Glassmites

The Glassmites are small insects with an enlarged green glowing thorax. They live in and around the Ibaran Desert.

Though often coated in thick layers of sand deposited by the wind. The mounds created by the Glassmites have an internal structure composed of a material found nowhere else on Lume a strong but brittle green fire-glass they form from the sand.

Once the unique properties of fire-glass were discovered by the Gnomes they learned to harvest it for their experiments and later to farm the Glassmites producing fire-glass at a durasticly incresed rate. It would go on to become the basis for Gnomish tecnology and their greatest export.