Re: Uplifting Goblins

David Cummings wrote:
>
> In my campaign, there has been some suggestion that the elves betrayed
> the Goblins after the Elves used said Goblins to rid the spheres of the
> dominance of the Thri-Kreen (reference: Lost Ships where it mentions
> that the Thri-Kreen were the power in the spheres before the Elves).
> After the battles were won, and the elves smartly threw the fecund
> goblin-kin in harm's way, the elves were able to defeat the Goblin-kin
> and establish themselves as a power.  True it wasn't that easy, and the
> goblins fought hard, but eventually the elves won round one.
>         Now I wonder if, in addition to allying temporarily with the goblins
> against the larger threat (thri-kreen), maybe the elves themselves
> "uplifted" the goblin-kin.  This gave them cannon fodder they could care
> less about, in addition to an ally they believed they could rid
> themselves of easily after they defeated the insect-kin.
>         This plays very well in my own campaign, where it is already suggested
> that the elves may have created their own nemesis in the Scro.
>
> tempest

	Hmmmm, might work, especially when you take into account that the Kreen
consider elves a delicacy.  Yumm, elf on a pike.  The only real problem
here is the 4000+ year difference between the two wars.  Maybe another
war, shortly before the 1st unhuman war, that no one ever hear of?

Night Druid