As the kids would say, "OMG!" Furry, barefoot halflings are back!
Well, he is a halfling and not a kender...
(He's not just a freak, right? This is the standard for halflings, at least in Varisia?)
It doesn't seem like it. On page 64 of Pathfinder #3 there's another furryfoot.
Halfling ? Where ? Where ?
He's awesome, nothing like an iconic to establish a race as an excellent character choice.
Also I was really pleased to see the foot hair! It sets halfings nicely apart, if they must wear shoes it should be leather sandals at the most.
if they must wear shoes it should be leather sandals at the most.
Actually, I think that halfling footwear should be spats like in the picture, if anything.
This makes we wonder about the exact treatment of Halflings in Cheliax, Korvosa, and Magnimar. I am playing a Magnimarish Halfing for RotRL, so I need to know!
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I think he looks great. Well done guys.
I'm not usually a fan of bards, but I can't wait to see how you guys develop him further.
Maybe, if his flute doubled as a weapon . . . like if a certain note is blown, a shortspear blade springs forth from the flute's end, or whenever he plays a certain shrill note, a poisoned blowgun needle is shot out . . . he has potential.
I like the mischievous look in his eye.
This makes we wonder about the exact treatment of Halflings in Cheliax, Korvosa, and Magnimar. I am playing a Magnimarish Halfing for RotRL, so I need to know!
After humans, halflings are the most populace race in Magnimar (clocking in at a whopping 5% of the population). As a city that's made its fame off being an open port, Magnimar welcomes anyone with the money to deal, halflings included. Most halflings, however, come to the city as sailors (halfling ships are smaller and cheaper to man) and travelers, not merchants. That, and the long held racial prejudices held by Chelish residents probably means that a good deal of scorn and mistreatment gets heaped upon Magnimarian halflings' tiny shoulders, but anything more than a few slurs and unwelcoming establishments would be rare. The city's racism is a product of a portion of its populace, not its government. The large Varisian population—who typically get along quite well with halflings—make parts of the city, particularly Ordellia and Lowcleft, quite welcoming.
I'll let Mike chime in on Korvosa here. But as for Cheliax, we don't know much besides that halflings are second-class citizens and are often bought and sold as house slaves, entertainers, and disposable labor (they’re half the price of most other slaves after all).
Half price... halfling... that might be where the name comes from...
Maybe, if his flute doubled as a weapon . . . like if a certain note is blown, a shortspear blade springs forth from the flute's end, or whenever he plays a certain shrill note, a poisoned blowgun needle is shot out . . .
Haha, cool.
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Most halflings, however, come to the city as sailors (halfling ships are smaller and cheaper to man) and travelers, not merchants.
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I'll let Mike chime in on Korvosa here.
Halflings are mostly ignored in Korvosa, although as Wes indicates they are pretty widely used as sailors. Unlike Magnimar halfling sailors, though, those who live and work in Korvosa do so for one of the noble houses (who own the ships). Korvosa is not a great place to be a halfling (although it's better than Cheliax, by a little bit), unless the halfling really likes ships.
Heh. I figured that anyone with Blackguards/Paladins of Tyranny for a city guard isn't a nice place to live for anybody.
I clicked on the pic to get the big view. I got a big smile on my face when I got to the hairy feet. :D
The Harrow deck uses the iconics from Pathfinder #7 as its example characters, and the guys on the Pathfinder team took some extra time coming up with the name of the halfling bard. So I threatened to put in the character's name as "Trixie Hobbitz" if they didn't get me an answer that day. Oddly, he got a name very quickly thereafter.
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Heh. I figured that anyone with Blackguards/Paladins of Tyranny for a city guard isn't a nice place to live for anybody.
That is a filthy lie spread by those stinky dirty hippies in Abken. The Korvosan Guard and Sable Company are not jack-booted thugs. They are hard-working men and women dedicated to the safety of Korvosa and all (okay, most) of its citizens.
Now if you're referring to the Order of the Nail, well...
I was referring to the Hellknights, yes.
Anybody ever notice that when halflings (or anyone for that matter) are drawn, where they walk around barefooted, their toes and toes nails always look so neat. You'd think walking around barefooted would leave your feet filthy and you wouldn't bother keeping your nails perfectly pedicured.
I can't say I like the name of the halfling though. Lem? Makes me think of Lemmiwinks from South Park, which already attempted to ruin my memory of the animated Hobbit.
But they're Hellknights.From a nation built on Infernal contracts. I can't imagine anyone Good joining them.
Furry feet! Hooo-raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
(For the record, I have furry feet, too)
Good is very subjective, their just extreme lawful, and that kind of regimented discipline can be seen as both evil or good, but it just itself, unyeilding and in the case of Hellknights well-armed, I quite like the idea of children idolizing a hellknight who saved a settlement or a his parents from a ravening otyugh, as in the cover of Pathfinder #7.
That's what I gather so far, the effort to give them both good and bad acts to their name, and them being very lawful.
Also I think Lem is a kick ass halfling name, I hope that we get halfling names and so on in some pathfinder, or the Gazeteer or Campaign setting, like the Varisian and Shoanti names and all the names of people from different countries in the Eberron book The Five Nations, I've always loved those naming bars as resources, they have so many applications, I've used them more than almost anything else in that supplement.
...or tended hellhound stables...
I'll never complain about cleaning up after my dog again!
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While the illustration of Lem seems a little derivative of Grimble, the iconic gnome bard of WotC, I love anything Wayne Reynolds does. I'm in the camp of hairy feet for halflings (I still call 'em Hobbits in my campaign), and one with blonde hair is a cool departure from the usual.
I'm looking forward to Paizo releasing the rest of the iconics as metal miniatures. I'd certainly buy those!
YAY! for Pathfinder halflings. Loving the art for Lem!
While I throughly enjoyed "Runelords",I'm practically salivating over "Crimson Throne." (Halflings? Paladins? AND unrban adventuring?AWESOME!!)
By the way: What do the halflings call themselves? I doubt they came up with halfling all by themselves. Do they have a name for themselves? If so, do they still use it?
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By the way: What do the halflings call themselves? I doubt they came up with halfling all by themselves. Do they have a name for themselves? If so, do they still use it?
Probably why Tolkien had them call themselves hobbits, and humans called them halflings. Somewhere (FR maybe? or the Basic D&D set) they were called Hin, I think.
Or maybe just the halfling equivalent of "the People." Most people's names for themselves in the real world were some derivative of that.
Anybody ever notice that when halflings (or anyone for that matter) are drawn, where they walk around barefooted, their toes and toes nails always look so neat. You'd think walking around barefooted would leave your feet filthy and you wouldn't bother keeping your nails perfectly pedicured.
I sorta view a halflings feet as being like a dwarf's beard or an "old-school" gnome's nose; its their pride and joy and, besides their height, the distinguishing feature of their race. The over-sized, hairy, feet are what makes a halfing a halfling rather than just a small human. While I don't know this for a fact, I'm fairly sure that is the very reason Tolkein gave hobbits big hairy feet- to denote/establish that they are indeed a completely seperate and distinct race of beings rather than just simply diminuitive humans.
Anyways, with that in mind, I would imagine that keeping their feet as neat and tidy as possible would be of utmost importance to a halfling.
Just my view on the matter.
Somewhere (FR maybe? or the Basic D&D set) they were called Hin, I think.
Yes, that's FR.
Now, what's Golarion's equivalent for Hin?
Furry feet! Hooo-raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
*does a dance*
I'm really happy about this. The traditional halfling is back, and yet seems so new. I love this setting!
(For the record, I have furry feet, too)
TMI !!! :)
The Five Shires Gazetteer from Basic D&D also used Hin as the name for halflings.
And to bring it full circle, the author of The Five Shires was a certain Ed Greenwood, so I guess it makes sense for that same name to be used by the halflings in the Forgotten Realms, eh?