Hobgoblin Agonizer (Basic Lore)

Hobgoblin Agonizer (CR 20)
Lawful Evil - Medium - Fey
Hobgoblins are the cruelest and most common of the Low Fey. Although technically Outsiders, they live on the Prime material in large numbers, their enclaves generally isolated. By the measures of more 'normal' races, the Hobgoblins, like all fey, are quite insane. Their motives and reasoning are just-so-subtly...off. For example. Hobgoblins are quite formidable beings. If they formed armies and marched on their neighbors, they could establish nations and empires easily enough. But they do not. They don't care about such things, being content to live in small towns and thorps, a few dozen here, a few hundred there.... That is all that they are interested in. Hobgoblins are far more interested in their byzantine social lives and the torment of their slaves than they are about worrying over living space, to be honest. Hobgoblin Agonizers are the 'hoity toity' members of hobgoblin society. They are actually nobility, the lowest ranks of that ilk in Hob Society, but that counts for little, and there are so many ranks and divisions and fine shades of status, Agonizers are always hungry for advancement, and eager to gain. They're wealthy and well-fed, arrogant and full of themselves, certain they are superior to the lesser sorts around them. Agonizers are better dressed, have more elaborate homes and lairs, and of course, have more slaves. Agonizers, with their touch of nobility, realize how far they have yet to rise, and so they marshall their slaves carefully, seeing they are not casually abused, so that the deliberate abuses can be just that bit more effective. Agonizers almost always have a slave nearby to carry out their psychologically horriffic orders. Despite their airs, Hobgoblin Agonizers are skilled combatants and more than a little skilled in cruel magics, that they use to good effect against their victims. Agonizers are more likely to roam afield than other Hobgoblins, seeking allies and resources as they relentlessly climb the ladder.