Talk:Nott/@comment-97.80.109.95-20180810181919/@comment-36661113-20181026181700

Primates, I’m pretty sure. They’re definitely humanoids, and in the particular legendarium of Exandria are derived from a predecessor race known as the “Dranassar.”  The Dranassar were “corrupted” into the three goblinoid races (goblins, hobgoblins, & bugbears) by the Strife Emperor in what is known as the “Curse of Strife” so that they would be more perfectly suited to one of three roles in his army (skirmishers, legionaries and scouts, respectively.)  With the defeat of the Strife Emperor in the Calamity, the hobgoblins remained clustered near the site of his defeat and created an oppressive, authoritarian (and thus “lawful-evil”) society, but the other two races scattered and can be found sowing chaos (usually evil chaos, but Nott is an obvious exception) all over the major continents…

The original physicality of the Dranassar progenitor race of the goblinkin has thus far not been revealed, but like the orcs (whose progenitor race were elves) and unlike the gnolls (whose progenitor race were hyenas) the goblinoids really don’t seem to me to exhibit any traits of any other taxonomic order, leading me to believe that the Dranassar were likely quite analogous to, say, elves or humans. The fact that they had established a city and a civilization BEFORE the “Curse of Strife” built around the city of Ghor Dranas seems to me to also encourage the same conclusion.