Son of the Serpent
Pupil
Well then. Paracelsian gnomes might be right up your alley (mostly anyway)!one of my favourite characters was a white bearded gnome alchemist (and leader of a circus troupe) who like a lusty caliban was enamoured of sylphs and pixies, so I do approve of this concept.
Personally though I’ve always treated Gnome as fey creatures with an affinity for rock (the gnomes imc beleive they were born from The Rock), I also took inspiration from Smurfs so that while most gnomes are male and hairy, there will be one female gnome in a clan who like Naked Mole Rats becomes the Burrow mother and has an emphatic bond with all her offspring.
They are fey AND an elemental (earth/stone)
And sylphs are one of the 3 fey they mate with!
