The water makes the Halfling Barbarian warriors itinerate explorers – the ultimate Adventuring parties. That is how they found themselves at the peasant village. They burnt it down hoping to murder or scare away they peasants. They want to settle their own people on the black, loamy soil and claim it for their own. They search endlessly for better land for their people. Some supplement with meager farming.Ī few warriors survive through conquest and adventure. A majority make their living through fishing. These Halfling Barbarians are a sea and river peoples. The Halfling Barbarians don’t care that murdered peasants call them barbarians. Ours is good. Barbarian is a term for “not civilized.” The face of their oncoming potential conqueror outside of their precious civilization. We, in here are, clean, cultured and civilized. Those who huddle within their manicured city walls use the word for “other.” Those outside are dirty Barbarians. Their Gods and Shamans weren’t that strong. And the Fighter doubted all the weaponry magic in the world lay in the hands of Halfling Barbarians. It was all about the weapon manufacturing. And, an exceptional sword, the Fighter knew, one that didn’t rust, pit, or shatter, while causing mayhem, was magic. A fine sword, forged by a master blacksmith, would leave equivalent damage to a peasant body. Yet, after a few months of bloody work, the Adventurer’s sword needed significant repairs. Her companion on the long roads. A ready tool when facing kobolds and highwaymen. Most swords the common peasant blacksmiths produced were serviceable but brittle. It would cut. It would stab. The sword was the Adventurer’s best friend. And bards claimed all sorts of ridiculous things. Adventurers found magic swords in distant treasure hordes and at the bottom of a dragon’s horde. Magic Swords – real, true magic swords – were the stuff of legend. Sword met flesh and the sword kept going. The swords cut through fat, bloody victims like a scythe through dry straw. The Adventurers stood in the wreckage of the burnt-out peasant village. The survivors told the Adventurers the Halfling Barbarian raiders wielded magic swords.
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