A creative, intelligent and curious race with a love for art, celebrations, technology and pranks. Some say gnomes have ties to The Feywild, much like elves, to explain their relatively long lifes, but that is mostly just a theory.
While the seriousness of the Illiadian races, despite their overwhelming friendliness, at first didn't really mix well with gnomish culture, Gnomes immediately became fascinated with Illiadian Ena-tech and art. Many professors of Illiadology that don't happen to come from Illiadian cultures themselves are, thus, often Gnomes.