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Gnomes live around 120-130 years on average, reaching puberty in their twenties, young adulthood in their 30's, middle age in their 70's, and old age in their 100's

There is no optimal habitat for the Gnome, Gnomes can live absolutely anywhere, I mean anywhere, somebody once found some living in the Falgiro Volcano fields, thriving where nothing thrives.

Gnomish communities are for the most part within other communities but always have their own leaders, who tend to be a council of Elders, who elect a leader from their own, Gnomes respect that their Elders probably know more than them so are best left to deal with the running of things while they do the work that is needed to keep the community thriving.   Every Gnome in a community is related to every other Gnome in the community so they respect their kin, families are normally led by the eldest member of the family, who sits on the council of Elders, and the hierarchy from there goes great great grand parents, great grand parents, grand parents, parents, children.   Until a young Gnome becomes a parent they stay on the bottom rung of their society, it's not been unknown for a Gnome to be old enough to be on the Elder council but because they never had any children stay in that level of child

Worldwide, everywhere, and we mean everywhere

The average gnome is a about 30 IQ points more intelligent than the average human, they tend to be very intelligent people and have been the driving force behind some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 6 Ages

Gnomes believe that every person born is equal and therefore Gnomish women are as likely as men to be in positions of authority within their communities, there is not a great deal of physical difference between the average Gnome male or female, except from the males growing beards and slightly bigger hands and feet so pretty much every Gnome could do the job of every other Gnome given the right training and skill. Every Kharad Gnome serves at least 5 years in the Gnomish Militia for the Kharad, always in mixed units.

Deliberate rudeness is unconscionable to a Gnome, so much so that it's been known for them to apologise for 10 minutes or more for causing even the slightest of offence to another Gnome, they understand the other races don't have the same social taboo to rudeness as they so cut it down to five minutes for the most part

Gnomes get on with all of the goodly races, they love to make new friends, depending where they grow up depends greatly on the race with whom they get on with best, a Gnome that grew up in Valantar will get on best with humans, especially Valantari, where as a Gnome who grew up in the Great Forest of Ghum, will get on best with Sylvan and Wild Elves as well as Forest Folk Haflings