Gnomes
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Gnomes usually live in dwarf cities, where their intelligence, curiosity and love of fine craftsmanship serve them well.1 With their long lifespans and hunger for knowledge, they are known as experts in their professions.2
In the Empire
Most gnomes in The Empire live within the Marble City, where they practise their arts and work in the Empire's academies, teaching young humans the basics. Most find life in the Empire easy and meet no discrimination, especially in the major cities, though most city-dwelling men mistake them for goblins.2 In the Western Provinces gnomes are rare, are often taken for halflings, and are seldom seen on the Empire's fringes.3
It is common to find gnomes in bureaucratic posts across the Empire, since their gift for foreign languages and their natural memory make them obvious candidates for such work.1
Engineering and science
Battle engineers, skilled apothecaries and alchemists are very rare in the Empire: the highest levels of these arts call for knowledge of the arcane, and most humans do not live long enough to learn the finer points of such old sciences. Gnomes, by contrast, are born into these surroundings with the skills they need.2
Clockwork is a costly art taught and practised by gnome engineers, and only the rich can afford their clocks.4 Gunpowder was first invented and made by dwarves and gnomes working together, though it is now produced jointly by Imperial engineers and Archon wizards.5 Over the past decade, gnome craftsmen brought in from many regions have worked alongside Imperial engineers and Archon wizards to build the two hellfire cannons named Gloria and Invictor.6
Gnome engineers also live in Vansreik, where the Grand Gear is a gnomish workshop.7
Language
In Gnomish, a sentence read from beginning to end and the same sentence read from end to beginning carry entirely different meanings. This lets gnomes pack a great deal of information into few words, making it a terrible language for literature but an ideal one for science. Intellectuals in the Empire often learn it and boast of doing so.1
Names
Gnomes have extremely long names. Between the names given by their parents, the names of the ancestors in their family tree, names taken from unsolved questions handed down to them and names drawn from their hobbies and skills, a gnome may carry more than a hundred.8 Gnomes learn one another's full names, especially those of close friends; for others, they choose five or six favourites and use a shortened form. They also carry a small notebook listing all their names so as not to embarrass anyone on formal occasions.9
Zemberek
There is a city called Zemberek where only gnomes live. Very few know where it lies, and some doubt that it exists at all. According to legend, finding the city is not enough: opening any of its thousand doors, each of which works like a clock, demands exceptional intelligence.9
Pastimes and kin
Gnome Chess is a game that nobody but gnomes knows how to play.10
The forest gnomes are the source of the heart of thorns, the ritual undergone by the rangers of the Oakenheart Conclave.11
Notlar
- ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 44
- ↑KitapMercenary Compendium, p. 115
- ↑KitapMercenary Compendium, p. 114
- ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 7
- ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 3
- ↑KitapMercenary Compendium, p. 201
- ↑KitapMercenary Compendium, p. 157
- ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, pp. 44, 45
- ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 45
- ↑KitapLands of Exile: Starter Setting Guide, p. 48
- ↑KitapShadow Over Vansreik, p. 34
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