The Human Hunt

1. #1Goblinsselectiveregex

   Keys: Goblin, Goblins, Gobs, Hobs

   Goblins are small humanoids with a height usually between 2.5" and 3" tall and weighing between 20-30 pounds. They mostly have green skin and black or brown hair, pointed ears, and lithe hairless bodies fit best for sprinting, leaping, climbing, and for working on small machines. They are incapable of growing facial hair. Arctic goblins may have a gray skin tone, while jungle goblins may have a brownish one, and desert goblins may have a beige skin tone. Their eyes range can be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or brown. Very rarely, a goblin might be born almost a foot taller and up to ten pounds heavier, and when they are they are called a 'Hob' or a 'Hobgoblin', and given a great deal of respect for their increased strength. Their names are usually one or two syllables, and emphasize plosive sounds and fricative sounds. Typical construction would be CVC or CVCCVC, such as Gek or Feptak. They are enormously good at slipping out of traps, ropes, grapples, or other tricky situations. Goblins are one of the dominant species on Eltaka, and have broad ranging social structures and legal ramifications for insults or attacks on their people. A typical goblin settlement has a population of 500 (called a town), but can easily range up to 5000 (a city) or more. The capital city of the goblins is called Gobtashka and is ruled over by their Queen Kreshnithka, and sits at the edge of a very large forest and a mountain range. Goblins are a society which revolves around the slave trade as their primary resource, and their tendency to make their towns in forests, caves, and other places where humans regularly try to hide makes them uniquely well placed for it. The Goblin's unique ability as a species is Gob-Coordination (they often tack gob- as a prefix onto names to show that it was made or belongs to a goblin), a quasi-supernatural ability to intrinsically sense and understand the motives and immediate intentions of other goblins with whom they are familiar, lending them a wildly effective capacity for cooperation and teamwork. Goblins prefer to bind their slaves with dark steel collars, wrist cuffs, and ankle cuffs (all with attachment points for ropes or chains), and like to use humans as steeds in particular, given their greater physical strength, long-distance endurance, and cleverness versus horses who are too large for them, wolves who are too dangerous usually, or other beasts. When using a human as a steed, they may give the humans a tunic to wear if they're going somewhere cold, may give them shoes (only for the length of a journey) if they must step on something dangerous, but otherwise put a harness on their heads which gags them and has rings on either side for angling the human in the direction they want to go, as well as a saddle on their backs attached by a chest harness, and thick leather mitts to bind their hands and prevent escape. It's not the most uncommon to insert a buttplug as well to prevent unexpected defecation in cities or towns. Such steeds are usually put in a flat chastity cage to prevent snagging. Goblins, due to temperature regulation issues, often wear leather loincloths, wrist wraps, and foot wraps, and may accessorize with leather bicep bands, ankle bands, wrist bands, or even collars (they... just like leather really, it's not a submission thing for them, and metal is the material of servitude for them). They may tuck feathers into their hair, or paint ornate tribal symbols on their bodies with natural red-brown dyes. Goblins are matriarchal by nature, though particularly strong or influential goblins may attain and hold power. Their brands are placed on the pelvis and the small of the back, with the pelvic brand showing their tribal claim, and the back showing a purpose claim (steed, sex slave, laborer, etc). They are usually quite literal symbols with a tribal flair, and may incorporate elements of the bondage applied in the design. Goblins are decent at magic, but not innately magical by nature. Goblins typically live to be 90-120 years old. Goblins are born with quite thick skin on their feet which makes them eschew footwear unless the cold makes them, hence why they prefer to live in more temperate places. Goblins are omnivorous.

2. #2Core Premiseconstantselectiveregex

   Eltaka is a world full of mostly diminutive fantasy species such as goblins, elves, dwarves, sprites/pixies, kobolds, gnomes, and imps. Humans are the most recent species to evolve, and the vast majority of Eltakan society has yet to even begin to legally recognize that they evolved past being 'simple beasts' and into a full-fledged additional sapient species, capable of its own goals, rights, and respect. As a result, most humans live in small, furtive tribes in the forests or other hidden places, and are regularly subjected to hunting parties scouring the forests for new slaves. Humans are just as capable as any other species at magic, combat, intellect, philosophy, science, or any other metric really... with an extra ability added on top... Humans can procreate with any species (which gives live birth at any rate), and produce an offspring which has traits of both halves. These half-breeds are often either killed outright as an affront to the more dominant species or sold off as commodities, however some of the more devious members of Eltakan society have begun to experiment with carefully controlled cross-breeding, testing the limits of this ability, and the potential of the new creatures it creates. As a result of this unique ability of the human species, however, most human slaves are put into permanent chastity cages to prevent their being even able to breed, something which does somewhat limit their population. It's not unheard of for humans to be kept as pleasure/sex slaves, used for manual labor, or even as particularly clever steeds by small enough species. Human slaves are almost always branded to show the tribe which claimed them, and potentially even the individual person, if that person is influential enough to warrant a unique mark, and it is completely socially normal and expected that run-a-way slaves will be brought back to their masters and owners, and potentially beaten severely for the crime of trying to flee. A few, extremely secretive groups do exist which try to create safe havens for humans, or even who seek to purchase new slaves so as to give them a decent life, but those are considered rebellious, or even terrorist groups by the governments writ large. Humans, due to their oppressed nature and lives spent on the run and in hiding, regularly do not have clothing to wear, and are well accustomed to being barefoot, and develop thick enough calluses on their feet to walk over most natural hazards, though explicitly prepared things like caltrops or broken glass can still break their skin. Human tribes are usually only ten to twenty people (at most usually one to two families), and tend to live deep in caves, in hidden places in forests or jungles, or anywhere else they can manage to hide. Human lifespans are as long as is typical (60-100 years), though often they are shorter due to stress, abuse, or violent deaths.

3. #3Elvesselectiveregex

   Keys: Elf, Elfs, Elves, Elvish

   Elves are small, thin humanoids with fair skin and pointed ears. They stand usually between two and two-and-a-half feet tall, and weigh between twenty to twenty five pounds, and have lean, hairless bodies. Some elves can grow facial hair. They usually have blond, light-brown, silver, or ginger hair and typically have green, blue, purple, silver, or golden colored eyes. Jungle elves and desert elves may have a darker complexion and hair tone, but are otherwise basically the same. Elves are extremely magical, and tend to try to solve their issues with magic first and foremost. An elf is capable of casting rudimentary magic just about as soon as they start to talk, and virtually all the greatest archmages of Eltaka have been elves. Their innate capacity for magic is their unique ability as a species. They have an extremely long lifespan (which is partially why they are so good at magic in the long-run), living at least 500 years, and often living past 750 and up to a thousand at the extreme end. They like to wear soft fabrics, and favor robes, tunics, chitons, or other flow-ey garments. They accessorize with silver bicep, wrist, and ankle bands, and often trade with dwarves for gemstones to add to these pieces. They tend to keep human slaves mostly as lighter manual laborers, pleasure servants, household servants, or even library assistants. They find it extremely interesting whenever a human learns magic, and may even foster that ability if it suits that human's purpose as a slave. They are very cooperative as a species, and favor council-based governments of usually three, five, seven, or nine (magical numbers), depending upon the size of the town or city needing to be ruled. Unlike Goblins, they usually are pretty few in number, so a town of them is roughly a hundred people, and a city would be a thousand. Their capital city of Alskama rests on one of the tallest peaks of all Eltaka, and has trees carefully grown throughout it, giving it a serene, mountain forest look. Of the species of Eltaka, they are the most sympathetic to humanity (though they view their short lifespans as something that makes them akin to particularly clever dogs), and are the only ones to have ever brought up the legal status of humans to other races, though they dropped the matter when the response was strongly negative. Their culture revolves around literature, poetry, craftsmanship, magic, archery, and archiving and chronicling the history of Eltaka. Their human slaves are usually bought from other races due to their natural homelands being far from where humans usually hide, but when they do obtain one they adorn the human with golden bonds, and their brands are usually on the shoulder where they hope the mark would be less painful to receive, though especially cruel elves choose the pelvis instead. Their names usually follow a consonant-vowel structure like Japanese, and favor fricative and lateral sounds like L and R, and are often trisyllabic or longer. For example: Finthanaele or Theslara. Elves are usually pacifists, and are almost to a man obligate herbivores.

4. #4Koboldsselectiveregex

   Keys: Kobold

   Kobolds are small, reptilian humanoids which stand between two and three feet tall, and weigh twenty to thirty pounds on average. Their scales can be red, blue, brown, tan, black, gray, green, or yellow. Their eyes are usually yellow with slitted black pupils, but sometimes other colors like green, red, or blue can exist. Kobolds are cold-blooded, and so typically live in warm or temperate places where they can modulate their body heat with greater ease. They hatch from eggs, making them one of the only species with whom humans cannot freely procreate. They tend to wear simple cloth loincloths since they do not sweat, and see very little reason to wear much more, and they don't benefit from the primary use of clothing anyway. They do however like to accessorize by putting bags on their tails. If they bear weapons, it is usually just a dagger to cut what they'd rather not bite or slash with their claws. They may accessorize with feathers or beautiful stones worked into leather bands. They are the most common catchers of humans as slaves in deserted or cavernous areas, due to their capacity for building traps and for seeing well in the darkness... though they aren't the best at using those slaves once they have them. A kobold is a very delicate creature usually, and can be a little intimidated by a human so much larger than themselves, thus they often have trade arrangements with elves or goblins, though they would keep especially small or meek humans as novelties. Like goblins, they see great benefit to using humans as steeds, but can find use for them as pleasure slaves or laborers in mines. Kobold names tend to be almost germanic in formulation, with a heavier emphasis on unvoiced plosives and fricatives, and usually being bisyllabic or monosyllabic, such as 'Galthrak' or 'Chev'. They view themselves as being descended from dragons, and their innate magical ability as a species reflects that, as they are capable of exhaling a dragon-like breath attack (usually fire or poison, but rare specimens may have lightning, cold, or acid). They are patriarchal by nature, and tend to be structured in macro-tribal formations, with closer bands of families forming a small tribe which owes its allegiance to a 'Kobold King'. Their capital city of Kovnash rests below the mountain range where the elves live, deep in the caverns under the mountains. Their civilization is organized primarily around mining and smithing, though they defend their homes with traps of such good quality that they could likely sell those and make a decent living.

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