---
title: "The Gnomes — Overview"
description: "PD's real-fake NFT collection: one guardian gnome per project, free to awaken, alive in its tab, owned and traded entirely inside Price Discussion."
category: "gnomes"
keywords: ["gnomes", "gnome", "gnomewallet", "mushroom market", "real-fake NFT", "awakening", "keeper", "respect"]
last_updated: "2026-07-19"
---

# The Gnomes — Overview

Every project on Price Discussion has exactly one **gnome**: its guardian, cast at the project's birth in the old Paracelsian sense — the earth elemental that keeps the treasure. Projects are gems; the gnome keeps them. It lives in the project's **GNOME** tab (beside the Genome — the pun is the point), where it breathes, blinks, watches the market, keeps a dated journal, and speaks when tapped.

**How:** Open a project's GNOME tab and tap the keeper.

Gnomes are also collectible — and this is the part to read twice:

## A real-fake NFT collection

The gnomes are PD's **real-fake NFT collection**. Both words are literal:

- **Real**: every gnome is genuinely scarce (one per project, forever), genuinely owned (the awakening is written once to PD's ledger and never rewritten), genuinely tradable (list it, sell it, real ETH changes hands), and genuinely free to acquire.
- **Fake**: no gnome exists on any blockchain. There is no token, no contract address, no bridge, and there never will be. The collection lives entirely inside Price Discussion's own ledger — which means gnomes can **only** be held and traded here. The hill keeps its own books.

That trade-off is the joke and the design: all of the collecting, none of the gas.

## The keeper itself

A gnome is a small generative artwork, cast deterministically from its project's identity — the same project always has the same keeper, forever:

- **A name** in full gnomenclature: first name, sometimes a quoted mine-nickname, an ore-and-tool surname, sometimes an appended epithet — `SNORRI "TWO LAMPS" FLINTPICK THE UNDERSOLD` is a legal citizen of this world.
- **A temperament** (GRUFF, KINDLY, MERRY, WARY, STOIC, SLY, DOTING, GRUMPY, HEARTY, SOLEMN, IMPISH, STALWART) that voices everything it says.
- **A look**: hat, beard, keepsake, girth, nose, hoard — plus the rarer touches: spectacles, a hat feather, an earring, a snail companion. The hat and tunic wear the project's live colorway; the creature underneath never changes.
- **A rarity**, cast at the moment it wakes from the project's real traded volume: COMMON → UNCOMMON → RARE → LEGENDARY → MYTHIC, locked forever.

## Alive, not a card

The tab is the gnome's home, and it behaves like someone lives there:

- **Market mood** — its brows and bearing read the project's day: at work in the vein while minting, watching the door under listing pressure, keeping the hoard when the vein is cut.
- **The Keeper's Journal** — a dated, timestamped timeline under the figure: its casting, its early milestones, a fresh thought written every day at gnome hours, and a live today-entry with the project's real numbers.
- **The greeting** — tap it and it speaks, in-temperament, differently depending on how much respect you've earned.
- **Respect** — your rung on the keeper's ladder, climbed with real ledger facts. See the ladder in [The Awakening](/docs/gnomes/the-awakening).

## Where everything lives

- **The GNOME tab** — the gnome's home: the figure, journal, mood, respect, and the record of who keeps it.
- **The [gnomewallet](/docs/gnomes/the-gnomewallet)** — your side: every gnome in your keeping, in a fully gnomish world of its own.
- **[the mushroom market](/docs/gnomes/the-mushroom-market)** — the market hall where keepers hang FOR SALE signs.

How a gnome becomes yours is its own story — the best mechanic in the system: [The Awakening](/docs/gnomes/the-awakening).