Gnome

The Gnomes are a diminuitive race of tinkers and engineers who, like their cousins the Dwarves, have a tendency to live underground. Most members of the Gnomish race used to dwell in the techno-city of Gnomeregan before the Gnomes unwittingly awakened the barbaric and, though they put up a valiant fight, through a combination of relentless Trogg aggression and unbridled chemical warfare, the Gnomish race was driven from their city and took up refuge in the nearby Dwarven city of Ironforge. Despite the destruction of their home city the Gnomes remain a kindhearted and amiable race. All Gnomes are gifted with a natural aptetude for technology, coupled with their long lifespans this has allowed the Gnomes to design some of the greatest feats of engineering on Azeroth, including various flying machines, submarines and the Deeprun Tram, arguably the greatest mode of transport in the world.
==History ==
Very little of the Gnomes history is known prior to the Second War, even the Gnomes themselves have very little knowledge of their history before then, although recent discoveries in Northrend have revealed links between the Gnomes and a race of robotic, gnome-like creatures, created by the , who suffered from the same "Curse of Flesh" that afflicted the , turning them into Dwarves.
===Discovery of the Gnomes ===
The Dwarves first discovered the Gnomes some 200 years prior to the events of the Burning Crusade, not long before the War of the Three Hammers. It is said that a Dwarvish explorer happened across a small village of Gnomes. To his suprise he found that, while the Dwarves had only discovered the many uses of gunpowder, the Gnomes has created a fully automatic village, even with such technological noveleties as robotic chickens.
As the Gnomes and Dwarves began to make more contact with each other an alliance was formed between the two races, the Dwarves even allowed the Gnomes to construct the city of Gnomeregan in the hills of Dun Morogh. Unfortunately, soon after the alliance was formed the War of the Three Hammers occured.
Safe from the Dwarvish civil war inside the city of Gnomeregan the Gnomes thrived, sharing the resources of with the Dwarves. During this time the Gnomes provided the Dwarvish master smiths and artisans with designs and blueprints for deadly new weapons and the steam-powered vechiles.
===The Second War ===
The technology of the Gnomes reached new heights during the Second War. The Gnomish race greatly supported the Alliance in their fight against the invading Orcish Horde, lending the Alliance new weapons and vechiles, including submarines. The War also saw the Gnomes take to skies in large numbers, brand new Gyrcopters took to the skies of war, challenging the Goblins and their Zeppelins for air superiority; it would be safe to assume that it was during the war the rivalry between the Goblins and Gnomes reached new heights, with the Gnomes pitting their meticulously planned and finely crafted vechiles against the experimental and highly dangerous ramshackle constructs of the Goblins.
During the Third War, however, the Gnomes refused to send any men to fight for their allies, unbeknownst to the Dwarves and Humans the Gnomes were fighting a war of their own against a deadly new foe, the Troggs.
===The Fall of Gnomeregan ===
Unwittingly the Gnomes, in attempts to expand their city of Gnomeregan, had awakened a menace locked beneath the bowels of the earth, the Troggs. Rising up from their caves and tunnels in the mountains of Khaz Modan the Troggs attacked the surface world soon after they were awakened. Gnomeregan bore the brunt of the Trogg attack, hundreds of the ancient creatures descended upon the once peaceful techno-city. The Gnome defenders thought they would be able to defeat the Troggs on their own and didn't allow the rest of the Alliance to know of their plight against the troggs. After months of fighting it became obvious that the Trogg threat was not about to let up, with the bulk of the Alliances fighting forces fighting with the Burning Legion in Kalimdor the Gnomes were, for the most part, isolated in their beseiged city; it was at this time the Mekgineer Sicco Thermaplugg betrayed the Gnomish race and conviced the leader of the Gnomes, High Tinker Gelbin Mekkatorque, to activate the cities failsafe devices, and open up Gnomeregan's ventilation system, flooding the city with radioactive gases which would kill the Troggs.
After the vents were opened the toxic gas contained within flooded Gnomeregan. The gas worked in killing off the majority of the Trogg invaders but hundreds of Gnomes were also affected by the gas, either being killed by the deadly fumes or turned into Leper Gnomes, a grim parody of the Gnomish race, their minds warped by the radioactive gases the Leper Gnomes are hateful individuals, convinced all intruders in Gnomeregan, including the Gnomes themselves, are Troggs. After the gas was released Mekgineer Thermaplugg mutated into a Leper Gnome, insane and demented the Mekgineer declared himself King of Gnomeregan and took control of the Leper Gnomes and the city. High Tinker Mekkatorque, however, did not fall to the blight that had swept through Gnomeregan and, realising his mistake, led the survivors of the diasaster in Gnomeregan to Ironforge where they took exile amongst the Dwarves, building the district of in the city and constructing the Deeprun Tram to connect Ironforge to the Human capital of Stormwind City. Today, the Gnomes are valued members of the Alliance, designing new weapons and vechiles to aid the Alliance in its war efforts and constructing new feats of engineering to make life easier for all in the Alliance, all the while dreaming of the day when they will be able to take back their fallen city...
==Gnomes On The Sha'tar ==
===Characters ===
A list of famous, infamous and less famous Gnomes which can be found on the Sha'tar.
*Belnema
*Dalvoron Amakiir
*Giszle G. VanWheelz
*Kall
*Lusa
*Lowdan
*Niblit
*Pixel Glimmerstone
*Selhma
*Zizzleclank Thermoblix
*Frazbil Phineas Arcaneafuze
===Guilds ===
Gnome only guilds or guilds that focus on Gnome RP on the Sha'tar.
*The Gnome Crusade 
*The Order of the Dark Wrench 
*Taskforce G