Weis and Hickman describe the kender:
All kender are descended from the gnomes who were magically and permanently changed by the artifact known as the Graygem, or the Greystone of Gargath, Gnomes were themselves descended from men who were magically altered by the deity Reorx. Kender thus came to possess most of the personality traits common to humans, though certain ones became much magnified and others disappeared.
Kender society can be hard to take. Nonkender visitors rarely stay longer than a week in any major kender town, unless they have a sense of humor. "If an asylum had turned loose its inmates and a jail its thieves to run this city," wrote one traveler of Kendermore, "the end result could not have been more atrocious. I have been robbed a dozen times today, twice by constables and once by a child who could barely reach my kneecaps. I have been tormented by a hundred thousand questions, told a million lies, and been run to exhaustion by my guide. Half the population wants to make a gynosphinx their mayor on the grounds that they have never had one before, and the other half has left in search of one. Gods take me if I ever set foot in this land again!"
Four things make a kender's personality drastically different from that
of a typical human. Kender are utterly fearless, insatiably curious,
unstoppably mobile and independent, and will pick up anything that is not
nailed down (though kender with claw hammers will get those as well).
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