Gnomes, halflings, and orcs seem to be excluded for an unknown reason. Especially with Gnomes who are supposed to:
And speaking of which, gnomes don't have a magic diety either, which doesn't seem to make sense given their racial traits.Gnomes also had a natural grasp of the arcane...
I'd suggest to scrap the racial runics, or allow gnomes to do dwarven ones (and maybe add halfings to the elven one?).