Where the dwarves build for permanence and the gnomes grow with patience, the Abcán create for the simple, restless joy of creation itself—a small people, standing a head or so above gnomish height but still well below human, with round, expressive faces and a fondness for bright colors and clever ornamentation that makes a halfling settlement visible from a considerable distance by sheer force of decoration alone. Their skin tones run warm—tan, ruddy, and deep amber—and their hair, worn in every imaginable style and just as frequently dyed some improbable shade its owner found more interesting than nature's original choice, tends toward curl and volume that seems to defy the same tidy practicality other races bring to their own grooming. Halfling hands are quick, clever, and rarely still for long, forever fidgeting with some small mechanism, sketch, or half-finished trinket even in conversation—a habit other races find charming, distracting, or faintly alarming depending entirely on how recently that halfling's last invention exploded.
If the dwarves consider engineering a discipline of exacting permanence, and the gnomes consider agriculture a conversation with patient natural cycles, the Abcán consider craft itself a form of play—brilliant, occasionally reckless, and driven far more by the question of what if than by any sober assessment of should we. This has made Abcán Dúnamhar's foremost artists, inventors, and metallurgists, capable of work that borders on genius, and just as capable of work that borders on genuine hazard to everyone standing nearby when an experiment doesn't go quite as planned.
- CUNNING: Abcán start with a d6 in Smarts instead of a d4. This increases maximum Smarts to d12+1.
- LOW LIGHT VISION: Abcán eyes can see in darkness. They ignore penalties for Dim and Dark Illumination.
- KEEN SENSES: Abcán start with a d6 in Notice instead of a d4. This increases their maximum to d12+1 as well.
- SIZE −1: Adult Abcán are typically four feet tall, reducing their Size and Toughness by 1.
- REDUCED PACE: Decrease the character’s Pace by 1 and running die one die type.