Halflings

​Halflings are much smaller relatives of humans. They can be found in most large human cities, and in the large cluster of halfling farming communities in southern Larnaca known as the Hamlet.

Playing a halfling
Halflings are not the most common of adventurers. If you're like most halflings born in the Hamlet, it takes a lot to get you to leave your home. City halflings are a little more involved with the world, but still not often the adventuring type.

Classes
Halflings of any adventuring class are uncommon.

In the cities, halflings have found the fact that they are small and often overlooked a great asset when working as thieves, assassins, and other rogue activities.

Halflings love to sing, so there are quite a few halfling bards, both in the country and the cities. Some have attended the University in Salamis to become wizards, or joined human churches as clerics, or more rarely as paladins.

In the Hamlet, there are a handful of halfling fighters to defend their lands, generally as vassals of human nobles.

Halfling sorcerers and warlocks appear on rare occasion, as with other races.

Halflings are small and monsters are big, so they rarely live out in the wilderness like druids, rangers, and barbarians.

It's possible a halfling could be accepted and trained as a monk by a Dowafu or Artaldea monastery.

History
​Halflings were unheard of prior to the Silent Age. No one is entirely certain when or how they came to be, but the Preateri used them for their size in wars against the dwarves. They turned out, however, to not be the most effective soldiers and gradually became lower class citizens. Halflings are now mainly found in human cities, where they find work doing things bigger folks are less adept at, like sweeping chimneys. Near the end of the Silent Age, a group of halflings left the cities and established a hamlet in southern Larnaca. The hamlet had since attracted thousands of halflings and covers a considerable area, technically divided between several fiefdoms, but it is still referred to collectively as the Hamlet.