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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8455376" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Huh. I didn't know that Maglubiyet came from Greyhawk. Add that to the basket of &quot;Greyhawk things that the Forgotten Realms stole&quot;, along with Vecna, Acererak, Mordenkainen, Tasha/Iggwilv, Lolth, Gruumsh, and the rest.I mean, while fey do tend to be chaotic, there are definitely outliers. King Oberon in 2e was Neutral Good, Skerrit was True Neutral, the Prince of Frost is Neutral Evil, and there are quite a few other outliers. The family of Fey-Goblinoids could have just been three different representations of emotions in the Feywild, with the Fey-Hobgoblins being Lawful Neutral/Evil, Fey-Goblins being Neutral (Evil), and Fey-Bugbears being Chaotic Neutral/Evil. A sort of goblinoid-twist on the Rule of 3 and its relationship with alignment in D&amp;D (Good-Neutral-Evil, Lawful-Neutral, Chaotic). I don't see the Hobgoblins and their fey ancestors being lawful as being contradictory, just slightly unusual for fey.It could be that Maglubiyet was always Lawful Evil (which fits him being a God of Conquest), and so the feyish proto-Hobgoblins that were also Lawful fit the best with his portfolio, in comparison to the other proto-Goblinoids that he dominated, so he chose the Hobgoblins to be the leader race of Goblinoid society to keep the others in check.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8455376, member: 7023887"] Huh. I didn't know that Maglubiyet came from Greyhawk. Add that to the basket of "Greyhawk things that the Forgotten Realms stole", along with Vecna, Acererak, Mordenkainen, Tasha/Iggwilv, Lolth, Gruumsh, and the rest. I mean, while fey do tend to be chaotic, there are definitely outliers. King Oberon in 2e was Neutral Good, Skerrit was True Neutral, the Prince of Frost is Neutral Evil, and there are quite a few other outliers. The family of Fey-Goblinoids could have just been three different representations of emotions in the Feywild, with the Fey-Hobgoblins being Lawful Neutral/Evil, Fey-Goblins being Neutral (Evil), and Fey-Bugbears being Chaotic Neutral/Evil. A sort of goblinoid-twist on the Rule of 3 and its relationship with alignment in D&D (Good-Neutral-Evil, Lawful-Neutral, Chaotic). I don't see the Hobgoblins and their fey ancestors being lawful as being contradictory, just slightly unusual for fey. It could be that Maglubiyet was always Lawful Evil (which fits him being a God of Conquest), and so the feyish proto-Hobgoblins that were also Lawful fit the best with his portfolio, in comparison to the other proto-Goblinoids that he dominated, so he chose the Hobgoblins to be the leader race of Goblinoid society to keep the others in check. [/QUOTE]

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