Gnomes

Gnomes are usually considered to be the oldest social species, and the one that helped elevate other, now sophisticated species even further from the dark clutches of bestiality. Gnomes are able inventors, craftspeople, and magic-users, and have had more time to develop these skills than any other species, in part because they can often live up to well over three quarters of a millenium.

Categorisation
Gnomes are usually categorised into two subspecies: rock gnomes, who live on the surface world, and deep gnomes, who live underground and who often live in the same subterranean cities as dwarves. Deep gnomes, like dwarves, consider mining a sport, much as rich humans and elves enjoy hunting in their spare time.

Physical description
Gnomes are usually about 0.75 metres tall and weigh about 20-30 kilograms. they live to be about 800 years old, but the oldest gnome lifespan ever recorded was 1326 years! Gnomes usually have small faces with round noses, and the males quite often can grow a wispy beard. Their hair is mostly light brown or red regardless of their skin colour, which in gnomes native to Abar is commonly beige.

Fraternity with outsiders
Gnomes’ attitudes towards other societies are usually warm and welcoming, but some very old and secluded gnomes who have spent the last 150 years making diagrams in their attics can be unsociable and crabby, although that may only be from their centuries spent in a small, dusty room with only their own increasingly schizophrenic brain for company.

Naming traditions
Gnome’s first names are commonly a letter of the Gnomic alphabet, such as Idek, Uliph, Nedremead or Tenik, and their last names follow their favourite hobby, study or profession, depending on their age. Thus, a gnome’s name usually changes three times in their life: once at 30, when they cease to be an infant and are a child with a hobby, once at 61, when they finish their first year at Amershol (the gnomic university), and once at 112, when they have hopefully found a stable job in the gnomic economy