you could have other parasites and infestations too but I imagine gnomes would be the most common and only slightly harmful

Interesting idea

They suck the magic out of your relics and taint their magic, and scurry off into the space between the fabric of reality if you spot them

You can place hex traps and cast spells to get rid of them though

I misread Hex traps as Hex tape-

pre-jailbreak peyton talking about her hex tapes (she means magic)

Lmao, I meant Hex tape like flex tape but Alr-

they're just tapes she got from an old wizard on how to cast basic spells and cure curses

Ah

though magic tape is actually a cool concept too

It is a great concept. I might take a concept at making an explanation will it.

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Is this inspired by burglin' gnomes

That was my first thought reading this

It was actually a YT short about a wizard and his dragon-human girlfriend waking up in the middle of the night and going to go get water when a few gnomes steal his leftover wings

https://youtube.com/shorts/TKQxx_sQfX8?si=jGyRj9EOKczKQcQ2 this one

It's part of a series of shorts from this guy that I follow along with

Ima just place a AirTag on on of them and track it

Gravity falls deltarune