A Nac Mac Feegle

Pictsies or Nac Mac Feegle are six inches tall, red-haired, and blue-tattooed. Some of their number have taken to wearing skulls of small animals as helmets. In size they resemble gnomes, but pictsies often protest, (violently), if they are called such.

All pictsies share one unusual belief: that they are all already dead, and are in a sort of paradise world, where they are free to do whatever they please. When they seem to die, they go back to the world of the living.

By their own cheerful admission, the favourite activities of the Feegles are fighting, drinking, and stealing. They are fierce fighters, but somewhat lacking in intellect, as it is well known to the Feegles that one female has the brains of 100 males. They will fight anyone and anything, and one of the ways to select a group for a mission is simply to set them all fighting, and taking the last 50 or so still standing.