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A slang term for a sub/counter culture made up mostly of the now late adolescent/ young adult/Adult offspring of Free Gnome refugees resettled in the Hakan city area after the Gnomish Civil War. Originally used as a pejorative insult, it was embraced as a means of removing the word’s negative social power. Effort was moderately successful. | A slang term for a sub/counter culture made up mostly of the now late adolescent/ young adult/Adult offspring of Free Gnome refugees resettled in the Hakan city area after the Gnomish Civil War. Originally used as a pejorative insult, it was embraced as a means of removing the word’s negative social power. Effort was moderately successful. | ||
Known to be an iconoclastic, deviant, youth | Known to be an iconoclastic, deviant, youth characterized by long dyed red hair and dyed mustaches and cosmetically augmented copper/reddish/clay skin tones, outrageous forms of dress,Large hats, loud dissonant music and the performative mocking of the majority of traditional Hakoni social conventions attacking them as “Dwarffish” and “Mentally Vassalized''. | ||
They are stereotypically, pronouncedly cynical of the political process seeing the entirety of Gnomish society woefully tainted by the Dwarven cultural influence and must be cleansed by a full rejection of all Dwarven norms and for full Gnomish reconciliation with all three “families | They are also militantly insulted by the term “Wild Gnomes' ' as they strive to increase the growing consensus around the term to consider it to be an offensive Dwarvish term of condescension and reflective of inherit Dwarven supremacist attitudes. | ||
They are stereotypically, pronouncedly cynical of the political process seeing the entirety of Gnomish society woefully tainted by the Dwarven cultural influence and must be cleansed by a full rejection of all Dwarven norms and for full Gnomish reconciliation with all three “families" of the Gnomish race including the so called [[Breaker Gnomes]]. | |||
Individually they may be consumed with Sprigg The Shrewd lore or may simply wear the fashion and engage as an affectation or means to an end to gain a platform. It’s ultimately secondary to them. | Individually they may be consumed with Sprigg The Shrewd lore or may simply wear the fashion and engage as an affectation or means to an end to gain a platform. It’s ultimately secondary to them. | ||
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It is said that he was born at high noon on the third day of the [[Festival of Rebirth]] and was visited by three ladies/lord/s of the feywild “various according to region”. Each with something for the newborn Sprigg. one who blessed the Half mortal child, one who cursed the Son of careless Demi God and one who lay a geas on this First son of all the Gnomes. | It is said that he was born at high noon on the third day of the [[Festival of Rebirth]] and was visited by three ladies/lord/s of the feywild “various according to region”. Each with something for the newborn Sprigg. one who blessed the Half mortal child, one who cursed the Son of careless Demi God and one who lay a geas on this First son of all the Gnomes. | ||
As a result according to Clan Spriggan not only is Sprigg Nodolli virtually immortal but still lives to this day wandering the world anonymously still having adventures and quietly watching over his fellow Gnomes from afar. | As a result according to Clan Spriggan not only is Sprigg Nodolli virtually immortal but still lives to this day wandering the world anonymously still having adventures and quietly watching over his fellow Gnomes from afar, tho very few take this literally. | ||
From then he has several epic length poems and a number of differing sagas to his name among the various bands within Clan Spriggan. However their presentation again differs from the other presentations among the Hakani and the Dwarves in that among the Spriggans themselves they see their founder as assertive. pugnacious, anti-social, blunt. not suffering fools and bypassing the illusion of civilization to get to the point. sardonic.braggart, gruff, hedonistic.more tactically deceptive than a trickster, per say… | From then he has several epic length poems and a number of differing sagas to his name among the various bands within Clan Spriggan. However their presentation again differs from the other presentations among the Hakani and the Dwarves in that among the Spriggans themselves they see their founder as assertive. pugnacious, anti-social, blunt. not suffering fools and bypassing the illusion of civilization to get to the point. sardonic.braggart, gruff, hedonistic.more tactically deceptive than a trickster, per say… | ||