Halflings

" But dad you don't understand! Here I just another halfling hobbit girl hiding in our holes and tilling our fields. I don't want that anymore dad I want to see things! I want to see the mountains and the seas and the world outside this fucking shire!" Bree Underbough before joining the Imperial Airforce and becoming captain of the sky ship Shirescyth. Halflings also known as Hobbits in their own tongue are a small race of humanoids famed for their simple lives but also their incredible bravery and luck.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Halflings are small bipedal humanoids of diminutive frame and stature.

Biological Traits

Halflings are known to be very nimble with surprisingly strong muscle tissue for their small size and some have natural resistances to poisons. They also have very tough feet from generations of farming barefoot and do not often need shoes at all.

Genetics and Reproduction

Halflings reproduce sexually and will gestate for around a year until they give birth.

Growth Rate & Stages

A halfling reaches adulthood at the age of 20 and generally lives into the middle of their second century.

Ecology and Habitats

Halflings tend to be excellent agriculturist and create large farmlands out of fields and give the abundant food to others for protection. They will live in either farmsteads or halfling holes. Small homes built into hills for extra protection.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Halflings tend to eat the food they grow and for having such a small size they are known for their outstanding appetites. They tend to store most of the food they grow and animals they breed in makeshift hill homes to preserve for the winter months.

Biological Cycle

Halflings tend to go into a breeding period during the harvest months to ensure by next year the child will have plenty of food to survive. Besides that times simply effects them like most and they will eventually grow old and pass.

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 halfling 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.

Facial characteristics

Halflings are known for their round faces and typically rosie cheeks.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Halflings are spread all across the isles in varying degrees from savage warriors lands to humble holes.

Average Intelligence

Halflings are known for their simple lifestyles and laid back personalities but behind this country bumpkin appearance halflings are often known to be clever and even mischievous giving them bad reputations as thieves and scoundrels.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

They have the senses of sight, scent, taste, touch, and hearing along with some magical senses by some members of the race.

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 Organizations

Halflings tend to not form larger organizations themselves and instead operate in a more communal setting with looking to elders for guidance. They will also serve whoever is the prominent power at the time.

Beauty Ideals

Typically Halflings look for kind heartedness rather than physical beautify in their ideals of what makes someone beautiful.

Gender Ideals

Typically they maintain traditional gender roles with everyone fulfilling their roles for the community and typically the males preform the more physical work while the females tend to the more maternal side of things. These are traditions and not universal rules so the odd exception has been known to happen.

Courtship Ideals

Typically a young Halfling will fancy another halfling they will as them on dates and dances and one day one will pop the question.

Relationship Ideals

Typically a pair of halflings will work a plot of land and build a halfling home in a nice quite spot and raise a family of halflings.

Average Technological Level

Most halflings tend focus on more agricultural technology which has advanced incredibility to have the most effective farms and distilleries in the world.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

The Halfling language isn’t secret, but halflings are loath to share it with others. They write very little, so they don’t have a rich body of literature. Their oral tradition, however, is very strong. Almost all halflings speak Common to converse with the people in whose lands they dwell or through which they are traveling.

Common Etiquette Rules

Typically halflings will address people with Sir or Ma'am and will have several sayings for politely greeting and leaving someone.

Common Dress Code

Most hobbits tend to wear simple clothing or clothing that helps hide them in plain sight. Additionally most hobbits don't wear shoes has the bottoms of their feet are very hard and dont typically need them which can cause some negative societal confrontations.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

Halfings have a long standing and deep love for growing things and have several traditions surrounding the growing and eating of food and ale with the odd adventurous halfing willing to strike it big unto the world. Most Halflings decend from a heritage of simple pacifistic folk who rather offer to do the grunt work of civilization in exchange for being defended by it.

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

Halflings observe deep communal traditions with festivals for many occasions along with the smoking of Long leaf in special smoking pipes with special engravings craved in. There are two special holidays that are observed by most halflings. The Festival of the Heroes Journey is celebrated for the nameless hero halfling who went on a mighty quest to slay a dragon and every year by hundreds of young Halflings venturing into the world with most returning after a few days. Secondly, the Spring Singing is a holiday for when spring is officially declared and is often associated with young love and child birth and hundreds of songs being sung into the night. Finally, whenever a halfling passes a large feast is held and fond memories of the deceased are shared as he is buried with a seed to help nourish new life.

Common Taboos

Most often taboos are often situated by the laws of the peoples in which they dwell. However, the unwarranted destruction of harvest and being disrespectful to a guest in your home is seen as being very offensive along with being disrespectful to your elders.

History

The Halflings or Hobbits as some call them are a humble race of smaller stature that came to the isles during the Perils. Not hailing from great kingdoms or grand orders the Halflings are famous for there humble lifestyles and even humbler hearts. Ancient tales and stories do often have the wayward halfling who although doesn't always belong nonetheless always makes a difference. Although little of the actual history of the Halflings remain from the old world many old songs and oral traditions of mighty dragons and dungeons of old spark the eyes and hearts of all who hear it igniting mighty flames of passion and even the smallest of people can cast the mightiest of shadows.

Historical Figures

The Nameless Hero, Elric Stoutmount the Swift, Anson Amberale, William "Wild" Warnarcle, Harold "Handsome" Hobbiton.

Common Myths and Legends

Although many halflings tend to lead a simple and even boring life some of there kin have risen to great heights and even shape the lives of many. Some say that whenever great and troubling times are near a halfling hero will always arise to play a vital role for good or ill of all.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Halflings tend not to make grudges with anyone and instead to be make at the very worse lukewarm relations.

Scientific Name

Brevis Homines

Lifespan

250 years

Average Height

3 ft

Average Weight

40 lbs

Average Physique

Halflings are know to be very small with some being very slender and petite while others plump and stout.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

Most halflings tend to have some tan from tending the fields or for being very pale form sneaking and blending in with the shadows.