Goblins are usually about 50 cms (20 inches) tall with a long pointy noses, big round bellies, short legs with long feet and pointy ears. Their skin is usually green in colour but in some regions it can be brown, yellow or even black.
All goblins are powerful magic users. It is this ability that has allowed them to survive in the hostile environment of Grrym.
Goblin history is long . . . their recorded history goes back more than a thousand centuries of Earth time. In that time, great goblin civilisations have risen and fallen many times, their eventual destruction is almost the result of troll incursions. To the west lie the lands of the aggressive blood trolls, always on the look out for slaves and shiny things. Far to the south are the ice trolls, long time adversaries of the goblins.
Life on Grrym is harsh, so goblins numbers are never numerous. But they survive . . . and that is what is most important.
Yet somehow, they manage to do more than survive. They have built great cities and made tremendous advances in the study of magjiik. They have valuable allies in the giants that roam across Grrym and even trade freely with the forest trolls to the south and the billabong trolls that live in the deep water holes scattered across the plains of M’boo.
An Introduction. . .
Some Facts about Goblins
(1) Goblins are about 50cms (20inches) tall
(2) They exist in family structures similar to humans
(3) Not even the goblins are completely sure as to how many species of goblin there really are. Goblin scholars believe there are at least five. Unless specified all references to goblins on this site refer to the fez lom goblins (the small green pointy goblins you see on this site everywhere).
(4) Goblins have a long history and over time have been scattered across all of Grrym. Isolated pockets of them can be found in the most unlikely places. No-one has any idea of how many goblins there actually are.
(5) Goblins are skilled and powerful magic users. It is that skill that has prevented them from being consumed by all the countless nasties of Grrym.
(6) There are 13 great tribes of goblins:
* the Etolin - Tough desert warriors who ride giant spiders into battle.
* the Vladoraggan - A warlike and aggressive race, constantly in a state of civil war
* the Zarba - Militarily the most powerful of goblin races
* the Grangi - are mostly farmers and herders.
* the Sutekk - pride themselves on their intellectual pursuits and knowledge of magic
* the Dragon - have maintained their ancient links with the dragons but have become very secretive over the last few centuries
* the Alster - have fought vigorously to keep the northern seas free of ice troll fleets
* the Savage - have rejected any form of civilisation, insisting it weakens their grasp on magic
* the Nirn - a nomadic race who specialise in breeding battle mounts for goblin armies
* the M'boo - are great traders, builders and innovators. Most other goblin races look to the M'boo for leadership.
* the Lexx - are the closest thing the goblins have to engineers and technicians. They strive to meld machines and magic to achieve the best of both worlds
* the Spider - the most secretive of goblins. No spider goblin has been seen in over 80 Earth years
* the Shi'bah - are mountain dwellers and great miners. They provide many of the raw materials for the other goblin races
- Ancient legends tell of a fourteenth goblin clan that travelled eastwards into the lost lands of P'hara and were never seen again. Whether there is any truth in that remains a mystery.