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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benben" data-source="post: 1806526" data-attributes="member: 110">My "Halflings" in my game world refer to creatures with the half-fey template.  They're considered highly untrustworthy by humans and gnomes. For the little guys that have similar stats to D&D halflings I have the Hsien. The Hsien are my nod to Chinese culture circa the Romance of the Three Kingdoms era.  Their religion involves ancestor veneration and a tremendous belief in balance of the 10,000 passions.  They are strict vegans because they believe that animals are representations of passions and a person will become severely imbalanced when they consume that much passion-eneryg.  (There is a black market for exotic meats.)  The only exception is the death of a family member, beloved friend, or respected enemy--in this case the corpse is ritualistically consumed in the funerary rites.  They are mostly an agrian culture and are only now trading with races across the great inner sea. The Hsien due to where they live are very behind in metallurgical science.  The clay of their part of the planet, however, when baked by the fires of native tree can create ceramics that are harder than steel.  Hsien pottery is a hot commodity throughout the known world because of this. There are three kingdoms of the Hsien.  Wu Hsien is a philosophical culture based on the more magical aspects of Chinese Wuxia stories.  Their pottery traditionally uses blue and white glazes to depict natural scenes.  The kingdom of the Wei Hsien covers the aspects of the corrupt bureaucracy from Chinese stories.  Eunuch Warlocks are plotting behind every corner and ninja is the favored class of the people.  Their pottery uses white, reds, greens, and blues in complicate geometrical patterns.  The Shu Hsien kingdom is on the verge of moving to a semi-democratic government.  They have a strong magistrate system with harsh laws.  Their pottery is usually black with metallic glazes (raku).</blockquote>

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