Halflings
Halflings are adept at fitting into a community of humans, dwarves, or elves, making themselves valuable and welcome. The combination of their inherent stealth and their unassuming ûature helps halflings to avoid unwanted attention. Halflings work readily with others, and they are loyal to their friends, whether halfling or otherwise. They can display remarkable ferocity when their friends, families, or communities are threatened.
Most halflings live in small, peaceful communities with large farms and well-kept groves. They rarely build kingdoms of their own or even hold much land beyond their quiet shires. They typically don't recognize any sort of halfling nobility or royalty, instead looking to family elders to guide them. Families preserve their traditional ways despite the rise and fall of empires.
Halflings usually set out on the adventurer's path to defend their communities, support their friends, or explore a wide and wonder-filled world. For them, adventuring is less a career than an opportunity or sometimes a necessity.
Additional Information
Social Structure
Most halflings live in small, peaceful communities with large farms and well-kept groves. They rarely build kingdoms of their own or even hold much land beyond their quiet shires. They typically don't recognize any sort of baffling nobility or royalty, instead looking to family elders to guide them. Families preserve their traditional ways despite the rise and fall of empires. Many halflings live among other races, where the halflings' hard work and loyal outlook offer them abundant rewards and creature comforts. Some halfling communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.
Geographic Origin and Distribution
Halflings are well integrated into the society of man, they have several small villages dotting the Crownlands.
Average Intelligence
Halflings are no more intelligent than the race of man but have mastered the art of reading people and integrating themselves into the lives of others inconspicuously.
Civilization and Culture
Naming Traditions
A halfling has a given name, a family name, and possibly a nickname. Family names are often nicknames that stuck so tenaciously they have been passed down through the generations.
Major Language Groups and Dialects
Haflings speak a language of their own that is steeped in their oral traditions.
Common Etiquette Rules
Halflings work readily with others, and they are loyal to their friends, whether halfling or otherwise. They can display remarkable ferocity when their friends, families, or communities are threatened.
Halflings are easily moved to pity and hate to see any living thing suffer. They are generous, happily sharing what they have even in lean times.
Culture and Cultural Heritage
Halflings are an affable and cheerful people. They cherish the bonds of family and friendship as well as the comforts of hearth and home, harboring few dreams of gold or glory. Even adventurers among them usually venture into the world for reasons of community, friendship, wanderlust, or curiosity. They love discovering new things, even simple things, such as an exotic food or an unfamiliar style of clothing.
History
The history of the halflings is entwined with that of other races. They were never a target of the Magocracy nor were they particularly interesting to others. It was the injustice and horrors of the mages that had the rare halflings wishing for more dangerous lives to rise up and fight with the other races. When the war ended the kingdom of man offered them land within their kingdom as thanks. They have lived in peace ever since.
Interspecies Relations and Assumptions
Humans: "Once we were friends but now they go to far! Our land is ours by right and blood!"
Dwarves: "Noble and skilled craftsmen even if they are tactless oafs."
Elves: "A creature of nature like us."
Gnomes: "They may have once been grand and powerful but now are like cockroaches feeding off the last drops of blood in their decrepit veins."
Dragonborn: "Nomads with no home. Their loyalty is always to their people, an admirable thing."
Tieflings: "In a bygone age they were to be feared but now, they are cretin that cling to civilization."
Half-Breeds: "They will find no place in our home."
Lifespan
150
Average Height
3 feet
Average Weight
40 lbs
Average Physique
Halflings are even shorter than dwarves and much more slender. They appear to many as harm less at first glance.
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