Why the gnome hate?

[Coidzor]

^: There've been Scandinavians with the name, so... quite plausibly.

Become a god and leave your collapsed mine, or have the mine rebuilt and let your brethren go abandoned by the gods forever more. Gee, what a selfish sod Kurtulmak is. How dare he take Io's offer to become the only divine beacon his kind will ever have.

And the overwhelming majority worship Tiamat instead and are largely in thrall to dragons as opposed to living for themselves.

He's such a good divine beacon for the kobolds, really looks out for his people.

Frankly, from what we can glean from his life and what state kobolds of the current era are in, koboldkind would have been better off with some example surviving of a nation of kobold who were not slaves and had something impressive to go to their names rather than hovels to lay more eggs in.