Gnome

Key Similarities with Faerun's Version

• Gnomes are small folk, indeed some of the smallest humanoids in Adra. They have angular skulls, with short arms and legs compared with their larger torso. The men tend to grow beards, and the women tend to grow long locks, both taking after the dwarves with whom they have deep ties towards. Gnomes tend to have bright colors of eyes and hair, all of many different varieties, but tending towards warm colors, like red, orange, yellow, and gold even.
• Aging for most gnomes is a very pronounced process, with gnomes sometimes going grey even before the halfway mark in their years, and some beginning this process when they reach adulthood. Their noses tend to go from petite to bulbous, their skin in addition to wrinkling will also tend to sprout odd blemishes and callouses, and nose and ear hairs will sprout most plentifully.

Key Differences with Faerun's Version

• Gnomes originally came from the Great Western Jungle, which is no more. They have now spread out to the many corners of Adra, in the mountains, forest, Underdark, and in their greatest numbers, the Bleached Desert.
• Gnomes are renowned for their intellect and curiosity, and yet the majority of them are not well known for arcane abilities or magical prowess. While they physically seem to have properties that give them potent magical protection, and some gnomes can become magically gifted, they are not associated in Adra with magic, certainly not as much as a race like the elves for example.

Subraces of Gnome

• Bleached Gnome: These are the gnomes that stayed in the area closest to their old native kingdom. The vast majority now inhabit the coastal cities in the Easternmost part of the Bleached Desert, with the largest population inhabiting the great city of Tansahore, known as the Emerald Jewel. The Bleached Gnomes are renowned for their abilities as merchants, governors, and scholars, with their mercantile influence spreading to all the corners of Adra. Bleached Gnomes tend to have black, brown, or tan complexions of skin.
• Deep Gnome (Svirfneblin): The Svirfneblin are those gnomes who became instrumental to the Dwarvish trade in the Underdark. Overtime, they formed their own settlements, and now in the modern rough and tumble world below, they tend to keep to themselves, famous for their reclusion away from almost all others. Deep Gnomes tend to have grey-bluish skin tones, and their hair will tend to cooler colors, blues, purples, and greens. Unlike other Gnomes, Deep Gnomes are Restricted.
• Forest Gnome: These gnomes travelled much farther away from the Bleached Desert long ago, and now mostly inhabit the Yalewood. They are the rarest of all the gnomes, and often live among mixed communities of other races, often among Kobolds. Forest Gnomes are perhaps those gnomes which most stereotypically do engage in magical pursuits, either arcane, or usually druidic in nature.
• Rock Gnome: These gnomes went in great numbers to the Dwarvish Underkingdom of Broadoor, and some others elsewhere. They now live as a sizeable racial minority there, well respected and considered native-born by the dwarves they live with. These gnomes are known to specialize in rune crafting, and the creation of and invention of ingenious mechanical devices. These gnomes tend to have paler hues of skin, with plainer colors of hair, brown, blonde, and black usually.

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