Goblin

Goblins were a species of Mystical Creature that lived during the Mage Wars and presumably at earlier times. Though modern scholars find them enigmatic, most contemporary accounts refer to them as either terrifying or extremely annoying.

Physical Characteristics

Goblins come in many varieties of ugly. Much like Dragons, even goblins within a small familial unit can exhibit extreme differences in both size, physical proportions, and basic characteristics. Most goblins have large teeth and long noses, and all were said to have impressive sense of smell. Their size range from small dwarfish humanoids of less than three feet, to lumbering giants as high as twenty feet, all of whom co-exist within tribal structures as well as any goblins can be said to co-exist.

Personality and Mental Acuity

By all accounts, goblins are said to have been intelligent. Not overly so, but smart enough to possess language. By some accounts, they even had writing, mathmatics, even art and literature. The philosopher Viatark even wrote of a shining, beautiful goblin city that flourished in the Barrier Range. The city he referred to was most likely Kuu-Allaa, though modern scholars agree that Viatark never actually went there.

The most widely-agreed upon trait, however, is a complete and utter lack of self-preservation. Goblins were often described as "fearless in battle" by those who fought them, with many accounts of how a small goblin force would make a frontal assault against a much larger and obviously superior army, and that the goblins seemed entirely unfazed by military losses. They seemed to have no concept of death, though surviving accounts indicate that they did. They simply didn't care.

History

Goblin history is typical to typify as they had no single over-arching culture or heritage. Goblins lived in clans and tribes that seemed to change in number every day with the shifting uncertainty of a desert sandstorm. They were highly adaptable and could "live" in nearly environment, but their highly unpredictable nature makes any kind of historical survey very challenging.

What is known is that they were wide-spread throughout the Greater Continent, with evidence of them having been found nearly everywhere. The longest-lived tribes were found in The Dragonlands, where they were kept as slaves and apparently did quite well. The oral history of the Phoenix Tavern Flight living on the Djr Archipelago indicates that the goblins were well-liked, eager to serve their masters, and tasted excellent with the proper sauce. Ferrimeso, a dragon from Phoenix Tavern Flight, who spoke with historian Herbet Patric Galactis, explained some of her flight's history and answered "the goblin question" thusly, explaining that goblins required "massive" populations in order to remain remotely stable. Ferrimeso postulated that, had the Mage Wars never begun, it is still likely goblin civilization would have ended as "They seem vehemently convinced that matchstikes soaked in gasoline are the finest building materials, and you cannot convince them otherwise. This sort of thinking applies to their entire mindset."

Kuu-Allaa

Of particular note is Kuu-Allaa(lit. "Shiny City"), a place which all historians agree did exist, but baffles all logic and understanding.