Category:Goblinoids

Origin
Unfortunately it is hard to tell where the goblinoids came from. When people look back into time they normally see the goblinoids as addressed although they have always been their and so that is how they are talked about in the history books. Their have been considerable efforts by those without magic to produce a hypothesis to where they originated from and the best conclusion is that they were not created by an elemental at all. Instead they originated from a particularly messy combination of elements at the outskirts of the world near the end of the great elemental war.

The Titan War
The goblinoids got bigger and bigger and eventually the titans came to dominate. They were intelligent (even by human standards which is an achievement for goblinoids) and even larger than the giants and finally tyrannical. Eventually the inevitable happened and the oppressed smaller goblinoids rose up against the titans. the war would've been very short as the titans still had the support of the ogers and the giants but for the work of an exceptionally talented greenling magician.

The magician cast a spell that reversed the relationship between CHI scores and BSA scores so that a smaller brain now caused greenlings to be magically more intelligent. The spell ran out of energy before it could affect the titans themselves but its job was partially complete the titans were out numbered and surrounded by freshly incompetent giants and starving ogres and the greenlings were to obvious leaders of the new nations.

It is not known what became of the titans but the greenlings plan didn't work as well as they hoped. With the titans gone goblinoid society fractured and reverted to a primitive, warlike existence. Brains were not as important as brawn and so all the greenlings plan did was make their oppressors stupid. Power now resides with the orcs who have the write mixture of brain and brawn for this new existence.

Tribes controlled by Ogres also exist which occasionally gather up other Goblinoids into their ranks. Hobgoblins live in a separate society of their own rarely interacting with other goblinoids. Goblins also have their shot at fame sometimes with particularly strong ones managing to gain control of tribes. Further greenlings do sometimes benefit from their plan as they are able to get other goblinoids to follow their advise by trickery or demonstration of their superior intellect.

War against the Duradin
During the cataclysm, in response to Air's intervention against Water's counter attack upon Earth, Fire encouraged the Goblinoids, already a war like race, to move west and attack the Duradin.

Relations
Elves generally see very little of goblinoids and being isolationist tend to avoid them where possible. They find them rather repulsive, but see no need in general to attack them. For there part, Orcs generally leave Elves well alone knowing what skilled fighters they are. Trolls and Giants don't, being on the whole rather thick, but they can hold there own in combat.

Types of goblinoid in order of size

 * Greenling or Greenthing
 * Goblin
 * Orc
 * Hobgoblin
 * Ogre
 * Troll
 * Giant
 * Titan