GreyLord
Legend
Goblins and elves used to be creatures NOT TO BE TRUSTED.
Goblins especially could even be...things to kill on sight.
Why...because they will kill you and eat your children.
This idea that Goblins must be good is actually a VERY new thing in our history.
Elves were not exactly trustworthy either. You had good elves and fairies...and VERY BAD elves and fairies who would sneak into your house at night and steal babies.
Sometimes goblins and elves were used as words that were interchangeable in some stories, though normally the elves were more of a fairy creature and goblins were more of a night monster and such.
With some of the monsters of the fairy tale past, it is ironic that what used to be well known as VERY VERY BAD is something people are now trying to rewrite into being the good guys.
Not that it's wrong, everyone has a different take on their fantasy...just one of those interesting twists of fate in regards to what we used to have as stories we told around the fire, to each other, to children, passed down through the centuries as morality stories or warning or just to entertain...and how we now are taking those stories and reforging them into things that are very different (not just with RPGs, but with fantasy and fiction in general if you look at it).
Goblins especially could even be...things to kill on sight.
Why...because they will kill you and eat your children.
This idea that Goblins must be good is actually a VERY new thing in our history.
Elves were not exactly trustworthy either. You had good elves and fairies...and VERY BAD elves and fairies who would sneak into your house at night and steal babies.
Sometimes goblins and elves were used as words that were interchangeable in some stories, though normally the elves were more of a fairy creature and goblins were more of a night monster and such.
With some of the monsters of the fairy tale past, it is ironic that what used to be well known as VERY VERY BAD is something people are now trying to rewrite into being the good guys.
Not that it's wrong, everyone has a different take on their fantasy...just one of those interesting twists of fate in regards to what we used to have as stories we told around the fire, to each other, to children, passed down through the centuries as morality stories or warning or just to entertain...and how we now are taking those stories and reforging them into things that are very different (not just with RPGs, but with fantasy and fiction in general if you look at it).