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==History==
Halflings brought savage orcish and human tribes together under one banner to defend each other against the chromatic dragons.  Over centuries, this union has created an intermingled culture and population that is both vibrant and strong.

The final turning point in the War Against Dragons is central to the current state of the Triple Alliance.  Despite heroic efforts and generations of fighting and sacrifice, the alliance was unable to break the power of the dragons, largely because any time they got close, Tiamat would descend from the heavens and incinerate everything.  In desperation, many of the human leaders joined a secret cabal to find the power necessary to keep The Queen of Dragons out of the fight.  They found the answer in the dark flames of Hell, and made pacts with fiendish powers up to Asmodeus himself, pacts that altered their very flesh and blood.  They wielded the terrible power they'd bought to curse Tiamat, sending her crashing from the skies and crawling back to her island in tatters.  At this moment, the paladins of Bahamut struck, not at the Queen, but at the human nobles, bringing them low before the evil they'd sold their souls for could infect the world.  They spared the children of these nobles, and from them are the tieflings descended.  This act of seeming betrayal is known as the Sacrifice of Saints, and is generally accepted in the stories to have been a fate the infernal nobles planned on.