Svirfneblin

Racial stats for svirfneblin.

Svirfneblin, or deep gnomes, are found far below the kingdoms of the dwarves, in the Feywild and in the Elemental Plane of Earth.

Their elders and sages tell of a time when the svirfneblin were a refugee people, fleeing some disaster or oppression lost to the time before their history. Seeking dark, quiet spaces, they found places on the borders between the mortal realm and the other worlds of the fey and the earth elementals. The reputation for such places as cruel, harsh environments did not dull the svirfneblin urge to find a home for themselves. By their very nature as problem-solving, practical folk, they bent their wills and efforts to the adaptation of their homes and their people to their new circumstance.

Svirfneblin are a cooperative race with a willingness to enter other cultures to learn their ways. They make excellent explorers and diplomats. They tend to have local "government" that tends toward simple arrangements with mayors, sheriffs and elders.

Svirfneblin respect wit and insight. They tend more toward primal spiritualism than divine worship, if only because they are personally acquainted with a number of earth spirits.