Halfling

The result of humans mixing with shorter folk in bygone ages, halflings are short people.

Halfling cooking is known to be imbued with magical properties. The right cooking from a halfling can keep soldiers on their feet for days at a time, and can heal wounds much quicker. As such, most armies and almost every mercenary company has a well-paid halfling chef.

A steam tank was used by halflings as a mobile soup kitchen during the Great War. It had broken down and the cheeky blighters had it shoddily pieced back together so that it served as a passable transport. This has happened at least once, and in that instance the Pantry Guard was created - a unit of halfling infantrymen assigned to defend the steam tank cookhouse. History shows that some halflings have rode into battle atop gianteagles, swans, rams, sheep, and goats in the old days. The tradition of using great birds to wage war was taken up by several halfling cavalry units during the Great War, though most halfligns served as standard infantry or rangers if they went to battle at all. The Harvest Chiefs were a halfling reserve unit kept behind in their homeland in case it was breached by enemy forces.