History of Kobolds in Fantasy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2024
- In this Video I talk about the history of Kobolds. From their start as Cercopes and Cabeiri in ancient Greece where they fought Hercules. To their gnomish and trickster roots in modern Germany. I end by showing how the modern dog like Kobolds and Lizard or dragon like Kobolds exist. Find out how 1st edition D&D and 2nd Edition DND established Kobolds before 3rd Edition split them off. With a point going to World of Warcraft and Sword Art Online for their Kobolds. There is also a little bit at the end where I describe how the Enoss Kobolds differ and what I did to them. And if you are reading this why not consider Subscribing to the King of Candor?
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In basic D&D sets, Kobolds definitely fall into the dog like category.
Yeah back then they definitely had a more doglike look but they made them more draconic as they wanted to give them something unique.
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My dad confuses the two words all the time. Lol
In my DnD campaign Kobold's are treated more like mischievous children. They live in human cities and do a lot of unwanted labor for the most part. They are treated ok for the most part it's just that they need an eye on them at all times because they are more a threat to themselfs then others around them.
Kobolds is the German word for goblin (and possibly its etymological root).
The link to the Greek spirits is treated as still speculative rather than fact. They could just as well be evolutions of local Celtic and Germanic spirits (eg, dwarves), since we already have precedents for comparable spirits in those cultures long preceding such strong Greek or Roman influence. It also seems to a relatively universal concept; similar creatures are described in Asia, Pre-Columbian American, and African cultures.
The covering of their development in modern fiction is a different subject, though. It is really cool to see that angle covered.
I'm glad you liked the covering. I know the word is German but we do see the Greeks using Koboloi which is very close.
It being close doesn’t necessarily mean anything. There simply is no real consensus yet, just different possible etymologies. In this field qualifiers like “likely” or “may” are present in so many etymologies and should be taken very seriously. In many cases we just don’t know and might never know for sure. Unsatisfactory for a layman, but simple reality for the experts, which I don’t consider myself one of.
Never even knew what a Kobold was until this video
I find it really funny that Cobalt comes from Kobolds because the first time I heard someone talk about Kobolds I thought they said "cobalts" and I pictured little blue rock dudes.
My dad still calls them cobalts. I was thinking about making the default ones in my setting blue for this reason
I am happy you made this because I am making a TTRPG and I have the 3 different kobolds in it and wasn't sure what to make the sea kobold look like but I do know now! thank you!
I am very glad to have been of service. Good luck on your TTRPG!
Sea snake, sea croc, etc. Iguanas and more lizards enjoy swimming and the sea
KOBOLDS! 🤩 love em! 2 campaigns now made em sidekicks. Now on running joke I collects sidekicks. #classic me
I adore kobolds as well. I think they got shafted early on and I am a fan of the love they have gotten lately.
As someone who fell in love with dnd kobolds I really enjoyed this look at the history of the name. Very interesting!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I also love the kobolds we have in DND, they are my favorite.
@@kid9893 My first ever character was a kobold barbarian which was meant to be a joke character. But he's really grown on me and the party.
@@jblask2 I find joke characters can develop into some of the most intense at the table. One day I will make a video on the Vampire one of my players ran and how it lead to the group crying over his death.
@@kid9893 that indeed sounds like a story!
In a book i wrote, I depicted Kobolds as mini dromeosaurs mixed with triceratops
That's adorable Iove it.
First place I ever saw kobolds was Warcraft 3, oddly enough. When I saw the D&D ones I got confused😂
In my homebrew settings I use kobolds as essentially derivative dragonborn. I borrow a bit from the Dragonlance lore for drakonians which are crafted by performing a ritual over a dragon egg that converts them into their humanoid form. Then Kobolds are essentially the offspring of dragonborn, seen as a lower degraded version of the race. I also have a large geographic area known as the Dragon Isles where the dragon-lords constantly battle with each other, so they try to capture the eggs of their opponents to create Dragonborn warriors to serve in their armies, and the kobolds make up the majority of the population, essentially worshipping their draconic ancestor as a god. Given the long life of dragons, it is entirely possible that they are worshipping their creator who is very literally present to them.
Kobolds don't have friends, they have FAMILY! 👨👩👦👦😜
I love that description I'm going to steal it
I had thought that Tucker only added the really good combat tactics to his kobolds but that they were already known for traps by that point.
They did use traps but sparingly. Goblins and even orcs also used them. Tucker tied them to kobolds and made them iconic to kobolds.
Wasn't expecting to see the kobolds from Re:Monster. I usually see stuff from "Reincarnated as" and "Daily Life with Monstergirls" more often.
I tried to include as many different inspirations as possible. My friend who loves anime also recommended the exact visuals so I will pass on your praise to him.
Great
I'm glad you enjoyed this one too !
Hey! This is great!! I was looking for the origins of the gremlins and trolls and those words are adaptations of the goblins, that are an adaptation of the kobolds!! U enlighten me with yr kwoledge!!!! Tnx 💖💖💖
I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend! I will eventually cover gremlins and trolls too.
Great job dude
Thank you very much my friend.
Is there a History of Goblins video?
Not yet there's not. It's in the works. I wanted to do a couple of non history of videos before I went back to them to cover a couple of the topics that don't quite fit. Also there's been a lot of RPG news I wanted to cover.
hear about my take o Kobolds.
in my world, gnomes are elemental spirits, small sprites of earth, rock and maybe sometimes plant life. kobold aer a corruption of gnomes by wyrd magic. sometimes a wild magic area can influence gnomes weird, or a mine isn't paying proper respect to the earth spirits and actually aer hurting them. or worse, they unearth an ancient dragon burial, the magic of the dragons being so strong it twists the natural spirits around it, turning the gnomes into kobolds, with the kobolds trying to replicate themselves usign the dragon bones or even wors,e trying to revive the creature to worship it.
That's a pretty neat idea actually. I do enjoy Kobolds and Gnomes being linked since they were in older versions of d&d.
Soo... thing I dont like about current Kobolds by looking at their history... is that they are not blue
Ah, I see. Hephaestus kids. Not the other guy
Nope. For once Zeus didn't make a creature 😂
@@kid9893 Pfft
Proto Greek area low key looks like Texas
Doesn't it? Wild how many regions look alike.
kobolds are like russian conscripts great in large numbers but bad when alone without there comrads
I completely agree. A single Kobold is bad not because he is tough, but because his friends are nearby.
Now I'm imagining communist kobolds, with an emphasis on war of attrition and numerical superiority
Diminutive cat-like kobolds?
I could see that working well. They are fun little guys and giving them a cat aesthetic would be a fresh spin.
@@kid9893 I came up with a colonial america campaign setting. The black death resulted in cat-hobbits “Kobolds”, goat-dwarves “Zvergi”, and skeletal-elves “wraiths”. But no magic though.
That's super cool actually. I love settings that have the races indifferent continents since it lets their homelands stand out more.
@@kid9893 It started as an instruction for chat gpt to tell me a story. Using gpt to 'fill out' the world I ended up creating a campaign setting. Unfortunately it is line listed as simple instructions for gpt to follow. Reads like a 12 year old wrote it. Could send it to you if curious.