The Green Fields
Yondalla used a combination of flattery, guile, and diplomacy to gain for the Halflings the fertile fields and meadows where they prefer to settle. She complimented Moradin on how well he worked metals and stones, distracting him with tales of precious metal. She haggled with Corellon Larethian over the lush, green spaces, finally agreeing that Corellon's kind would take the forests and she would take the grasslands. By praising the diversity and flexibility of the human gods, she convinced them to claim no particular terrain type for their own. As for the Orcs , well, the tale of Gruumsh recounts how he reacted.
In another version of the story (in Races of the Wild), the other gods discover that Yondalla created the halfling race, and demand that she be punished. She uses her flattery and guile to mollify them, and in the end they agree to allow Yondalla and her Halflings to live. However, the Halflings will have no nations of their own, and Yondalla must expunge her larcenous streak from her being.
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