Gnomes

One of the two progenitor races. Every humanoid creature descends from them.

Unlike the grey elves, they were driven by curiosity and rationality, and mainly produced scientific achievements. They had no elemental affinity whatsoever, but discovered a method to directly bend the laws of physics through the use of symbols composed of the fundamental shapes of reality.

They mysteriously disappeared long ago, and most inhabitants of the local world are not familiar with them.

It is possible they left Fghn and ascended to Wë because they were aware of the former realm's impending destruction by the Wanderer ('impending' by their immortal, ageless standards, as countless eons passed before it actually came to pass). This would have been a futile attempt at escaping the chaos of the Broken World, as La and Wë bled into each other during the Cataclysm (the state described as 'the temporal domain of La' in Echanic scripture, while the previous cosmology with the Worldplane separating the two was the temporal domain of Wë).

Some of them may have realized this futility and gone insane because of it, and these gnomes may have turned into the drakhnums, the creatures of folklore that look like dragons but display (super)human intelligence, esoteric magical abilities and malicious intent instead of the regular animalistic disposition of a true dragon. Demons may be intermediate forms between the gnomes' humanoid shape and that of the dragon. Both creatures are seemingly immortal, near-omniscient and devoid of any real need. The only thing that drives them to interact with others, or ever do anything, seems to be sadistic amusement.