Gnome

Nicknamed miniature elves, the highly intelligent and vibrant gnomes are the inventors of Onomar society.  Their affinity for magic and creation has led them to create wonders and helped advance society to what it is today.

Elegant Inventors

Gnomes are well known for their intelligence.  They love to create new things, especially those with a magical nature.  The first artificers of Onomar were gnomes, creating the premier clockwork devices.  They are cited with the invention of black powder that has recently graced the land, and it is widely believed they developed the technology that breathed life into the warforged.  Gnomish engineering, as it is called, has led to fascinating new wonders.  Amusingly, however, gnomish engineering is often too inventive, revealing quirks that prevent some of their most revolutionary inventions from truly taking off.  A group of gnome engineers was able to create a machine capable of flight, but its magically inclined engine had a habit of materializing marble apples and propelling them at the pilot, for example.  The first clockwork crossbows were just as likely to fire and load correctly as there were to spew an indiscriminate hoard of angry hornets into the locale.
Gnomes take this in stride.  Level headed creatures, they see every setback as an opportunity, often looking for wars to harness these quirks with other crazy inventions.  They carry themselves highly, mimicking elvish aloofness to a comical degree.  They are vibrant creatures, often dying their hair in extravagant ways and wearing brightly colored fashionable clothing.  Gnomes love to express themselves through their appearance.

The "Other" Little Ones

Gnomes have lived in cities for as long as anyone can remember.  When the halflings began to venture from their farms into the cities, the other species would often mistake the halflings for gnomes and vice versa.  This is a garish insult to gnomes, who dislike the halflings for their lackadaisical, head in the clouds attitudes and lack of "posh".  They see the halflings' relatively bland appearance and love of the simple life as boring.  Those who suffer the tongue-lashing that follows making this mistake are not apt to make it twice.