HOBGOBLINS

Class: Terrestrial species

Known Representatives: Feh, Hanuk, Olob, Snonk

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Krynn, Earth-TSR

First Appearance: (DC Comics) Dragonlance #1 (December, 1988)

Powers: Hobgoblins were small humanoids armed with swords and pikes.

History: (Dragonlance #1) - A band of hobgoblins tracked Riva Silvercrown, a Knight of Solamnia on the way to her father's keep with tidings of war. When she was sufficiently exhausted they attacked her en masse, but were fought off by her new ally Sturm Brightblade.

(Dragonlance #24) - Erestem, Queen of Darkness, sought control over the corrupt continent of Taladas. She recruited five champions to serve her, Minotaur Axantheas, a Traag Draconian, a Hobgoblin, a Glass Sailor and a Thenolite. During a meeting the Hobgoblin and Draconian got into a fight, with the Draconian calling the Hobgoblin an idiotic incompetant and the Hobgoblin calling his enemy a failure of Erestem’s early experiments, just like all the other Traag. Axantheas learned that the Thenolite still served Lord Hoth, evil god of the Thenol and immolated him with a flame spell.

(Dragonlance #28) - Feh was a Hobgoblin who lived in Aurim and was a lowly sludge-spreader, making a ring of offal around his clan’s den to repel outside threats. He wanted to marry Olob, and to that end he was collecting a huge pile of sludge to serve as his dowry. He was furious when Olob got engaged to the mighty hunter Snonk, who provided the den with slug meat. Feh decided to seek out Hobgoblin pundit Hanuk, asking him for a way to unseat Snonk as the most respected member of the clan. Hanuk got his hands on a Draconian spell, but admitted he hadn’t been able to translate the entire scroll. The scroll was a recipe for a potion which Feh drank, sending him to the dream-realm to commune with Erestem, Queen of Darkness. She was initially annoyed at seeing him in the dream-realm, but decided such an unassuming creature could serve some of her evil plans. She imbued Feh with power, and told him to bring her an offering that shined like the sun. Traag Draconians raided the Hobgoblin den, but Feh repelled them with his magic and grabbed the prize Erestem wanted, the Draconian leader’s ring. Feh convinced Olob to get engaged to him and banished Snonk. Erestem told him to go to the lands of the west and kill her enemy Riva Silvercrown, saying she chose Feh over her Draconians because she knew Riva would never see Feh as a threat. Before he left Feh proclaimed that all sludge-spreaders would be elevated to hunters, and all hunters demoted to sludge spreaders. In his absence Hobgoblin society went downhill, but everyone still obeyed his last orders fearing Feh would return and destroy them. Hanuk told them to return to the old ways, saying he’d finished translating the Draconian magic, and was sure Feh would not be back. Feh’s magical powers let him conquer all that stood before him, but left his back vulnerable. Feh blasted everything in his path, but was oblivious to the fierce monsters sneaking up behind him.

Comments: Adapted to comics by Dan Mishkin & Ron Randall.

Hobgoblins were a race from TSR's AD&D role-playing game adapted to DC Comics. For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobgoblin_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons).

Hobgoblins had a cameo in Dragonlance #3.

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