The most infamous halfling bard in Faerun, Stompin' Con Tommers, claimed that entire tribes of goblins would quiver in fear when they heard he was coming. Strangely enough, the boasts of this halfling might have had some basis in truth, as the magical boots he wore really could cause earthquakes. He claimed to have pilfered the boots from an extra-planar bard whose voice could destroy entire cities. Con's career was cut short when he miscalculated a leap over a gorge he created and the earth swallowed him.