Halflings are not little hungry hobbits who live in burrows; the "half" in halfling speaks of their bloodline and not their stature. The height of a halfling is perfectly average; and they are thought of as half-faeries. A halfling is a person who has a faerie somewhere in their ancestry, and like other half breeds, it might skip generations before manifesting. Halflings are the only people in the world who can take Glamour alongside other forms of magic. If you do, whenever you cast a spell, choose if you want your Glamour to stack with your other spellcasting power or not. If not, you can cast spells normally, with normal permanent effects. If so, then all of the benefits and limitations of Glamour apply. A halfling was probably raised by human parents, but they may have also grown up among the fae. In either case, like all characters, they start out with one native language and familiarity with one culture, and can spend points to add more. See Social Characteristics.
The exact type of fae you originate from, and whether you know about your heritage at all, is up to you.
Race: Halfling. [5]
The following will appear on your character sheet when you select the template.
- You have a fae ancestor somewhere in your linege. Describe this fae, even if your character doesn't know about it. [0]
- Those with Feth Fiada are never invisible to you. If you have reason to believe someone is under a Seeming, you can blatantly squint at them and roll Sight opposed by Disguise. If they are under a Seeming and you win the opposed roll, then their disguise flickers whenever you squint at them and you get a glimpse of their true form. [1]
- You have an incapacitating supernatural reaction to an ordinarily innocuous substance. If you are exposed to it, you must immediately make a Pain Tolerance roll every minute. On a failure, your attributes all have a -5 penalty. Contact with the substance might also sting or burn you, weapons made of it might hurt you more, etc. [-4]
- Your True Name hits you at +2. The severity of your True Name is determined by your race, this feature can only be purchased as part of a racial template. [-2]
- You get +1 to Stealth. [2]
- You get +1 to Surival. [2]
- You get +1 to Tracking. [2]
- You get +1 to Taste & Smell. [2]
- You get +1 to Hearing. [2]
- You get -1 to Technology. [-2]
- You get +1 to Resist Influence. [2]
- Sylvan [0]
- Whether it's on purpose or not, when something someone else says or does reminds you of how much you wished you weren't such an oddball, gain Leverage on each other. [0]