Gobelin/Trasgu

Physical characteristics
Cultural traits
 * Darkvision 60ft
 * Average height is 4'6 - 5'2, goblins tend to be hunched with big shoulders
 * Str +1 Dex -1 : goblin hands are much stronger than human or elf hands, but clumsier. This affects goblins' ability to make fine tools.
 * Wide flat cheekbones, prominent brow ridge, elongated skulls, pointed ears
 * Tendency towards blue and green eyes, red hair, large freckles
 * Prone to disease of the liver and bowels, and tooth decay from eating sugary food
 * Adapted to colder and wetter climates, suffers Con penalty in very arid climates and gets a bonus in snow.
 * Grow thin beards and don't have prominent chins
 * Proficient at verbal performances and singing
 * Not all goblins can write - they have a cuneiform rather than a 'script', formed by pressing a reed into clay tablets or by scratching Ogham style runes and hobo signs onto masonry. Most gobelin signatures are a thumbprint or a pattern of 'x' markings.
 * Types of magic users: Seers, Druids, Sorceresses (of the healing/midwife and fire making schools)
 * Trasgu are the wandering tribes, Gobelin denote the peoples formerly enslaved by the Desh and now living alongside the elves and humans in Ladinh as a working underclass.
 * Gobelin worship a pantheon of gods that pre-date the old Latin gods but resemble them in many ways. They also make deals with Native deities and spirits from time to time. A few Gobelin have started to worship Elo, usually in the Gopniki style.

The Goblin's Lament
In the time before time, when mortal voices shaped the ages with story, the Duende made names for their joys and their woes, their wisdoms and their follies, and so the Asra took shape out of the air.

Deep in the clefts of Te Ao there were other voices not yet named, that craved the power of identity. So they spoke low and soft to the Duende in the still night. It had come about that Man walked the earth, on great flat feet and bearing wondrous objects and craft in his eye. Many Duende there were who desired to be tall and wise, and to have their own great works, greater than those of Man. So a deal was struck with the sinister voices, to give them name and form. In return, their worshippers would be granted long life, so long as they cleaved to their mother soil: great craft and the first Art, so long as they did as their masters bid: and great beauty, so long as they would strive after it with all their might. And they must surrender their old names, and become Alfen - Latin - a new race.

Duende there were who wanted no part of this bargain, who enjoyed their simple worship of the earth's green places, the spirits of the air and the Asra, who bore their simple faces. Those who stayed were overrun by the Alfen, who in their blindness and hubris could no longer recognise their own kin. Er-Kle the Upright led his band south, to the place of jungles and warm airs: there, the Duende became Trasgu, Gobelin, bands in the wilderness or slaves to the cruel Desh, who worshipped the Devas, gods that cared little for the plight of visitors.