们的元素祖先有关。这些特点的一些例子是:
Water genasi look human except for one distinguishing feature related to their elemental ancestor. Some examples of these features are:
闪亮鳞状斑点的皮肤
湿冷的肉体
蓝绿色皮肤或头发
深蓝色的大眼睛
有蹼的手和脚
lightly scaled skin
clammy flesh
blue-green skin or hair
large blue-black eyes
webbed hands and feet
水元素裔认为它们是独一无二的，比人类更优越。他们对同类几乎没有兴趣，因为他们可以在陆地和海洋上漫游，他们觉得世界上有足够的空间，水元素裔不需要挤在一起，甚至不需要见面。只有在大型的水元素裔群落中，两个或两个以上的水元素裔才有可能长时间呆在一起。
Water genasi feel that they are unique and superior to the humans who bore them. They have little or no interest in others of their kind—since they can wander both the land and the seas, they feel there is room enough in the world that water genasi need not crowd each other or even meet. Only in large communities of aquatic elves are two or more water genasi likely to spend much time together.
水元素裔的寿命和年龄与人类相同。
Water genasi have the same life expectancy and age categories as a human.
历史History
几乎每一个水元素裔都可以追溯到一个水异界生物和人类的独特杂交。水元素裔没有共同的历史，虽然他们中的大多数出生在坠星海中或附近。虽然历史书中不时出现一位水上英雄，通常与营救溺水的水手或挫败沙华鱼人的袭击有关，但目前还没有关于水元素裔试图建立一个属于自己的社区的记录。水元素裔的恶棍也出现在这些故事中，从喜欢淹死敌人的海盗到蓝头发的袭击人鱼组织的领导人。
Nearly every water genasi can be traced back to a unique crossbreed between a water outsider and a human. Water genasi have no common history, although most of them are born in or near the Sea of Fallen Stars. No known record exists of water genasi trying to build a community of their own kind, although from time to time an aquatic hero shows up in the history books, usually associated with rescuing drowning sailors or thwarting sahuagin attacks. Water genasi villains also appear in these tales, from pirates who love to drown their enemies to blue-haired leaders of merrow raiding parties.
由于它们的起源各不相同，水元素裔可能是任何人类民族。
Because of their varied origins, water genasi may be of any human stock.
性格Outlook
水元素裔为他们的特殊能力感到骄傲，如果气氛正确的话，他们会很自负。这些水元素裔比人类更强壮，能在水中呼吸，他们有时把人在海上溺水的可能性和晕船的可能性一样大的类水手和海军商人视为脆弱的傻瓜。坠星海的人们对水元素裔的故事已经足够熟悉了，因此他们能够认出他们并忽略他们的粗鲁行为。
Water genasi take pride in their special abilities and can be boastful if in the right mood. Tougher than humans and able to breathe water, these genasi sometimes view human sailors and naval merchants as vulnerable fools who are as likely to drown at sea as they are to get seasick. The people of the Sea of Fallen Stars are familiar enough with the stories of water genasi to recognize them and ignore their rude behavior.
水元素裔兼备这两个世界的优点。它们可以在陆地上无限期地行走（不像水生精灵，它们暗地里很同情水生精灵），也可以一直退到宁静的海洋深处。他们通常是孤独的人，有时会在一个遥远的水下洞穴里建立一个家，多年不遇到另一个智慧生物。它们与其他水生生物有亲缘关系，尤其是梭螺海人和能轻易地游过水元素裔的水元素。
Water genasi have the best of both worlds. They can walk on land for an indefinite time (unlike aquatic elves, whom they secretly pity) and can always retreat to the tranquil depths of the ocean. Often loners, they sometimes establish a home in a remote underwater cave, going for years without encountering another intelligent being. They feel a kinship to other aquatic creatures, particularly tritons and water elementals, who can easily outswim the genasi.
水元素裔倾向于中立，因此在政治、观点或事业上避免极端。有些人找到一个安静的地方称之为家，有些人喜欢在水流中漂流几个月，让水流把他们带到几百英里以外的地方。
Water genasi tend to be neutral and therefore avoid extremes in politics, opinion, or career. Some find a quiet spot to call home, others enjoy riding the currents for months, allowing the water to take them places hundreds of miles away.
水元素裔角色WATER GENASI CHARACTERS
水元素裔经常兼职战士和其他职业，保持他们的等级相对均衡。
Water genasi often multiclass between fighter and another class, keeping their levels relatively even.
受欢迎职业：战士。水元素裔偏爱不平衡、束缚或解除敌人武装的战斗风格和武器。
Favored Class: Fighter. Water genasi prefer combat styles and weapons that unbalance, bind, or disarm their opponents.
进阶职业：水元素裔没有特殊的进阶职业偏好。
Prestige Classes: Water genasi have no particular prestige class preferences.
水元素裔社会Water Genasi Society
水元素裔没有自己的社会，但往往会下意识地接受养育他们的人的特点，所以水生精灵抚养的水元素裔很可能相信个人自由且举止善良，而沙华鱼人抚养的水元素裔则会嗜血成军。来自不同文化的水元素裔可以就像安静的春天和狂暴的瀑布般完全不同。
Water genasi have no society of their own, but often subconsciously adopt traits of the people who raised them, so a water genasi raised by aquatic elves is likely to believe in personal freedoms and good behavior, while one raised by sahuagin will be bloodthirsty and militaristic. Water genasi from different cultures can be as radically different as a quiet spring and a raging waterfall.
水元素裔不喜欢其他水元素裔的陪伴。如果有什么区别的话，那就是它会让他们觉得与周围的人相处没有那么特别和独特。因此，他们很少生活在同一个社区，也没有人结婚。这使得重复世代的水元素裔种群人口保持在较低水平，新的水元素裔来自新的血统或隔代的血统。
Water genasi do not prefer the company of other water genasi. If anything, it makes them feel less special and unique in the context of the other beings they live near. Accordingly, they rarely live in the same communities and none have been known to marry. This keeps the population of repeat-generation water genasi low, with new genasi coming from new bloodlines or from lines that skipped a generation.
他们自给自足的天性使水元素裔不太可能成为领导者。水元素裔更有可能保护或支持他尊敬和欣赏的人，而不是一个吸引或欢迎其他人成为下属的人。
Their self-contained nature makes water genasi unlikely leaders. A water genasi is more likely to guard or support a person he respects and admires than to be a person who attracts or welcomes subordinates.
语言和文字Language and Literacy
由于他们中的大多数人出生在坠星海上，水元素裔因为商业贸易而学会了通用语。许多水元素裔学习海族语（巨海）或塞鲁桑语（内海）是为了与其他水生生物交流，而那些与水生精灵生活在一起或生活在他们附近的水元素裔通常也学习精灵语。由沙华鱼人养大的水元素裔学习沙华鱼人语。
As most of them are born on the Sea of Fallen Stars, water genasi learn Common because of all the mercantile traffic. Many learn Aquan or Serusan in order to converse with other aquatic creatures, and the ones who live with or near aquatic elves usually learn Elven as well. Those raised by sahuagin learn Sahuagin.
除了野蛮人、平民和战士，所有的水元素裔都是有读写能力的。
All water genasi are literate, except for barbarians, commoners, and warriors.
水元素裔魔法和知识Water Genasi Magic and Lore
水元素裔偏爱产生寒冷、冰、雪和水的法术。水元素裔施法者通常是牧师或德鲁伊，因为他们很少有魔法和水中使用卷轴和法术书的天赋（尽管至少有一个水元素裔施法者发明了一种在雕刻的贝壳上划“卷轴”的方法）。
Water genasi spellcasters are usually clerics or druids, for they rarely have the talent for sorcery and water ruins scrolls and spellbooks (although at least one water genasi wizard has developed a method for scribing “scrolls” on carved shells).
法术和施法SPELLS AND SPELLCASTING
咒法系法术对大多数水元素裔来说是最重要的，因为它们可以召唤水元素并控制天气。
Conjuration spells are most important to most water genasi, because they allow the summoning of water elementals and control of the weather.
水元素裔魔法物品WATER GENASI MAGIC ITEMS
水元素裔喜欢在水下使用的魔法网和物品，比如警戒三叉戟或梭螺海人之角。第一个拥有神奇力量的珊瑚海豚雕像(见附录)是由一位水元素裔创造的。
Water genasi favor magical nets and items that can be used underwater, such as tridents of warning or horns of the tritons. The first coral dolphin figurine of wondrous power (see the appendix) was created by a water genasi mage.
水元素裔神祗Water Genasi Deities
水元素裔没有种族共同的神祗。那些与其他水生生物生活在一起的水元素裔们通常会选择他们盟友的守护神。因为水元素裔神牧师必须选择授予水领域的神祗，所有水元素裔牧师都崇拜欧吕尔，深海·塞悉拉，埃达丝，伊西丝，依斯提悉亚, 塞贝克, 西凡纳斯或安博里。那些不够虔诚，不能成为牧师的水元素裔仍然崇拜这些神或其他以水为主题的神，如维尔寇。
Water genasi have no common racial deity. Those who live with a community of other aquatic creatures usually adopt the patron deity of their allies. Because water genasi clerics must choose deities who grant the Water domain, all water genasi clerics worship Auril, Deep Sashelas, Eldath, Isis, Istishia, Sebek, Silvanus, or Umberlee. Those who are not devout enough to be clerics still worship those deities or another water-themed deity such as Valkur.
虽然很少有水元素裔享受非常寒冷的天气，确实有一些水元素裔崇拜冰霜少女。这些古怪的水元素裔经常与海豹和类似的生物在极地水域游泳，它们以与大型寒冷怪物配对的习惯而闻名。他们经常和霜巨人交朋友。
While few water genasi enjoy very cold weather, those who do usually worship the Frostmaiden. These eccentric genasi often swim in arctic waters with seals and similar creatures, and are known for their habit of pairing up with a large cold-based monster. They often make friends with frost giants.
深海·塞悉拉，精灵的水与波之神，是与水精灵有关联的水元素裔的天然选择。它们经常在水精灵的殖民地和陆地上的表亲之间充当使者和信使。作为水魔法的守护神，他也有许多奥术施法者崇拜他。最平静和内省的水元素裔崇拜埃达丝。她的牧师和德鲁伊是善良和乐于助人的生物，这使得他们成为玛拉的追随者最喜欢的猎物。崇拜埃达丝的法师比其他类型的法师更喜欢咒法系法术。依斯提悉亚信奉个人卓越的理念，以及他倡导的灵活性和克服时间障碍的理念，正吸引着水元素裔。他的崇拜者是调解人，经常在使用同一水域的敌对群体之间进行调停，无论是两个不同的渔村，还是一群被海藻床上方的商船骚扰的水生精灵。
Deep Sashelas, the elven god of waves and waters, is a natural choice for genasi who associate with aquatic elves. They often act as emissaries and messengers between colonies of aquatic elves and their landbound cousins. As the patron of water magic, he also has many arcane spellcasters worshiping him. The most placid and introspective water genasi worship Eldath. Her clerics and druids are benign and helpful beings, which makes them a favorite prey of followers of Malar. Mages who worship Eldath prefer abjuration spells over all other kinds. Istishia’s idea of embracing one’s personal excellence is appealing to water genasi, as is his message of flexibility and overcoming obstacles over time. His worshipers are mediators, often interceding between rival groups using the same body of water, whether two different fishing villages or a colony of aquatic elves annoyed by merchant traffic above their kelp beds.
汹涌的海水和遥远的海上勘探是热纳西的主要食粮。尊敬维尔寇的水元素裔受到船长的欢迎和普通水手的尊敬。有些水元素裔不喜欢冒险，但喜欢和船一起工作，这些人在沿海社区靠修理水下受损的船只为生。
Rough waters and remote naval exploration are meat and bread to water genasi. Water genasi revering Valkur are welcomed by sea captains and respected by common sailors. Some lack a taste for adventure but love working with boats, and these make a living in coastal communities repairing ship damage below the water line.
许多邪恶的水元素裔在穆尔霍兰德、恩瑟和查森塔附近，崇拜鳄鱼神塞贝克，有时变成兽化人。他们骚扰航运路线和居住在河流或附近的居民。就像他们的神一样，他们不断地感到需要通过欺凌比自己弱小的生物来证明自己的力量和证明自己存在的合理性。泼辣女王安博里的崇拜者，可能是所有水元素裔中最残忍、最喜怒无常的。他们喜欢为他们的教堂勒索钱财，当天气变得恶劣时，如果船员们决定把他推下船的话，一名船上的牧师就没什么好担心的了。使用水魔法的邪恶施法者也经常崇拜她。
Many evil water genasi in the vicinity of Mulhorand, Unther, and Chessenta worship the crocodile god Sebek, sometimes becoming lycanthropes. They harass shipping routes and folk living on or near rivers. Like their deity, they constantly feel the need to prove their strength and justify their existence by bullying creatures weaker than themselves. Worshipers of Umberlee, the Bitch Queen, can be the most cruel and temperamental of all the water genasi. They enjoy extorting money for their church, and a shipboard cleric has nothing to fear should the crew decide to push him overboard when the weather turns nasty. Evil spellcasters who practice water magic often worship her as well.
与其他种族关系Relations with Other Races
水元素裔觉得与自己被收养的种族最亲近，对其他种族漠不关心。水生生物和其他能天生能水中呼吸的生物受到的待遇就不那么冷淡了（除非这种生物是收养水元素裔的种族的天敌，比如沙华鱼人养的水元素裔遇到了梭螺海人）。他们对炽热的生物或火元素裔没有特别的仇恨，并且认为自己和飞行的生物之间有一定相似性，尽管他们很快指出，天生的飞行者必须最终在陆地上休息，而它们和其他海洋生物可以无限期地生活在水中。他们嘲笑恐水生物，矮人经常成为他们的笑话和恶作剧的对象（几乎总是涉及到落水）。
Water genasi feel closest to their adopted race and indifferent to all others. Aquatic creatures and others who can naturally breathe water are treated less coolly (unless such a creature is a natural enemy of the genasi’s adopted race, such as a sahuagin-raised genasi confronted by a triton). They hold no special animosity toward fiery creatures or fire genasi, and see a similarity between themselves and flying creatures, although they are quick to point out that natural fliers have to come to rest on land eventually while they and other sea creatures can live in the water indefinitely. They laugh at and ridicule aquaphobic creatures, and dwarves are frequently the target of their jokes and pranks (almost always involving a dunking).
水元素裔装备Water Genasi Equipment
生活在水中的水元素裔使用其他水生种族喜欢的物品——网而非口袋，穿刺武器而不是劈砍或棍棒等等。它们在水中不需要喝水，所以除了使用药剂囊的药剂外，它们几乎不需要运输液体(参见附录中的设备部分)。
Water genasi who live in the water use items favored by other aquatic races—nets instead of pouches, stabbing weapons instead of slashing or bludgeoning, and so on. They have no need to drink while in the water, so they have little need to transport liquids except for potions, for which they use potion bladders (see the Equipment section of the appendix).
动物与宠物ANIMALS AND PETS
生活在水中的水元素裔更喜欢海豚、章鱼、鲨鱼和其他水生动物作为宠物和动物伙伴。那些生活在陆地和水上的水元素裔更喜欢能同时生活在这两种环境中的动物，比如鳄鱼、水獭，还有一些蛇和鸟。
Water genasi who live in the water prefer dolphins, octopi, sharks, and other aquatic animals as pets and animal companions. Those who live on the land and water prefer animals that can live in both environments, such as crocodiles, otters, and some snakes and birds.
