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 Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:42 am
Betha - teatroll: Betha is a good natured creature, with fluffy ears and tail. She delights in all things domestic, regardless of it's tediousness. She is a very contented and pleasant individual, and has an affectionate nature. She is very flexible, not bothered by unexpected changes, no matter how large. Generally she is very unruffled, peaceable and reassuring. Most teatrolls are generally like this, though there are extremes in both directions. Betha tends to be an extreme on the good-natured side. Her special talents include cooking, organization, and a touch of calming magic. Her view on life is very practical. "Tears cannot unmake a mistake," is one of her favorite sayings. Also, "Gabbling on about something doesn't get it done."
Teatrolls are very short, often only standing three to three and a half feet tall. They are built stockily, round and tubby, probably partially due to their less-than-active lifestyle. They have slightly dispreportionate limbs, with their legs being slightly shorter than is typical for humanoid-shape. This also tends to less physical and athletic tendancies.
They are farmers as a racial trade, trading their tea crops to Big Folk. Teatrolls are vegitarians, though occasionally they will eat fish for special occasions. They keep ponies, goats, and other domestic pets, but none are caged. All animals are allowed to roam freely, but are lavished with love so that each animal knows and is dedicated to their owner. The goats give milk, and the ponies draw carts and plows. Again, only when they are willing. If an animal shows signs of restlessness or distress, they are released immediately from any harnessing or binding. Teatrolls care very much for their livestock.
It is generally agreed among the teatroll community that large dogs are not acceptable pets. Small to medium dogs are preferred, and cats preferred even moreso. Families tend to stay in many-roomed homes, several generations together. This gives the entire community a stronger bond. Chores within each household are shared about, from oldster to tealing. Such chores are not so much split by gender, as by ability. If one of the females can swing an axe better than the currently available male, then it would be she who goes to chop more wood for the cookstove.
Above all, teatrolls love music. Almost all teatrolls can play some kind of insturment, whether spoons or a fiddle, hand-drum or whistle. Family groups gather in evenings for music and dancing, merriment and laughter. Festivals involve much of the same thing, but involving the entire community.
The teatroll community tends to live on it's own, at a distance from the Big Folk. Though they welcome travelers that are passing through, or come to do trade, they do not encourage them to settle. A single small home is kept clean and tidy that is Big Folk size, as a place for their visitors to stay.
As a side note, teatrolls and Big Folk are not compatible for romantic or procreative ventures.
Edit for later inclusion: Teatrolls love doing domestic things. They live as a farming community, lacking technology, and are very content farming, tending animals, cleaning house, doing chores, cooking food, that sort of thing. They consider their lives rich and full, doing just these things. They don't generally have the urge to make things better and more effecient or modern. Nor do they have wanderlust.
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:20 am
Simplicity
Simples are small creatures that might have the shape of a known animal, but they can speak. They were called Simples by those who first discovered them because of their simple minds. Even as full grown adults, they lack the capability of understanding complex ideas or grasping a large volume of knowledge. As babes and children, they are the epitimy of innocence, with all ts up and downs. As adults, they squabble and fight like children, but also make up quickly and find pleasure in small things easily. Occasionally a Simple will become an elder, or a Simple Truth. When this happens, they have a blinding moment of epiphany, coming to understand one concept thoroughly and completely. Simple Truths are considered very wise by the other Simples, and are treated with respect and favor. Simple Truths gain a pair of double wings to mark their wonderous inner enlightenment. Offspring of Simple Truths gain single wings, but do not gain double wings unless they too achieve the height of Simple Truth.
It was the Tea Trolls who first discovered these small delights, and named them Simples and Simple Truths. As caretakers of all living things, the tea trolls take their stuwardship of the child-like creatures very seriously. Only recently have they begun allowing Big Folk to look after these precious and simplistic critters. Some Simples are carted off into the wild blue yonder, never to be seen again. Others remain with their owners in the valley to grow families and become Simple Truths.
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