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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 2310487" data-attributes="member: 31301">Firstly, I'm not a big fan of the whole "character race X must fit into fantasy archetype Y" as I think that archetypes are for weenies. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I understand why people like archetypes, but I think trying to recreate the same archetype over and over and over gets a wee bit boring. Secondly, IMCW gnomes run the pre-eminant civilization on the planet at this time. Essentially, a lawful neutral benevolent theocracy that worships a god-empress and welcomes other races, as long as it's always understood that it's the gnomes that are in charge. They retain their tinkerish aspects in that they were the first of the races to really get it together and build a civilization and thus have a much better grasp on tech than other races and civs. I've de-emphasized their woodland aspect, but that's simply because of history and the fact that they were driven out of their last ancestral homeland by migrating orcs and forced to live above ground for a long period of time. Presumeably there are gnomes in other places that are a bit more standardly "gnomish."</blockquote>