Elementals - gnomes

Earth elementals, as described by alchemist Paracelsus in the sixteenth century, are officially classified as gnomes. This classification covers a range of beings from small to large, non-sentient to sentient and varying according to the culture in which their magician emerged. Gnomes are then further divided into sub-classes, assigned the status of lesser or greater depending on where they fall along the main line:

gnomes > golem >