Batiri The Batiri were a collection of clans and tribes of goblin s in Chult known and feared for their tracking skills . Description . Most Batiri had green skin , which blended well with the jungle surroundings . In all other ways , they appeared as typical goblins . Batiri typically wore little more than rags for clothing . High - ranking warriors might be found wearing poorly prepared dinosaur - hide breastplates or helmets . Personality . Batiri were feared by the other races of Chult and were considered " bloodthirsty " creatures . They were especially talented at the skill of tracking through the jungle and were experts in the lore of the jungle . Combat . The Batiri usually hunted at night , taking advantage of their natural darkvision . They preferred to use crude short bow s and spear s , but they were very adept at such weapons . A skilled warrior or general might be so fortunate to possess a stolen metal weapon from one of the neighboring human tribes or fallen adventurers . The Batiri would consume the victims of their raids or battles , provided they were not themselves Batiri . Society . A Batiri clan usually consisted of between 25 and 200 individuals . They rarely occupied villages but instead lived nomadic lifestyles , traveling by night from one camp to another . At some camps , they would build permanent huts over shallow pits , for which the primary purpose was shade . Such huts did not belong to any clan , but were used by whichever clan happened to be camping there that day . ( If a fight rose up about who could rest in a hut , the argument would be settled by blood . ) The largest populations of Batiri were in the regions surrounding the Valley of Lost Honor . While the Batiri were often considered cannibals , they only ate the flesh of other races and never the members of the Batiri tribe . To eat another Batiri resulted in a punishment of death . In name , a queen ruled all Batiri tribes . She came to her throne and was disposed from it through combat in an arena against any challengers . She traveled with whichever clan she belonged to . At times , an especially powerful queen would instead attempt to set up a capital and have a wooden palace built . Religion . Every clan worshiped its own patron deity . Each Batiri deity had an avatar in one of the dangerous monsters or dinosaur s of the region . They had a sacrificial belief system that revolved around encountering the deity ' s chosen avatar . For example , the Batiri worshiping a god represented by a might perform a sacrifice when coming upon such a beast in the jungle by chance . History . The growth of the Batiri population occurred after the great civil war between the Tabaxi and Eshowe human tribes in Chult , when the near annihilation of the latter group left a vacuum for the goblin tribe to fill . By 1372 DR , the Batiri encompassed 20 % of the population of Chult ' s peoples . Sometime around 1367 DR , a rare powerful Batiri queen , Queen M ' bobo , was slain . Her death triggered a goblin war among the clans to find her successor . Notable Clans . Clans were sometimes named for the deities they worshiped . Other clans identified themselves by other features . Examples of clans known to be in existence around 1367 DR include :