Gnomes

Gnome
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Appearance:	Gnomes are 2-3 feet in height, with stubby limbs and potato-like faces, lacking a protruding nose. They have long whiskers on their face and head.
Origins:	They live underground, in anthill-like hives. Gnomes first began to broach the surface less than a millennium ago.
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Gnomes are the native inhabitants of the underground, a diminuitive and insular race of kinfolk. They very well may outnumber humans, but have a much smaller presence on the surface than humans and ogre.

Culture

History

Gnomes have existed for eons in subterranian hives, but only first started appearing on the surface when human society was already well established. As far as common scholarship can ascertain, gnome society has changed very little over the course of history, though not for lack of sophistication. Gnomish hives are far more atomized from one another than the settlements of surface-dwellers, due to the sheer volume of solid earth separating them. In many cases even Gnomes in contact with one another never communicate directly, instead signaling one another via plant and fungal networks. Nonetheless, the emergence of the first gnomes was a bountiful cultural exchange, with mutual curiosity quickly formenting a tradition of intellectual cooperation.

While some gnomes enclaves dwell in the aboveground cities, broader societal integration between gnomes and humans would not came to pass as with humankind and the Ogre. Gnomes, though amiable, are broadly solitary and often find themselves ill-suited to the world of larger beings and open spaces.

Religion

Gnomes practice an animistic form of gnosticism.

Technology

Alchemy

Optics

Magic

Divination

Anthropology