Halflings

Halflings believe luck is real, and that it is not personal but communal: a shared pool that a family or a village holds together. You tend it with small courtesies and small rituals, and you spend it with boasting, greed & needless risk. A Halfling who gambles the household’s fortune on pride has not only risked themselves, they have stolen from everyone.

In a realm where fortune does sometimes visibly bend in mortals’ favor (Luck Events), this reads less like superstition than like plain observation.

Rooted & roaming

Halflings are the quiet heart of many Luminian farm villages, and the two kindreds tend luck differently:

• Stout halflings keep the rooted luck of hearth and harvest
• Lightfoot halflings carry a traveling luck, sharing it road to road

Friction

Others hear the constant small rituals and call Halflings superstitious. Halflings in turn quietly distrust the loud and the grasping, the sort who spend the whole room’s luck and never think to put any back.