Connects to: 07.17, 11.01 and 15.04.
The caves that can be found in these rocky hills are inhabited by hobgoblins. Hobs lack whatever it is that binds goblins to oak trees (11.01) and their affinity for magic along with it, and tend be to lanky and misshapen when compared to their cousins, but are fearsomely strong.
The hobgoblins mostly keep the peace with the humans that live south of here and even attend an annual market in which they trade their shroomwine and shoes, but during lean times they have been known to sneak down towards the lowland farms to rustle ostriches. They avoid killing humans, but it would only take one bloodthirsty band of adventurers to change that…
Subhex:
The Shroom Caverns: The hobgoblins who dwell in these hills are known far and wide for their production of shroomwine, a potent hallucinogen. It is distilled from the various bioluminescent mushrooms that grow in the caverns beneath the hills. This cave network goes on for miles in every direction, and even the hobgoblins have not explored down to its lowest reaches. See shroomwine for more.
Connections:
- Thad Breen (15.04) has falsely claimed that the hobgoblins have killed a local human.
- The knights of Castle Maratan (07.17) mix shroomwine with blood of the tarrasque.
- There is a small town of hobgoblins that was accidentally established in the ruins beneath Hyfalls (40.20).
Hooks:
- Aside from hobgoblins, what can be found in these caves?
- Who are the humans who trade with the hobgoblins?
- Why would humans want to buy shroomwine?
