Solving the latter, would solve 25% of the former, at least.

I think the worst part of this is that, everything above the fake fireplace stone looks pretty decent;

meaning they likely had a relatively aesthetically pleasing building as a base, and then decided: "We need a museum caveman exhibit background on the first floor."

Me,
I have a complex mirror construct set up to project the view of myself from behind in front of me, creating a infinite tunnel of me watching myself.

Well, I guess not really conflicting
though they aren't usually associated with one another.

the anticipation is killing me

I was not expecting an Orthodoxy mention, and I'm incredibly dazed and confused. Like, what the fuck is he talking about?

Would kinda be hilarious, though depressing, if he won but no one shows up.

You can count the seconds of a minute, minutes of a second, or hours of a day on two hands.

An entirely useless feature, but an interesting consequence of its literally ancient origins.

They climbed the mountain and acquired a unique item as a reward.

Wait, is this saying the US warned them of this strike?

I forget that I can reuse names sometimes.

Also, rental horses?
Any reason why that region had such a big rent-a-horse industry? Do you know?

Gnomes are an affront to God, so...
I'm kidding.

Tbh, unrealistically low settled population density is a problem I have in my world building. Sitting around naming settlements with <500 people just gets very tiring, and so I just stop making settlements.

Like if Village A regularly interacts with a pop of Gnomes,
but Village B does so only sparingly, and Village C not at all, and Village D only really interacts with B and C,

the pressures encouraging learning Gnomish is going to progressively decrease.

But what if they are inbred? (this is a joke)

That does make sense, but I still feel that in a medieval society, the natural diffusion of language would still have a significant drop off.

Yeah, this village has a significant pop of Gnomish speakers, but at what rate would that spread to others?