This is what comes to my mind when I think of gnomes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKjmCe78fjc ...

At least some will honor the lore too If we can only train the MMO players to do so... Where is that whip again?

not really, dwarfs more of a name for someone who is small.

We will get them when they add unicorns, faeries, minataurs, mermaids, and Pegasus.

IIRC, they weren't particularly short, but they were definitely shorter than the altmer (who are the tallest of the current races), and not much shorter than the nords. Definitely taller than the bosmer, who are pretty much the runts of Tamriel.

Their architecture and housewares don't suggest a race that was exceptionally short, either.

I get very embarrassingly agitated when someone jumps on at the newest game then make a plea to the devs to butcher the series' lore.

or just act like they know it already and try and rub it in your face.

it happened when loads of people were complaining that there weren't any dragons in this like skyrim. really pissed me off.

I know that feeling also...

unicorns, Minotaur's and mermaids are already in this universe

but I agree with your point

There were dragon's in Skyrim?

Saw a bunch of Wyverns..no dragons sadly

there was a guy in zone in the beta who was saying that in game the gods aren't actually real and everything is just 'religious nonsense' like it was in medieval times. I found that really frustrating.

dragons in skyrim are what we would call wyverns, but its a different universe so in TES they are still dragons.

same thing as calling dwemer being referred to as dwarves even though they don't resemble dwarves at all except for beards, and are elves.

Wow, I need to read up on my lore more. Were they in any of the games?

Faeries were mentioned in books too. I'm afraid we might really be in for gnomes in the next patch. I wouldn't be opposed to playing as a goblin...

Definitely could do with some Gnomes.

Yea I know, they are cousins or somesuch, still disappointing. What self respecting dragon lands on the ground to fight....

minotaurs and unicorns were in oblivion, minotaurs were a very common mob while the unicorn was part of a quest. mermaids are mentioned frequently in academic books.

the kind thats usually immortal

5/10.

I've seen better.

I don't think anyone cares about the name, people just want a short race other than tree-hugging wood elves. Well, some people; this thread doesn't look serious.

I even saw gnomes in the beta, and with the post someone made from Skyrim earlier, they clearly are in the TES series. You may not call them gnomes, but they are in; just mercifully not as a playable race.

Problem is that when a lot of people who play RPGs think gnome, they just think of them as they are represented in WoW rather than what they actually are mythologically.

I think of gnomes as the creatures on people's front yards or that Travelocity gnome. Are they much different? I'm sure each mythology that had them treated them differently...

Mythologically, a gnome is just a short magical creature.

you talking about rieklings? because as I said before the most widely "believed" theory on what they are is another type of devolved falmer.

they're still not called gnomes, they're nothing like gnomes and they're primitive savages comparable to cavemen which aren't suited to be playable.

well thats not going to happen, because there is no other known sentient creature that matches that description, even in the continents half a world away.

I'm not talking about anything, I've never played TES games before this. But, as I said, call a thing what you will, genuinely unique creatures in computer RPGs are as rare as hen's teeth. See above for what a gnome actually is.