Halflings

Somtimes called "Hobbits" halflings are the footballs of the mythical world, weak enough o make elves look strong, small enough to be easily curled into a ball and sturdy enough to to take a half-orcs kick as its launched through the air. they look like humans but with half the size, fur that grows from the tops of their feet to half-way up their shin, and pointed ears

Culture

when not being punted by dwarves the halflings are a peaceful race that avoid the conflicts of other races unless it directly affects them. they generally live in areas that most dangers wont bother to enter and other races have little interest in attacking them so in a war-filled world a halfling settlement is a odd safe-haven.

halflings have natural skill at doing housework such as chores, cooking, or even entertaining guests with singing, dancing, and their cheerful social skills. they greatly enjoy keeping their homes tidy and clean and their work throughly finished becuase of this a halfling in somone elses home may find themselves compulsively cleaning if its too messy

most races age as they get older, every year making its mark on a individuals face, body, and health. which is what makes the halflings so strange, they age in "spurts" the stages go as such infant-child-young adult-adult-elderly-death as an infant at about 1% of their lifespan in age they will overnight turn into a child and at about 10% of their lifespan will turn into a young adult overnight at 25% into a adult and at 90% into the elderly. they will soon after die

a halfling that tries not to sleep to avoid ageing will find that on the day in question they are supposed to age staying awake even an hour more then normal to be one of the most difficult things they've ever had to do and even if they last a full hour they will collapse unconscious within the minute.

with a natural resistance to poisons of all kind, pure minds that arent easily corrupted by promises of power, money, women, etc., and the difficulty in breaking them via torture halflings make for the most reliable messengers you can hire.

halflings are the among the most valued of slaves not just because of their difficulty to obtain, their strange aging process making them attractive for mad sorcerers dabbling with immortality, the halflings natural skills, or how easy it is to keep them restrained and subservient but because with selective breeding in slavery a halfling subrace known as "Neoteny Halflings" was born thats indistinguishable from human children in their adult stage (besides their ears and the fur on their feet) making them popular even among twisted human nobles.

halfling have high fecundity to the umpteenth degree even out-pacing elves in the number of things they can breed with. they are one of only 2 races being able to eke out a child from stubborn dwarf dna. because of which they are one of the few races that can produce half-orcs, frankly its difficult NOT to get a halfling pregnant.

History

some say that how halflings came to be is due to an intermingling between an ancient separated tribe of gnomes and elves that had combined all the way back when the dwarves had multiple sub-races

born in a far off backwater a baby was born that molested its own mother as it was being born and moaned when it was spanked by the doctor. Meoldnir was a halfling with every fetish ever, wearing nothing but a trench-coat he pervs on everything everywhere. if anyone anywhere ever says anything that can be construed as sexual the faint deep-voiced sound of Meoldnir can be heard in the background making the sound "mmmmmmmmmmm~*slurping noises*". in desperation many began to pray to him to leave them alone. and so meoldnir became the false god of lust