Talk:Gnome

Are gnomes from the Feywild?
Logically, if gnomes were created in what is now Netheril, as The Grand History of the Realms suggests (page 9), they aren't originally from the Feywild. The mountain that crowned their primordial home was a Prime Material mountain, and the lake that formed from it is a Prime Material lake, not a Feywild lake. They may well have migrated to the Feywild subsequently, and they're still considered fey in 4th edition game-mechanics terms, but they didn't originate there.

If Realms-specific sources contradict core sources, Realms-specific sources trump them. It's not that Realms gnomes are a "separate race" from 4th edition core gnomes, it's that the lore in 4e core books only represents a default suggestion from which world-specific supplements are free to deviate. We can assume they're accurate if Realms-specific sources don't disagree with them, but in cases where they do, they're not accurate for the purposes of this wiki. For example, in the Monster Manual 3 4th edition, skulks are said to have been created during the empire of Bael Turath by Graz'zt, while in the Realms they were created by the drow in -530 DR. -- Rowan Earthwood 19:53, June 26, 2011 (UTC)