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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 9453140" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Easy: Dragons.Robert E Howard (being a bigot notwithstanding) initially had the ancient Valusians, the serpentfolk of his 'Alternate Earth' setting with Conan and all, offend the gods by having them essentially wipe out entire species of peoples by genetic modification millions upon millions of years ago.In response, the gods of those species unleashed a truly terrible cataclysm on the world: Dragons (dinosaurs). The Valusians couldn't fight against the giant monsters and survive so they became a subterranean species hiding in the dark places of the world and stewing over their fallen empire.EVENTUALLY the gods decide to start over on Earth and wipe out the dragons before the coming of giants and eventually humans.So... what if in your setting, the dragons were the apocalyptic wrath of the gods unleashed upon the world to destroy the halflings for whatever it is they did in that ancient past... and when there were no halflings to eat (because they went into hiding) the dragons largely turned on each other, wiping out entire flights of dragons in epic wars that set the sky afire.And when it was over, the world reached a sort of peace where the dragons that remain, still as powerful as they ever were, are just in -tiny- numbers because they keep fighting when they run into each other. They've carved the world into their own territories and isolated themselves outside of mating and other specific interactions...And the halflings and other heritages have repopulated the world in between their various Hellmountains and Monsterswamps. You don't go to X mountain because of the Red Dragon Phlethelegos or the Y swamp because of the acid fields of the Black Dragon Ussurriax. Sure their minions, kobolds and the like, raid villages near those locations, but what are you gonna do about it?If you go in to do a Kobold Cleanup to push them back, the dragons destroy your kingdom for harming their 'servants'. The best you can do is keep your head down and hope not to accidentally cause another apocalyptic attack.</blockquote>

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