Goblin (folklore)

The Gobelin is a supernatural creature . Fées resulting from the Germanic folklore (Kobold) left, the goblin also became a fantastic creature, through books and plays. goblin

This article treats family of the gobelinoïdes in various roleplays, among which the goblins , the hobgobelins and the gobelours

Creatures of the legendary tradition

The goblins are fantastic creatures, resulting from the Folklore and Germanic Mythologie. It is about the translation (or Francization) of the Germanic word Kobold - to see this word for description. The goblins are people small beings taquins which often take an animal aspect. They are the tempters of the world of fairyhood but all the goblins are not diabolic. They are declined under various names: the striker, guiding the minors towards the tin seams in Cornouailles, the Kobold S, Germanic version of the striker appearing less obliging than this last and still Wichtlein, resulting from Germany of the south which is supposed to announce the death of the minors by three blows.

Etymology

According to Littré: Bas-lat. gobelinus, vulgar name, in Vital Orderic, of a demon which haunted the surroundings of Évreux; Engl. goblin; bas-lat. covalus, cobalus, which come from the Greek, malicious, malignant, satyr, fauna. German Kobold, imp, are of the same root.

Description of the goblin

The goblins are small creatures (on average 1,40 meters of the boots to the point of the long ears of the style “wings of bat”) alive in the hills. Their skin (green) has some hairs inside the ears and sometimes on before arms, some even (but very seldom), resulting in the majority from the cases of a clan of great importance, carry a fine moustache. With old age, those do not stop pushing. The fingers and the nose push also inordinately, which obliges the goblins to cut them every morning as one would shave the beard. One thus sees in the cities a great quantity of faces different with noses at a peak, hooked, round and even imitation face mask. Their food is rather special: as their bones consist of rock, they must often eat some not to break like glass. They have a special character. They are renfrognés and grognons but are faithful friends. When a goblin dies, it is placed in a sarcophagus, more or less decorated diamonds or invaluable stones flights with the dwarves, located in large galleries. It is to some extent a cemetery souterain.

Goblins in modern works

In Bilbo the Hobbit , J.R.R. Tolkien used the word goblin to indicate malefic creatures living under the Misty Monts; in the Lord of the Rings , it renamed them Orques in order to distinguish them from the legendary creatures. Thereafter, these creatures tolkieniennes were included in the roleplays, in particular in Donjons and Dragons - let us note however that in Donjons & Dragons , the goblins are distinct from the orcs and of the kobolds. They inspired by other creatures, like the gloks ( giaks ) of Solitary Loup or the chafouins of Rêve of Dragon. One finds the Goblins in Harry Potter with the character of Gripsec. The goblins hold in particular the bank of Gringotts.

One of the principal enemies of Spider-Man took the name of Green Goblin , generally translated into French by Green Bouffon . Let us quote finally the Hobgobelin entitled book of John Coyne (ISBN 2-290-05270-1).

Goblins in " Misérables" V. Hugo

A reference to the goblins appears in " Misérables" of Victor Hugo, 4th part, delivers 2, chapter 3 " Appearance with the Mabeuf" father;. This last then reads nothing any more but two books of which " On the devils of Vauvert and the goblins of Bièvres" of Mutor of Rubaudière when he sees what he believes being a spectrum, actually Eponime. Its pace (dégueunillée and spectral) inspires this " question to him; that resembles much so that Rubaudière tells goblins. Would this be a goblin? ". Eponime comes to help it to tap information to him and being the devil tells him. Victor Hugo indicates that its character is particularly interested by the goblins since its garden is a place which these spirits would have haunted. For information, one knows in the novel that the Mabeuf father lives at this time there in a house located in the village of Austerlitz. This village was located then in a zone corresponding today to the space covered by the hospital of Pity-Salpêtrière and the station of Austerlitz (XIIIè district of Paris). The district close to the Goblins in Paris does not owe its name with the creatures but with the family of tapestry makers who settled there and it was the patronym.

NB: no the reference found for Mutor of Rubaudière.

Goblins in the film the Lord of the Rings of P. Jackson

The goblins are creatures less powerful than the orcs and the Uruk-hai. They generally live groups some in the caves. One finds them in great number in the Moria. One can as think as the goblins are orcs “modified” by their life under the mountains. Indeed, the two people are very close, the goblins having only characteristics of troglodyte S. Cependant, it acts there of an adaptation of the book, since Tolkien itself confuses in its work orcs (or orcs) and goblins. In fact, it employed the term “goblin” in Bilbo the Hobbit, but they are probably the same creatures that he indicated then in the Lord of the Year by the word orc. Hobgobelins were seen called Uruk-haï.

Goblins in Keeps & Dragons

The goblins are small creatures humanoïdes of approximately 1,20 Mr. They have a skin whose color goes from the yellow to the red brick while passing by the orange tern, and their eyes go from the red to the lemon-yellow yellow. They have approximately a 50 years life expectancy. They live in caves under ground (they see in the black) and hate light of day. They have a tribal organization, and hate the dwarf S and the gnome S. They domesticate the wolves giant which their are used as mounting of war.

In the play, the goblins are often regarded as easy preys for the characters players of low level, which was caricatured in the Cartoon the Adventures of Kroc the bô of Chevalier and Ségur (published in the newspaper Casus Belli then at Delcourt).

Goblins in the Palladium world

The goblins are the downward one of fairy-like people which lost his capacities, except for the goblins cobbleurs ( cobblers ).

They are humanoïdes of small size and weak (approximately 1 m for 40 kg) with members hails, a broad chest, a thick neck and large pointed ears. They have brown or russet-red hair and dark eyes. They live on average 80 years and some reach 150 years. They can see in the black until 30 m and are not obstructed by light of day.

They are enemy the human ones, dwarf Kobold S, , gnome S, Changelin S and people fairy-like, and appreciate the company of the hobgobelins (cf, will infra ), of the orcs, the Troll S and the Ogre S.

They live in tribes of a few hundreds of individuals in not very deep tunnels (less than one about thirty meters) and relatively courts (extending in a ray about the kilometer). Many tribes deserted the tunnels to live in the ruins of the destroyed cities or in huts. Their relations are based on the law of the strongest.

Initially people of minors, they turn to activities of flight and plundering. Number of them were enlisted by brigands, of the wizards, priests malefic or demons to form an army.

Hobgobelins

In English, the term hobgobelin means Lutin or Croque-mitaine. In the fantastic universes, they are cousins of the goblins, larger in the face. In the Lord of the Rings , Tolkien replaced the term “hobgobelin” by the term Uruk-hai .

Hobgobelins in Keeps & Dragons

The hobgobelins are large humanoïdes which measure approximately 2 m in height. They have an orange red skin covered with a peeling going with brown to the gray-black, and the brown or yellowish eyes. Their teeth pointed and are yellowed. They live an about sixty years.

They are good minors who see in the black on a score of meters without being constrained by the sunlight. The majority live under ground, some in villages made up of huts strengthened (with ditches and palisade), or sometimes in arranged ruins. They are often used as officers in armies as orc S or goblins.

They hate the Elfe S and like to persecute the goblins.

The koalinths are watery hobgobelins, having gills. Their skin is green, their clear peeling, and their feet and their hands are webbed.

Hobgobelins in the Palladium world

The hobgobelins result probably from genetic mutations having touched people of goblins. They are fewer than the latter, their total population is estimated at two million individuals: in addition to the undergone losses, approximately two thirds of the individuals die prematurely in a violent way: they can live more than 80 years, some reached the 130 years, but the majority of the males die before 40 years.

They are humanoïdes larger than the goblins and dégingandés (approximately 1,20 m for 50 kg). They are bald people, have a large nose, small eyes of long pitchfork, large teeth and falling ears, of the legs skinny persons and large feet. They see in the black until ten meters and are born perfectly; they have a sharpened hearing.

They have the same petty character and traitor whom goblins, that they regard as brothers; many a hobgobelins lives in tribes of goblins. the hobgobelins slower, less nimble and are adapted to the underground life than the goblins, but they have higher mental capacities.

The hobgobelins which do not live among the goblins gather in tribes of a hundred individuals, alive in surface caves, ruins, burrows or miteuses huts.

Hobgobelins in Warhammer

In Warhammer, the hobgobelins are the most intelligent gobelinoïdes and closest to the man in aspect. They are of intermediate size, dry and thin, with long arms and a generally arched back. Their face breathes the ill will and treachery, with very brought closer piercing eyes, aquiline noses and small mouths from where the hooks of the jaw spout out lower. Long black jet hair pushes on their narrow cranium. Compared to the other “green skins”, they make better craftsmen and soldiers.

The hobgobelins have their own empire, Hegemony hobgobeline (a loose confederation of warlike tribes dominated by large a khan), and meet especially in the East and in the dark grounds.

Many tribes live in the Empire of the Dwarves of chaos, and could not survive besides without their protection, the Orcs, Gobelins and Orcs black of the vassal tribes hating them at the most point since their treason lasting the great revolt of the latter. The hobgobelins are used as guard chiourmes to the dwarves of chaos and supervise the work of the slaves. They are used to them also as rank and file to the battle. The hobgobelins faithful to Zâar-Naggrund, most dreaded are those of the tribe of the Assassins, use techniques of surrounding and handle poisoned scraping-knives.

The cowardice of the hobgobelins is legendary, they like to betray the ones the others when they do not betray their allies. The stab in the back is their favorite technique to solve a disagreement: a singular evolution morphological made almost meet the bones of the scapulas, which explains why a hobgobelin struck in the back have chances to go back some. They like to use the arcs and the triggerfishes which enable them to remain to fight remote. They overlap also large wolves (equivalent wargs of Tolkien) and make excellent archers with horse.

Gobelours in Keeps & Dragons

The gobelours ( bugbears in English) are a kind of giant goblins, stronger still than the hobgobelins; in term of size they are less imposing than the Ogre S; they are Esclavagiste S within the gobelinoïde family, and also equipped with a diabolic intelligence to imagine machinations making it possible to mislead the characters adventurer in order to reduce them without having to fight.

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