[✗] [Ammendment] Halfling Clarifications feat. Corcitură Ankle Biters

[salamanderfantasy 1340]

[Core Race Lore] - Halflings

 

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Halflings, iconic for their short stature and idyllic lifestyle, are a highly concentrated and homogenized race among descendants. While bearing no heroic figure of the four brothers, Halflings rather have supposedly descended in a similar manner to Mali’dun. Certainly younger than any of the original four primary races, though elder enough to be beyond any true trace of lineage, Halflings are in history enigmatic. Though rather transparent and easygoing in their agrarian lifestyle, halflings have gone throughout history as peaceful farmers, typically straying outside of the violent conflicts which plague the other descendants. Celebrating a cultural folk-figure of “Knox”, this supposed god is an embodiment of the halfling spirit which lives on within every halfling.\

 

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Halflings, iconic for their short stature and idyllic lifestyle, are a highly concentrated and homogenized race among descendants. While bearing no heroic figure of the four brothers, Halflings rather have supposedly descended in a similar manner to Mali’dun, and similar to the elven-related Adunians, are of mixed descendant blood. They do not appear to present any curse or blessing strongly enough to determine ancestry, and arguably show aspects of all four. Certainly younger than any of the original four primary races, though elder enough to be beyond any true trace of lineage, Halflings are in history enigmatic. Though rather transparent and easygoing in their agrarian lifestyle, halflings have gone throughout history as peaceful farmers, typically straying outside of the violent conflicts which plague the other descendants. Celebrating a cultural folk-figure of “Knox”, this supposed god is an embodiment of the halfling spirit which lives on within every halfling.

 

 

[Feat] Corcitură

 

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Only Humans, Elves, Orcs and Dwarves (or mix breeds between those four) can be cursed as corcitură. 
-Halflings, all CA races, as well as Paladins, Templars, Heralds of Azdromoth and Druids cannot be afflicted with the corcitură curse. Further, corcituri cannot become any of the aforementioned, with the exception of evolving into full siliti via the rite of rebirth.

 

 

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-Only Humans, Elves, Orcs and Dwarves (or mixed Descendants, including hybrids and core races with mixed Descendant ancestry) can be cursed as corcitură.

 

-All CA races, as well as Paladins, Templars, Heralds of Azdromoth and Druids cannot be afflicted with the corcitură curse. Further, corcituri cannot become any of the aforementioned, with the exception of evolving into full siliti via the rite of rebirth.

 

 

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The result of a bit of casual discussion amongst the halflings and to a few ST members about the Mysterious Halfling Origins, and how the funny short people function in terms of lore, which got started around when a Corc player offered me the FA, with both of us assuming that halflings would be included. I didn’t take up the offer, but the redline didn’t make much sense to me. Discussion between the community and with ST has lead to the following conclusions:

 

• Quite a lot of halfling players prefer having vague race origins and the ST agreed that rewriting the core race lore to be more specific isn’t worth it
• Halflings are, for all intents and purposes, the result of mixed descendants, and are similar to Adunians (though not having specific curse/blessings because of The Vaugeness)
• Some lore writers, halfling players, or other players are confused about how halflings function for lore where they’re not mentioned by name in redlines. 
• Although only the Corc lorecurrently redlines out halflings on the basis of “no lore source that they’re related to descendants”, the same sentiment has led to confusion by players about halflings being allowed to have other types MAs/FAs. 
• Corc lore is a bit of an inconsistency; most other lore considers halflings already to be vague descendant mixes, so this is worth correcting.

 

So, this serves as a catch-all, rewriting the Corc redline to remove the halfling exclusion because for the purposes of lore halflings ARE “mixed breeds between the four”. This is clarified itself in the halfling core-lore, to reduce confusion between players and lore-writers for situations where halflings aren’t mentioned by name. Solidifying once and for all the position of halflings in-lore as “mixed descendants, fucked if we know which ones though”

 

Now RISE my ankle biters

 

(I also removed an errant \ at the end of the first halfling core lore paragraph)

 

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Screenshots of ST weighing in on this

 

And the lore for ammendments:

 

 

 

 

[S1nnerVsSa1nts 339]

I think it's important to note that it wasn't JUST an exclusion for Halflings. If I'm not mistaken the creator of Siliti/Corcituri was incredibly racist which is they didn't let mix-breeds (Half Elves, Half-Orcs, etc.) be capable of turning. Unless that is or has been changed this amendment doesn't really make much sense.

[salamanderfantasy 1340]

Just now, S1nnerVsSa1nts said:

I think it's important to note that it wasn't JUST an exclusion for Halflings. If I'm not mistaken the creator of Siliti/Corcituri was incredibly racist which is they didn't let mix-breeds (Half Elves, Half-Orcs, etc.) be capable of turning. Unless that is or has been changed this amendment doesn't really make much sense.

This is for Corcs specifically, which DO allow mixed breed descendants

 

From what I was told, halflings were exluded from corcs because there was no source in their lore which said halflings were related to descendants, just that they "probably" were. But other lore has assumed that the "probably" is enough to treat halflings as mixed breed descendants, so this clarification is for Consistency, as well as making that clear in the original lore!

[S1nnerVsSa1nts 339]

Just now, salamanderfantasy said:

This is for Corcs specifically, which DO allow mixed breed descendants

 

From what I was told, halflings were exluded from corcs because there was no source in their lore which said halflings were related to descendants, just that they "probably" were. But other lore has assumed that the "probably" is enough to treat halflings as mixed breed descendants, so this clarification is for Consistency, as well as making that clear in the original lore!

 

Ahhh I must've gotten it a bit mixed up, I gotchu. Yeah this makes sense - kinda funny that this wasn't already in it tbh.

[salamanderfantasy 1340]

Just now, S1nnerVsSa1nts said:

 

Ahhh I must've gotten it a bit mixed up, I gotchu. Yeah this makes sense - kinda funny that this wasn't already in it tbh.

I do think they are excluded from Siliti for the reasons you described above, but siliti aren't playable right now so I'm not touching on them (and I don't think I'd be including them in this change anyway, because it's a Lore Based Exclusion, not an Inconsistency Based Exclusion)

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6 minutes ago, S1nnerVsSa1nts said:

incredibly racist which is they didn't let mix-breeds (Half Elves, Half-Orcs, etc.) be capable of turning.

good

[NotEvilAtAll 10906]

halflings are forced to be normal, humble farmers instead of edgy darkspawn by lore? oh no, this is a HUGE loss for the halfling community /s

[salamanderfantasy 1340]

17 minutes ago, NotEvilAtAll said:

halflings are forced to be normal, humble farmers instead of edgy darkspawn by lore? oh no, this is a HUGE loss for the halfling community /s

As if I couldn't be a humble vampire making black pudding for second breakfast fry ups smh

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