Gnome

You might..

• obsess over the functions of the world around you, and want to investigate all engineered things.
• Find the need to plant things out intricately, and find vague plans unbearable.
• Always come up with elaborate solutions to simple problems.

Others probably..

• Assume your will be able to fix anything.
• Expect you to be a snob, often leaving you out of physical labor.
• Assume they can pick you up without permission, a highly offensive thing to a gnome.

Physical descriptor

Gnomes are small in statue, with heads that are seen as too large for their bodies. They often have extremely colorful hair with which they rarely style. Most gnomes spend their time working and thinking about their next project, and spend little time on their appearance. Many gnomes come up with the most efficient ways to style their hair and clothes, to varying degrees of success.

Society

Gnomes have a strict hierarchy based on their careers of choice. All gnomes enter an apprenticeship when they reach maturity, while apprenticed they work their way up a convoluted ladder of job positions. Many gnomes inherit the shops and business they own later in life not from family, but from their employers who pass down their positions to the hardest working of the gnomes. This chain has cause fierce competition among the employed, with each one pushing themselves to extremes to succeed in their jobs.

Beliefs

Gnomes are practical, they don't focus much on spiritual endeavors at all. Instead they believe their virtue is based on success in their chosen field. Each gnome dedicates a large amount of time to mastering their craft, from inventors to artists to soldiers of their brass clad armies. All gnomes have a sense of earning and push themselves to the limits of their minds and bodies as a way to honor themselves and their people.

Name Examples

Gnomish names are often long and complicated, and most races choose to shorten them into nicknames.

• Isstaldishi Cosoonopi
• Pylivoon Doofodrop
• Arunippi Estrunippo