Goblins living in Aevira often form small tribal groups and do their best to evade guarded civilization. The fearsome soldiers of the Nexentrum and Aegis, known to the goblins as drohurror or “terrorfolk,” are the greatest threat to the tribes. But with goblins treated as little better than vermin throughout Aevira, any citizen strong enough to wield a pitchfork can be a threat in their own right.
Civilized Goblins dwell in most of the major cities of the Empire. When humans first came to Aevira, they enslaved many goblins and built their cities on the foundations of elven ruins. Nexentrum I ended the practice of slavery, and these goblins are now citizens of the Empire.
The
civilized people of the world consider goblins to be nothing more than
monsters—and in many ways, they’re right. Goblins and their cousins, the
hobgoblins and bugbears, were said to be first created by Endar, the Daemon of Fear, as foot soldiers for his father, Vorrax the Hoarder during the Kindred War. Centuries ago, after the storms of the Desolate Cascade ravaged Aurora, goblinkin emerged from the depths. Its said when the armies of the Nether Kindred needed skirmishers, Endar twisted lost elves into
goblins. When he was in need of loyal soldiers, he made them into
hobgoblins. And when brute force was required, he sculpted them into
bugbears.
With The Desolate Cascade long since finished, the goblinkin survived—lost, and fallen into chaos. It is said that the voice of Endar still whispers into the minds of the goblinkin, goading them to commit senseless acts of cruelty against all they see.