Little-Folk

The Little-Folk, a union of the diminutive Gnomes and the unimposing Halflings. They live in burrow communities typically in forests and hills plains. Secretive and cunning they are some of the best minds in creating small mechanisms and gadgets earning the respect of the other races.
The Little-Folk largely inhabited the warmer areas in places least populated by monsters, though originally they survived merely on their nimbleness and ability to scamper/hide they grew to be ingenious tinkerers, creating basic traps from simple snares using vines that evolved to machinery like the ballista. Eventually they became the holders of the wonderful spark gems created using a mixture of magically infused residuum and a mix of various alchemical goods. A spark gem is a device that when thrown at a non-living object to captured it in a much smaller size, eventually they even modified the design to be able to accept raw materials and if the person casting the stone knows all of the intricacies of what the materials can create they can fabricate an object from their mind the creator of both of these iterations of spark gems was the gnome wizard of legendary fame; Topolino Maltrizia one of the eldest of the Little folk and a pillar of their history and the history of the world at large even.
With Top's invention of the @spark gems the Gnomes and halflings could build a mass of items in the safety of their bunker like forts, and send them out in relative safety, when the draconian wars broke out these Spark gems were crucial in setting up almost instantaneous camps and forts for siege of the incredibly powerful Dragons and their masses of slaves ,with a combined effort of the Fae-Children's magics, the dwarves materials and smithing skills, the human's tactical knowledge and the Little-Folk's inventions there came a standstill and a ceasefire as neither side could afford to keep fighting an evenly matched war on top of fending off monsters, the world in its entirety seemed to pause and stop advancing ,as small wars were still fought with all sides assaulted by monsters.

Topolino Maltrizia was a handsome, eccentric, Billionaire, philanthropist, wizard, adventurer of legendary renown. Topolino Maltrizia had always been gifted with incredible intelligence, seeing the structure in all things and knowing that everything was created of other things. Topolino Maltrizia hated being told he couldn't do x, y or z thing and whenever someone told him no he proved them wrong on every turn changing anything he needed to from no to yes much like he eventually learned to turn lead to gold or stone to wood. He traveled all across the realm and studied all of the peoples and objects he could find while writing an almanac of sorts. Eventually after creating the Spark gems and gifting them to his people he began looking for a group of people that were just as adventurous as him to help him explore some of the more dangerous locales of the world from dragon dens to ancient ruins the group even toyed with the idea of braving the corruption but were discouraged very quickly of toying with something so unpredictable and dangerous. The fun and adventure lasted until they found the Maw of darkness that alerted a greater cause to all of their lives where the band split up to gather aid in sealing this threat so that the world might finally know an era of peace prosperity and cultural enlightenment.

Races for 5e: Gnomes, Halflings
The Little-folk use a paper honor bound currency. Blanks 1 Cp Word 1 Sp Promise 1 Ep Oath 1Pp