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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6304203" data-attributes="member: 92511">To my mind, natural disasters might be cause of real/true mourning. "Us? We're gnomes. We have choice and will. We are magic and mayhem. Our passing is a folly, grand adventure and great joke. But this forest...all of the creatures here? The trees and flowers and small burrowing things, they had no choice." It is one of the only things in their existence that can bring a gnome to actual sadness/tears.Dwarves lament their clansmen and heroes, or the loss of their gold/property. Halflings lament their family and friends. A ruined forest or village is a tragedy and cause to be sad, but it will come back. Elves, they don't so much lament as they know in a hundred years, the forest will return and they will be there to watch it grow (a true pleasure for elves). But gnomes, they lament the land more than themselves. They know it will come back, but it won't be the same. One of the ephemeral consistencies of their being - their nature- will have been lost forever.{EDIT} Which can play in nicely, if one likes the or plays up the fey connection, as there is an unchanging consistency vibe to the fey. Taken as far as the folklore of beings of faerie have no "souls" per se, their spirit/soul is tied to the nature around them. Altering/destroying that -particular status quo of- nature is a cause for deep concern and sadness. /EDIT</blockquote>