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| Species | Even Gnome |
| Over-species | Gnome |
| Classification | Vaettir |
| Family | Recondite Gnome |
| Sphere | Neutrality |
| Origin | From the rules of equilibrium. |
| Lifespan | 80-120 years |
| Habitat | Temperate to subarctic islands, where they live in burrows and earthen structures |
| Food | The smelliest, most unusual aspects of human fare |
| Description | Even gnomes short (about 3'), Their heads are slightly too big for their bodies. They have big noses, thin smiles, and human-hued hair and skin. |
| Procreation | Gnome breed with each other, where the type of gnome is determined by the mother of the gnome. Breeding with non-gnomes is only possible with supernatural intervention. |
| Esoterica | Gnomes are hegnhic beings who are compelled to obey specific rules. By obeying the rules, they gain insights into systems and mechanism that gives them a supernatural affinity for devices and engineering. Even gnomes also gain insights into engineering through shebv heya. Gnomes can use almost any supernatural energy except entropy. The most commonly used are Foundation, aether, ethereal essence, yahas, void, mashoaab, damaskian power, dumaqu, arnum, and ordinal power. |
| Special Powers | Even gnomes have supernatural skill with engineering and devices. Like all gnomes, they have gnomish illogic damage, wherein their inevitably dangerously failed experiments do not, in fact, hurt them. They also tend to inherently know if something is level. As general engineers, even gnomes act as jacks of all trades for engineering, working on devices from many different types of engineering without being true masters of any. They do not create wonders but select a handful of styles to work in, usually complementary ones. |
| Weaknesses | Entropy. If a gnome violates their rules, they become a rogue gnome whose energies are askew and dangerous. |
| Rules | Even gnomes must obey three basic rules:
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| Culture | Even gnomes live in small communities run by a council of elders. These elders select members of the community to represent them in the parliament, which is headed by a president that is elected by parliament. Laws are enforced by an independent organization that is funded by the guilds. There is a guild for every major branch of engineering. The guilds have schools. Each school teaches from year one to graduate level, and students switch between schools to learn complementary skills. When a student graduates, they join a guild that will be their primary focus, but work with a team of members of other guilds. Families send their children to their preferred guild first. Families are small extended families that live in close proximity. |
| Engineering | Even gnomes are skilled with many forms of engineering. The most common uses for this are simple machinery and devices that make their lives easier. |
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| Sample statistics | PRO 10 ATH 12 STR 6 AWA 14 WIL 12 ROG 10 Sneak/Hide 11 Engineering 13 Illogic Damage |
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