The Level Up Starter Box launched on Kickstarter last week. We’ve already met at T’lingbet, the dragonborn ranger, Akanni, the human adept, Diamond, the planetouched cleric, and Gywven the dwarf rogue. Now let’s take a look at Mara, the halfling sorcerer.
Level Up (A5E) Meet Mara, Halfling Sorcerer
Mara the halfling grew up in a hill dwarf culture!
DevL
Explorer
That’s cool and all, but the character art depicts someone that looks like she’d break a nail rather than tear an opponent a new one with her fierce set of claws. Does she have the claws on her feet?
Also, A5E halflings sound like badgers!
Corinnguard
Hero
Hehe. Not even close.
There are other burrowing animals in RL that could be their ancestor. 
bedir than
Full Moon Storyteller
This misconception has lead Mara to marring several in bar fights
Corinnguard
Hero
"Her nails are sharper than they look."
Maybe burrowing halflings have something like Wolverine in their DNA.That’s cool and all, but the character art depicts someone that looks like she’d break a nail rather than tear an opponent a new one with her fierce set of claws. Does she have the claws on her feet?
Also, A5E halflings sound like badgers!
LuisCarlos17f
Legend
When you are creating your PC for a lont time with a lot of with care and affection but then the DM is too used to kill PCs in Call of Chulthu...
Corinnguard
Hero
Stoat - Wikipedia
The Shaper was buried, tricked into a deep hollow made their tomb by those they trusted most. The Shaper wept, until they felt a touch. A family of stoats at their feet, fearless and consoling. The Shaper asked, “How are living things here? They meant to sever me fully…” The stoats responded in their simple tongue, “Weep not great Shaper, luckless we sought nought but a hollow from the rain. At least you’ll not be severed alone.” The Shaper reached out and said, “Not luckless little ones, least, never again. You brave kind things who would console me as I wept, you’ve no claim on my loathsome fate, and my work can live on yet.” The weakened Shaper worked, and the stoats were reshaped, given the gifts of ken like those the Shaper had trusted. The Shaper gave a half measure in earnest, as only a half measure remained, and in dying breath thrust their halfling creation up through the hallowed rock to the hills above. And halflings they would remain.—Passage 12 from The Poem of Kin
The Shaper is one of the deities in Level Up (pg. 629 in the Adventurer's Guide). Their domains are Community, Friendship, Hospitality, Loyalty, Halflings, Humility, Surprise.
Those Halflings with the Burrowing gift retain a bit of their stoat ancestry.
The Shaper was buried, tricked into a deep hollow made their tomb by those they trusted most. The Shaper wept, until they felt a touch. A family of stoats at their feet, fearless and consoling. The Shaper asked, “How are living things here? They meant to sever me fully…” The stoats responded in their simple tongue, “Weep not great Shaper, luckless we sought nought but a hollow from the rain. At least you’ll not be severed alone.” The Shaper reached out and said, “Not luckless little ones, least, never again. You brave kind things who would console me as I wept, you’ve no claim on my loathsome fate, and my work can live on yet.” The weakened Shaper worked, and the stoats were reshaped, given the gifts of ken like those the Shaper had trusted. The Shaper gave a half measure in earnest, as only a half measure remained, and in dying breath thrust their halfling creation up through the hallowed rock to the hills above. And halflings they would remain.—Passage 12 from The Poem of Kin
The Shaper is one of the deities in Level Up (pg. 629 in the Adventurer's Guide). Their domains are Community, Friendship, Hospitality, Loyalty, Halflings, Humility, Surprise.
Those Halflings with the Burrowing gift retain a bit of their stoat ancestry.
I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry at this ... 'cause both seem appropriate.
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