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[–] illusoryMechanist@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I can see the halfling thing being an interesting origin story for a villain. Heroic halflings need some sort of evil individial or force to fight against to work as a solid narrative- so if the culture got a little bit too risky with using a specific fictional individual as that enemy, they could become real