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. Surely the first two
thousand or so volumes of the PHILOSOPHIKA have
already filled considerable blanks in the recorded history of
Krynn, and surely they will continue to do so, barring
censorship or organized neglect on the part of others I could
name . . . but I digress from the issue at hand, from that
most ungracious insult that is our present concern.
The recent War of the Lance has inspired endless
commentary, memoirs, speculations, and apologies, but
how many of these documents have thrown light upon the
Gnomish contribution to the deliverance of Krynn from the
hands of the enemy and the domination of the Dragon
Highlord?
None!4 Ours, it seems, is a marginal people, foot-
4. None, that is, except for those contained in the PHILOSOPHIKA
GNOMIKON, from which the author would be grateful to hear of any
advance payment and royalty arrangements that might be involved in
publishing this article in full - untouched, as the saying goes, by human
hand.
noted in history as a race of toymakers and tinkers. For
again one of our foremost poets, visionaries, and military
heroes is overlooked, drowned in a flood of self-serving
ink. Nowhere in the pages of LEAVES, or in the
CHRONICLES for that matter, is there mention of
Armavirumquecanonevermindquiprimusabpedibusfatoprof-
ugif,5 poet and philosopher, an equal and honored
Companion in his own right, completely forgotten in favor
of a large supporting cast of elves6 and gully dwarves7, in
favor of the highly overrated Gem-stone Man, who is said
to have used his highly overrated Gemstone to plug up
some metaphysical leak the Companions had imagined
because it seemed like good mythology at the time
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