Gnomish Inventions Found

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In the city of Alieander the high priest of Valos was going about his everyday chores. While he was scraping some mold off of a low stone in the wall he stumbled upon a staircase leading down into a subbasement level of the church. What he found was to be known as the gnomes greatest legacy. 

It was discovered soon later that in all of the capital cities there were similar hidden rooms housing the same mysterious invention. These devices would become known as the Gates of Passage. For dozens of years all the worlds scholars could not figure out how to use the devices or what they did, however their assumption that they were all connected was correct. They discovered that it was a town portal and that it required extensive magic and components to use it. The Gates of Passage allows someone to teleport from one gate to another. The farther the destination, the harder it is to work the gates, and more effort and time is required. The use of these artifacts are regulated by the high priests who charge a hefty sum for the service. To this day the Gates of Passage are used only by nobility and those wealthy enough to afford it. We know that these inventions were of gnome craft because of the gnomish writing found. We have never fully deciphered the gnome alphabet. However the written gnome language is very distinguishable. Because no other accounts of these gates have been reported, it is our assumption that the empire of Kormyre purchased these inventions from the gnomes as a means of convenient travel.   There have been many other discoveries over the centuries, some useful and interesting and others not so exciting. One is a machine comprised of ropes, planks of wood and pails of water. This machine is used to strengthen the lower body muscles. Inventions of this caliber are the ones comprised of simple mechanics. Other inventions have been as complex as the gnomish war juggernaut.