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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 1599293" data-attributes="member: 15999">I really like this idea, as well as Nellisir's "Keepers of Hidden Knowledge" idea.In a campaign I'm sketching, dwarves and humans say that gnomes are dwarves touched by the Realm of Faerie and elves are humans so touched.  Elves say that Elves and Dwarves are equally ancient race and gnomes are the result of interbreeding in The Elder Days (with humans being created from monkeys by a curious deity).  Gnomes say that they are the oldest, and Elves and Dwarves resulted from a fracturing of their line into the wood-folk and the stone-folk, with the forest and rock gnomes there to maintain a connection to each offshoot.  Sometimes, gnomes say that all three stories are true - although they are keepers of lore and all agree that they discovered magic, gnomes have a curious view of logic which makes their lore incomprehensible to most outsiders.Halflings, however, came fairly recently from Elsewhere, and as such are completely outside the loop of Fate.  No prophecy concerns the halflings, and every prophecy now has the implicit caveat "...unless a halfling interferes somehow."  Although they mostly wish to be left alone with their farms, they are often sought out, being extremely unpopular with anybody seeking to fulfull a prophecy and extremely popular with anybody wishing to thwart one.</blockquote>