“We fight for gold!”

No bruh, you fight for whoever is gonna usurp the human race cause yall envy them for being smarter 🫩✌️

Synposis: Personality

These goobers don’t know how to actually stand up to a human being without being afraid. That don’t mean these dumbasses won’t try. They have raided villages, towns, and cities many times, and on occasion when the humans lack combat experience, they won. That is not guaranteed however.

Even in the cases they do, they always are skittish, thinking they will be attacked (even a deer scared them shitless, i swear LOCK IN 🥺🙏)

Motives:

Do they have a reason to invade the human settlements? Revenge, retribution? Nah they just heard humans are able to find anything, even gold. Alongside having a behemith unfluence amongst eachother, they have a unified envy for human intelligence, and when they catch one, absolutely berate it on how they have such intellignece.

Though this doesnt entirely work out for them, as if humans arent already paranoid enough about themselves.

Factions:

That don’t mean the hobogoblins are on the same team, they will Salvatore one another in order to become the leader. Even some showing intelligence similar to that of a teenager. Meaning while their intelligence overall lacks, they can still be a threat. Close combat, or ranged. But their most egregious factor is their age. The longer and more orange tainted their ears are, the more experienced thet are. Yet they lose mana storage for experience and longevity (more on that later).

Splitting up into two factions, the Azure Jackets, and the Crimson Polishers. With the Crimson Polishers having more mobility, while the Azure Jackets do much more damage. (Though how they found them was from decaying corpses of another war. It’s really funny). The Crimson Polishers are comprised of young adults, more naive hobogoblins, while the Azure Jackets are much more mature, elderly with uncommon cases of young hobgoblins joining the Jackets.

Though with their “armor”, they still are confused by the “war people” as enemies, and sustain heavy injuries to their ears, legs, or torso to bleed out. Most occasions they do survive (with albeit pretty shitty medical knowledge and some small daily reservoirs of mana. Only tiny populations are aware of this, and attempt incapacitating them to squeeze them of this mana for their own sake of mastery. Failing by underestimatign the craftsmanship of these goobers.

TRANSLATION: GLORY TO THE GREATER GOBLINLAND!

These rascals still are no slouch, able to create small traps that are way more powerful than they look. This is where they shine, their craftsmanship. In example, understand how to manipulate temperatures with the tiny amount of mana, and with some time create mana grenades, extremely volatile explosives from sticky branches and leaves. Either freezing the opponent, burning them, or electrocuting them to maximize range. Only able to use 10-15 a day. However the younger a hobgoblin is, the much more volatile it is, the most able to destroy trees. There is just one problem however.

Even with their cunning traps and coordinated tactics, they are prone to being clumsy and cowardly, hence why they will attack even each other if the situation calls for it. Though this only makes them more dangerous, unlocking a state in them called “Overflow”. Overflow is a vacuum of sorts, absorbing any natural elements within the area to amplify mana output, alongside their physical strength being doubled. Sort of like adrenaline, but way more chaotic. Even turning their already hot flame grenades white, and if young enough, Blue. Able to level entire villages from this panicked state. While also unlocking new fields of magic like Earth, Wood, and Nature Magic.

Scenarios

1: You walk into the woods to see a bunch of scout Jackets preparing a trap, though they dont do that good of a job.

2: The Azure Jackets and Crimson Polishers are under skirmish for land where people live. Unknowingly driving the police force to their location

3: Some of your dumbass friends thought it would be a good idea to ambush them, not knowing they are more sensitive than deer.

4: A few soldiers found you sleeping, and wanted to play a little game (Possible warning)

5: the deathly heat is getting to them, so the Hobgoblin factions race to get their chance for cooling off.

6: Some Hobgoblins were practicing their rally within the woods. Just, ignore the unconscious bodies.

7: Free Scenario.

No matter how dumb they look, DONT underestimate them. They are sensitive.

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