Goblin, Filcher (3.5e Race)

Filcher Goblin
Within the vast and varies climates in the world, various races have adapted to their environments and adopted different cultures to fit. The elves and their many subraces are testament to this fact, but they are not the only ones. Among the goblinoid races the lowly goblin has proven to be as genetically varied as any elf. And like the elves, goblins are also said to have a connection to the fey. The filcher goblin may be that missing link.

Summary::Filcher goblins are sinister fey-like goblins with a habit of thievery of small valuables, keepsakes, and children. These are not the pixie-like fey of dreams, but more akin to the terrifying Fair Folk of ancient lore.

Personality
The filcher goblin is alien to modern life. Born in the feywilds, they seeped into the normal world through shadows and fog. Their motives are as obscured, amoral, and strange to the common man who can only define what they see in one word: sinister. For the filcher goblin is a thief of many things, from small material possessions, to children and firstborn, or even immaterial things like one's youth, or the concept of love.Through trickery, guile, and stealth filchers take what makes the material world have purpose and leave in its wake an empty shell and broken homes.

To the filcher goblin, it all makes sense. But their goals make little sense in the context of any mind one would call "sane". It is not unfair to suggest all filcher goblins are indeed possessed of some form of madness.

Physical Description
Filcher goblins have the basic form of a goblin; that of a short humanoid with long nose, long pointed ears, and oddly colored skin and yet they have an air of something wrong about them. Their face is too sharp, their eyes too empty and soulless, the way they speak or the positions they hold themselves when relaxed are all off, exaggerated and distorted to look more feral, more sinister, and more alien than should be possible. Their skin tones favor greys and dull green or blue shades, and many are bald or sparse of hair. Their eyes are long and thin, squinting often, and their smiles seem to extend too far through their cheeks into a wolfish visage. Their ears are longer than most goblins to the point of drooping slightly at the tips, and they could pass for some manner of imp or half-fiend had they wings. Many have described mist or shadows acting abnormally around them and nearby them as well.

Filcher goblins look nearly identical between males and females, making identifying them difficult. They rarely walk around in public presence out of some disguise. All that is known that they originally hail from the same location as many unseele, and eventually return there when they die in this world. The nature of filcher goblin biology and reproduction is unknown but best left unexplored.

Relations
Others do not willing or knowingly interact with filcher goblins, for they have no "nation" or "city" or any kind. Rather filcher goblins slip into the world to prey on other races. They have an urge to take things which is not theirs, and for some they reveal themselves under the guise of being some powerful outsider, tricking beings into giving up what they love most. They are predators, and the others are simply prey to whatever schemes amuse them.

Alignment
Filcher goblins are almost always evil, but they range from lawful to chaos, unusual for a fey. The best one can hope for is a lawful filcher goblin who holds up their end of whatever fell bargains they make.

Lands
Filcher goblins come from an ill-understood area in the feywilds populated by mists and shadows. In this endless and ever-changing valley beings are spirited away never to be seen again.

Outside of the feywilds, filcher goblins establish themselves near rural civilizations where they walk around in disguise and make trouble in the dead of night.

Religion
Filcher goblins do not have a god, but supposedly have a "strong respect" for a entity known as the Verdant Fog. It appears to be some being which originates in the land of the fey, but nature of it is largely unknown. What is known is that it is undeniably and irredeemably evil, and that the antics of the filchers somehow empower it.

Language
Filcher goblins speak Common, Goblin, and Sylvan.

Names
Filcher goblins often keep their names to themselves and adopt nicknames from those around them, both because their names are long and confusing and because in some cases their name can be used as a truename, which may enable others to have power over them. Names like "Rikitikitavi", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Ikambokem", and other complex names are common.