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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8756319" data-attributes="member: 6803643">Also parallels Glitchling, from the recent UA. I agree that it always makes me think small; besides Halflings you have Gelflings, and probably a bunch of other hobbit or gnome-like beings from other fiction that end in -ling.In some fiction - I think Shannara? - Halfling instead means someone who is half one lineage and half another. So an Elf-Human Halfling would be what we usually call a Half-elf. I can see how -ling can refer to someone that is a partial descendant of what it's modifying. Ardlings are descendants of ARchons or GuARDinals, presumably. But then what are Tieflings? Fiendling would almost be better, but Tiefling sounds so much cooler. And Glitchlings are descendents of Glitches in the <s>Matrix </s>Mechanus. Weirder to me is that while Ardling and Tiefling can now be small, Glitchling cannot. And there's no Chaosling for Limbo (maybe that's just the Plasmoid come Planescape, but then its name doesn't match the formatting). And why are Dwarves not able to be small, but humans can be? I mean, isn't that the definition of a Dwarf as opposed to a human? Most mythological creatures we associate with Gnomes or Halflings in D&D have names that actually mean something more along the lines of Dwarf, after all, and the whole point of Dwarves were that they were small mining fey. I get that they don't want to overlap too much between Rock Gnome and Dwarf (and Svirfneblin and Duergar), but it just comes off as distinctly odd to me.</blockquote>

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