Goblin (CTD)

Goblins are one of the Thallain kiths. They are the counterparts to Kithain nockers.

Overview
These close cousins of Unseelie nockers are often mistaken for them, but they hide their more artistic talents. While nockers create chimerical devices or personalities, goblins delight in building physical machinery. Nockers are pleased by creation, but goblins are masters of destruction. They are commensurate scavengers when they start to scrounge for materials, and are known for their twisted applications of their skill at artifice. To them, manufacturing mayhem is an art form.

Weaponsmithing is one of their specialties, although goblins will usually have a “fashion” for a current season, just as clothing designers  do. One season, the fashion will be destructive toys that capture the hearts of their owners before wounding their owners; the next, “hardware as weaponry” will be all the rage.

As is the case with most Thallain, Seelie have difficulty distinguishing them from their Unseelie Kithain cousins. Goblins are deeply offended by this, as they consider themselves artistes. Unseelie nockers don’t really care, as they usually pass off their Thallain cousins as incompetent assistants. Still, goblins take pride in their work, and once one of the grump goblins  announce the  fashion  for  the  current season in a particular season, they are eager to prove their (obviously misunderstood) brilliance, even if it means destroying part of the local freehold in the process.

Appearance
In human mien, many goblins resemble science nerds or geeky, collegiate types. They tend to be shorter than is normal for most humans. In faerie mien, they are rarely over three-feet tall, with greenish or brownish skin and pointy ears. Don’t trust them.