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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FnordBear" data-source="post: 2949767" data-attributes="member: 15897">The Vrizka have a long standing relationship of animosity and agression against the Gnomes of the deep forests that border the Vrizka holds. These gnomes that call themsleves the Graka-ru evolved from a small mammal that competed with the Kobolds for habit and to a degree served as a prey creature to them. Gnomes evolved a deft and cunning intelligence and have domesticated a species of small raptor, about the size of a large dog, which they call a Swift Scale.Gnome cavalry is feared by Vrizka footmen as the Graka-ru's mounts not only carry the mail-armored and lance-wielding gnomes across the battlefield at a rapid pace, the swift scale mounts are a formidable foe themselves, each one at least the equal of a Vrizka footman. It is believed by some scholars and war historians that the only reason the Graka-ru have not wiped out the Vrizka is that the Vrizka out number them enough to make a protracted war a course leading to inevitable defeat. Other point out the Vrizka also make an excellent buffer-state between the Graka-ru's forest holds and the steppe-dwelling catfolk barbarians.</blockquote>