The Brandysnaps Clan is one the major Halfling Clans and can trace their lineage back to the Mootland’s oldest farming family. They have a deep affinity with the rich, fertile earth and growing things. Much like typical Stirlanders, Brandysnaps are often slow of speech and deep of thought, and they have a reputation for being legendarily lazy. In truth, they are best suited to the slow pace of bucolic life on a farm, where sunrise and seasons set the pace, not minutes and hours, and where everyone works together for the common good, without worrying too much about high-minded abstractions such as personal space and private property.[1a]
In many ways the cheerful, lackadaisical Brandysnaps, with their open faces and light fingers, are the archetypal Halflings, often caricatured in the Altdorf news sheets. Brandysnaps living in the villages, hamlets, and countryside of the Reikland tend to work as farmers, brewers, or artisans, crafting fine work with their delicate and dexterous fingers. Some work as servants for wealthy merchants or the nobility, tending to their grounds and gardens, or serving in the kitchens. Their affinity for growing things means they make excellent herbalists and apothecaries, though they grow herbs for recreational use as often as for medicinal purposes. Those Brandysnaps living in more densely urban environments take whatever work comes their way, preferably work that involves little effort for much reward. Accordingly, Brandysnaps account for many of the Reikland’s Halfling thieves and pick-pockets.[1a]