That it's balanced with some niche strengths, like minos basically are, as opposed to cool but overpowered.

I was personally thinking something along the lines of a wisp, which has:
-inherent duo (duration 1 hour) that works even when faerie fired/fogged
- a size smaller than gnomes, giving some interesting tactical combat options
- restrictions in that they cannot be summoning classes, and stats that make them sub-optimal warriors at face value (but potentially good thieves/assassins/magi/healers)
- resist positive, negative and mental
- lowest con and str of all races, drow int, arial dex, wood-elf charisma
- ability to distract a tracking mob without actually making it angry at the wisp instead.