Gnomish Arts

The Arts were the gnomish technique for manipulating every aspect of reality through the use of runes and rituals.

On the Eastern Continent, the runes are primarily applied to the bodies of martial artists in order to grant them superhuman strength and durability, as a reward for passing trials or examinations and such.

The runic writing system is extremely complicated and requires both superhuman intellect and gnomish emotionless rationality to fully understand. Gnomes used to teach some basics to mortals, who used the knowledge to create weapons and ways to profit by harming others, so they stopped