Gnomes

"Can't beat them? Invent something that can!" Quote from famed gnome inventor Gilbert Griswald at his tinkering companies 25 anniversary. Gnomes are a small race of humanoids often picked on for their size but feared for their minds.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Gnomes are bipedal humanoid of small stature.

Biological Traits

Small bodies and big brains. Gnomes due their magical nature and sheer inborn cunning causes many magical effects to be less effective compared to other races.

Genetics and Reproduction

Gnomes tend to have several children at one time usually ranging from 4-8 can carry till 9-10 months.

Growth Rate & Stages

Gnomes mature at the same rate humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years.

Ecology and Habitats

With the many variations of gnomekin it can be hard to specify their ecology. However, any habitat they can alter, change, and tinker to improve is a common sight for gnomes.

Dietary Needs and Habits

Despite their small frames and stature Gnomes require a large amounts of food to fuel their heightened brain functions and high metabolism.

Biological Cycle

Although very long lived compared to other races the ravages of time effect them far more than other long lived races and elderly gnomes often go through the second childhood as they become extremely elderly.

Additional Information

Social Structure

Gnomes often form codependent societies with other races and thrive with their inventions and high levels of intelligence. Otherwise communities largely made of gnomes are also common.

Facial characteristics

Often round faces with sometimes small amounts of facial hair.

Geographic Origin and Distribution

Gnomes are spread far and wide with some living deep in forest, cliffs, deep underground, small towns and sprawling cities.

Average Intelligence

Gnomes are regarded as one of the most intelligent races with heightened cognitive abilities and long lives to spend studying.

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Gnomes have the 5 basic senses.

Civilization and Culture

Naming Traditions

Gnomes love names, and most have half a dozen or so. A gnome’s mother, father, clan elder, aunts, and uncles each give the gnome a name, and various nicknames from just about everyone else might or might not stick over time. Gnome names are typically variants on the names of ancestors or distant relatives, though some are purely new inventions. When dealing with humans and others who are “stuffy” about names, a gnome learns to use no more than three names: a personal name, a clan name, and a nickname, choosing the one in each category that’s the most fun to say.

Major Organizations

Many famous organizations and guilds have had gnomes run them or are currently run by them.

Beauty Ideals

Gnomes tend to view the sharpness of ones mind as appose to ones body for ideals of beauty.

Gender Ideals

Typically gnomes care less about specific frameworks of gender and more so the many ideas and concepts surrounding gender.

Courtship Ideals

Great feats of ingenious and cleverness are often the ideal of courting.

Relationship Ideals

Generally tender loving relationships where one works and one tends the children are the norm.

Average Technological Level

Some of the greatest inventions ever devised by mortal hands were crafted by the tiny hands of gnomes.

Major Language Groups and Dialects

You can speak, read, and write Common and Gnomish. The Gnomish language, which uses the Dwarvish script, is renowned for its technical treatises and its catalogs of knowledge about the natural world.

Common Etiquette Rules

A common bow and civilized pleasantries are common for gnome kind.

Common Dress Code

From simple farm cloths to the most elaborate designs available are common for gnome folk.

Culture and Cultural Heritage

Most Gnomish culture is told through old stories and wise tales or in deeply deliberate texts or treaties.

Common Customs, Traditions and Rituals

Gnomes will typically go on journeys of self discovery and phases of trickery and mischief before finding a craft to excel and master.

Common Taboos

For gnomes not finding a job or career in later years of life is considered a great shame.

History

While most history of other races tend to focus on their origins Gnomes more focus on where they are going and what they have made.

Historical Figures

Tirk Tinkertanker, Aleslosh Ashhearth the Arcanist, Wilber Waywocket the Wise, Gilbert "The Genius" Griswald.

Common Myths and Legends

Legends and lore of great arcane inventions form bygone ages are common in ancient ruins of fallen empires have given Gnomish tinkering both high praise and ill reputation.

Interspecies Relations and Assumptions

Gnomes tend to be treated in duel matters. With respect and ridicule or teasing and trepidation gnomes have often been polarizing.

Scientific Name

Parvis Vulgares

Lifespan

They can live 350 to almost 500 years.

Average Height

Gnomes are between 2.5 and 3.5 feet tall

Average Weight

average about 30 - 40 pounds.

Average Physique

Most Gnomes have small physique and range from round and flabby or lean and petite.

Body Tint, Colouring and Marking

A wide range of skin tones and hues.