Physical Description: Most halflings appear relatively the same and nightlings vary only slightly from that stereotypical appearance They stand about three and a half feet tall, weighing between 30 and 50 pounds Their bodies are covered with dark hair used both for concealment and to help them keep warm in the chill of the wasteland Their eyes are small and slanted, almost elven in appearance And they seem to be designed to utilize every bit of the moonlight with their large pupils, colored in shades of gray Many hunters have tattoos and piercings intended to show their rank among their tribe Generally the more ornate the tattoo or the larger the number of piercings, the higher the position in the pecking order Alignment: Nightlings can be of any alignment Within their own tribe they might be seen as having a lawful nature, but those outside of their own society see only the chaos of their rage and ferocity Religion: Nightlings have a complex religion composed of a number of gods They not, however, perform complex rituals They kill to honor Nibtenay and perform ritual scarring and piercings to honor Grestíka and purge their bodies of pain and impurities In general they honor their gods through actions not through ritual Besides the gods, their shamans hold great influence within the tribe, almost being equal to the chieftain in power In some cases the word of the shaman is taken over the chieftain in matters of survival and when determining the rank of the hunters These shamans are greatly revered, as they are the only weapon the nightlings have against the incorporeal creatures native to the wastelands Nightling Lands: The home of the Nightlings on Relistan is in the wastelands that surround the Illurian capital They are organized into tribes with each tribe holding dominion over a particular part of the wasteland They attack all who they see as trespassers This is why Illurian merchant caravans are so heavily guarded There are always conflicts between the tribes, but this is no more than another form of competition, to determine the status order of the tribes amongst themselves It is possible that other nightling tribes exist 158 beyond the borders of the wastelands, but such tribes have not yet been discovered Language: The nightling language consists of a series of clicks and hoots This language is completely incomprehensible to most people, who think of it as the noise of savage animals When hunting, the nightlings actually mimic the sounds of animals to communicate and set up ambushes, though they switch to their normal language after the battle has begun Very few people outside of the nightling race ever have a chance to learn to understand let alone speak the nightling’s native tongue Male Names: Agach, Sargak, Xarkig Female Names: Luknok, Rishta, Xersh Adventures: On occasion nightlings are sent by their shamans or chieftains on missions beyond the wastelands There are also those who have been expelled from the tribe for any number of reasons They abhor killing members of their own tribe, but are more than willing to expel them from the safety of their homes to survive or perish on their own should it be deemed better for the survival of the tribe Twilight Gnomes In the north of the continent of Slarinca lies a strange forest that is saturated with energies leaking in from the elemental planes Energy from the Elemental Plane of Water has seeped into the natural ground water of the region The trees drink it and bear iridescent fruit The animals drink from the springs and change in strange ways The water and the food supply it affects have changed the gnomes native to the area as well It has granted them strange abilities and a skin tone reminiscent of the sea While the Twilight Gnomes are a race unto themselves, they have much in common with their more mundane cousins They enjoy the art of invention and illusion as any other self-respecting gnome, but they have been forced to adapt to their strange environment, and the otherworldly powers that exist in the region, hidden behind the appearances, both mystical and mundane, of the Twilight Wood Personality: Twilight gnomes are an adventurous people by nature Some pursue