Waston

This jungle land mysterious as it is, holds an amazing secret. The gnomish sciencists and intellects, true inventive craftsmen, work wildly and brilliantly, moving their nation towards their future, keeping them on the cutting edge of technology.
  If you choose Waston as your homeland, you gain one of the following benefits, based upon if your character lived in settlements, cities/towns, or if you were more of a countryside/village dweller.
  Urban Waston: Growing up living amongst such an intellectual and scientific society, well that encourages knowledge yes, but also, more importantly, curiosity. A trait you've embraced willingly. You gain 3 advances in the Research skill.
  Rural Waston: Growing up amongst thick jungle, the head, the humidity, the various potentials for diseases from all manner of the flora and fauna has toughened you up. You gain 3 ranks in the Endurance Skill