Gnomes

Small and hardworking, Gnomes are a distinguished race. They live near and in mountain sides and in any small compartments or crevaces. Gnomes prefer misdirection and deception over direct confrontation.

Appearance
Gnomes stand 3 to 3½ feet tall and weigh 40 to 45 pounds. Their skin color ranges from dark tan to leather brown, they have fair hair, and their eyes can be any shade of blue. Gnome males prefer short, carefully trimmed beards. Gnomes generally wear leather or earth tones, though they decorate their clothes with intricate stitching and fine jewelry.

Lover of hats, Gnomes reach adulthood at about age 40, and they live about 350 years, though some can live almost 500 years. Background Gnomes, are small humanoids known for their eccentric sense of humor, inquisitiveness and engineering prowess. Having had few overt influences on the world’s history but many small and unseen ones, gnomes are often overlooked by the powers that be, despite their craftiness and affinity for Illusion magic. Personality Gnomes are hostile towards any outsiders entering their territory. They are also one of few races that drop their guards and become extremely optomistic and gracious. Gnomes are a naturally intelligent and creative race, with a charm about them unusual for other humanoids.

They are extremely determined assiduos workers. They are known through the realm as the hardest workers, even more so than dwarves.

Svirfneblin
Svirfneblin are the underdrak cousin to the common gnome. While their surface cousins are known for their boundless optimism and cheerful mischief, the  svirfneblin  are serious and suspicious creatures. They survive in the Underdark by maintaining wariness of others and working hard to keep their underground society secret.

Deep gnomes lack not only a tradition of keeping records or writing biographies, but they also have never developed a calendar or a method by which to track the passing of time as the drow have. To a deep gnome the very concept of day or night is foreign, having never seen the light of the sun or the stars of a night sky. Deep gnomes are a surly and cynical people, who fatalistically expect little more from life than what they have.