** These problems were partially rectified when Lord Gunther released a revised Measure (the knighthood's code of laws) that was far more flexible in how it dealt with certain protocol, ironically taking a page from the [[LawfulEvil Knights of Takhisis]], who steamrolled across Ansalon in a matter of weeks due to a unity in purpose and became surprisingly tolerated in occupied lands due to their stern-but-fair brand of justice and ability to (sometimes literally) cut through red tape. But before then, literally centuries went by where a vast majority of the knighthood's higher offices were vacant due to a requirement in the Measure that a minimum number of knights be present to vote in candidates. But the Measure never took into account that in the wake of the Cataclysm, such a quorum ''didn't exist''. So the knighthood could not elect new leaders because of an unfeasible requirement of the Measure, but could not alter the Measure because [[MortonsFork there existed no provisions within the Measure for it to be altered]]. The knighthood's darkest hour came when their final stronghold was under siege by the dragonarmies and the various faction heads ''continued'' to struggle for the leadership under parliamentarian points of order.

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* FantasyGunControl: Theoretically, the tinker gnomes could easily invent working guns, but they don't, because, well, they're pretty much incompetent bunglers as a rule. And because they're the only ones who have really mastered technology, other races are put off of the idea of learning it.
** In a short story called "Boom", a gnome actually invents ''an atomic bomb''. It is quite blatantly thus, too, being fuelled by the splitting of the fundamental particles of reality (which he calls "atomies") and with it being mentioned that an area in which it detonates will be rendered barren and lifeless for several human generations. His fellow gnomes thought that this idea sounded so dangerous that they confiscated and tried to bury all his research. Driven mad by this, he built an atomic handgrenade and tried to offer it to a Dragon Highlord. Between questioning just how they would be able to actually use the thing and [[EvenEvilHasStandards quailing at the sheer destructive potential it held]], the Highlord refused, ultimately hiding the bomb away in the impenetrable mountains and sending the creator into slavery.

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