Gnome

Gnomes are one of the major ancestries found on Kishar. Their ceaseless drive towards new experiences leads many to become explorers or tinkerers, and as a result gnomes can be found across the world.

While gnomes are generally believed to share ancestry with fey, they are not fey themselves.

Appearance

Gnomes have a slender build and stand at roughly half the height of an average human, generally around three feet tall. Their hair can be a wide range of colors, including bright shades not typically seen in other ancestries; in fact, gnomes born without brightly colored hair often take to dying it.

Though not universal to all gnomes, many gnomish cultures emphasize body modification, whether that takes the form of tattoos, piercings, scarification, teeth blacking, something else entirely, or multiple of the above.

Location

Gnomes can be found all across Kishar. They tend to be drawn to large, dynamic metropolises, especially those with diverse inhabitants - entirely gnomish, or even largely gnomish, communities are rare. Even within these cities they rarely congregate into their own neighborhoods, preferring to live amongst other residents.

The only primarily gnomish nation is that of the nomadic Keleta-Ru gnomes of the Wounds, and even then they are rarely long without contact with other peoples.

Lifespan

Gnomes are theoretically immortal, as long as they can stave off the Bleaching, yet in practice tend to have an average lifespan of between 300 and 400 years.

Heritages

• Keleta-Ru gnomes