Gnomes

Gnome maintain the slandered Humanoid anatomy with two arm, two legs, torso and skull. Their most identified traits are their size, their larger than average eyes, and the large semi pointed ears they have. These ears are not elongated like elves and appear more human like.

Gnomes are known for their short stature and often bossy hair. More often they are stout and a tad bit chubby around the limbs, Gnomes tend to look like very very short Humans in current modern years. Their ears are slightly pointed and are larger than an averages humans, and their voices tend to be at a naturally higher pitch than most other races.

Gnomes reproduce like most humanoid races in the world by male and females sharing half their DNA with their offspring. Gnome are capable like most races to also cross breed with other individuals of different races.

Gnomes grow at a relatively show rate mentality but spicily reach adult size within 20 years of their life. Young Gnomes retain their child like face for years up until they reach adulthood around 36 years of age, when their faces take on a more mature look and male gnomes begin to grow facial hair. Once Gnomes reach the age of 120 they begin to look more elderly with winkles forming on their face and body.

Gnomes prefer to live in large city's like their capital Prezel, and are rarely seen out in country like environments. Gnome city's and towns tend to be be large and compact compared to other cultures, often become a complicated weave of streets and pathways that can be confusing to other races in the land.

Gnomes are omnivorous preferring a balanced meal of meet and vegetables. However, do to their socialite nature, they more often prefer fast quick and convenient food as to keep focused on their current task or project.

Gnomes are by far the most studios and intelligent individuals in the world. They love the pursuit of knowledge and the progression of progress in what ever field they chose to invest into. This makes them great workers for research firms, banking operations, magical tool and development jobs, and logistic operations. However, this also means that they can often lose focus on things around them, making them more complacent to just accept the happens around them rather than question them. This has lead many to feel that Gnomes lack any sort of back bone when it comes to their personal lives or their current well being. As such, this has lead to some localized stability problems in their own government as well as treatment of their own people.

Gnomes society functions much like a top down management system. While their is a voted in movement body, most Gnome social structures are based around a position class system. It is often seen that those with more prestigious or high ranking jobs are concerned upper class where those with lower end or intern like jobs are treated like low class. An example of this could be descried as a business owner of a top magical tool construction component has more social status than a Gnome farmer.

Gnome men are known to grow out mustaches and beards as they reach adulthood and can be almost as impressive as any Dwarf's beard. Gnome males often have slightly larger noses than other creatures but this trait declined in recent decades. Their eyes tend to be larger than an averaged humans but not as large as a Goblin's or Nouglin's

Most Gnomes live in the southern part of Cestra but have residents throughout the land itself. They prefer areas that stay relatively worm throughout the year. Gnomes are not known for their environmental adaptivity but are capable of living in most environments.

Gnomes are some of the most intelligent individuals in the world. Their creative and analytical minds lend them great ability to calculate and formulate solutions to various situations and problems. Know for their advancement in magical research and development, Gnomes are often reached out to when magical devices are in need of repair or for helping with magical issues. This is because of the well known and documented fact that Gnomes created the various schools of Arcane Magic. They continue to push the bounties of these same fundamentals schools of magic to this day, and help develop new forms of magical tools and technologies.

Gnomes in the past tended to relay on their hearing and eye sight to keep awareness of predatory creatures such as wolves, bears, and the occasional woolly rhino. Gnome are still probably the most magically sensitive creatures in the world, being more natural gifted in the understanding of magical forces and environments.

Gnomes have existed on Cestira since records of history, some saying they where around during The Dawn Age, but little evidence proves this point. It is theorized that Gnomes where once a fungus like creature that eventually grew in intelligence thanks to the interference of Gnomethoras the God of Earth and Undin the God of Water. Thanks to the interference to their biological evolution, the first Gnomes grew from their fungus like form into the familiar Humanoid form they have to this day.   Prehistoric skeletal remains of ancient gnomes reveals that they were once a hunter gather type species much like many other races at the time. However, it clear that they made great use of tools far more so than other prehistoric race at that time. Their skeletal structures show that their skulls where once larger than their body but as time progress their body gradually balanced out to better fit their skull size. The skull had a mix of sharp teeth to eat meat with as well as mullets to grind up plants and other fibers vegetation.   During the Era of Light in the year 3448, the first Gnome magical researchers discovered a new type of magic that could be used by non-naturally magical creatures. This discovery was sparked by a few individuals who witnessed the consistent warfare between the Dragonkin and other races, and felt that it wasn't entirely fair that only a handful of races could use magic when other creatures that where not of that race could. So they began to investigate wild life and other naturally accruing magical phenomenon in the world and eventually discover a way to tap into the natural magical energies of the world, thus creating Arcane Magic. As the research of Arcane magic progressed, the Gnome at the time began to classifies the versus types of magic in to different types and eventually different schools of magic itself, thus creating the modern Arcane magical classification system still used to this day. With this new magic, the Gnomes quickly created a name for themselves in the greater culture of Cestira as a whole. With their guidance, other races and cultures began to learn how to wield magic in their day to day life. 10 years later, the magical city of Prizell is founded and constructed, and become the home for the continued learning and studying of Arcane magic.   During the Era of Shadow, many of the records of that where not stored in the deepest of vaults were lost do to some near cataclysmic event. What records do remain of that Era tell of how the Gnomes contributed greatly to the development of Arcane Magic and spell casting, and help developed many of the magical items and tools still used to this day.