Quartling

Quartlings are the dominant race in Pridain. They are the result of millenia of interbreeding between the original races of the world, and get their name from the common belief that they are 'a quarter of everything known'.

Appearance
As quartlings come from a cocktail of heritages they often bear a few different variances that do not reliably appear consistently. The most common of these are the large pointed-ears found in elves and gnomes, small horns and vestigial tails from tieflings, tusks found in orcs, and the body and face hair patternings of dwarves and halflings. Also due to this cauldron of influences quartlings have a wide range of heights (between 3 feet and 6 feet tall) and skin tones (most commonly shades of brown, pink, blue, and green). Of all these traits Quartlings are most likely to bear the traits of their parents, especially if one of their parents is a full-blooded person of one of the founding races. However, it is not uncommon for certain traits to lay dorment for some time and appear randomly.

Heights, hair colouring, and skin tone usually lie somewhere inbetween those possessed by the individual's parents.

Quartlings in the Known World
Quartlings seem to only exist in numbers in Grand Pridain, and are very rarely found in the other countries of the Known World. It seems that the other lands have kept their racial groups homogenous, as can be seen in the recently colonised Arborica where the known natives are all of Genasi descent.