#kotlc gnomes

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Kotlc Calla fanart

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y’know that feeling when you realize hanahaki disease could actually be canon compliant thanks to the worldbuilding surrounding the gnomes? and then you remember that sophie is technically part gnome? 

[ohmygoly]

It is curious that for every other element there is an ability for it...water, fire, air, light, and shadows. But, there is no apparent elvin ability for Earth. I wonder why that is. Could technopathy be considered the ability to read and control physical matter, or Earth? Maybe it'd be better written that elves don't even view Earth as an element, it is just not something they believe culturally. Maybe they should believe Earth is the only true element because they don't have the ability to create it. Maybe they recognize that it is an element that was given to the gnomes by the sun, moon, and stars in the form of plants as the elves already have an immense amount of power. OR, what if the elves and gnomes are more closely related species than anyone originally thought?

[kale-of-the-forbidden-cities]

gnomes for @keeptober day 12

gnotes written from an elf perspective

I know it's late but in my defense, I had gno internet access the past two days so. I literally couldn't have posted it on time if I tried

individual gnomes under cut (I would like to gname them)

[gil-shalossssss]

Masterpost

Issue Three: Elves

The immortality of elves has always bothered me. How do they keep the population at a sustainable level? Wouldn't time be meaningless? But, more importantly for KotLC: Why do they look like humans if none of the other species do? I mean ogres, gnomes, and some if the trolls, kind of. But dwarves sure as hell don't. Why do elves look exactly like humans? If you're saying plot convenience, that's probably the answer. Even so, I have a solution: You know how trolls go through stages? What if elves did that, too? The younger ones can look like humans, and the older ones can look different, and the Anchients can look even more different. Problem solved.

[squishmallow36]

I experienced a thought on the bus this morning and I don't know why so uh yeah let's talk about elvin agriculture.

But first I must establish my credibility. As you see, Perry the Platypus, I got third in state for agricultural science for science olympiad and I may very well might have forgotten the vast majority of it.

Now we don't have an exact figure for how many elves there are and iirc Sophie said there was a meeting with a representative from every family but considering they don't interact with their family after they're, like, 18 I don't see how that makes sense but whatever.

The Elvin population is going to be constantly increasing at an exponential rate. Granted, it will be a slow exponential but birth rates will increase and death rates will remain near zero, resulting in population growth. This makes it so that the environment doesn't have a set carrying capacity for the number of elves and while the population growth may be slow enough in the beginning to adjust without much of an issue, eventually it's going to increase fast enough that it is an issue.

This population will require more food, causing current agricultural lands to deplete their nutrients faster. While in the past, a crop rotation schedule where half a field is used and half is fallow might shift to a more mediaeval era (in human terms) rotation of three sections.

And now this is where we go off on a tangent. First of all, I don't know where they would have space for growing food because they've got estates and they've got cities and nothing in between (or at least that's what it sounds like canonically). Now a place like Rimeshire yeah sure they've got gnomes why can't they have a garden but a place like Everglen idk if this is my fedex brainrot speaking but they seem like they'd be too snobby for that kind of thing. And foxfire has to get food somewhere and i sure as exile wouldn't trust level threes in an agriculture class.

Okay my real thought was "what about fertilizer?" Most of prev was just justifying that so uh sorry. Using my deep wild kratts knowledge, I know that bat guano is a good fertilizer. Commercially, other types of manure are used more often i'm sure. Google says manure has been used for 8000 years as a fertilizer...a time when the human population would've been fairly close to the elvin one today...so it is plausible.

...except elves don't keep livestock. Well. I guess that ends the train of thought.

But if elves still have a need for nutrients in their soil, there's a couple of options out there. The first is "don't worry about it, gnome songs are ~magic~ and avoid the need for chemistry." The second is, "don't worry about it, something something alchemy."

-> which does have its merit. The haber-bosch process--(3H2 + N2 -> 2NH3) which produces ammonia for plants to grow because nitrogen deficiency is less than ideal--was invented/discovered/verbed in the early 1900s which would have put it during the human assistance program.

Another option is bird poop islands, which is what the humans used before Haber went and Bosched the process and I found that thought entertaining until I realised the gnomes would be in charge of that and i don't think those little photosynthisizers deserve that.

But finally we get to my real point and i don't know how you made it this long. Another source of nitrogen is CH4N2O / NH2CONH2 (depends on who you ask on formula. Organic chem is like that sometimes.). But well this compound is commonly known as urea. Now, for extra credit, can you name something else that comes from the same origin? If you said urine, you win! Urea is found in urine!

Which means that if you as a gnomish farmer were really really really desperate for nitrogen and, of course, the chemical composition is the same technically you could pee in the fields to solve your problem.

[you-have-been-frizzled]

💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work?

i normally try to fit all of my headcannons into my fics, but i will go over a headcannon i based an entire fic off of, (i have no idea how to answer this any other way)

Tam and Linh didn’t just live near the Gnomes they where taken in and a part of the village. the Gnomes where the closest thing to family they had for a long time. when the plague hit the gnomes stayed behind as long as they could because it was their forest and they wanted to be there for the twins. when it got bad enough they started losing people the Twins begged and pleaded with them to leave and the gnomes finally did. because the twins promised to stay back and care for the forest.

for years they can look at or be around gnomes without being because all it reminds them of is the family that they lost.

…the fic with this premise hasn’t been touched in months but it’s literally one of my favorite ideas i’ve had

[the-witch-of-woods-beyond]

i think that kotlc has the potential to be such a good book series if it handled the problems with the elven society instead of giving us almost ten books of sophie slowly accepting those flaws. imagine if the way the gnomes are treated was discussed and dealt with, the way talentles elves and siblings are treated and the structure of the nobility was shown in a negative light.

i’m aware there’s been slow improvement, but for nine books worth of development and world-building, i feel like there should be more.

[fintan-pyren]

What an ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY that Serenvale was taken over by the ogres. I guess we, the kind and gracious elves, must allow the gnomes to stay with us. and share their produce with us. and build our homes and make our clothing and do anything else that we need done. It's SUCH a shame, really, but we shall be kind and gracious hosts. It's not like there's any alternative, after all! It's not like we could just GIFT THE GNOMES THEIR OWN LAND INSTEAD OF FORCING THEM TO PERMANENTLY LIVE AS GUESTS ON LAND THEY DON'T OWN.

[the-great-gullon-incident]

How does the Elven economy work when it comes to food? Like, how much does food cost, if any, and like does it cost more to go out to eat?

Food is largely made and produced by gnomes. As gnomes have a trade based economy they trade the food they make with safety inside the lost cities to food companies managed by elves.

The cost of food will change depending on what type of food your buying or what company your buying from but generally it’s calculated by how many tools were used, how much the were used, and the quality of the tools. so the company can make an income. Companies that use better and more expensive equipment will charge more. If a company gives there gnomes better living conditions(larger property, more water, more access to electricity/whatever elves use to generate light) the higher the prices will also be as they have to take into account the money they are spending on taxes for the gnomes living facilities.

Eating out a restaurant or fast food would cost more. Most commonly at restaurants(especially the fancier ones) the dishes are being specially prepared by elves who are actively getting paid. Fast food places or less fancy restaurants will sometimes have gnomes make the food who’s pay will depend on the individual gnome and what they’ve bargained their pay to be.

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Kotlc Calla fanart

[camelspit]

had a vision and u guys arent ready for it (rayni x flori)

[when-wax-wings-melt]

damn the gender norms don't just have hands Sophie is physically giving them boxing gloves and putting them in the ring!

[kale-of-the-forbidden-cities]

the most offensive thing to call gnomes is "little grass homies"

[famousinfamous]

not the elves enslaving the gnomes AND the goblins. Like you think those bodyguards are getting paid in fat cash?