Common Names or Actual Name: Murlogi nobility

Form: The elite members of Murlogi culture.

Typical Homeland: Morbek Highlands

Cultural Context: Goblin Court

Ideology: "The Weaker exist to serve the Stronger." - Maintain control over the inferiors. While bickering, even when fatal, among the elite is normal and acceptable, it must never become so severe as to bring down the natural order of servitude.

Look and Feel: Conniving nobles played off against each other for the benefit of the King Mablik, while also supporting a loose status quo.

Purpose: To keep Murlogi society under control, so it can be weilded for it's leaders' enrichment.

Headquarters: The king's vault in the capital city.

Reactions: Every non-member is theoretically servile to every member. But shit happens.

Resources

Leader: King Mablik

Renowned Members: Oblik - a general, and leader of one of the other major holds.

The Queen.

Membership: The vast bulk of the true aristocracy of the Murlogi as well as a few outsiders who have been accepted into the Murlogi way of life.

Other Contacts: Various military units, the High King Of Murlog, the Order of Murlogi Artificers, etc.

Organization

The Murlogi king controls access to the guardian -- a huge gem of ancient dwarven excavation and craft around which a deep vault was built. He is the leader of the band. He can turn off the powers granted to the members at a whim.

Membership Keyword

Membership Requirements: the 'uses others' personality trait, as well as social acceptance as a noble.

Skills taught: (taken from Goblin Princess)

• history of the goblins kin
• read and write goblin verse
• issue commands
• party
• survive assassination
• knife fighting
• remember

Typical Personality Traits:

• uses others (as required above)
• promiscuous
• condescending
• ruthless

Magic: (I'm not sure what if anything goes here.)

Guardian

Big gem. (How much of this is backstory and how much do I just make up?)

Method: Manifestation.

Form: Huge dwarven gem.

Communication: The guardian will communicate through a mental link to any member who stands before it, touching the surface of the gem, in search of contact. (The king keeps the vault mostly private to himself.)

Guardian Requirements: Revere Gems?

Functions

• keen awareness of the scent of poison
• dominate commoners
• escape