Gnome

Gnomes were very small compared to most other races, with an average height of 3′0″‒4′0″ (0.91‒1.2 m) and a weight of 40‒45 lb (18‒20 kg). Gnomes were generally larger and heavier than halflings, though forest gnomes tended to be smaller than halflings, being 2′1″‒2′10″ (0.64‒0.86 m) in height and 21‒35 lb (9.5‒16 kg) in weight. This led some scholars to erroneously classify all gnomish races as "smaller than the Hin".

Gnomes were an intelligent and innately curious race. Gnomes might have lacked the drive and ambition of other races, particularly humans, but their creativity gave them a strong ability for ingenuity. Most gnomes were content to live simple lives, acquiring knowledge merely as a hobby but others explored lost ruins, delved deep into the heart of the world, and conducted dangerous research in their unquenchable thirst for knowledge, leading more than a few to an untimely demise.

In the Feywild, as well as some places on Boshen, gnomes typically lived in earthen burrows and dug-out homes akin to those used by badgers, foxes, or rabbits. As such they were fond of these small animals, feeling a sense of natural kinship with them. And much like these animals, gnomes had an aversion to danger that made them naturally inclined to hide away if able. Thus many gnomish homes were carefully hidden by magic or other methods.

Gnomes who left home to seek an adventurer's life were rare, given the race's famed shyness and lack of ambition.Those that did were motivated by a number of factors, but the impulsive race was often driven by curiosity more than anything else. Many gnomes felt no more rationale for adventuring than simply to explore the world that surrounded them.

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