Hob Kin

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The humanoid hobgoblins, so ubiquitous in the Hedge, are known as hobs. While almost none have anything Mortals or Changelings would regard as friends, it's noticed that hobs will treat their own kind somewhat less ruthlessly than they treat others. For some reason, hobs react to your character as they react to their own kind. The reason for this could include everything from your character having performed a service that aided several important hobs, or maybe your character has something in her nature that makes hobs react to her as one of their own. Perhaps your character has no idea why hobs react as they do.

Nevertheless, this reaction does not alleviate the need for your character to do favours for hobs.

But...Hobs never do anything for free! Doing so would violate their very nature. However, among their own kind, hobs have a quid pro quo arrangement (whereby a service is paid for by a favour of roughly equal magnitude.) Instead of having to pay vast amounts for a simple but vital service, your character generally only needs to pay a hob what the service is worth. As a result, your character is free to have one or more hobs guard her Hollow in return for allowing them to live in it when they desire or to give her warning about the approach of the Gentry and other dangerous residents of the Hedge, if your character is willing to aid these same hobs against similar dangers.

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