In writing this book, I stumbled across an interesting problem - making the story fit my anal retentive need to have things, while fanciful, be plausible. What I decided to do was to restructure the some of the legends of goblins and hobgoblins to fit what I wanted them to be. One of the primary motives was to make hobgoblins and goblins the same species, just the opposing genders. Why? I needed to create a way that made sense to me on why the character, Shirtazia, would be behaving in the manner she does in the book. To that end, I came up with this:
goblins
and hobgoblins
Physical
characteristics
Goblins and hobgoblins, though in popular
lore portrayed as two distinct races, are the other’s gender opposite. Goblins (Gobelinus
Hominem) are the male of the species while hobgoblins (Gobelinus Feminaeris) are the female of the species.
The Goblin is anatomically similar to an
aged, smaller homo erectus with a few differences. Physically, the difference
is noticeable in the average stature and facial features. The tallest hobgoblin
is five foot nine inches on record, the shortest being three foot, though the
average height is five foot five inches.
The tallest goblin is recorded at three foot nine inches, the shortest
at two foot ten inches with the average being three foot five inches. Hobgoblins are larger than their goblin
counterparts for the purpose of reproductive purposes; just as the muscle
tissue of the hobgoblin are much more compact to allow the female to overpower
a male attempting to elude her amorous advances.
Goblins that have not altered their
appearances with shimmering (see shimmering) have elfin ears, the tips pointed
rather than rounded that accentuate the sharpness in their hairline, chin and
nose. The colour of the goblin skin is
determined by the environment to how dark or light that it appears to be. Because of the extreme stress that goblins
undergo during the birth and maturation period, their skin often develops
wrinkles within the first three years of life.
The goblin fingernails resemble the homo erectus when they are at rest
but in a defensive stance these nails have a secondary set that can extend from
the cuticle. The edges of these
secondary nails are jagged and capable of penetrating the hide of an elephant.
The major difference in the anatomy of the goblin and homo erectus is in the
reproductive organs (see the reproductive cycle of the goblin).
The goblin age can be equivocated to the
homo erectus in that while human age is by the base of decades the goblin’s can
be assessed by centuries. The oldest goblin on record was nine hundred and
twenty eight before he died of natural causes while the oldest hobgoblin lived
to the age of nine hundred and forty-two. The average age of a goblin and
hobgoblin in a densely populated area of goblins is one hundred and twenty-one,
though as the population density of hobgoblins decrease, the mortality rate
elongates.
Shimmering is a camouflage technique used primarily by hobgoblins. There are
few instances where a goblin has used shimmering. Goblins detest the look of a
human while a hobgoblin will socialize with a human over another
hobgoblin. A hobgoblin can soften and
blur her features to pass for a member of the homo erectus by vibrating her
body four times faster than the human eye can register. This vibrating motion is so subtle that the
air displacement around her is negligible, if at all felt by a human. Often this displacement is reasoned to be a
slight draft. Shimmering requires aural energy and as long as a hobgoblin has contact with a mortal for three quarters
of an hour every day, she is recharged for the remainder of that day. This contact does not require actual touching
but a close proximity no greater than six inches from the generator of the
aura.
The goblin species, because of the degree
of potential kinetic energy their bodies may have to absorb in the act of
shimmering, are three times denser in muscular tissue than the average homo
erectus. This natural conditioning makes
the being faster, stronger and far more resilient to physical damage due to
increase in the elasticity of the being’s skin molecular make up.
The personality of a goblin is far more
abrasive and abusive towards humans and hobgoblins alike than to another
goblin. Goblins are solitary creatures,
preferring the company of the animals that they were raised around or living in
abandoned human dwellings. Goblins are
nomadic until they find an area that is relatively free of hobgoblin ‘hunting’
territories. Before the eradication of their natural forest habitat, goblins
used to live in packs for protection against the hobgoblin. When attacked
the pack would surrender or force the weaker or lamer members of the pack
to fornicate with the hobgoblin, ensuring the survival of the stronger members
of the pack for hunting and gathering purposes.
Hobgoblins are far more socially adept,
often using their shimmering to interact with the local human population.
Hobgoblins will not interact socially but are repulsed by goblins except for
when in heat. Hobgoblins have a territorial pheromone in their urine that warns
other mature hobgoblins away from their marked territory. If another mature hobgoblin invades the first
hobgoblin’s territory, purposefully or unintentionally, it will result in the
death of the weaker hobgoblin. Both
goblins and hobgoblins will allow immature goblins and hobgoblins to observe
their behaviour from a distance as long as the immature ones do not interfere
with the daily rituals that the goblin or hobgoblin have.
The
Reproductive organs of goblins
Just as their outlook on life, the
reproductive cycle of the goblin and hobgoblin in ingrained in violence. A
newborn goblin is not reared by either a goblin or hobgoblin but is left to
either survive or die. The gobfant
mortality rate is twenty-three percent, ten percent higher than pre-industrial
revolution as more of the natural areas of goblinhood have been replaced by
structures.
Gobelinus
hominem
Flaccid, the penis of the goblin resembles
the shape and texture of the average mortal man with the exception of the glans
being slightly thinner and not as round with a quarter inch thick holey spinal
cord like cartilage ridge that runs from the base of the scrotal sac underneath
the corpus cavernosum urethrae and frenulum to the metus on the tip of the
glans.
Erect, the penis of the gobelinus hominem
differs from the mortal male. The corpus cavernosum penis does not increase in
girth size with the introduction of increased blood flow but does become
slender as the cartilage ridges filling with blood engorged sinew elongate the
corpus cavernosum penis almost twice its length. The glans of the penis becomes triangular in
shape as the majority of the mass of the frenulum is absorbed into the
cartilage, resembling an arrow head. The
cartilage, saturated with the blood and muscle and cellular tissue, has a tip
that extends out of the meatus three sixteenths of an inch that is sharp enough
to create incisions with the least amount of pressure applied upon it,
effectively turning the penis into a small pike.
As in mortal men, the goblin scrotum is the
area responsible for the creation of sperm.
Unlike mortal men, who are constantly producing sperm from maturity on,
the goblin’s testes (gestes) are only operational just before projected
copulation otherwise the gestes are in hibernation just as the penis remains
flaccid until arousal is instituted, usually by the pheromone tracer from a
hobgoblin.
During sexual intercourse, the triangular
the head of the penis also impales the ovary sac of the hobgoblin as well as
slicing deeply into the vulva and the vaginal opening in order to flood the
vaginal opening with blood. This pool
serves as a thinning agent for the release of the sperm that is ejaculated with
the consistency of molasses. The mixture of blood, sperm and vaginal mucus then
are pumped into the tattered ovary
sac to allow fertilization of the eggs contained within. Once an egg has
successfully been fertilized, the egg produces a beta-adrenergic
agonist hormone as well as a neuromuscular agent that signals the nerves in the
penis to return to flaccidity and temporarily paralyzes the goblin from
withdrawal of the penis or moving off the hobgoblin for a twenty four hour
period.
Another note of the effects on goblin
civilization from the mortal society is the use of Viagra in goblins for
suicidal purposes. It has been reported
by the Celestial Bureau of Vital Statistics there has been a twenty-one percent
increase in suicides by goblins since the introduction of Viagra into the
population. The commonest form of
suicide is the goblin takes the pill then leans over with his chin jutting out
the most likely area that the erection will form. It is not unusual for
hobgoblins to socialize with mortals, the amount of hormones stored in their
mammary glands make their sexual appetite quite high.
Gobelinus
feminaeris
In the goblin reproductive process, the
hobgoblin is the aggressive gender. When in heat (which occurs foreighty-seven
hours every thirty six point four years after their first one hundred and
twenty-one years of existence) hobgoblins release the sex pheromone, gobrosia,
which activates the goblin’s desire for copulation (necessary as for the
majority of goblins the inactive hormone gestosterone production of the testes
leaves no sexual desire). The drawback
to this pheromone is that it is very concentrated which by having a greater
mass does not remain airborne for very long.
The traditional mating ritual of goblins and hobgoblins is that the
hobgoblin, who is stronger and larger than the goblin, pins the goblin down on
the ground then sprays the pheromone directly into the goblin’s face to awaken
the gestes and the creation of sperm.
Whereas the mammary glands in mortal woman
play a significant role in the post-birth cycle, the mammary glands in a
hobgoblin are for pre-copulation purposes. Sharp cilia which rest just under
the surface of the areole but when arousal occurs, the puffing of the nipple
pushes these quills to just above the skin line to deliver a series of hormones
from six ducts located within the mammary tissue. These hormones, dopamine, orexan, prolactin,
serotonin, oxytocin and lutrophin in the form of a syrup liquid that slickens
not only the nipple but the majority of the surface of the areole. The
hobgoblin either forces or coaxes the goblin to rub his lips tongue and nose around
her breasts that stimulate the release of these hormones which put the goblin
into a trance of lust and the want to
mount the hobgoblin for procreative purposes.
Due to the precise movements needed to
successfully conceive, the hobgoblin have small cilia that run along her
gluteus maximus that secrete a venom that once absorbed by the goblin’s skin
causes the cessation of gesterone and extreme pain to discourage rear mounting.
The outer genatlia of the gobelinus
feminaeris in a non excitable state, as with its male counterpart, the vulva
and clitoris is barely discernable from a mortal woman. The inner reproductive organs differ greatly
however in the gobelinus feminaeris from a mortal woman’s. There is no uterus or fallopian tubes; the
hobgoblin’s eggs, which she has had since birth, are stored in an ovum sac that
is attached just inside the cervical opening. During copulation the sac is
punctured allowing for the fertilization of the ova. Once the ova have been fertilized, the
hobgoblin’s gestrogen mutates into gesterone and signals the engorgement of the
clitoris.
The hood of the clitoris folds back to
expose the clitoris, which is a miniature version of the gobelinus homenim’s
penis, with the cartilage ridge intended to perform in the same manner as the
penis on a smaller scale. The clitoris, rubs against the pelvic muscle of the
goblin, slicing through the skin to the muscle where the second function of the
clitoris begins. The clitoris has a opening that once the thin layer of skin
that covers it has been exposed due to the friction of close physical contact
that leads directly to the cervical opening. When the clitoral opening exposes
itself to air, the vacuum created by the penis shoots the combination of blood, sexual liquids, unused sperm and fertilized
ova through the clitoral opening into the muscle of the goblin’s pelvis. The
re-rounding and shortening of the penis inside the vaginal opening due to the beta-adrenergic
agonist hormone and neuromuscular agent squeezes the penis tightly against the
walls of the vagina tightly, popping a series of tiny postules that line the
top of the vaginal opening. These
postules contain a blood clotting agent that then is sucked up the clitoral
opening to seal the ova inside the muscular tissue of the goblin. Though there
is some blood clotting agents that remain in the vaginal and clitoral openings,
there is not enough to stop the haemorrhaging the damage to the cervical wall
the penis has done. The result is that
within two hours, the hobgoblin dies with a goblin paralyzed atop of her.
It should be noted that while the clitoral
hood opens naturally, this process can be willed
by the hobgoblin for the hood to fold back to expose the clitoris
pre-insemination to heighten her sexual pleasure or for self-satisfaction
requirements. This procedure is not
widely practiced however as it increases the hormonal quantities the body
produces, leaving the hobgoblin to be driven into hyper-sexually excited state from the pressure of the ovarian sac that has
continued to expand until the sac becomes so thin that it bursts. The fluids
and the eggs then are flushed out of the vaginal opening leaving the hobgoblin
barren. Without the sac containing the
ova the hobgoblin is not only barren but loses her ability to manage the
gestrogen production that ordinarily is controlled by the ovary sac. This
condition leaves the hobgoblin in a permanent heat.
The
development of a goblin
The first seventy two hours is considered
the most dangerous time in the gestation period of a viable gobelinus
zygote(called a gygote). During this
period it grows at the rate of six billion, two hundred and eighty million,
seven hundred and eighty-one thousand and six hundred eight6 cells per hour
which requires the gygote to absorb nutrients from the host constantly to
continue at this rate. If the host
expires or if the host is strong enough to remove the gygote, it will
perish. After this seventy two hour
period the gygote’s cellular composition has begun to specialize processes and
that one of which is a thin synaptic hotwire
that slices through the host’s muscle and tendons to the pelvic splanchnic
nerve system to assume control of the parasympathetic nervous system, which
promotes the digestion and ejection of wastes to reroute the necessary
nutrients the zygote is required to absorb through the blood vessel system that
surrounds the zygote. It is uncertain whether the goblin host is aware of the
gygote or if the trauma of having his penis stuck
inside the corpse of a hobgoblin for approximately twenty two hours causes a
short term memory loss.
For the period between the gygote and
geoetus, there is no delineation of gender.
The gender factor is based on the amount of sunlight that the host body
absorbs beginning for twenty four hours on four hundred and eighth hour of
gestation.
Greater than four and one quarter hours
creates a hobgoblin
Lesser than four and one quarter hours
creates a goblin
Equal to four and a quarter hours creates a
gobhob
The base hormone, gesterone, is exuded by
the host’s pores onto the surface of exposed skin. This exposure deteriorates the hormone from
its pure form to the point where it turns into gestrogen, the femine hormone
which is then absorbed by the host’s skin into the stomach where the geotus
then becomes the sex of the hormone absorbed.
It should be noted that with the invention
of artificial uv lighting, there have been cases of gesterone being fully
deteriorated leaving nothing for the geotus to absorb. In these cases, the hobgob, as they are known
as, are born without external reproductive characteristics with only a flap
covering the urethra for liquid waste expulsion.
On the 33rd day the host can no
longer sustain the gobetus and his own nutritional requirements for optimal
functioning. At this point, the gobetus,
its fingernails having formed into a biological scalpel, tear through the
hosts’ abdominal wall into the stomach.
The acid eats at the gobetus’s thick crust of waste that has formed
around the skin and tissue until the fecal prison has been eaten away. What stomach acid that hasn’t been used then
eats away at the original incision the hobgoblin’s clitoris had made in order
to allow quicker access for the heterotrophic baterica and various insects for
a hastened decomposition. At this stage
the gobetus does not have functioning lungs so it converts the end gases of the
decomposition process of the acetogens in creation of co2 and hydrogen to
create water and oxygen through cells called fermacellia.
The gobetus will continue to grow until
there is no more material to be absorbed.
This stage varies upon the environmental conditions outside the host
such as temperature and humidity. In
this time as flesh and tissue are being consumed by the maggots and lichen, the
lungs develop and take over respiratory responsibilities.
Once this occurs, the gobetus bursts from
the goblin host, feasting upon the maggots until it is engorged then crawls
away. The approximate size fluctuates,
depending on the amount of time it has spent in the constrained environment of
the goblin, as well as the physical size and girth of the goblin, though on
average the size of a gobetus at this point is eleven and three quarters inches
in length.
The gobetus then finds a den of a
omnivorous animal, particularly in northern areas of foxes while in Africa the
gobetus opts for hyena dens. Before entering the den, the gobetus will roll in
the urine of the host family to cover itself with that families scent. This act plus the release of a soothing
pheromone wills the parental unit to adopt the gobetus until it outgrows the
den. The gobetus, now considered a
goddler, then leaves to find his or her own den to live in.
The goddler period lasts for four years
where it can grow up to three feet though its appearance will not alter, the
way it looked the day it left the hosts body is the way it will look the for
its natural life. In the fourth year the goblin or hobgoblin’s tongue sheds,
altering its ability to stomach raw meats and for a brief time until the age of
maturity will mentor with a goblin or
hobgoblin that has not yet experienced heat or being hunted by a hobgoblin in
heat. Once this passage of puberty has
taken place, then goblins and hobgoblins take on the traditional behaviours
assigned to them in lore.
