Fiebrict (FEE-brict)

Race: Goblin

Role: Wanderer, Protector, Friend

Fiebrict is small, scruffy, and armed with a kitchen knife that doesn’t quite fit its sheath. He has a gravelly little voice, oversized eyes that express every single thing he’s feeling at any given moment, and a piece of cloth wrapped around his neck that serves as something between a scarf and a handkerchief. He is, by any objective measure, not an intimidating figure.

And yet.

Fiebrict showed up to a fight he had no obligation to enter, armed with that same kitchen knife, and stood over two downed women — one of them a trained Arten of Inaias — and told them to stay down. He even added “please.” That detail tells you almost everything you need to know about him.

He is a goblin unlike any goblin most people have ever encountered — genuinely warm, genuinely brave, and possessed of a sincerity so complete that it catches people completely off guard. He cried real tears the first time someone apologized to him for trying to kill him, because no one had ever done that before. He responded to that apology by immediately throwing his arms around the person who said it. He speaks in his own distinctive way, with a grammar that is entirely his own and a grammar that somehow never obscures exactly what he means. He is funny without trying to be, loyal without being asked, and brave in the specific way that only small creatures who know perfectly well they are small can be — which is to say, completely and without hesitation.

His best friend in all the world is Mob, and the two of them have been looking out for each other — and apparently for various strangers — for longer than most people would expect.

Interesting Facts:

• His weapon of choice is a sharpened kitchen knife carried in a sheath that was clearly not designed for it. He has never once suggested this is a problem.
• The first time Narina apologized to him, he burst into tears. It was the first apology he had ever received in his life for someone trying to kill him. It made him three friends on the spot.