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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 3797546" data-attributes="member: 40413">Silas continues to examine the statues.  He goes alternately from the well-carved gnomes at the top to the poorly carved gnomish figures at the bottom.  Finally, he stops and stares at one of the lower gnome-figures.  His fingers trail over the statuette, lingering over the features.  "I thought at first these were poorly carved, done in a hurry, perhaps.  And less detailed because it is further back in their history."  He scowls and looks at another nearby statue."But that doesn't seem right.  See here..."  He points to a statue of a goblin next to one of the gnomish-figures.  "The detail of this creature is much like the detail of the statues of those farther up the line.  So it can't be that these are older and more weathered."Silas turns, an excited look on his face.  "They are carved in this fashion, with ill-defined features because that's what gnomes looked like then!  We have no proof of the details, yet, but if the gnomes were originally creatures from the Elemental Plane of Earth, only roughly humanoid in form, and becoming more and more refined of feature as time passed...."  He trails off to stare in wonder at the statues.  "Astounding!" he murmurs.Abruptly he walks over to one of the columns the gnomes seem to be worshipping.  "These beings may have brought the gnomes here.  Rulers, perhaps.  And the Lord of the Mountain may have been their god, if they had such a concept then."  He sighs and shrugs helplessly.  "But I don't see how that helps us now unless you are correct, Lord Kalnian, and what we seek has been split and carried away in the coffins."</blockquote>

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