Kin to dwarves, gnomes are noticeably smaller than their distant cousins. Gnomes, as they proudly maintain, are also less rotund then dwarves. Their noses, however, are significantly larger. Most gnomes have dark tan or brown skin and white hair. A typical gnome lives for 600 years.
Gnomes have lively and sly senses of humor, especially for practical jokes. They have a great love of living things and finely wrought items, particularly gems and jewelry. Gnomes love all sorts of precious stones and are masters of gem polishing and cutting.

Gnomes prefer to live in areas of rolling, rocky hills, well wooded and uninhabited by humans. Their diminutive stature has made them suspicious of the larger races--humans and elves-- although they are not hostile. They are sly and furtitive with those they do not know or trust, and somewhat reserved even under the best of circumstances. Dwelling in mines and burrows, they are sympathetic to dwarves, but find their cousins' aversion to surface dwellers foolish.

Gnomes are the wee spirits of the elemental realm of Nature. They were created by the Great Spirit God specifically to tend to the plant life and wild creatures found in the more rural areas. They do many things, such as find wounded or dying animals for which they feel they are responsible to help. Because of their love for animals, all the animals of the forest are the Gnome's friends and are willing to help him at any time.
Gnomes made their homes in hollow trees or burrows underground and are some of the most well known and documented fairies of the forest. Long ago, there used to be untold numbers of them, but due to agricultural and ecological changes and as the forests and wild meadows have dwindled, so has the gnome population.

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