Editing Harem Knights: Races (section)

==Gnomes==
Gnomes live in vast technological cities built into the sides of the Dark Mountains. They are on neutral terms with the highly xenophobic human kingdom nearby, but this has more to do with the Gnome's advanced technology and "Clock Guard" in the form of metal automatons running on springwork and chains.	 	
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Your average gnome is about waist high to a human, and their body shape similar in proportion. Their skin tones the normal human range, though they tend to tan quickly in the mountains from the reflections of the constant snow. They have a tendency to alter their bodies in many of the ways old world humans did. Fancy, meaningless tattoos, dying their hair, common, synthetic make ups (usually developed with secrets bought from Goblin alchemists). They are also used to the use of gears and chains for transfering information back and forth between each other in their fast clockwork cities, and even between them in some cases. Within each city is something akin to an "internet" that allows slow by digital standards, but lightning fast by medieval ones, communication between individuals within the same city. All of this gives the gnomes an aesthetic very similar to that of the Outerrealmers of /TG/

Unlike Dwarves, they build ONTOP of mountains, and use the vast geothermal vents under the Dark Mountains to transform their cities into vast mechanical fortresses. Primary, stationary systems are powered by steam, while mobile systems are wound by the vast springs that transfer power from the steam turbines into the rest of the city. They have a primitive form of computing power in the form of long, massive, series of chains. Inside each link, is a little toggle, that can be flipped horizontal or vertical, giving a form of binary logic. Their Clock Guards are programmed by these, feeding the chains into themselves, reading them, and occasionally altering them with their inner clockwork to feed new information into the system. At the core of every Gnomish city is a vast bank of chains, and wound springs.