Goblin race

The **Goblin race** (ゴブリン族, *Goburin-zoku*?) are a demihuman species.

## Overview

They are a species created by Nargol, the Archmother Goddess.

They are one of the most numerous of the humanoid species on the ground.

Humans in this world seem to think that fiends such as goblins and orcs are the subordinates of Modus. Goblin has a green skin, they favour attacking children, they are very terrible fiend.

## Culture

Goblin society in general is tribal, with the Goblin Lord, the male of the Noble species, at the top. Unlike orcs, they are almost exclusively a male-dominated society. There are exceptional goblin kingdoms ruled by queens.

Members of the tribe are divided into male and female and live separately; males generally have a warrior class, general class and slave class under the Lord. Goblins start out in the general ranks and are recognised as warriors when they achieve military merit. Once recognised as warriors, they are allowed to sire female goblins. Goblin Lords dislike ugly goblin females and surround themselves with abducted human females and others to create harems. In goblin societies ruled by queens, they surround themselves with kidnapped human men and build harems. Datie is a good example. Horned Noble Goblins lead the herds.

The slave class is made up of goblin males from different tribes that have been vanquished or from different species. Slaves include human males. Human women are commonly the favourite concubine of the lord. They are made to cultivate insects, mushrooms or perform miscellaneous tasks. They may be castrated and forced to look after female goblins or the concubines of the Goblin Lords. Still, it is better than being killed and eaten. Female goblins have no rank and generally follow male goblins.

They live in goblin tribal units and often fight with other goblin tribes. The winning tribe usually absorbs the females of the losing tribe, kills or enslaves the males and eats the male goblins' children. Some tribes do not dismantle the losing tribe, and a goblin great king is sometimes born who unites several tribes. When this happens, the surrounding human nations are unhappy.

They breed insects and grow mushrooms. They live symbiotically with wolves and Giant Spiders and can ride.

Basically the life of goblins, they lurk in caves and forests during in daytime. The level of civilisation is almost the same as the primitive people in the world where Kuroki originated.

Unlike orcs, they are dexterous with their hands. However, they cannot use fire and can only make primitive weapons.

They have no specific deity to serve and believe in a variety of deities. They have no particular deity to serve, but many of them worship the demon king; Modus or the Archmother Goddess; Nargol. However, the orcs and goblins are not kin groups of the Nargol Pantheon, and not all orcs and goblins believe in the Nargol pantheon. However, the goblins living in Nargol always worship the demon king Modus.

## Physical Attributes

A green-skinned species whose bodies are at least one size smaller than humans. Like orcs, goblins take about five years to reach adulthood once they are born. An adult goblin is about the same size as a 10-12 year-old human child, but it is as powerful as an adult human. They are not so strong and can be dealt with by adult humans in a one-on-one fight.Their heads are as hard as stone and impenetrable to weapons. When attacking, one must aim at places other than the head. They are dim-witted and easily deceived.

Not good at dealing with beautiful songs. To avoid fight, one must sing because they can not handle beautifully singing.

The shortbow is used by goblins.

Goblin females are fertile, having five or more offspring at a time.

They are more adaptable to their environment than orcs and live everywhere.

They can eat almost any organic matter and are cannibalistic.

## Variations

### General Goblins

**General Goblins** (一般ゴブリン, *Ippan goburin*?) are ordinary goblins.

### Redcap

**Redcap** (レッドキャップ, *Reddokyappu*?) are elite goblins. They are characterised by their red caps. They look like goblins but are stronger.

### Noble Goblins

**Noble Goblins** (ノーブルゴブリン, *Nōburugoburin*?) are a greater species of goblins than the general goblins. They are intelligent and have the ability to make general goblins to follow. However, they are only as smart as humans. In other words, the general goblins are too stupid. Orcs are even worse.

They have horns and are as tall as the average human. Goblin doesn't usually have horns. However with goblins, there are times when horned goblins are born. Goblin with horns are stronger than regular goblins. They are usually **Goblin Lord** (ゴブリン王ロード, *Goburin*?).

They can only be born if their parents are Noble Goblins, but not all of their offspring are Noble Goblins. Only one Goblin Lord, the ruler, and his successor, the goblin prince and princess, are of the Noble kind in the flock. If there are two princes and princesses, one of them usually leaves the herd or is killed. However, if they cut off their horns and swear allegiance to the brothers and sisters who succeeded them, they can live and remain in the herd.

Datie's Charon Kingdom is an exception. There is more than one princess, but they are not fighting each other.

### Hobgoblins

**Hobgoblin** (ホブゴブリン, *Hobugoburin*?) are goblins dominated by magic as slaves. Goblins enslaved by humans. They do housework on behalf of humans. Some do not like goblins and try to keep them out of sight as much as possible. However, if they are not treated as slaves, their enslavement may be undone. For example, if you give a gift to a hobgoblin, he will say, "I wasn't a slave. Then I stopped doing good things" and they start misbehaving. Therefore, the hobgoblin must be fed with a piece of bread, a little extra milk and leave it around.

This practise was created by a Saria's magus called Hobadis. They are known as **House Fairy** (家付き妖精, *Ietsuki yōsei*?). He succeeded in suppressing the Goblin's brutality and made them submitted obedience by applying the magic of domination. Goblins who became obedient from that, came to be called as Hobadis Goblin, shortened as Hobgoblin.

### Boggart, Bogies & Bogeymen

**Boggart** (ボガート, *Bogāto*?), **Bogies** (ボギー, *Bogī*?) or **Bogeymen** (ブギーマン, *Bugīman*?) is a general term for hobgoblins who have been released from enslavement. Many hide in human society and live in hiding. They harm human beings. They are feared by humans because of their mischief.

### Sand Demon

**Sand Demon** (砂鬼, *Suna Oni*?) are one kind of goblin species, they are descendants of goblins who emigrated to the desert to long ago.

Along with the Ghoul race, they do not worship the Gypshir Pantheon Cult.

Sand Demon lives by plundering the people of Gypshir. Sand Demon seemed to attack travellers on a Giant Sand Rat. Naturally the Dogmen protecting the security of Gypshir is trying to get rid of them, however the surviving Sand Demon increases their number. Their behaviour is no different from goblins in other regions.

## Etymology

### Goblin

A **Goblin** (ゴブリン, *Goburin*?) is a monstrous creature from European folklore, first attested in stories from the Middle Ages. They are ascribed various and conflicting abilities, temperaments and appearances depending on the story and country of origin. They are almost always small and grotesque, mischievous or outright malicious, and greedy, especially for gold and jewellery. They often have magical abilities similar to a fairy or demon. Similar creatures include brownies, dwarfs, duendes, gnomes, imps, and kobolds.

### Hobgoblin

A **Hobgoblin** (ホブゴブリン, *Hobugoburin*?) is a spirit of the hearth, typically appearing in folklore, once considered helpful but since the spread of Christianity has often been considered mischievous. Shakespeare identifies the character of Puck in his *A Midsummer Night's Dream* as a hobgoblin.

### Boggart

**Boggart** (ボガート, *Bogāto*?) is one of numerous related terms used in English folklore for either a household spirit or a malevolent genius loci (that is, a geographically-defined spirit) inhabiting fields, marshes or other topographical features. Other names of this group include bug, bugbear, bogey, bogun, bogeyman, bogle, etc., presumably all derived from (or related to) Old English *pūcel*, Irish púca and Welsh bwg with the same meaning (itself a probable loan from the English bug).

### Bogies

**Bogies** (ボギー, *Bogī*?) also had the function of getting children to behave themselves and to go to bed. Amongst these so-called nursery bogies were *Tankerabogus*, *Mumpoker* and *Tom Dockin*.

### Bogeymen

The **Bogeymen** (ブギーマン, *Bugīman*?), also known as **boogeyman, bogyman, bogieman, boogie monster, boogieman, or boogie woogie**, is a type of mythic creature used by adults to frighten children into good behaviour. Bogeymen have no specific appearance and conceptions vary drastically by household and culture, but they are most commonly depicted as masculine or androgynous monsters that punish children for misbehaviour. The Bogeyman or conceptually similar monsters can be found in many cultures around the world. Bogeymen may target a specific act or general misbehaviour, depending on what purpose needs serving, often based on a warning from the child's authority figure. The term "Bogeyman" is sometimes used as a non-specific personification or metonym for terror, and in some cases, the Devil.

## Development

Takeru Nezaki says Goblins are a typical fantasy monster.

The goblin setting was influenced by "*The Princess and the Goblin*" by George MacDonald. So Goblins are not good with singing. The Noble Goblin Prince is supposed to be the Goblin Prince that appears in "Princess and the Goblins". In fact, he is the author's favourite character in 'The Princess and the Goblin'. He further explains that the goblin's setting are an evil, mischievous but charming monster.

He thought the Goblins in the popular "*Goblin Slayer*" are good but he personally prefer goblins to be more charming.

The author thought Katharine Mary Briggs's "**Hobberdy Dick** (妖精ディックの戦い, *Yōsei Dikku no tatakai*?)" was interesting as a fairy novel. The author made reference to this Hobgoblin.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Dark Knight Story* - Summoned by the Demon King to Defeat the Hero: Chapter 07 - Departure For A Trip
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 *Dark Knight Story Setting Collections* - Nargol Pantheon: Nargol Pantheon and the Species that inhabit in the land of Nargol, etc.
3. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Silver Witch: Chapter 11 - The Prince and Goblin
4. ↑ *Dark Knight Story* - The Fairy Forest: Chapter 18 - The Battle in the Forest pt.01
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 *Dark Knight Story* - The Silver Witch: Chapter 05 - The Goblin Kingdom
6. ↑ *Dark Knight Story (Narou ver)* - Underground waterway is a country of dreams
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 *Dark Knight Story* - The Evil God's Labyrinth: Chapter 07 - The Wealthy Ariadia
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 *Dark Knight Story* - The Beast God Desert: Chapter 06 - Catching the Chimera
9. ↑ Takeru Nezaki's Narou Blog - 13/08/2016: Chapter 5 is over
10. ↑ *Dark Knight Story (Narou ver)* - The Labyrinth Investigation