Well you could always be the guy that believes BECAUSE metal comes from the earth, you can be a tank using iron weapons because they believe in fey creatures that might be evil or harmful to the earth. Just one idear.
Growing up in a good gnomish family young Mumbin was raised in all the fine arts of trade and gold hoarding a devout Glittergold family could ever hope to achieve. Mumbin worked for 80 years, abusing nature in strip mining and other endevours, expanding his realm of mineral exports to the greatest steel and mithril supplier in the eastern continent. On his 174th birthday he woke suddenly with an urge to leave the mansion and go out to a forest untouched by his mining.
There he lived for many years, learning how to eat a berry and all that nonsense. After his dabilitating brain tumour had stopped expanding he'd forgotten his ways of business and now lived to kill the very man destroying his forest!
See where this is going?