Editing Harem Knights: Races (section)

==Halflings==
Halflings are short, waist high at most, humanoids of slight build (similar to gnomes and humans in proportions). Some say they’re related to the Gnomes, but if they are, they don’t act it. Usually content with staying in their dwellings and working their fields, wanderlust is a rarity at best, prosecuted at worst. Still, noble folk with noble aims, even if Mirthterrahs seems to be encroaching on their hobbit holes. While not tinkers, nor warriors, and certainly not adventurers, there are few races who can match their skill in two areas: Cooking, and Agriculture. For emphasis, Halflings figured out the 3 field system about 2 generations into discovering agriculture in the first place. Halflings also keep meticulous records of weather patterns, star movements, and other meteorlogical phenomena for the purposes of their fields and crafts. The shire is such a productive area of farm land, that it produces almost as much produce as half of all of Mirthterrah's provicines put together.

Halflings have a very, very, very, insular society. They tend to keep themselves to themselves, and while they are welcoming of outsiders (to a point), they tend to get particularly clannish if outsiders pry into their business. Likewise, Halflings organize themselves into vast, extended families. It is a rare Halfling who cannot name all of his relations up to his 42nd cousin 13 times removed (a slight exaggeration... but not by much). A common method of "breaking the ice" between two Halflings from parts of the Shire far separated from one another is to figure out exactly how they're related to one another.

Halflings who do not conform to the standards of their community, no matter what their skills and talents, tend to be ostracized, if not outright driven from the Shire. This has lead to a surprising influx of young to middleaged Halflings from the Shire to /TG/ wishing to make a new start, without any kind of traditions or strict rules holding them in place.