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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9286075" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Well, I kind of left them out because I didn't want to write overmuch; the intent with the &quot;etc&quot; was that the other types also exist. So the idea (for me anyway) is that rock gnomes absorb the &quot;hobbits live in holes&quot; angle, becoming &quot;cragstep&quot; hinn, and blend together the &quot;landed gentry&quot; angle with the &quot;tinker and creator&quot; angle. They tend to the land's physical resources, rock and soil, as opposed to living resources. And yes, this does mean that Bilbo would have been a particularly homebody flavor of cragstep hinn, quite proud of things like his collection of silver spoons, but he has a bit of &quot;fairy blood&quot; from his Took mother. More adventurous cragstep hinn would be stereotypically associated with artifice, smithing, and/or wizardry.And then ghostwise hinn, which absorb svirfneblin, are connected to the Deeps of the world, drawn to dark caves (themselves a land one can be bound to!), but also to the places where alien things try to leak into the world, mostly from the Far Realm.Humans who got Weirded by spending too much time in deep space would be an example of what happens to living things that aren't protected from the alien things that try to leak into normal reality. A relatively tame example, at least. Much, much darker things can arise from it too (e.g. in this setup, one possible explanation for the origin of mindflayers is that they were once perfectly normal life, twisted into something horrible by the Far Realm due to lacking protectors analogous to the ghostwise hinn.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9286075, member: 6790260"] Well, I kind of left them out because I didn't want to write overmuch; the intent with the "etc" was that the other types also exist. So the idea (for me anyway) is that rock gnomes absorb the "hobbits live in holes" angle, becoming "cragstep" hinn, and blend together the "landed gentry" angle with the "tinker and creator" angle. They tend to the land's [I]physical[/I] resources, rock and soil, as opposed to [I]living[/I] resources. And yes, this does mean that Bilbo would have been a particularly homebody flavor of cragstep hinn, quite proud of things like his collection of silver spoons, but he has a bit of "fairy blood" from his Took mother. More adventurous cragstep hinn would be stereotypically associated with artifice, smithing, and/or wizardry. And then ghostwise hinn, which absorb svirfneblin, are connected to the Deeps of the world, drawn to dark caves (themselves a land one can be bound to!), but also to the places where [I]alien things[/I] try to leak into the world, mostly from the Far Realm. Humans who got Weirded by spending too much time in deep space would be an example of what happens to living things that [I]aren't[/I] protected from the [I]alien things[/I] that try to leak into normal reality. A relatively tame example, at least. Much, much darker things can arise from it too (e.g. in this setup, one possible explanation for the origin of mindflayers is that they were once perfectly normal life, twisted into something horrible by the Far Realm due to lacking protectors analogous to the ghostwise hinn.) [/QUOTE]

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