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Hobgoblin Woebringers are the royalty of Hob Society. Woebringers can be born, or they can earn their way into these exalted ranks. As a result, Woebringers can have a wide variety of slightly mad and solidly eccentric tastes and behaviors. | Hobgoblin Woebringers are the royalty of Hob Society. Woebringers can be born, or they can earn their way into these exalted ranks. As a result, Woebringers can have a wide variety of slightly mad and solidly eccentric tastes and behaviors. | ||
Woetakers, whether serious or frivolous, are Royalty, and expect to be treated with deference by their lessers. They are also lethally competent members of hobgoblin society. They are the order givers and the shot callers, the ones | Woetakers, whether serious or frivolous, are Royalty, and expect to be treated with deference by their lessers. They are also lethally competent members of hobgoblin society. They are the order givers and the shot callers, the ones who make and break treaties and send dark armies on the march. Woebringers are also not rare, as Hobgoblins have no trouble with nearly a sixth of their populace being some variety of royalty. | ||
Woebringers have a sense of utter superiority. This may be tempered with a lash of pragmatism, or it may be exacerbated by fanciful whimsies. Even if encountered by low-level adventurers, Woebringers are much too snobbish to dirty their hands on them, and unwilling to waste the time needed to catch and bind them because they aren't worth the trouble. Woebringers occasionally go on slave raids, but they tend to target creatures powerful, useful, and plentiful enough to re-sell quickly, or, they are on the hunt for some astonishing rarity, like an albino Atropal, to display as a trophy battle-slave. | Woebringers have a sense of utter superiority. This may be tempered with a lash of pragmatism, or it may be exacerbated by fanciful whimsies. Even if encountered by low-level adventurers, Woebringers are much too snobbish to dirty their hands on them, and unwilling to waste the time needed to catch and bind them because they aren't worth the trouble. Woebringers occasionally go on slave raids, but they tend to target creatures powerful, useful, and plentiful enough to re-sell quickly, or, they are on the hunt for some astonishing rarity, like an albino Atropal, to display as a trophy battle-slave. | ||