Gnomes
As history-legend goes, gnomes began in the southern mountains of the Northern Hempishere, often called The Andes Mountains. The little people were created of ice and darkness or fire and rock, or to put it well-spoken, of the elements of earth and its atmospheres.
In the very beginning (and the beginning was a veerrrrry long time ago—trust me, I know), earth had few known resources, not having any man-made inventions or any other sorts of things. They lived off the land and land only. Depending on whethere they dwelled in the earth like most or were afloat, they did use what they had well. Many of the little creatures under ice, fungi, and even in fish! Can you even imagine?
As years passed, Alpine plant became the power of the gnomish mill. Along with that they found it much easier to dwell deep into the ground instead of living in cold, more mysterious places. With this dicovery their strength increased and they began to evolve into new ways of life.
Mayflon of the Valar, an early civilization we can only assume, in the north lands, first discovered gnomes. He befriended them with his cheerful attitude and trustworthy personality traits, and soon took them as his own, and passed onto them his more… civilized, secretarial, to organize a better way of living.
Gnomes are quite tricksters, clever little beings. Pulling pranks that no one could imagine and able to persuade anyone into anything with a sly idea in mind. Perhaps not the type of trickery you would think of the classic leprechaun, but intelligent enough to do anything for or to anyone that they put their mine to subject to.
But with this trickster personality, there are outlaws in every culture. If a gnome was found guilty of causing harm to another gnome, the gnome community, the Valar, and a few other sought quiet civilizations (much further back than ancient), the gnome was banished forever from their own culture.
Still dwelling in the ground, gnomes eventually discovered their own power. They soon mastered their new-found abilities, for most gnomes learn quite easily, being of how clever they are. With their magicks they also had their natural allies: illusions, trickery, and deception.
After a great meany years since gnomes were found by the Valar, mining human beings, no doubt searching for riches and fortune, discovered the elfy critters. But humans were not like the Valar, and the gnomes fought furiously, with an upperhand of magic. After much bloodloss, arguments, fighting and anger, nearly a millenium later, humans and gnomes explained each other, something no had thought to do, which solved a great much. With new respect for each others culture, they allied each other with somewhat trust. But gnomes, though fascinated, knew most humans only seeked the gnomish wealth they had aquired over decades upon decades of work. But you know, those gnomes are so smart and so slick—they designed the perfect traps in their dwellings, so their treasures and underground world could be guarded.
The gnomes and humans came together, but most humans did not live with gnome society. A few gnomes, however, did travel to humanity to seek what their world was like. Thus, the gnome culture spread and is still quietly about today. Over so many years the gnome history has faded away and anyone would be lucky in a million years to see a gnome, still dwellers of the earth.
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