Note; Cynical stance incoming: She was cut and replaced because Larian don't believe that short race characters can or should be treated as anything other than jokes and sources of cheap laughs and mockery. They could not bring themselves to handle her with the same respect and care they were showing their other origins, or to take her or her story seriously, and so assumed that no-one else would care, just as they didn't, if they dropped her in favour of
yet another freaking elf, because in their eyes such a change was 100% improvement and upgrade with no loss. Just look at all of their public facing media where halflings are mentioned: at every turn, in every interview where it comes up, they treat them as laughing stock or crack jokes derisively about them, they've left them with abominable caricatures of models, unimproved since day one, and their support footage for 'halflings' during their break down interview on each of the races was footage of a dwarf, which they didn't know or care enough to get right.
So, if they were going to cut or replace anyone in favour of a fan thirst request, it was always going to be the halfling.
I will say that a halfling werewolf does sound weird, I even made a comment back in EA that I can't imagine taking that too serious
Why not? I'd be interested to hear you articulate this. Why, exactly, would you not feel like treating such a character with the same degree of respect or gravity (however much or little that may be for you; I'm not judging that) as any other?
