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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1815509" data-attributes="member: 8835">This is a good series of threads.  Don't forget dwarves, and I'll fill in the other side of the coin.Once again, my players, get out (Darwin, Jean Pierre, etc).  We'll be covering bits they don't know yet...Like the elves of my campaign, I've taken an existing story and applied it to D&D.  So the gnomes are another recipient of that.  My campaign is an oceangoing one.  The humans, from an island called Tarai, had only recently begun to explore.  Their first contact with another race, is with the gnomes.  I'll probably hunt this thread down and grab my content for my next game document...I've kept the basic gnome race, with no changes.  They call themselves the Genari.Hundreds of years ago, the Genari Empire was large, spanning hundreds of islands.  Over time, they grew decadent, and they lost prominence in the world.  At one point, about a hundred years ago, they conquered and enslaved the Bjorn (known as dwarves).  The Bjorn was a primitive race, but their island had greater mineral resources.  So the Genari took over and used the Bjorn to mine those resources.  The Bjorn resisted their benefactors and after a few years of rebellion and terroristic attacks, the Genari left.  The ungrateful Bjorn used stolen Genari technology (ship building, crystals, cannon) to raise themselves up the technological ladder.Presently, the Genari are a society the revels in the glory of the past.  They are steeped in tradition, and though they know they are fading from the scene, they cannot change, for that would be an acknowledgement that they have lost their way.A few years ago, the Genari made contact with a new race, the humans.  These people, though more primitive than the Genari, impressed them with their ingenuity.  The Genari opened trade with the humans, giving them maps and crystals for other trade goods.  The crystals were an ancient invention, a magical communication device that allowed short messages to be sent over long distances.  The inability to communicate over long distances was often a limiting factor in a race's ability to expand beyond their home island.  Initially, the Genari presented themselves as big players in the world, and as the original creators of the crystal.  As the humans explored more, they learned that this was mere bluff and bravado to impress the newcomer race.Janx</blockquote>

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