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| Background
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| Gnarley
Forest |
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| Gnomes |
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| There are just under 1,000 Gnomes in
the forest; three-quarters of them are in the hilly regions. The
fertile hills allow them to raise crops and grow fruiting vines and
bushes, so fewer engage in mining than in the Kron or Cairn Hills. In
the hills, many gnomes live in harmonious mixed communities with human
farmers and dwell not underground, but in cottages often made for them
by humans. Because their communities are more often mixed than is common for gnaomes, the little folktend to identify with human interests. They have a valorous history in combating such terrors as the Temple of Elemental Evil to the West and driving humanoids out of the forest, and have an awareness of the events of the Greyhawk wars which more insular groups often do not. These communitiesare usually independent, but those to the east are friendly toward the Greyhawk militia who visit. Their clan elder spokesmen include some who argue that Celene, their nominal ruler, is far distant, isolationist and does not offer the help and interest that the humans (rangers and militia) show. Farther south, the wood gnomes are more sympathetic to Celene and tend to live in harmony with elves, so they are cooler towards Greyhawk. |