Those wretched Gnomes! They ate my meat, they drank my beer, and now they sleep in my bed. But what are they? Trying to get them to undergo medical examination failed, but I made the measurements while the Gnome was asleep and undressed. Don't let the diminutive, girl-like body fool you; they're hardy, tough and much, much older than they seem. Gnomes first appeared in early Zones as a weird mutation that produced an immortal, unchanging body; no Gnome ever ages, akin to Star Gods. This allowed them to survive hellerium starvation, despite their dependence on it, but forced them to shrink to a small, more efficient frame. I believe it was a long and extremely painful process.