So I have one simple question, are there gnomes that are also nobles? I have this concept for a Rage Prophet that involves a gnome with the Noble Scion feat with the War bonus to make my charisma feed into my initiative (I'm a Lore Oracle first with the Sidestep Secret mystery and eventually the Lore Keeper mystery so I want to have a lot of Charisma to balance my whopping 10 DEX). I really like the concept of a gnome noble as well and find it to be an interesting angle for a gnome (especially being a character that wants to learn instead of fight, but becomes forced to during the course of the campaign he becomes apart of).
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Yes, but they aren't called Nobles. They are called Gnombles.
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In there quest for color, who's to say what they may pick up along the way? Maybe they saw a Noble early on and decided that they are aristocracy. Prove he doesn't have Noble blood when it's of the first world!
Seriously, I love Gnomes because they can be almost any off-the-wall concept you can come up with.
Depends on the setting.
In Golarion I don't know of any gnome run settlements larger than a town or village, so obviously having a classical monarchy is not really possible.
Of course we're talking about gnomes here, so non-standard is standard. King of the Forest, Lord of the Cogs, Prince of the Penny-Snatchers.
The feat says you have to be noble, it doesn't say how widely that nobility is recognized.
Just check with your GM about this beforehand of course.
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Well, the Inner Sea World Guide's entry for Cheliax notes that the city of Brastlewark is probably the largest gnome settlement in Avistan, if not Golarion, and is home to someone who gets away with calling himself the king of all gnomes, so gnomes from there probably have some idea of how aristocracy works. Cheliax is probably also a good place for someone to have to learn how to fight, whether they want to or not.
It's also possible that a gnome could be inducted into nobility.
It's not unreasonable that a gnome could gain enough importance in a country to convince it's aristocracy to adopt them into it.
Gnomes are reply creative. They could probably convince people to make them then royal craftsmen. The gear gnomes pass on projects in the family, and it wouldn't surprise me to see a gnome acting as magister heading sciences and magic. A gnome could have an ancestor the earned royalty.
Hm, will have to sleep on all of these option.
Reading the description of the feat it says you are a member of a proud noble family. It does not mention that you have to be born into the family. Simply be an adopted member of the family. Take the alternative racial trait Academician and choose knowledge nobility for your knowledge skill.
Or maybe a changeling child, a gnome substituted for a human infant in the crib. Maybe nobody even knows you're a gnome as such, they just think you are a horribly deformed "dwarf" - like Tyrion. You could be the son of the King of the Realm, or a similarly powerful noble. Though as I recall, that didn't work out to well for Tyrion.
So I assume (me being relatively knew to Pathfinder fluff) that gnomes can be found pretty much anywhere, including in armies? I had this odd idea that he came from a long line of Mendevian gnomes.
Gnomes are known for seeking new experiences in order to fight off the Bleaching. I can see them as being decadent nobles who spend lots of money on crazy new experiences. If they were in an army, I feel like it'd be a mercenary company going around taking weird jobs. XD
I like the idea of a noble Gnome!
Actually, is it possible to have humans and gnomes interbreed to some degree? I mean not to the point where the half-elves and half-orcs are their own separate species, but at some level? I was thinking of another character who is also a noble and I kind of think it would be funny to make him one-fourth gnomish.
Actually, is it possible to have humans and gnomes interbreed to some degree? I mean not to the point where the half-elves and half-orcs are their own separate species, but at some level? I was thinking of another character who is also a noble and I kind of think it would be funny to make him one-fourth gnomish.
They are specifically stated as being unable to interbreed with humans, unfortunately. You could perhaps have a hint of fey blood, though, that would manifest in some gnome-like features, physically or personality-wise.
Actually, is it possible to have humans and gnomes interbreed to some degree? I mean not to the point where the half-elves and half-orcs are their own separate species, but at some level? I was thinking of another character who is also a noble and I kind of think it would be funny to make him one-fourth gnomish.They are specifically stated as being unable to interbreed with humans, unfortunately. You could perhaps have a hint of fey blood, though, that would manifest in some gnome-like features, physically or personality-wise.
That only rules out an accidental pregnancy. With sufficient magic, that 3/4 human 1/4 gnome character is quite possible.