- Camouflage
- Mockery
- Scuttle
- Sturdiness
All snotlings are of SmallStature.
Snotlings are tiny ImperialGoblins, rat-like humanoids who thrive on mischief and deception. They infest sewers, caves and warrens, and sometimes spread to warehouses and grain silos, where they can cause a lot of damage. As intelligent creatures, they can be negotiated with or bribed , and it is even possible for them to become friends or form partnerships. But mostly, they are treated as vermin and exterminated whenever possible.
DS:HouseNoros has formed an alliance of sorts with Snotlings, using them as infiltrators and spies. Due to their small size, they can infiltrate through pipes and nooks larger creatures could never enter. This has given the Snotlings a position of sorts within the DS:DragonEmpire, and forced the other civilized races to deal with them on a somewhat equal footing. But Snotlings are never really reliable. Neither their masters in DS:HouseNoros or anyone else they deal with can truly tame their mischievous instincts.
Personality: Snotlings love to cause mischief and to get larger creatures in their power, but they seem to do this more as a sort of cruel prank than as guerilla warfare. Once a victim is captured, bound and taunted mercilessly, the Snotlings will often let them go.
Physical Description: About a foot long, with a baggy body and long, spindly legs and arms, Snotlings who are crouching can easily be mistaken for big rats. Their ears and beady eyes are rat-like, but they have distinctive faces, no whiskers, and lack all hair. Most of them lack tails.
Relations: Civilized races detest Snotlings, and the drow and dwarfs have especially much trouble with them. Kobolds and LesserGoblins share some their love of mischief, and DS:HouseNoros often uses goblins as emissaries and do-betweens. Gnomes sometimes share their prankish nature, and the few good Snotlings that exist are usually friends with gnomes.
Alignment: Snotlings are always mischievous, but some carry their pranks further than others. Mistreated and hunted like vermin, it is small wonder that they resent larger creatures, but still a few of them run less malicious pranks and might even help the weak and lost.
Snotlings Lands: Snotlings are scavengers and prefer to live near civilized creatures, in sewers, dumps and the like. A Snotling dwelling can exist right under the noses of larger creatures without their knowing.
Religion: Snotlings worship an amalgam of DS:TheTrickster and DS:TheDestroyer. Those that join galactic civilization often turn to DS:TheTrickster or to DS:TheJudge in his aspect as intelligence-gatherer.
Language: Snotlings speak Goblin, but their voices are high-pitched and squeaky in the extreme. It takes a Seduction roll of 10 to even realize that this is actually speech. Worldwise Snotlings may speak the language of their neighbors as well.
Names: When speaking to others, they like to assume pompous names, like Mamundo the Magnificent or Roger of Severstone, which may or may not have some meaning or relation to who they really are - and which the snotling may or may not remember the next time you meet.
Adventurers: Snotlings can sometimes be bribed or cajoled into working for other creatures, and from this a genuine sense of friendship may grow, or the Snotlings might just enjoy the opportunities and sense of power that larger companions bring.