Free People

The Free People (or Frihas, as they call themselves) is a collection of communities of halflings roaming the Big Plateau in central Elloth.

Ethos
Free People consider absolute freedom of choice as something that is above everything else. This individualism does that any halfling disagreeing with the ways of living of its community normally exiles from it to search for some other group of halflings more like minded or to create its own.

Specially remarkable are the gatherings with the dragonborn tribe of the Children of the Brass Moon happening in each of the two solstices by the riverside of the Telba, close by the rock formation of Quorok Pak. The two tribes mix together and commerce. Come the night they exchange presents and each one throw a party at their side of the river. Free People tend to invite the dragonborn to their celebrations but the children of the brass moon usually rejects the offer as they consider them a bit too noisy and hectic for their taste.

Organization
The lack of a pattern when organizing their own communities makes impossible to describe the social organization of the Free People. Cities and small settlements come and go is a few generations and even the ones that persist for a bit longer may very well lose half of its population in a summer if a part of its residents decide to move on. Long lasting races like dwarfs and elves are commonly surprised when visiting the region for the second time after a long time as none of the landscapes they knew might be in the same place for their second visit.

Nowadays there are two big settlements of Frihas: New Constant and The Big City. In the past there was another one (called Alltogether) but it dissapeared when different groups of halflings decided to split and leave until the city was reduced to a small village that still remains to this day.

Economics
The Free People live in a simple way, growing their own food and hunting occasionally. They make their own tools and clothing, some of them specifically for commerce.

Quotes
"If you don't want your bum to smell like your pot, a lizard you shan't taunt"