Eventually, his friendship with the kender character Tasselhoff Burfoot becomes so strong he declares the " Fizban " avatar to be his favorite.

The first kender character was created by Harold Johnson as a playable character in a series of role-playing adventures co-authored by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis.

Weis and Hickman's Dragonlance shared world novels did much to popularize the kender among readers and players alike, largely through the character Tasslehoff Burrfoot, who became one of the main protagonists in the series.

This habit was justified in Dragonlance Adventures through Hickman's decision to provide the kender with enormous natural curiosity, a character trait which is also employed to provide the characters with lock picking skills and a tendency to " listen in on other's conversations ".

This is made possible due to the shocking insights into an individual's character flaws that a kender can gain through his or her intense curiosity.

When kender appeared in the computer game Champions of Krynn, which was released in 1990, they were described as " a diminutive and highly playful race that resembles Tolkien's hobbit ".

" The first novel publication featuring a kender was in the book Dragons of Autumn Twilight, published in November 1984.

Emilo Haversack, a kender from Krynn, aided the Forgotten Realms priest Joel of Finder in a quest, the story of which was told in the novel Tymora's Luck, authored by Jeff Grubb and Kate Novak.

And the spacefaring kender Gaeadrelle Goldring appears in the Spelljammer novel " The Maelstrom's Eye ", by Roger E. Moore.

When they emerged on the other side they were smaller, and filled with wanderlust ; they had become the kender.

In Dragonlance Adventures, the kender are depicted with several qualities that make them stand out.

It was then recommended in The Mists of Krynn that kender be employed as non-player characters, with their " handling " providing a convenient means for those running the game to introduce objects at " critical times ".

Margaret Weis stated in The Annotated Legends that " a problem with writing kender is that they are supposedly fearless.

The Dragonarmies then allied with Salah-Khan, a champion of the Khur tribe, to secure Khur as an ally and then quickly conquered the human nation of Balifor and the kender nation of Goodlund.

Humans are Krynn's most common humanoid race, but elves, dwarves, kender, gnomes, and minotaurs occupy the world as well.

Authors Gary and Janet Pack played the half-elf Tanis Half-Elven and the kender Tasslehoff Burrfoot, respectively.

After the conclusion of the War of the Lance, the deity himself became known as Fizban among the fictional race of kender ; thus, referring to " Fizban " by kender can be somewhat ambiguous.

The kender are described in a review of the module as " wizened 14-year-olds and, unlike halflings, they wear shoes.

Halflings were then dropped from the campaign, and Johnson developed both the initial concept of the kender and the first representative of the fantasy race, Tasslehoff Burrfoot.

Roger E. Moore introduced the kender, and Tasslehoff Burrfoot, to the wider community through his short story A Stone's Throw Away, published in 1984 in Dragon # 85.

While Tracy Hickman was involved in some of the development, he stated that it was Roger Moore who contributed the most to define the kender as they are depicted today.

The original concept of the kender held that they were " savage, warrior children, ever curious, ever alert.

" This concept was altered dramatically when Janet Pack became involved in dramatic readings of the works, as Pack's personal characteristics had a strong impact on how those involved in the process viewed the kender.

According to Jeff Grubb, she, " and as a result all kender since her, was cute.

" Two of the other key characteristics of kender — their curiosity and kleptomania — were introduced by Tracy Hickman.

Originally, kender were to be called " kinder ", in reference to " kinderkin ", but Hickman has reported that readers tended to read the name as " kind-er " rather than " kin-der " in print, leading to the decision to alter the spelling.

The Dragonlance books present three conflicting accounts of how the kender were created.

In Dragons of Summer Flame, the Irda state that kender descend from the gnomes.

When the Greygem of Gargath was released, the gnomes present who desired the gem for greed were turned into dwarves, and those who wanted it for curiosity were turned into kender.

In the Tales trilogy, however, the dwarves state that when the Greygem came to Krynn, its chaotic magic transformed a group of gnomes into both the first kender and the first dwarves.

Tracy Hickman's sole contribution to the development of the kender was their curiosity and their tendency to " borrow " objects His desire for the skills of a thief, without the associated moral concerns raised by a " race of thieves ", led to depicting kender as possessing a habit of finding things that have dropped into their pouches by accident, picking things up in the streets, finding " junk ", and generally acquiring things that belong to other people.

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