Halflings

Halflings were created in the image of Hael the Gluttonous, one of the Nine Kings, to slave endlessly in her kitchens. Here, the small folk oftentimes served as food themselves.  However, being prodigious farmers and wily merchants, once freed from the yoke of oppression the halflings were able to grow the farms of The Hillyards into a regional hub for tradegoods, textiles and handicrafts.

Yet as their hometown grew in prosperity, so too did the greed of the hafllings; they expanded their burrows until they reached beneath the forests of the dryads, ultimately disrupting the roots of the tree-city of Tyrdas. This angered the dryads, who in retaliation collapsed the burrows of the halflings and drove them from the fertile Hillyards to the lands they now occupy, the barren thickets of Fallowfield.

Those halflings who remain have now turned their crafts and cunning to the defense of their last outpost, growing ruthless and savage in order to survive.