![]() However, they were frivolous creatures who feared larger beings. Many of them also had the benefit of a compact size that made them seem innocuous to larger creatures and helped them to avoid danger. These creatures displayed a zest for life and a curiosity about new things that charmed the goddess entirely. She saw the fey folk - satyrs, sprites, dryads, and other dwellers in the woodlands. Instead, she travelled the world over and watched the creatures the other gods had created, determined that hers would be the best. Still, Yondalla had created no people of her own. (Perhaps it was the other way around the elves and dwarves have never agreed about who was first.) Next came the bestial orcs, and then the humans. First came the elves, who laid claim to the forest and seas, and then the dwarves, who took the hills, mountains, and underground. In the days when the world was still young, after the First War that spilled the blood of so many divine beings, the gods began to create mortal races in their own images. * Tymora to Lightfoot Halflings is considered one of Yondalla's Children. The halflings' name for their race is the hin, although most accept "halfling" with a shrug and a smile. They are resourceful and quick, perfectly at home among the sprawling human lands or living apart in their own settled communities. ![]() Like the rock gnomes, many halflings live among the Big Folk in the human lands. Three major subraces of halfling dwell in Faerûn: the lightfoot halflings, the rare ghostwise halflings, and the strongheart halflings of Luiren in the south.
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