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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 1975994" data-attributes="member: 2673">The Halfling Brotherhood - In the Kingdom of Enoch, one can find the race of halflings.  They are a pastoral, peaceful people (ie, my halflings are hobbits, not kender).  They are a ruled people - the human King rules over them and grands a human lord to rule their lands.  They pay their taxes, and when the barbarians or goblins come out of the hills, the lords send their knights.Not all halflings are happy with this situation.  They have merged their race's natural tendency toward stealth along with secrets stolen from the human mages.  These halfling arcane tricksters move into positions of power in the kingdom as advisors, cooks, or simple servants.  Their goals are independence for their people, or at least having halfling lords over halfling communities.  They lack raw strength, but have been known to use their familiars to rapidly communicate across the kingdom and know more secrets of the realm than any other group.THis was born of a player wanting to make a halfling arcane trickster, and I'm one of those DMs who insist that prestige classes have some kind of connection to the setting.  The 'Halfling Illuminati' is now a part of the landscape.The Orcs - When setting up the world, I wanted either inherantly evil Tolkien ords, or spiritual warrior Warcraft orcs.  I decided to go with both.  The empire of Krall is the dominant force in the world - inspired by Rome.  Their slave masters dreamed of a perfect slave race, suitable as either warriors or laborers.  They bred men with goblins and a bit of demon blood, producing the obsidian orcs.  These first experiments were fierce in battle, but far too unruly to make good servants.  They revolted and fled to the southern forests and began breeding and raiding.The slave masters decided to infuse their breeding program with divine magics, to give the new race a tendency toward religion.  They could then be taught to follow Krall's gods, and that would keep them in line.  This didn't work as well.  The jade orcs didn't take to Krall's gods, and instead were drawn to shamanism and simple nature worship.  They revolted as well, and live in the mountains to the east and west.  They are a much misunderstood people, as most don't take the time to learn the differences in orc breeds.Finally the slave masters bred the obsidian orcs with beings tainted with Devil's blood.  This produces the Crimson Orcs, also called Hobgoblins.  This was a total success, and the Empire's Hobgoblin legions have allowed them to voraciously consume most of the smaller kingdoms around them.  They are cruel and merciless, but have a natural tendency toward organization and an urge to follow orders.</blockquote>

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