The World of Abadonya

Life Above the Jungle Floor

Monkey Goblin communities are most common in Oriander's tropical forest interiors, where massive trees and tangled upper canopies form a second landscape high above the ground.

Their settlements are often built on broad branches, natural platforms, cliffside roots, and rope-linked tree villages. A visitor may walk beneath an entire settlement without realizing anyone lives overhead.

The forest floor is used for hunting, gathering, and travel when necessary, but most Monkey Goblins are more comfortable moving through branches and suspended paths.

Built for the Canopy

Monkey Goblins are Small goblinoids with lean bodies, long limbs, sharp features, broad ears, and flexible ratlike tails capable of grasping and carrying small objects.

Skin tones vary through green, olive, brown-green, gray-green, and darker jungle shades. Many decorate themselves with bright pigments, feathers, shells, carved beads, or dyed cloth that contrasts sharply with the surrounding forest.

Their hands and feet are well suited to climbing, while the tail gives them an additional way to retrieve tools, food, or small possessions while moving through branches.

Homes Where Predators Look Up

Monkey Goblin villages are designed vertically. Platforms are connected by ropes, hanging ladders, branch paths, and flexible bridges that sway with the trees.

Important supplies are stored in hollow trunks, woven baskets, suspended bundles, and natural cavities protected from rain.

Entrances and pathways that seem dangerously narrow to larger folk are normal to Monkey Goblins. Many defensive routes deliberately rely on climbing ability, forcing invaders into exposed positions while residents move freely overhead.

The Branch Holds Until It Doesn't

Life high above the ground encourages confidence. Monkey Goblins grow up leaping between branches, crossing unstable bridges, climbing in storms, and navigating heights that make most travelers uncomfortable.

This produces a reputation for reckless courage. Some deserve it. Others are simply accustomed to risks that appear far greater to people raised on solid ground.

Competitions involving climbing, balance, daring leaps, and rapid movement through the canopy are common ways to earn status among younger members of a community.

Fast Hands and High Trails

Monkey Goblin hunters rely on speed, ambush, climbing, and intimate knowledge of jungle terrain rather than heavy equipment.

Fruit, nuts, insects, eggs, small game, fish, and edible plants all form part of the diet depending on the island and season.

Canopy scouts are skilled at spotting movement from above and can follow routes through the trees that leave little trace on the ground.

A People of the Green Heights

Oriander is the principal homeland of the Monkey Goblins. They are found most often on heavily forested islands and in warm interior jungles where dense upper canopies allow entire communities to live above the ground.

They are less common in major ports and open coastal settlements, though individuals sometimes work as scouts, climbers, couriers, riggers, or guides.

Monkey Goblins who know the island interiors can travel quickly through terrain that stops wagons, horses, and heavily armored travelers almost completely.

Respect for Height, Storm and Growth

Monkey Goblin traditions tend to focus on the immediate forces that shape life in the canopy: wind, rain, trees, predators, food, and the strength of the community.

In Abadonya, many honor Trentula through traditions of forest life and wild places. Others respect Rivera in communities shaped by tropical storms, island waterways, and seasonal rains.

Monkey Goblins may follow any alignment or deity. Their fearless reputation reflects culture and adaptation rather than a fixed morality.

Standard Pathfinder 1e Racial Traits

Ability Score Modifiers: Monkey Goblins gain +4 Dexterity, –2 Wisdom, and –2 Charisma.

Type: Monkey Goblins are humanoids with the goblinoid subtype.

Size: Monkey Goblins are Small creatures and gain a +1 size bonus to AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty on combat maneuver checks and CMD, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks.

Base Speed: Monkey Goblins have a base speed of 20 feet.

Natural Climber: Monkey Goblins have a climb speed of 30 feet.

Languages: Monkey Goblins begin play speaking Goblin. Monkey Goblins with high Intelligence scores can choose Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Gnoll, Gnome, Halfling, and Orc as bonus languages.

Fearless: Monkey Goblins gain a +2 racial bonus on all saving throws against fear.

Acrobatic: Monkey Goblins gain a +2 racial bonus on Acrobatics and Stealth checks.

Low-Light Vision: Monkey Goblins can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light.

Prehensile Tail: Monkey Goblins have long, flexible tails that can carry objects. The tail cannot wield weapons, but it can retrieve small objects stowed on the Monkey Goblin's person as a swift action.

Race Points: 10 RP.

These are the Pathfinder 1e racial mechanics used for Monkey Goblin characters in Abadonya.

Those Who Climb Beyond Home

Monkey Goblin adventurers often leave their villages out of curiosity, competition, exile, trade, or the desire to test themselves in unfamiliar environments.

Barbarians, fighters, rogues, rangers, hunters, and other mobile or martial classes are common choices, though Monkey Goblins can pursue any class.

An Oriander Monkey Goblin adventurer might guide explorers through an island interior, hunt a predator threatening the canopy villages, search for a lost settlement, or discover how far their climbing skills can carry them beyond the jungle.

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