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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 5024663" data-attributes="member: 27051">Totally agree.  There's a great Brom picture in the original Wanderer's Journal showing halflings in forest ruins - cool to see some more riffing on that idea. I'd use that in a heartbeat.Well, that is what happens next - see The Road to Urik and The Crimson Legion.  SKs send their armies to do their dirty work of course - they're loathe to leave their own cities because when the cat's away... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In the original setting, they initially left the halflings alone because Rajaat told them to.  He was, after all, planning on giving the world back to the halflings when he was done with the Cleansing Wars.  It was the discovery of this by the SKs that led to them betraying and imprisoning Rajaat.  Afterwards, I'd always assumed that the cited reasons about the altitude of the mountains were a huge barrier to conquest - that and the fact that the Forest Ridge was a truly horrible place - think "green hell".  The desert is safe by comparison.</blockquote>