Counter to the assertion that kobold's evil 'isn't their fault', I propose that gnomes are actually the evil race. Lore throughout editions has been pretty clear that kobolds were chill and fine before Garl Glittergold imprisoned Kurtulmak for... reasons. Supplanting the imprisonment of a benevolent god and forcing its subjects into barbarism, the new greatest joke gnomes have pulled is convincing everyone else they are good.

Gnuke the gnomes.