Aristodes

The demands imposed by urban life create as many opportunities as they do problems, especially among a species as contentious as our own. Concentrating an often short-tempered race in a dense area inevitably leads to conflicts, especially when the overcrowding is only one of many other issues facing the city Dracon. Crime, unemployment, disease, and a lack of hygiene all plague the less prosperous districts of even the wealthiest of cities. In the opinion of this historian, most of the measures undertaken by the kings in the greatest of Dracon cities have been little more than palliatives, measures designed to ease the pain of the problems without actually solving them. Arenas, racetracks, and theaters all serve to distract the masses from their plight, with even the cultural value of the latter coming a distant second to their diversionary value. With all that understood, there is one common diversionary institution found in the major cities of the Dracon Realms which has at least

Halflings are perhaps the most unique of all humanoid races, at least among those who closely resemble their namesake. Standing at only three to three and a half feet tall, their stature is, unsurprisingly, about half that of a human. Much like elves, they possess pointed ears, albeit ones which don't extend as far and are pointed back instead of up, and they share the short stature and thick-soled feet of goblins. They usually have brown, red, or orange hair (with rare instances of black or blonde hair) with eye colors ranging from brown to blue, from hazel to green. Halfling feet are proportionally half again as large as those of most humans. Male halflings have hair on their feet much like a human man would have a beard, while female feet are hairless, much like that of a humaness' face. As distinctive as halfling biology is, their culture is even more so. While they share the usual patterns of male-led families, polytheistic religion, and a settled agricultural lifestyle common to