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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arjomanes" data-source="post: 6469644" data-attributes="member: 94951">Very interesting! My world also parallels yours in some ways. In my game orcs are also boarlike. One of the religions in my world teaches that the orcs were created when the sun god cast a legion of demons out of a savage barbarian king and into a herd of pigs. All of the demon-pigs were slaughtered, except for one (because of the weakness and disobedience of one man), and became the progenitor of the orc race. Because of their demonic ancestry, the crusaders of the religion have no qualms with slaughtering all orcs they see. The orcs themselves don't teach that. They believe they were born from drops of the blood of their god, mingled with the stone and earth. From the stone they gain their strength and from blood they gain their ferocity.In my game, goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears are dangerous fey creatures that dwell beneath the earth or in dark forests near human villages. They are as fickle as elves, greedy as dwarves, mischievous as gnomes, and malicious as imps. They are thieves and tricksters. They can create amazing works of art, but often anything they sell to humans in their wandering goblin markets turns to fool's gold, rots away, or carries a curse of some kind. They of course steal babies which they turn into goblins (like in Labyrinth). Goblins will raid commoners and merchants, but are cowardly and devious; they will attempt to bargain with adventurers that obviously outclass them. Or sneak away and murder them in their sleep. The hobgoblins are the goblin nobles and knights. They are less beautiful than dark elves or shadow fey, but they have the otherworldy presence of the dark fey. They are very cunning and devious, but arrogant and extremely territorial. They once belonged to the courts of the shadow elves in ancient days, but they were exiled long, long ago for their ugliness and lack of grace. The hobgoblins enslave the goblins just as the elves rule over the gnomes. The bugbears are large, dumb brutes used to keep the lesser goblins in line. Lesser goblins are not allowed to own anything, and a hobgoblin can take anything from a goblin at any time. This is why goblins always steal from each other and from humans, attempting to hoard as much as they can and hide it where the hobgoblin nobles won't find it.</blockquote>

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