Hobgoblins

Hobgoblins are a race of medium-sized humanoids with green to grey leathery skin.
== Biology ==
Similar to goblins, Hobgoblins have a voracious appetite and must eat double the amount of food that the average Ib their size would need to eat every day. 
== Psychology ==
Hobgoblins value social status above everything else, not caring whether it arises from phsycial strength, sheer charisma, abundant wealth, or merely birthright. They are quick to display their power and prestige at every opportunity, and as such their cities have actually managed to thrive as the richest among them flaunt their flooding coffers by funding great public works of art and architecture that are intended to immortalize their names.
== Society ==
Hobgoblins primarily reside within walled, rival city-states that each possess different systems of governing themselves yet are united with one another in a league for handling relations with other races of Ib. While The Empire generally considers the Hobgoblin League to be a singular nation that just has a strong division to how it handles its domestic and foreign affairs, Hobgoblins defiantly insist that The Empire should treat each Hobgoblin city as a faction of its own. This effectively makes international treaties and declarations of war rather time-consuming process as the Empire must arrange meetings with the heads of each city-state who then meet with their representatives in the League who then meet with the Imperial Officials before deliberating and then presenting their decisions back to the city-states who are then ready to meet with Empire one final time to relay their decisions. This intentionally obtuse and obstructionist take on foreign policy often results in wars still raging on for multiple months beyond the time that both sides have wished to sue for peace.
While each city-state has its own unique form of government, there are common cultural similarities that unite the Hobgoblin race. The core of this is slavery as Hobgoblins see themselves as a race of masters. They are also predominantly patriarchal and lack a system of marriage, preferring instead to have a system of harems in which alpha Hobgoblins purchase and pamper large groups of female slaves.
Hobgoblin society is incredibly elitist; the weak, wounded, and poor are at best forgotten and at worst enslaved and tortured for entertainment. Some slaves may have the opportunity to rise through the ranks of society through feats of great strength such as through gladiatorial tournaments, but such upward social mobility is exceptionally rare. Downward social mobility, however, is quite common among Hobgoblins and even the most influential and wealthiest among them may find a reason to cast out their own children and sell them into slavery should they otherwise threaten their family's reputation.