Originally Posted by
Mark Hall
Grand History of the Realms.
Again, your ignorance... the souls of gnomes are gemstones. Svirfneblin are diamonds. Rock gnomes are sapphires. Forest gnomes are emeralds.
There were no good kobolds; all thirsted for gnomish souls.
Kobolds perhaps CAN, but name a group that DOES.
Once kobolds stop stealing souls, eating babies, and worshiping gods of evil, even the gnomes whom they have so wronged will welcome them. But kobolds will not, because they are steeped in evil.