D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

[Remathilis]

Fun fact: gnomes were invented in 1566 by the German alchemist and “Renaissance Man” Paracelsus, who needed an earth being for his book on elemental spirits of the four classical elements: undines (water), sylphs (air), gnomes (earth) and salamanders (fire).

I guess genasi fill that role, but I think it would have been neat to see undines, sylphs, gnomes, and salamandars fill the "lesser elemental" PC species niche.