Gnome

once a proud race living were now the country of uru lies,

the gnome people were massacred when the holy order of the watcher established uru, and now the once free and happy gnomes are wandering refugees.

Collection of individuals
freedom used to be the most important value in gnome society, forest gnomes were free to roam about the land without interruption and rock gnomes freedom to expirimant and create, with the idea that as long as everybody would be kind to each other no restrictions will need to be placed upon people.

it is this state of living that Gnomes wish to come back to.

Wandering refugees
when the living bastion got the idea to start conquering parts of gaia to abolish magic he decieded to start with ceic, the gnome lands, and so the living bastion and his order of the watcher conquered the land and massacred the gnome living there beacuse many of them had minor arcane talent, and their blood and kin was considerd defiled.

the Gnomes that survived ran becoming wandering refugees with no home.

Gnome traits
Gnome traits can be found in the players handbook page 36

side note - deep gnomes
there are an offshoot of the gnome peapole that roam the under dark known as deep gnomes there traits can be found in the elemental evil players companion page 5