41) Gnomes are inventors. But unlike dwarves, their inventions aren't mechanical, and often not even physical. They LOVE theories, treatises, new turn-of-phrases, new rythms, etc.
42) Following on their love for inventing immaterial things, gnomes were the first homanoid race to have a codified set of laws to govern their entire society. The "Carta", as it is called, has been revised once in every gnome generation (usually a century).