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OnHolyServiceBound In reply to goeliath [2016-02-05 05:53:33 +0000 UTC]

I have, it's fairly derivative, because I fucking love classic fantasy.
Basically shades of my elves/orcs/men/elves are better/different/special/the same.

I generally stick to uploading the big lore bits with finished work, feels like a waste to include it with these sketches.
They are called City Goblins, yes, it's not so much a placeholder name as it is in unofficial name, many species and races have varying labels and titles akin to your average fantasy fare. Their city happens to be located inside a massive cove, thus the alternative moniker. 
The Goblin species overall is fairly intelligent, but yes, they are a few brain cells higher on the tier list when it comes to intelligence. They're also an underhanded and crafty race that most are wary around. 
You can find tidbits of Goblin lore in the Oruk and Orc bio, since they have affected and been affected by them both respectively. 
Overall they could be described as a merchant race, they've got a thriving barter community, that runs somewhere in between a South/West Asian Marketplace and the streets between rows of carnival games in your average travelling circusl affair. (Flea market may also be an apt comparison)
They're also a slave based society, but slavery is contractual, so their "contract workers" are under more of an aggressive wage slavery than any form of forced detainment. The machine is kept running by the fact that they are one of the sole true neutral zones in the continent, completely open to all but approaching forces, at which point their cove is put on heavy lockdown. Refugees and escaped slaves more often than not end up "employed" as "contract workers" for a goblin contractor whose wages are just right enough to keep them in perpetual debt/servitude.

Their city is corrupt, their government is non-existent, their police force is bare bones and mercs are the primary source of what modicum of order that exists. They're basically the Wild West with a truly capitalistic free market system that is regulated by no one, and they love it. On the plus side their city is by far the most racially diverse, and there isn't a wider selection of items, slaves, and mercs around really, that along with it being a safe haven if you have the wits and money sense to avoid becoming contracted make it one of the more interesting racial homes around. 

Genetically they're highly intelligent and mathematically gifted, average creatively, detail oriented, perceptive, and extremely empathetic, they're very individualistic and highly competitive. In terms of physical strength, they are very strong for their size, with their large sinewy, and ape like arms and massive hands, albeit weaker than the likes of men and most larger races, though they lack in deft of movement and durability, stumbling over large feet and stubby legs with bent or bow knees, and struggling to keep their breath or take strong hits as a result of their lowered lung capacity and smaller weak torsos and skull. Despite their lacking in endurance they do have a very long lifespan, living upwards of several hundred years at their oldest.
They're also short as hell, around 3 and a half feet.

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goeliath In reply to OnHolyServiceBound [2016-02-05 15:05:47 +0000 UTC]

Hot damn! you've thought this all through quite well man!
Goblins living a few hundred years? thats definitely a new one
either way keep em coming man! really great sketches

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