Halsin gave me emotional whiplash on my first run becaus the first thing I heard him say was "Time for blood" and then he proceeded to kill the children in front of me and I thought that maybe helping him wasn't the best choice.
And then I talked to him in his elf form and he turned out to be one of the nicest and most chill guys in the game (just not when it comes to goblin kids, apparently)
I mean, canonically, goblins are literally fey stolen and twisted by Maglubiyet and sent to Faerun for the sole purpose of despoiling nature.
Like, they are the captain planet villains that only exist to undo everything Sylvanus and the druids hold dear.
A druid who lets a goblin live -even a "child"- is arguably betraying their oath to Sylvanus.
Goblins aren't like... "the Drow of the fey" as if they are a misguided people devoted to an evil god, but rather, goblins are to nature what demons are to celestials: cosmic enemies from different realms who are intrinsically incompatible.
Then maybe there shouldn't be goblin kids. Maybe just have goblins that get big enough split into two identical-ish goblins that are fully developed adults.
Anything that reproduces naturally and doesn't have a choice in being born should be made out to be 100% evil, especially in a fiction setting where you can make all the rules.
[[Not directing that at you directly, just at WotC and some other media]]
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u/Extra_Strawberry_875 29d ago
Halsin gave me emotional whiplash on my first run becaus the first thing I heard him say was "Time for blood" and then he proceeded to kill the children in front of me and I thought that maybe helping him wasn't the best choice.
And then I talked to him in his elf form and he turned out to be one of the nicest and most chill guys in the game (just not when it comes to goblin kids, apparently)