Goblin

Goblins

"I was in prison with a Goblin once. Disgusting and mean little thing, but it was nimble enough to avoid gettin' bashed. One day it came to me with a plan to escape, and I was foolish enough to agree. I gotta hand it to it, it was a textbook breakout. But when we got to the stables, there was only one horse there. I said we could both share it, he's pretty small after all. The git just grinned, swiped my legs with its sword and ran. I'll never forget its dastardly cackle." - Arides Prisoner.

In a dangerous world that views them as evil critters, Goblins have learnt to use their intelligence and live a life of crafty scheming. Constantly being put down by the bigger creatures in the world, Goblins find peace through bullying the few that are beneath them.

Goblins are the smallest species of goblinoid, whose origins are as bizarre as it is unfortunate. During a Hobgoblin pregnancy, there is a risk of contracting a foul curse / disease called Grumblight. Symptoms can range from not knowing one has the disease, all the way to pustulant sores, rashes, and a green pigmantation showing in the skin, but the main result of the disease is that the unborn child is transformed into a Goblin. Goblins, therefore, do not reproduce in a typical manner. Instead, where a goblin roams, more goblins grow from the mud and dirt. A goblins bloodline slowly withers as years go by, and an increasingly smaller number of goblins grows until the bloodline goes extinct.