Editing Alia:Peoples (section)

===Wood Gnomes of Shadow Wood===

Some Gnomes have settled the western edge of the Shadow Wood south of Greenhill and east of the mountains of Estvald, fleeing the rule of the Giants.  The have brought their civilization into the Shadow Wood and have lived there for more than 200 years in harmony with nature and the Wood Elves who live there.
 
Recently the wood gnomes have lost thier communities near the edge of the Shadow Wood to the expansion of the southern empire.  Some were enslaved, some fled to the north, others fled deeper into the forests and joined with the wood elves, a few traveled to the kingdom of the Rock Gnomes.  More than half the Wood Gnome villages have been conquered.