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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1814490" data-attributes="member: 63">The archetypal gnomish heroes in my world are monster slayers, though only gnomes really believe these myths.Yjtfub, the Slayer Who Knew No Fear, was a gnomish hero thousands of years ago.  She defeated countless demons and dragons, mounted on her magical shapechanging half-dragon dire badger.Whim Wistral was a more recent gnomish hero, a ranger-shadowdancer who wielded dual bladed whips and hunted vampires.  He nearly defeated the Elvish vampire who bore the Gray Blade, but he was slain, and fell in shadows, so no one was ever able to find his body.Gnomes are tough little nuts in my world.  I don't have halflings or dwarves, so gnomes get to play with all the different aspects of short-hero-dom.  They're always a little weird, but they tend to be bad-asses, or at least atypically heroic.  Just ask Ralph, a gnomish shopkeeper who collected rare antiques, but who stuck with his companions when they were forced to go on a quest.Or Weebit, a gnomish druid who once took down a giant by first wildshaping into an eagle to get over it, then wildshaping into a giant squid to strangle it.  Later on, Weebit gained the ability to always fly, and tales of the flying squid are becoming folk legend.  Some rumors suggest he was slain by the giant landquid, but that isn't possible.Or Rivereye Badgerface, also known as "Filthmonkey," a gnomish psion who was so ugly his parents thought he was a goblin.  He ended up slaying the vampiric henchmage of the vampire who bore the Gray Blade.Gnomes in my world do crazy stuff.  Sure, the 'normal' gnomes are just traveling gypsy-folk in caravans, or the occasional town of country bumpkins, but they all want to go save the world.</blockquote>

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