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Small but Mighty
Small but Mighty
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Squirmy: You can Test 1d6 whenever you are successfully hit by an enemy. If your Test is successful, you evade the attack and do not take damage. Declaring Evade as an Action has no additional benefit.
Short-kin average between 2 and 4 feet tall and live anywhere from 50-60 years.
Short-kin are an ancient race, presumably originating from the savanna. They're physically quite delicate people, considering their small stature and short lifespan. Despite this, they've proven themselves impossible to stamp out. Through a combination of wits and hiding, short-kin have managed to survive for thousands of years.
Short-kin are diverse in their appearances but generally divide themselves up into three separate branches: goblins, halflings, and gnomes.
Goblins, sometimes also called gargoyles, are a cave-dwelling branch of short-kin, with some villages of theirs even being entirely underground. They tend to have skin tones ranging from stony gray to mossy green, bat-like ears, and small tusks.
Halflings, sometimes also called field short-kin, are often mistaken for small humans. However, they can be told apart quite easily by looking at their ears, which tend to be large and round like a mouse's. While they don't usually grow facial hair, they can have whiskers on their cheeks, chin, upper lip, and above their eyes.
Gnomes are the least common branch of short-kin. They're similar to dwarves in appearance, but are much smaller, usually closer to 2 feet tall. Their hair tends to resemble feathers in a way, growing in soft clumps to form leafy shapes. Both male and female gnomes can grow facial hair.
These three branches are not solid groups so much as a spectrum. For instance, it would not be outlandish to see a gnome with big round ears or a halfling with tusks.
Much of Shortkin culture is based around their survival, though the tone may shift. Some holidays commemorate particularly daring escapes from death, while others are times of memorial for those who were lost. Either way, one would be hard-pressed to find a worldview more delighted by the simple act of existing than that of the short-kin.
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