Pockete the Noble Gnome

[Ivory]

I, like many gnomes, was born in the great gnomish babyning.

Some say it was the gods involved in so many births so close together.... others say it was a tricksy wizard who had put love potion into the gnomes supply of muffins causing unprecedented conceptions....

Either way, there were many gnomes when I was growing up and the great city of Ak'anon was more full of life than ever before!!

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But, one night... a great war brewed outside of our gates in the Steamfont Mountains.

Evil unlike anything seen before had arrived, and the mountains were swarming with creatures of every kind!!!! So, me and my brothers and sisters went out into the darkness to meet the threat....

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Many gnomes died that night. Spiders, wolves, kobolds....all with a hunger for gnome.... it was war!!

The horrors , the horrors!!!

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But eventually we began to win the battle, and soon the Steamfont mountains were safe with gnomes everywhere pushing back the dangers.

Then it struck me....if we had experienced such things, the rest of the world must surely be in trouble!!! I knew others out there needed help!

Sure, I wasn't so good at magics... and couldn't fight as good as other gnomes... but I had a rusty spear and could stab pretty ok.

So I left the mountains on my quest....a quest to become a great noble gnome and save the other races of Norrath as we had done for ourselves that night!

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As I traveled through the forest, eventually I came upon another battle scene.... the dwarves also had seemingly lost many of their kind in the great event.

"Do not worry fellows! I wills protects you!" I told them, and together we created a force to hold back the beetles and snakes from closing in on their city of Kaladim.

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We fought long into the night, and learnt much from each other.

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But before long more dwarves arrived...and my work was done. It was time for me to continue on, and seek other noble deeds.

It's then that I heard rumors of a vampire king. Perhaps he was behind all the evil we'd seen?!

I knew what I had to do.... I had to go to his castle, find him, and stop him once and for all!!!!!!!! I was already of the 5th season, and my spear would make short work of one such as him....if the rumors were even true.

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You see, while I may not be so great at fightin....or know any magics... I do have a knack for ....well.... being ignored.

I dunno, I guess growing up around so many gnomes it just came naturally to me.... I could stand in a full room during a party and be COMPLETELY INVISIBLE!

Even better, with practice I was beginning to be able to control this strange power!!

Impressive, I know.

But finally, instead of making me always get left behind....I had a use for it! And I used it to my advantage to walk right through the great vampires castle....straight into the throne room!!

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"I comes to stop your king!!" I said....

But, sadly, my natural ability was too powerful...and it was like they didn't even hear me.

"Fine!! Ignore me!!! Imma find him myself!!!"

And with that I kept walking to explore the rest of the castle.

Eventually I'd searched every inch of the place!!! Even a mysterious crypt...but nowhere could I find an evil king to stop... simply an old painting.

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I guess, even if the rumors is true, he must have been long gone already. And definitely not the one behind all the battles happening around the world.